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Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. It is the abuse on the streets of people,” Spencer told KQED. “So many things that aren’t allowing people to be free and to be who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance hold candles in the air in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the country, 36 trans and gender-expansive people have been killed in acts of violence in the past year, and a similar number died in 2023, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrcs-2024-epidemic-of-violence-report-fatal-violence-against-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-people-continues-with-black-trans-women-comprising-nearly-half-of-the-deaths\">Human Rights Campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes Michelle Henry, who was 25 years old when she was found dead in a downtown San Francisco residence in May, according to an SFPD news release. The death was ruled a homicide, and the medical examiner found that Henry had suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=crime&id=333324\">multiple stab wounds and was strangled\u003c/a>, according to the \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>, which reported that police did not have evidence the killing was motivated by hate\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany said Henry grew up in San Francisco and became well-known within the local trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was formerly homeless, was able to engage in services, was housed, was a participant in the S.F. LGBT Center’s youth program,” she told KQED. “I think people were really excited for the progress that she had made in her life and for the life that waited for her ahead. For her life to be cut short at 25, in a very violent way, was really disturbing for a lot of people here in San Francisco, in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990260/a-conversation-with-banko-browns-chosen-family\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black trans man, was shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens store in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that for many of us today, Trans Day of Remembrance, is a really tough time,” Mahogany said during the rally. “Many of us know people who have passed, many of us know people who have passed due to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014337 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1258626528.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that these deaths are a reminder of the dangers that anti-trans rhetoric carries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her hope is for the city to rally around the trans community and defy the fear-mongering and divisive language coming from prominent Republican representatives and right-wing interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘We continue to fight back against anti-trans rhetoric or any kind of rhetoric that seeks to divide us,” she told KQED. “Divide and conquer has proven a very effective strategy. It is the way that fascism comes to the front, but it’s also a way in which those who are powerful, those with a lot of money, those with interests in keeping the working class and the middle-class populace down — that’s the way that they maintain their power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">\u003cem>Brian Watt\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. 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For her life to be cut short at 25, in a very violent way, was really disturbing for a lot of people here in San Francisco, in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990260/a-conversation-with-banko-browns-chosen-family\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black trans man, was shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens store in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that for many of us today, Trans Day of Remembrance, is a really tough time,” Mahogany said during the rally. “Many of us know people who have passed, many of us know people who have passed due to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Elected officials and legal teams across California are mobilizing this week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">former President Donald Trump\u003c/a> won back the White House on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near-constant battles with the Golden State, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/california-vs-trump-lawsuits/\">which sued him on average about every 12 days\u003c/a>, marked Trump’s first administration, on a wide range of issues including immigration and environmental protection. In the second Trump administration, the state is poised to play a leading role in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, immigrant groups, the LGBTQ community and others are anxious about their future under Trump, whose campaign rhetoric often targeted them specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference at San Francisco’s Crissy Field on Thursday, standing next to a “Progress will prevail” sign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013588/ag-bonta-pledges-to-protect-california-values-from-trump-presidency\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> said he’s spent months talking with his department and attorneys general across the country in preparation of a potential second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have thought through all of the possibilities of the attacks on our values, our people, our state, and we expect certain litigation to come or certain actions to come from the federal government and certain litigation that we will take in response,” Bonta said. “There’s a lot of different scenarios on a lot of different topics, from immigration to the environment to civil rights to gun safety … the list goes on, but we are ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term, Bonta’s predecessor Xavier Becerra brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741446/fastest-litigant-in-the-west-californias-on-verge-of-suing-trump-more-than-texas-ever-sued-obama\">over 100 lawsuits\u003c/a> against his administration — far more than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Rob Bonta takes questions from the media as he announces charges made against suspects involved in an organized retail crime ring during a news conference in Los Angeles on March 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many were successful. Becerra prevented Trump from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/11/550218405/california-sues-trump-administration-over-decision-to-rescind-daca\">repealing an Obama-era protection\u003c/a> against deportation for immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy and upheld California’s right to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-files-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administration%E2%80%99s-2\">set its own vehicle emissions standards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy will be the same this time around, Bonta said.[aside postID=news_12013588 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“We believe he’ll be taking unlawful actions and that we will find appropriate relief and remedies in court where we always have,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">preparing to bolster that legal effort\u003c/a> against what he called an incoming “attack” on the state’s freedoms. On Thursday, Newsom called a special legislative session meant to gird the state for an incoming federal administration that has clashed with California on many fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the priorities for the special session, which would begin in early December, will be legislation to provide additional funding for the state’s Department of Justice and other agencies to be ready to sue the Trump administration as well as defend against potential incoming federal lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/11/06/trump-immigration-policies/\">Trump repeatedly called\u003c/a> for mass, militarized deportation of immigrants who lack legal status. California — a sanctuary state — is home to millions of immigrants, and local advocates and lawyers are gearing up for a turbulent next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Medina, executive director of La Raza Community Resource Center in San Francisco, said that in the days since the election, his team has already seen a drop-off in the number of people coming in for basic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fear is disconnecting our folks from just being able to receive basic services, whether it’s case management, whether it’s food, whether it’s rental assistance,” Medina said. “That’s a huge concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941173/sf-supervisors-split-on-details-of-citys-sanctuary-policy-shielding-immigrants-from-deportation\">a sanctuary city\u003c/a> within a sanctuary state, which Medina said will help protect the city’s immigrant community under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11293483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11293483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/ap_17025826671102-4248d9fac27dea825d965cbaa5629bfed9e79f3f-1-e1731091489399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator yells at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco to protest President Donald Trump’s aggressive moves to tighten the nation’s immigration controls on Jan. 25, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that both our city agencies and city attorneys will do everything they can to help defend everyone that lives here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Trump’s promise of mass deportations has attorneys worried about their clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He can really do a lot of harm to a lot of the families that we help here, whether it’s blocking benefits with work permits, blocking benefits with asylum, with temporary protected status eligibility categories,” said Gilberto Nicolas Gonzalez, one of the lawyers on staff at La Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next couple of months, Gonzalez said, his team is preparing strategies to deal with an increase in detainments and court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really just trying to plan ahead,” he said. “But as of right now, we’re really uncertain and a lot of our clients are kind of in fear and in shambles right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area LGBTQ advocates are also voicing their anxiety about the future under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg\" alt=\"A row of flagpoles displaying rainbow flags stands in front of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"2000\" 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national identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will get … transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports,” Trump said at an inflammatory \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-madison-square-garden-new-york-election-fcfe75be7f8281fde7bffa3adb3bba5d\">Madison Square Garden rally\u003c/a> at the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also promised to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates said that even in Democratic bulwarks, people need to be ready for the fallout from a Trump presidency that aims to roll back transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people are thinking, ‘I’m in California, I’m safe.’ And besides the fact that that neglects our trans siblings living all across the United States, we are going to see real effects here outside of policy,” said Chase Overholt, director of development at Positive Images, a Sonoma County-based LGBTQ community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/NewsomTrump2018AP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overholt said he’s worried that Trump’s presidency will lead to a rise in anti-trans and homophobic rhetoric and action. When Trump was first elected in 2016, Overholt said many businesses that displayed pride flags in downtown Santa Rosa were vandalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare for Trump’s second term, Overholt said his team is upping on-site security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hardening our center at Positive Images to make sure that when communities are there, they can trust that they’re in a safe space physically,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overholt encouraged folks who are worried about access to health care and other resources to prepare now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make sure that your legal documents are in order. If you are a trans person who is interested in a legal name change or a gender indicator change, you should file that paperwork tomorrow,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positive Images is teaming up with other local organizations like the NAACP, Latino Service Providers and legal aid groups in order to provide resources to its residents and training to “repair some of the trauma or harm that’s been done and protect against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be difficult,” Overholt said. “But there is still queer joy to be had. There is still Black joy to be had. And we need to center that so that we can, frankly, stay alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">Gilare Zada\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">Brian Krans\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After decades of shuffling between temporary locations, the nation’s first museum dedicated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/lgbt\">LGBT\u003c/a> culture and history will have a new home, Mayor London Breed announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> plans to purchase a spacious 14,640-square-foot lot at 2280 Market St. to serve as the new GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archives site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a labor of love for so many people working together for decades,” said Roberto Ordeñana, the executive director of the GLBT Historical Society, the nonprofit that stewards the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 20 years ago, the GLBT Historical Society created a storefront museum on 18th Street in the Castro, where the museum is currently housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum’s collection, which draws from a vast archive spanning a century of local LGBTQ history and activism, includes priceless cultural artifacts, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876846/never-take-it-down-the-original-1978-rainbow-flag-returns-to-sf\">remnants of the original rainbow pride flag\u003c/a>, first flown in 1978. The museum also cares for the bloodstained suit worn by Supervisor Harvey Milk, who represented the Castro, when he was assassinated in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s welcomed foreign dignitaries to the 1,600-square-foot site, including the Queen of the Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A visitor to the GLBT Historical Society Museum listens intently to the recorded will of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who was assassinated in 1978. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is the place where people come to learn about the queer history of the Castro and in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “It’s been great, but it is small, and it has never been understood to be the permanent home for the [GLBT] historical society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman credits Breed, whose office committed $12.5 million for the acquisition in 2021, and state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who helped secure an additional $5.5 million in state funding, for making the new site a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the effort to establish the museum will help educate future generations about the community’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006736\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The archives include over a thousand collections spanning a century’s worth of LGBTQ history in San Francisco and Northern California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand where we came from,” Wiener said. “There are people who came before us, people who fought, who struggled, who died, and who built the movement and built the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Breed and Mandelman will introduce legislation before the Board of Supervisors to officially purchase the Upper Market space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11989910 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/0M6A0928_qut-1020x648.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the supervisors approve the agreement, the city will enter into a lease agreement with the GLBT Historical Society and the Community Arts Stabilization Trust, which works to secure affordable spaces for nonprofit arts and culture organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordeñana said the museum will uplift LGBTQ history while also shining a light on the equality struggles that still remain. He said this means reckoning with the community’s shortcomings, including the historical exclusion of people of color, transgender people and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having an organization that prioritizes a strong racial and gender equity framework and the ability to lift up those stories from the communities that are most impacted by intersecting oppression has been incredibly important for us,” Ordeñana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-800x434.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1020x553.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1536x833.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1920x1041.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exhibit uses archival materials and artifacts to share historical events of the LGBTQ community in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This means exploring a name change for the new museum, Ordeñana said, so that the diverse communities of San Francisco may see themselves more accurately reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordeñana knows firsthand that life in San Francisco “isn’t always easy” for gay and trans people. A San Francisco native, he was born to parents who immigrated from Central America. It wasn’t until he got involved with arts, culture and HIV/AIDS prevention work that he found his sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1889\" height=\"1416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3.jpg 1889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1889px) 100vw, 1889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco will be the first in the nation to have a permanent space for it’s groundbreaking LGBTQ history museum and archives. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, city and state officials, the GLBT Historical Society and community members celebrated at the proposed museum site with a commemoration ceremony and a performance by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an incredibly proud moment for me as someone who was born and raised here to be able to support the stewardship of this incredible collection,” Ordeñana said. “It’s vital for San Francisco to continue being that beacon of hope for the entire world to really understand both the struggles and the resilience of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 20 years ago, the GLBT Historical Society created a storefront museum on 18th Street in the Castro, where the museum is currently housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum’s collection, which draws from a vast archive spanning a century of local LGBTQ history and activism, includes priceless cultural artifacts, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876846/never-take-it-down-the-original-1978-rainbow-flag-returns-to-sf\">remnants of the original rainbow pride flag\u003c/a>, first flown in 1978. The museum also cares for the bloodstained suit worn by Supervisor Harvey Milk, who represented the Castro, when he was assassinated in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s welcomed foreign dignitaries to the 1,600-square-foot site, including the Queen of the Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A visitor to the GLBT Historical Society Museum listens intently to the recorded will of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who was assassinated in 1978. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is the place where people come to learn about the queer history of the Castro and in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “It’s been great, but it is small, and it has never been understood to be the permanent home for the [GLBT] historical society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman credits Breed, whose office committed $12.5 million for the acquisition in 2021, and state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who helped secure an additional $5.5 million in state funding, for making the new site a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the effort to establish the museum will help educate future generations about the community’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006736\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The archives include over a thousand collections spanning a century’s worth of LGBTQ history in San Francisco and Northern California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand where we came from,” Wiener said. “There are people who came before us, people who fought, who struggled, who died, and who built the movement and built the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Breed and Mandelman will introduce legislation before the Board of Supervisors to officially purchase the Upper Market space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the supervisors approve the agreement, the city will enter into a lease agreement with the GLBT Historical Society and the Community Arts Stabilization Trust, which works to secure affordable spaces for nonprofit arts and culture organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordeñana said the museum will uplift LGBTQ history while also shining a light on the equality struggles that still remain. He said this means reckoning with the community’s shortcomings, including the historical exclusion of people of color, transgender people and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having an organization that prioritizes a strong racial and gender equity framework and the ability to lift up those stories from the communities that are most impacted by intersecting oppression has been incredibly important for us,” Ordeñana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-800x434.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1020x553.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1536x833.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1920x1041.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exhibit uses archival materials and artifacts to share historical events of the LGBTQ community in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This means exploring a name change for the new museum, Ordeñana said, so that the diverse communities of San Francisco may see themselves more accurately reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordeñana knows firsthand that life in San Francisco “isn’t always easy” for gay and trans people. A San Francisco native, he was born to parents who immigrated from Central America. It wasn’t until he got involved with arts, culture and HIV/AIDS prevention work that he found his sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1889\" height=\"1416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3.jpg 1889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1889px) 100vw, 1889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco will be the first in the nation to have a permanent space for it’s groundbreaking LGBTQ history museum and archives. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, city and state officials, the GLBT Historical Society and community members celebrated at the proposed museum site with a commemoration ceremony and a performance by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an incredibly proud moment for me as someone who was born and raised here to be able to support the stewardship of this incredible collection,” Ordeñana said. “It’s vital for San Francisco to continue being that beacon of hope for the entire world to really understand both the struggles and the resilience of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/propfest\">Prop Fest\u003c/a> is a collaboration from Bay Curious and The Bay podcasts, where we break down each of the 10 statewide propositions that will be on your November 2024 ballot. Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">KQED’s Voter Guide\u003c/a> for more information on state and local races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this episode, we’re discussing Prop 3, which would add a constitutional amendment stating that all people have a right to marry regardless of sex or race. It would also strip out language that currently defines marriage as being between a man and woman only. To help us break it down we speak with Scott Shafer, co-host of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9687023038\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a transcript of the episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music: Wedding March]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Same-sex marriage has been legal in the United States for nine years…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> …And legal here in California for eleven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So you might be surprised to know that the California Constitution still says same-sex marriage is banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Wedding March slows down and stops]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price … Host of Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Host of The Bay. And you’re listening to Prop Fest – A breakdown of ALL the statewide propositions on your ballot this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Spooky season is just around the corner, and as luck would have it, today we’re going to talk about zombies. Specifically the “zombie law” that bans same-sex marriage in California…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong>: It’s dead, but it could resurrect!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Californians will vote on Prop 3 to decide if we should take that same-sex marriage ban out of the state constitution and replace it with something that affirms marriage is for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> And if I remember correctly, California’s history on same-sex marriage is pretty complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Super complicated. Today, we’re going back on the twisty, turny road of same-sex marriage legalization in this state. Because it helps explain why that zombie law is there in the first place. Then we’ll break down what exactly is up for consideration with Prop 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> That’s coming up on Prop Fest, a collaboration between The Bay and Bay. Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Today we’re talking about Proposition 3. Here’s how it will read on your ballot…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voiceover:\u003c/strong> Prop 3 is a constitutional right to marriage proposed by the state legislature. It amends the California Constitution to recognize the fundamental right to marry, regardless of sex or race. It also removes language in the California Constitution stating that marriage is only between a man and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Essentially it overwrites a ban on same-sex marriage that’s currently in California’s constitution. Because same-sex marriage is legal federally, that ban is unenforceable or a zombie law. So let’s start with a history lesson on how exactly we got here with KQED’s Scott Shafer, who is the co-host of Political Breakdown, a daily podcast about California politics. Hey, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hey, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So walk us back. When did California voters first weigh in on the issue of same-sex marriage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You’d have to go back to around the year 2000. That was when some states began issuing civil unions to same-sex couples. And it was kind of ‘marriage lite’. It wasn’t all the rights, legal rights of marriage that now gay couples and lesbian couples enjoy. But it was a recognition that these relationships were important and that they should be afforded some rights. For example, the right to visit your partner in the hospital, which was not a given in a lot of states. And so states like Vermont and Hawaii and Massachusetts began talking about rights for same-sex couples. And that really concerned a lot of religious conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so in the year 2000, a state senator from Southern California named Pete Knight got a ballot measure on the November ballot, Proposition 22, which changed the family code in the state of California, and said that marriage was only between a man and a woman. That passed pretty easily with about 61% of the vote. And that’s where it stayed until Gavin Newsom got elected mayor in San Francisco in the year 2003. A few weeks after becoming mayor in San Francisco…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom (archival tape):\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Today, San Francisco took the step to make the case that we believe in the words in the California Constitution, and we took action to implement that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Gavin Newsom decided he was going to allow the county of San Francisco to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. And this stunned people. It kind of came out of the blue and within hours, people started flocking to San Francisco City Hall, lining up and taking their vows, taking marriage licenses out from the recorder’s office. And it became a huge national story.\u003cbr>\nIt was pretty widely expected that the courts would shut this down because Newsom really didn’t have any legal right to be doing this. But 4,000 couples lined up over the course of a few weeks to get married at City Hall, and they became known as ‘Newsom twosomes.’ A lot of people sort of assumed that those would not really hold up legally. But it was, you know, a validation of relationships and it really became a huge international story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But questionable legally, as we soon find out. Right. What happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after this went on for a few weeks, there was a lawsuit filed by several parties to stop the marriages and declare them unconstitutional or illegal. And so the marriages were stopped. And a few months later, the California Supreme Court said, ‘You know what? Yes, these marriages are not valid. All the people who got married sorry, folks, you’re not married anymore and you have to stop doing this.’ And that’s where it stood for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I can’t imagine being married, and then you wake up one day and find a headline that you’re not anymore. That must have been really tough. But people didn’t give up. You know, they wanted those rights back. So what happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So there was a lawsuit filed in the state of California in which Proposition 22, which had passed in the year 2000, was challenged as being unconstitutional. And it went to the California Supreme Court. And in May of 2008, the court declared that, in fact, Prop 22 was unconstitutional. And so there was a a kind of euphoria among same-sex marriage supporters on the day that the Supreme Court in California ruled by a 4 to 3 margin, that, yeah, in fact, same-sex couples could legally get married and many did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival clip of couple at San Francisco City Hall:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>We’ve been planning this for a year to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history, and time in our history is amazing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> In that window of time in 2008, some 17,000 same-sex couples rushed to their city halls and county offices to take out marriage licenses and tie the knot. But at the same time, there was a group of religious conservatives, a group called Protect Marriage dot com was collecting the signatures to put on the ballot– a ballot measure that became known as Proposition 8, which declared again, as a constitutional amendment, that marriage in California was between one man and one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So voters by 52% to 48% passed Proposition 8. It was kind of a shock for liberal, what we thought was liberal California, which had easily voted for Barack Obama over John McCain in that very same election, voted more narrowly, but nonetheless to take away the right of same-sex couples to get married. And there was a lot of anger. And there were some very, you know, big protests that broke out across California from LGBT folks and their supporters protesting the vote. But there it was. I mean, it was now the law of the land in California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News Clips:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>“Shame on you!/Supporters of gay marriage targeted L.A.’s Mormon temple protesting the more than $15 million the church poured into passing proposition 8…/Equal rights! Equal rights!/For the third straight day thousands marched in California protesting the election night passing of Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after all the protests, there was a lawsuit filed in state court to try to overturn Prop 8, saying that it was a violation of the state constitution. But after considering all of the arguments on both sides, the state Supreme Court, which, you know, just like a year earlier had said same-sex marriage was legal, said no. Now the voters have changed the Constitution. And if the voters have done it, then it is in fact, constitutional. So that was, we thought, the end of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But then things move on to federal court. So we’re leveling up here. Where do we go next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Not too long after the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, there was an effort to file in federal court very quietly. You know, there was this really small group of people, including the Human Rights Campaign, which is based in Washington. Rob Reiner, the director, who came together and said, ‘why don’t we put our own legal case together? We’ll find some plaintiffs and we’ll file it in federal court in San Francisco and see what’ll happen. Maybe, maybe we can get this legalized that way.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was a huge disagreement within the LGBTQ and the legal rights, civil rights communities, because there was a concern that if they filed this in federal court, the outcome was very unclear. And so there was a fear that it would be a setback for the movement ultimately if they didn’t win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how does that case make its way through the courts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, you know, these cases are assigned randomly. The backers of same-sex marriage really caught a break because the judge to whom this was assigned was Vaughn Walker. Vaughn Walker, although he was appointed by a Republican president, was known as kind of a Libertarian. He was also known as being gay. He wasn’t particularly open about it, but I think people thought, wow, this guy is a Libertarian. He’s gay and he is going to consider this case. Maybe we do have a chance of getting a favorable ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that Vaughn Walker did at the very beginning that surprised everybody is that he called for an actual trial with evidence and witnesses and testimony on the record. And this surprised everybody. And I think in particular, the folks who were supporting the idea of legalizing same-sex marriage were really happy because this gave them a chance to put all of these arguments against same-sex marriage on trial. And a lot of those arguments, as came out during the course of the trial, really weren’t based in fact. They weren’t backed up by any kind of evidence or research. They were really kind of fringy–A lot of them considered homophobic, honestly, that really didn’t hold up under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how did it go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, it was fascinating. I sat in on the courtroom for those two weeks of testimony here in San Francisco at the federal court building. And there was some very emotional testimony from the plaintiffs. There were a lesbian couple from Berkeley, two gay men from Los Angeles. They talked about the importance of getting married to them, why it was important to them, what it would mean for them to have this very public acknowledgment of their relationship. A historian from Yale testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other side, there was a very small number of witnesses, maybe four. And they withered under cross-examination, Their testimony didn’t hold up. Subsequently, actually, some of them changed their minds about same-sex marriage. And so after several months of taking it all into consideration, Judge Vaughn Walker issued his ruling in August of 2010, striking down Prop 8, saying it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the equal protection and due process clauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And with that decision, Prop 8 officially becomes a zombie law in California, still on the books, but it’s not enforceable. But just like supporters of same sex marriage had been, the Prop 8, people weren’t going to give up yet. There’s an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes. And in fact, Judge Vaughn Walker, although he struck down Prop 8, he put that on hold. He issued a stay. And that gave the supporters of Prop 8 an opportunity to appeal. And so they went to the Ninth Circuit. The appeals court upheld the lower court ruling and then they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And it took until 2013, three years after the initial ruling, striking down Prop 8 for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So what really started as Newsom kind of going rogue and marrying people at San Francisco City Hall has now snowballed into the highest court in the United States, taking up the issue, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Exactly. And this issue was just a California ballot measure. And it wasn’t a very clean decision, ultimately. The attorneys for the ‘No on Prop 8’ side, they would have liked it if the U.S. Supreme Court said right then and there, ‘Same-sex marriage should be legal throughout the country.’ They didn’t do that. They didn’t issue a decision on the merits. What they said was, ‘You guys who are challenging this law, you don’t have standing, you don’t have legal standing. You’re not really directly affected by Proposition 8. Therefore, we’re going to let the lower court decision stand because you all don’t have a right to be here.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Got it. So same-sex marriage is legal, but only in California and various other states at that point had legalized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Correct. So it did apply to California. It was back on in California. So same-sex couples could get married, but it did not apply nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So then how do we get to the place where we are today, where it’s legal nationwide?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So once Proposition 8 was struck down, yes, gay marriage, same-sex marriage was legal here in California, but not nationwide. But then a couple of years later, there was another case brought by a plaintiff named Jim Obergefell. He lived in Ohio and he wanted to get married to his partner. And he made a very similar case to the U.S. Supreme Court based on the 14th Amendment and the due process and equal protection clauses, saying that he should not be barred from getting married just because he’s gay. And in a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court decided that, yes, in fact, same-sex marriage should be legal nationwide. That was a historic ruling and it changed everything. It changed the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So this year we’re voting on Prop 3. How does Prop 3 tie into all this history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So the 2013 decision striking down Prop 8 invalidated Prop 8. But, you know, the law was on the books. Technically, it was a zombie law. And there was concern in Sacramento that it could come back to life like a zombie. If, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court, you know, decided for whatever reason, that maybe that Obergefell decision was wrongly decided. We’ve seen that with abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Congress did pass legislation sort of enshrining the right to same-sex marriage into law in 2022. So it would be much harder to overturn that now. But in Sacramento, some of the opponents of Prop 8 said, you know what? Let’s just strip this out of the California Constitution once and for all. And so the state legislature, without any dissenting votes in the assembly or the Senate, voted to put Prop 3 on the ballot. That’s what we’re voting on in November. It would replace that language that the voters passed with Prop 8, with language saying that all people have the right to get married and that it’s a part of their fundamental right to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> You’ve sort of answered, I think, a part of this, but maybe you won’t elaborate. You know, Prop 8 has been sitting there, you know, in California’s constitution, unenforceable for a decade. Why make this change now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> It is somewhat symbolic on one hand, because, as you say, you know, it can’t be enforced. But I think it’s also kind of a statement that not just getting rid of the old language, but affirming, you know, in a positive way, the right to same-sex marriage, enshrining that in the law. Something similar happened, you know, a couple of years ago with abortion in California. Abortion is legal here. But there was a ballot measure fundamentally enshrining it into the state constitution as a way of really making an emphatic statement that this is a fundamental right that women should have. And I think they also want to send a message maybe to the rest of the country to show how far California has come. So they’re hoping that this ballot measure will pass overwhelmingly. And really just kind of put an exclamation point on this change in attitude and law. You know, that gay couples now can rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Now, back in 2008, when Prop 8 was passed, it had a lot of financial support from the Mormon temple and other religious organizations. What does opposition to Prop 3 look like at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Right now, the opponents of Proposition 3 have $0. You know, they have to file financial statements with the state of California. And in the most recent filing, they literally had raised no money whatsoever. The yes side, on the other hand, has raised at least $4 million. And it has widespread political support from Governor Newsom, virtually every statewide elected official, if not everyone. The California Democratic Party, organized labor, the labor federation. There are corporations and just many others who are happy to give money to this cause, to take this anti-gay language out of the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want to suggest that, like everyone now supports same-sex marriage because that’s not the case. Even though there were no no votes in the state legislature, there were a number of legislators, mostly Republicans, who just skipped the vote. They didn’t vote at all. It’s hard to say exactly whether they would have been yes or no. My guess is they oppose same-sex marriage, but didn’t really want to put their names to the opposition to Proposition 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are some groups that still, you know, have put ballot arguments in the voter guide. There’s a group called the California Capital Connection. They have an alliance with independent Baptist ministers and churches to put out a statement. And their statement reads, ‘God instituted marriage and defined it as a union between a man and a woman. And you know that people cannot redefine what God has already defined.’ So there’s definitely still opposition to same-sex marriage. It’s just that the broad public has really shifted in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, Scott Shafer is the co-host of Political Breakdown KQED daily podcast, all about California politics. Scott, before you go, just tell people what can they expect from you on the podcast over the next couple of weeks before Election Day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> California has a lot of races in play that will either help the Democrats take the House or keep it a Republican majority. It’s going to be an exciting sprint to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, thanks for helping us out today, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes, happy to do it. Thank you for doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In summary, a vote yes on Prop 3 would take language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman out of California’s constitution. And it adds into the Constitution the right to marry regardless of sex or race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote no on Prop 3 would keep the same-sex marriage ban in California’s constitution. There would be no change in who can marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for Proposition 3. If you’re a new listener, just tuning in for our Prop Fest series, be sure to subscribe to the Bay Curious podcast. Every Thursday we drop episodes that explore listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a lot of fun, and we always learn so much – so if you’re digging Prop Fest so far, I think you’ll enjoy our other work too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Prop Fest is a collaboration between The Bay and Bay Curious podcasts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> …And legal here in California for eleven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So you might be surprised to know that the California Constitution still says same-sex marriage is banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Wedding March slows down and stops]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price … Host of Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Host of The Bay. And you’re listening to Prop Fest – A breakdown of ALL the statewide propositions on your ballot this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Spooky season is just around the corner, and as luck would have it, today we’re going to talk about zombies. Specifically the “zombie law” that bans same-sex marriage in California…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong>: It’s dead, but it could resurrect!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Californians will vote on Prop 3 to decide if we should take that same-sex marriage ban out of the state constitution and replace it with something that affirms marriage is for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> And if I remember correctly, California’s history on same-sex marriage is pretty complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Super complicated. Today, we’re going back on the twisty, turny road of same-sex marriage legalization in this state. Because it helps explain why that zombie law is there in the first place. Then we’ll break down what exactly is up for consideration with Prop 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> That’s coming up on Prop Fest, a collaboration between The Bay and Bay. Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Today we’re talking about Proposition 3. Here’s how it will read on your ballot…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voiceover:\u003c/strong> Prop 3 is a constitutional right to marriage proposed by the state legislature. It amends the California Constitution to recognize the fundamental right to marry, regardless of sex or race. It also removes language in the California Constitution stating that marriage is only between a man and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Essentially it overwrites a ban on same-sex marriage that’s currently in California’s constitution. Because same-sex marriage is legal federally, that ban is unenforceable or a zombie law. So let’s start with a history lesson on how exactly we got here with KQED’s Scott Shafer, who is the co-host of Political Breakdown, a daily podcast about California politics. Hey, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hey, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So walk us back. When did California voters first weigh in on the issue of same-sex marriage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You’d have to go back to around the year 2000. That was when some states began issuing civil unions to same-sex couples. And it was kind of ‘marriage lite’. It wasn’t all the rights, legal rights of marriage that now gay couples and lesbian couples enjoy. But it was a recognition that these relationships were important and that they should be afforded some rights. For example, the right to visit your partner in the hospital, which was not a given in a lot of states. And so states like Vermont and Hawaii and Massachusetts began talking about rights for same-sex couples. And that really concerned a lot of religious conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so in the year 2000, a state senator from Southern California named Pete Knight got a ballot measure on the November ballot, Proposition 22, which changed the family code in the state of California, and said that marriage was only between a man and a woman. That passed pretty easily with about 61% of the vote. And that’s where it stayed until Gavin Newsom got elected mayor in San Francisco in the year 2003. A few weeks after becoming mayor in San Francisco…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom (archival tape):\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Today, San Francisco took the step to make the case that we believe in the words in the California Constitution, and we took action to implement that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Gavin Newsom decided he was going to allow the county of San Francisco to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. And this stunned people. It kind of came out of the blue and within hours, people started flocking to San Francisco City Hall, lining up and taking their vows, taking marriage licenses out from the recorder’s office. And it became a huge national story.\u003cbr>\nIt was pretty widely expected that the courts would shut this down because Newsom really didn’t have any legal right to be doing this. But 4,000 couples lined up over the course of a few weeks to get married at City Hall, and they became known as ‘Newsom twosomes.’ A lot of people sort of assumed that those would not really hold up legally. But it was, you know, a validation of relationships and it really became a huge international story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But questionable legally, as we soon find out. Right. What happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after this went on for a few weeks, there was a lawsuit filed by several parties to stop the marriages and declare them unconstitutional or illegal. And so the marriages were stopped. And a few months later, the California Supreme Court said, ‘You know what? Yes, these marriages are not valid. All the people who got married sorry, folks, you’re not married anymore and you have to stop doing this.’ And that’s where it stood for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I can’t imagine being married, and then you wake up one day and find a headline that you’re not anymore. That must have been really tough. But people didn’t give up. You know, they wanted those rights back. So what happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So there was a lawsuit filed in the state of California in which Proposition 22, which had passed in the year 2000, was challenged as being unconstitutional. And it went to the California Supreme Court. And in May of 2008, the court declared that, in fact, Prop 22 was unconstitutional. And so there was a a kind of euphoria among same-sex marriage supporters on the day that the Supreme Court in California ruled by a 4 to 3 margin, that, yeah, in fact, same-sex couples could legally get married and many did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival clip of couple at San Francisco City Hall:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>We’ve been planning this for a year to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history, and time in our history is amazing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> In that window of time in 2008, some 17,000 same-sex couples rushed to their city halls and county offices to take out marriage licenses and tie the knot. But at the same time, there was a group of religious conservatives, a group called Protect Marriage dot com was collecting the signatures to put on the ballot– a ballot measure that became known as Proposition 8, which declared again, as a constitutional amendment, that marriage in California was between one man and one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So voters by 52% to 48% passed Proposition 8. It was kind of a shock for liberal, what we thought was liberal California, which had easily voted for Barack Obama over John McCain in that very same election, voted more narrowly, but nonetheless to take away the right of same-sex couples to get married. And there was a lot of anger. And there were some very, you know, big protests that broke out across California from LGBT folks and their supporters protesting the vote. But there it was. I mean, it was now the law of the land in California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News Clips:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>“Shame on you!/Supporters of gay marriage targeted L.A.’s Mormon temple protesting the more than $15 million the church poured into passing proposition 8…/Equal rights! Equal rights!/For the third straight day thousands marched in California protesting the election night passing of Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after all the protests, there was a lawsuit filed in state court to try to overturn Prop 8, saying that it was a violation of the state constitution. But after considering all of the arguments on both sides, the state Supreme Court, which, you know, just like a year earlier had said same-sex marriage was legal, said no. Now the voters have changed the Constitution. And if the voters have done it, then it is in fact, constitutional. So that was, we thought, the end of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But then things move on to federal court. So we’re leveling up here. Where do we go next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Not too long after the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, there was an effort to file in federal court very quietly. You know, there was this really small group of people, including the Human Rights Campaign, which is based in Washington. Rob Reiner, the director, who came together and said, ‘why don’t we put our own legal case together? We’ll find some plaintiffs and we’ll file it in federal court in San Francisco and see what’ll happen. Maybe, maybe we can get this legalized that way.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was a huge disagreement within the LGBTQ and the legal rights, civil rights communities, because there was a concern that if they filed this in federal court, the outcome was very unclear. And so there was a fear that it would be a setback for the movement ultimately if they didn’t win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how does that case make its way through the courts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, you know, these cases are assigned randomly. The backers of same-sex marriage really caught a break because the judge to whom this was assigned was Vaughn Walker. Vaughn Walker, although he was appointed by a Republican president, was known as kind of a Libertarian. He was also known as being gay. He wasn’t particularly open about it, but I think people thought, wow, this guy is a Libertarian. He’s gay and he is going to consider this case. Maybe we do have a chance of getting a favorable ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that Vaughn Walker did at the very beginning that surprised everybody is that he called for an actual trial with evidence and witnesses and testimony on the record. And this surprised everybody. And I think in particular, the folks who were supporting the idea of legalizing same-sex marriage were really happy because this gave them a chance to put all of these arguments against same-sex marriage on trial. And a lot of those arguments, as came out during the course of the trial, really weren’t based in fact. They weren’t backed up by any kind of evidence or research. They were really kind of fringy–A lot of them considered homophobic, honestly, that really didn’t hold up under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how did it go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, it was fascinating. I sat in on the courtroom for those two weeks of testimony here in San Francisco at the federal court building. And there was some very emotional testimony from the plaintiffs. There were a lesbian couple from Berkeley, two gay men from Los Angeles. They talked about the importance of getting married to them, why it was important to them, what it would mean for them to have this very public acknowledgment of their relationship. A historian from Yale testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other side, there was a very small number of witnesses, maybe four. And they withered under cross-examination, Their testimony didn’t hold up. Subsequently, actually, some of them changed their minds about same-sex marriage. And so after several months of taking it all into consideration, Judge Vaughn Walker issued his ruling in August of 2010, striking down Prop 8, saying it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the equal protection and due process clauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And with that decision, Prop 8 officially becomes a zombie law in California, still on the books, but it’s not enforceable. But just like supporters of same sex marriage had been, the Prop 8, people weren’t going to give up yet. There’s an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes. And in fact, Judge Vaughn Walker, although he struck down Prop 8, he put that on hold. He issued a stay. And that gave the supporters of Prop 8 an opportunity to appeal. And so they went to the Ninth Circuit. The appeals court upheld the lower court ruling and then they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And it took until 2013, three years after the initial ruling, striking down Prop 8 for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So what really started as Newsom kind of going rogue and marrying people at San Francisco City Hall has now snowballed into the highest court in the United States, taking up the issue, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Exactly. And this issue was just a California ballot measure. And it wasn’t a very clean decision, ultimately. The attorneys for the ‘No on Prop 8’ side, they would have liked it if the U.S. Supreme Court said right then and there, ‘Same-sex marriage should be legal throughout the country.’ They didn’t do that. They didn’t issue a decision on the merits. What they said was, ‘You guys who are challenging this law, you don’t have standing, you don’t have legal standing. You’re not really directly affected by Proposition 8. Therefore, we’re going to let the lower court decision stand because you all don’t have a right to be here.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Got it. So same-sex marriage is legal, but only in California and various other states at that point had legalized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Correct. So it did apply to California. It was back on in California. So same-sex couples could get married, but it did not apply nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So then how do we get to the place where we are today, where it’s legal nationwide?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So once Proposition 8 was struck down, yes, gay marriage, same-sex marriage was legal here in California, but not nationwide. But then a couple of years later, there was another case brought by a plaintiff named Jim Obergefell. He lived in Ohio and he wanted to get married to his partner. And he made a very similar case to the U.S. Supreme Court based on the 14th Amendment and the due process and equal protection clauses, saying that he should not be barred from getting married just because he’s gay. And in a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court decided that, yes, in fact, same-sex marriage should be legal nationwide. That was a historic ruling and it changed everything. It changed the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So this year we’re voting on Prop 3. How does Prop 3 tie into all this history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So the 2013 decision striking down Prop 8 invalidated Prop 8. But, you know, the law was on the books. Technically, it was a zombie law. And there was concern in Sacramento that it could come back to life like a zombie. If, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court, you know, decided for whatever reason, that maybe that Obergefell decision was wrongly decided. We’ve seen that with abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Congress did pass legislation sort of enshrining the right to same-sex marriage into law in 2022. So it would be much harder to overturn that now. But in Sacramento, some of the opponents of Prop 8 said, you know what? Let’s just strip this out of the California Constitution once and for all. And so the state legislature, without any dissenting votes in the assembly or the Senate, voted to put Prop 3 on the ballot. That’s what we’re voting on in November. It would replace that language that the voters passed with Prop 8, with language saying that all people have the right to get married and that it’s a part of their fundamental right to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> You’ve sort of answered, I think, a part of this, but maybe you won’t elaborate. You know, Prop 8 has been sitting there, you know, in California’s constitution, unenforceable for a decade. Why make this change now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> It is somewhat symbolic on one hand, because, as you say, you know, it can’t be enforced. But I think it’s also kind of a statement that not just getting rid of the old language, but affirming, you know, in a positive way, the right to same-sex marriage, enshrining that in the law. Something similar happened, you know, a couple of years ago with abortion in California. Abortion is legal here. But there was a ballot measure fundamentally enshrining it into the state constitution as a way of really making an emphatic statement that this is a fundamental right that women should have. And I think they also want to send a message maybe to the rest of the country to show how far California has come. So they’re hoping that this ballot measure will pass overwhelmingly. And really just kind of put an exclamation point on this change in attitude and law. You know, that gay couples now can rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Now, back in 2008, when Prop 8 was passed, it had a lot of financial support from the Mormon temple and other religious organizations. What does opposition to Prop 3 look like at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Right now, the opponents of Proposition 3 have $0. You know, they have to file financial statements with the state of California. And in the most recent filing, they literally had raised no money whatsoever. The yes side, on the other hand, has raised at least $4 million. And it has widespread political support from Governor Newsom, virtually every statewide elected official, if not everyone. The California Democratic Party, organized labor, the labor federation. There are corporations and just many others who are happy to give money to this cause, to take this anti-gay language out of the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want to suggest that, like everyone now supports same-sex marriage because that’s not the case. Even though there were no no votes in the state legislature, there were a number of legislators, mostly Republicans, who just skipped the vote. They didn’t vote at all. It’s hard to say exactly whether they would have been yes or no. My guess is they oppose same-sex marriage, but didn’t really want to put their names to the opposition to Proposition 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are some groups that still, you know, have put ballot arguments in the voter guide. There’s a group called the California Capital Connection. They have an alliance with independent Baptist ministers and churches to put out a statement. And their statement reads, ‘God instituted marriage and defined it as a union between a man and a woman. And you know that people cannot redefine what God has already defined.’ So there’s definitely still opposition to same-sex marriage. It’s just that the broad public has really shifted in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, Scott Shafer is the co-host of Political Breakdown KQED daily podcast, all about California politics. Scott, before you go, just tell people what can they expect from you on the podcast over the next couple of weeks before Election Day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> California has a lot of races in play that will either help the Democrats take the House or keep it a Republican majority. It’s going to be an exciting sprint to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, thanks for helping us out today, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes, happy to do it. Thank you for doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In summary, a vote yes on Prop 3 would take language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman out of California’s constitution. And it adds into the Constitution the right to marry regardless of sex or race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote no on Prop 3 would keep the same-sex marriage ban in California’s constitution. There would be no change in who can marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for Proposition 3. If you’re a new listener, just tuning in for our Prop Fest series, be sure to subscribe to the Bay Curious podcast. Every Thursday we drop episodes that explore listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a lot of fun, and we always learn so much – so if you’re digging Prop Fest so far, I think you’ll enjoy our other work too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Prop Fest is a collaboration between The Bay and Bay Curious podcasts. 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But her family said they have not received any details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing, nothing. They didn’t tell me anything. I still don’t know,” Adimika Blockman, Hadley’s mother, said at a rally joined by more than a dozen other relatives and supporters outside the San Francisco Women’s Jail on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed to Hadley’s death in calling for Jenkins to seek out more alternatives to jail, such as mental health diversion programs. Hadley, who faced charges in connection with a string of robberies but had not been convicted, struggled with mental health challenges, according to her attorney and family members who sought treatment for her while in jail. The court ultimately denied their requests for mental health diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005062 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lula Wright, an aunt of Aamonte Hadley, hugs Adimika Blockman, Hadley’s mother, during a rally outside of County Jail #2, a jail that houses women, in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024, to call for justice for Hadley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Hadley was charged with serious crimes, which were held to answer by the court. She was detained pretrial because of the public safety risk she posed,” Jenkins said in a written statement. “The court denied defense counsel’s numerous requests for mental health diversion because it was not warranted in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Shikman, an attorney who represented Hadley, said she expressed remorse for what she had done and described her as “the poster child for compassionate treatment in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried mightily for practically two years to get her mental health diversion, but it fell almost on deaf ears. She was calling out, begging for treatment, but they denied it,” Shikman said. “The expressed mental health diversion statute in the state is to have treatment, especially for a young person, and she had no criminal record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins called Hadley’s death “tragic and alarming” but further said in her statement that if the defense had “prepared to settle or go to trial sooner, the tragedy may have been avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005058 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrice Bolton, Aamonte Hadley’s aunt, speaks during a rally outside of County Jail #2, a jail that houses women, in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024, to call for justice for Hadley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speakers at Tuesday’s rally took offense to the suggestion that settling may have saved Hadley, and they called on the district attorney to do more to provide actual treatment and mental health diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of people who are in county jails in California have mental health challenges, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/county-jails-house-fewer-inmates-but-over-half-face-mental-health-issues/\">according to the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convictions increased while referrals to diversion programs have decreased under Jenkins’ tenure, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/sf-da-brooke-jenkins-reverses-decline-convictions/\">Mission Local reports\u003c/a>. At the same time, the city is struggling with \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/what-was-the-plan-understaffed-overcrowded-sf-jails/\">overcrowding in jails\u003c/a>, which advocates and attorneys on Tuesday said has fueled physically and mentally unsafe conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005060 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Travis, a cousin of Aamonte Hadley, holds a sign during a rally outside of County Jail #2, a jail that houses women, in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those decisions matter when a district attorney or the courts make a decision to not let someone go to mental health diversion to get the treatment they need to move their life in a proper direction. It matters,” Public Defender Mano Raju said. “The consequences are devastating in so many ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju and Shikman said they have seen larger caseloads, packed jails and slower movement in the courts as the pace of filings has picked up, setting up tragic outcomes for people like Hadley and her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins stood by her office’s approach and charges in Hadley’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12003785 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240910-TERRY-WILLIAMS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office is committed to fair and ethical prosecutions. We charge cases based on the facts, evidence and the law,” she said. “We do not overcharge cases and any assertions to the contrary are baseless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins’ sole opponent running for San Francisco district attorney this November, Ryan Khojasteh, said he hopes to restore levels of pretrial diversion for low-level and first-time offenses “so we can focus on prosecuting serious, violent and repeat crimes and take those to trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years for a case not to go to a trial or a resolution is not a responsible way for the criminal justice system to happen,” Khojasteh said. “Those referrals are proven to work. 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Such parental notification policies began sprouting up across California after the 2022 election, when Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/08/california-republicans-school-board-races/\">focused on winning control of school boards\u003c/a>, but critics argue they amount to forced outing. Essayli and Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/corey-jackson-165443\">Corey Jackson\u003c/a> nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article289582908.html\">came to blows on the Assembly floor\u003c/a> over AB 1955, which Newsom signed in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12002527,news_11995853,news_12001799\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other measures are headed to the governor’s desk after receiving final approval from the Legislature last week, including Bauer-Kahan’s \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2085?slug=CA_202320240AB2085\">AB 2085\u003c/a> to streamline the permitting process for reproductive health clinics. Though California has positioned itself as an “abortion sanctuary” since the U.S Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — even putting reproductive rights into the state constitution — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/abortion-rights-california-beverly-hills-clinic/\">local opposition has prevented clinics from opening\u003c/a> in cities such as Beverly Hills and Fontana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw the voters say they overwhelmingly support abortion rights, so it’s important that we as a state step in to ensure this access that they said they want,” Bauer-Kahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#f2de7f04-ca4b-4c20-b7e3-f75a528befe4\">Senate Bill 1174\u003c/a> by state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/dave-min-165451\">Dave Min\u003c/a>, an Irvine Democrat, would prohibit local governments from requiring voter identification in municipal elections, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/california-election-huntington-beach/\">Huntington Beach adopted this past spring\u003c/a> as a security measure despite criticisms that it would create unnecessary hurdles for poor and minority voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#828d086d-0676-48b0-a25c-ddf15e45dc40\">AB 1825\u003c/a> by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/al-muratsuchi-34399\">Al Muratsuchi\u003c/a>, would \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/book-bans-california-libraries/\">outlaw the sort of citizen review panels\u003c/a> that Huntington Beach and Fresno County recently created to restrict access to library books with “sexual references” and “gender-identity content.” Supporters argue the committees can keep inappropriate material out of children’s hands, while opponents contend that they target books with LGBTQ themes for censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislators behind these bills say they support local control on some issues, but it can go too far when communities use their power to challenge people’s rights or the values that Californians have broadly affirmed. That’s when they believe the state should step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see it as our responsibility for the Legislature to establish protections for all kids regardless of where they live,” said Muratsuchi, a Torrance Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002787\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"Several people look toward a person at a podium with a microphone and a large screen behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state Senate during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers suggested the growing confrontation could be a symptom of the divisive politics of the Trump era. They said many conservatives took a signal from Trump’s refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 presidential election and, like liberal states during the Trump administration, are picking up the mantle to lead a political resistance — which they believe, in many cases, has gone too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve seen a lot of these people really thumb their nose at the rule of law,” Min said. “They’re trying to get around that through sneaky little tactics.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative politicians counter that they are simply reacting to a state government that has pushed much further left than their constituents by listening to the LGBTQ rights movement and other activists rather than the people who elected them. Essayli said the Democratic supermajority in the Legislature is over-representative of a progressive ideology compared to California voters, only 46% of whom are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one side changing what the norm is,” he said. “Then we’re considered the instigators, the agitators, the provocateurs for saying, wait, that’s not the way it’s always been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom declined to comment on the legislation pending before him or when the governor thinks state intervention is necessary to override local policies. But even if he signs the bills on his desk, is it almost certainly not the end of this fight, as communities such as Huntington Beach — which has positioned itself over the past two years as a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/huntington-beach-conservatives/\">bulwark in the conservative war against “wokeism”\u003c/a> — consider lawsuits and other forms of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red dress holds a book while leaning against a desk with a stack of books and pictures in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracey Van Der Mark, Mayor Pro Tem, with books she believes should be banned from children’s sections of the library in Huntington Beach Nov. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2024-08-07/huntington-beach-city-council-majority-calls-for-creation-of-a-parents-right-to-know-ordinance\">introduced a “parents’ right to know” ordinance \u003c/a>as a direct challenge to AB 1955, the law prohibiting schools from reporting when students change their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her city is more at odds now with Sacramento because state politicians are trying to stamp out ideological diversity in California and force all parents to raise their children in a certain way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s none of the state’s business,” she said. “We’re sick and tired of it. We need to push back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be great if Sacramento could focus on homelessness, crime,” she added, “and leave the parenting to the parents.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Republican power waning in California — the party hasn’t elected a candidate to statewide office since 2006 and labors under a superminority in the Legislature — conservatives are increasingly using the relative autonomy of city councils, county boards of supervisors and school boards to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/huntington-beach-conservatives/\">protest liberal state policymaking and assert a competing vision for their communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of built-up frustration and that’s one valve that’s being used,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/bill-essayli-165444\">Bill Essayli\u003c/a>, a Corona Republican who is often an outspoken opponent of bills to shut down conservative defiance. “We’re in an era in politics where you need an adversary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result has been local laws to require voter identification at the polls, block abortion clinics from opening, review children’s library books for sexual content and mandate parental notification when students change their gender identity at school — prompting legislative Democrats to respond with measures that would ban those policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t want free people to make up their own minds,” said Fresno County Supervisor Steve Brandau, who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/book-bans-california-libraries/\">developed a library material review committee\u003c/a> for his county because he was disturbed by the children’s books included in a Pride Month display at a local library. “We’re fighting for our lives, we’re fighting for our livelihoods, we’re fighting for our beliefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clash began intensifying last year, with a showdown over an elementary school social studies textbook. When a Riverside County school board refused to adopt the state-approved curriculum because it referenced assassinated LGBTQ rights activist Harvey Milk, Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to send the textbook directly to students and bill the district, which then reversed course. Legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/09/california-book-bans/\">subsequently passed a law\u003c/a> to penalize school boards that ban books because they include the history or culture of LGBTQ people and other diverse groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also approved, and Newsom signed, a measure to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws/#c2120155-fc6a-4c1b-9323-6291c4b1efd8\">limit when local governments can count ballots by hand\u003c/a>, after Shasta County canceled its contract with a voting machine company because of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/shasta-county-election-administration/\">unfounded election fraud claims\u003c/a> pushed by Trump and his allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of legislation has followed this year, most controversially \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1955?slug=CA_202320240AB1955\">Assembly Bill 1955\u003c/a> by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/christopher-ward-35497\">Chris Ward\u003c/a>, a San Diego Democrat, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/trans-youth-california/\">prevents school districts from alerting parents\u003c/a> when a student starts identifying as another gender. Such parental notification policies began sprouting up across California after the 2022 election, when Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/08/california-republicans-school-board-races/\">focused on winning control of school boards\u003c/a>, but critics argue they amount to forced outing. Essayli and Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/corey-jackson-165443\">Corey Jackson\u003c/a> nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article289582908.html\">came to blows on the Assembly floor\u003c/a> over AB 1955, which Newsom signed in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other measures are headed to the governor’s desk after receiving final approval from the Legislature last week, including Bauer-Kahan’s \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2085?slug=CA_202320240AB2085\">AB 2085\u003c/a> to streamline the permitting process for reproductive health clinics. Though California has positioned itself as an “abortion sanctuary” since the U.S Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — even putting reproductive rights into the state constitution — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/abortion-rights-california-beverly-hills-clinic/\">local opposition has prevented clinics from opening\u003c/a> in cities such as Beverly Hills and Fontana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw the voters say they overwhelmingly support abortion rights, so it’s important that we as a state step in to ensure this access that they said they want,” Bauer-Kahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#f2de7f04-ca4b-4c20-b7e3-f75a528befe4\">Senate Bill 1174\u003c/a> by state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/dave-min-165451\">Dave Min\u003c/a>, an Irvine Democrat, would prohibit local governments from requiring voter identification in municipal elections, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/california-election-huntington-beach/\">Huntington Beach adopted this past spring\u003c/a> as a security measure despite criticisms that it would create unnecessary hurdles for poor and minority voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#828d086d-0676-48b0-a25c-ddf15e45dc40\">AB 1825\u003c/a> by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/al-muratsuchi-34399\">Al Muratsuchi\u003c/a>, would \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/book-bans-california-libraries/\">outlaw the sort of citizen review panels\u003c/a> that Huntington Beach and Fresno County recently created to restrict access to library books with “sexual references” and “gender-identity content.” Supporters argue the committees can keep inappropriate material out of children’s hands, while opponents contend that they target books with LGBTQ themes for censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislators behind these bills say they support local control on some issues, but it can go too far when communities use their power to challenge people’s rights or the values that Californians have broadly affirmed. That’s when they believe the state should step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see it as our responsibility for the Legislature to establish protections for all kids regardless of where they live,” said Muratsuchi, a Torrance Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002787\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"Several people look toward a person at a podium with a microphone and a large screen behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state Senate during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers suggested the growing confrontation could be a symptom of the divisive politics of the Trump era. They said many conservatives took a signal from Trump’s refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 presidential election and, like liberal states during the Trump administration, are picking up the mantle to lead a political resistance — which they believe, in many cases, has gone too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve seen a lot of these people really thumb their nose at the rule of law,” Min said. “They’re trying to get around that through sneaky little tactics.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative politicians counter that they are simply reacting to a state government that has pushed much further left than their constituents by listening to the LGBTQ rights movement and other activists rather than the people who elected them. Essayli said the Democratic supermajority in the Legislature is over-representative of a progressive ideology compared to California voters, only 46% of whom are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one side changing what the norm is,” he said. “Then we’re considered the instigators, the agitators, the provocateurs for saying, wait, that’s not the way it’s always been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom declined to comment on the legislation pending before him or when the governor thinks state intervention is necessary to override local policies. But even if he signs the bills on his desk, is it almost certainly not the end of this fight, as communities such as Huntington Beach — which has positioned itself over the past two years as a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/huntington-beach-conservatives/\">bulwark in the conservative war against “wokeism”\u003c/a> — consider lawsuits and other forms of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red dress holds a book while leaning against a desk with a stack of books and pictures in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracey Van Der Mark, Mayor Pro Tem, with books she believes should be banned from children’s sections of the library in Huntington Beach Nov. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2024-08-07/huntington-beach-city-council-majority-calls-for-creation-of-a-parents-right-to-know-ordinance\">introduced a “parents’ right to know” ordinance \u003c/a>as a direct challenge to AB 1955, the law prohibiting schools from reporting when students change their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her city is more at odds now with Sacramento because state politicians are trying to stamp out ideological diversity in California and force all parents to raise their children in a certain way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s none of the state’s business,” she said. “We’re sick and tired of it. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11994004/after-trump-shooting-california-republicans-hope-to-turn-down-the-burner-at-convention\">attempted assassination\u003c/a> of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend has awakened national memories of violence across the political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several Bay Area leaders, the shooting served as a reminder that threats they receive — which, by several accounts, have escalated in recent years — are real and dangerous. Political rhetoric is increasingly divisive and violent, and research shows members of marginalized groups are disproportionately targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the assassination attempt stirred painful memories of the city’s most notorious act of political violence: the 1978 shootings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former colleague in City Hall. More recently, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">attacked\u003c/a> in the family’s Pacific Heights home by a man who was allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991336/jury-finds-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-guilty-in-state-trial\">radicalized by conspiracy theories\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife decided to publicize multiple racist, threatening voicemails she’s received in a series of posts on X in January. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a series of posts on X in January, Fife, who is Black, shared several voicemails containing horrific and violent threats that were made against her. More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. As soon as I got elected, I no longer felt safe in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a member of Berkeley’s City Council who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">pushed for permanent supportive housin\u003c/a>g at People’s Park resigned over “harassment, stalking, and threats” that he said took a toll on his personal and family life. Rigel Robinson wrote in a column published in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opinion-why-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-berkeley-city-council\">\u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the job and associated backlash left him in a “perpetual state of stress and exhaustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that says 'Save people's park' is hung between trees, next to a tent, in a park.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mounting instances of threats and political violence are especially concerning in an increasingly tense election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public opinion polls show that a growing number of Americans “say that political violence would be acceptable in at least some circumstances,” according to Shirin Sinnar, a legal scholar on political violence at Stanford Law. [aside postID=news_11994004 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/RNC2024-1020x680.jpg']Political violence has escalated across the political spectrum, she said, “but right-wing attacks [are] actually more frequent and far more deadly in terms of lives lost in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the nature of the threats he receives from right-wing actors is more violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get criticized by both extremes on the left and the right, and I get sometimes harshly criticized. But the death threats I receive, it’s only one side — it’s from the extreme right,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned against “both-sidesing” the blame for increasing violent rhetoric following Trump’s assassination attempt, recalling that after the attack on Paul Pelosi, Republicans and Democrats did not exactly come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people on the right are being so aggressive and self-righteous about the [Trump] attack, falsely claiming that Democrats somehow instigated this violence — which I think is very untrue,” Wiener told KQED. “These are some of the same people who made fun of Paul Pelosi for being brutalized almost to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alex Gonzalez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca 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She asked herself how she could get these books into the hands of the people who need them the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning last May, she started raising money and looking for recipients. Her books have gone to places like a pride center in West Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers are especially enthusiastic about helping Robbins send books to states like Florida, Texas and Oklahoma, often writing notes of support to include in the packages. Over 40% of all book bans from July 2022 to June 2023 were in Florida, more than any other state. 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Because the totals are based on media accounts and reports submitted by librarians, the association regards its numbers as snapshots, with many bans left unrecorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside shot of Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PEN America’s report said 30% of the bans include characters of color or discuss race and racism, and 30% have LGBTQ+ characters or themes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most sweeping challenges often originate with conservative organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-2024-election-republican-candidates-f46500e0e17761a7e6a3c02b61a3d229\">Moms for Liberty\u003c/a>, which has organized banning efforts nationwide and called for more parental control over books available to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms for Liberty is not anti-LGBTQ+, co-founder Tiffany Justice \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-librarians-library-workers-gender-queer-book-bans-4ac552901f7ab0eca3a9dcf070b24350\">has told The Associated Press\u003c/a>. But about 38% of book challenges that “directly originated” from the group have LGBTQ+ themes, according to the library association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Justice said Moms for Liberty challenges books that are sexually explicit, not because they cover LGBTQ+ topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11992129,forum_2010101895142,news_11989910\"]Among those topping banned lists have been Maia Kobabe’s \u003cem>Gender Queer\u003c/em>, George Johnson’s \u003cem>All Boys Aren’t Blue\u003c/em> and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins said it’s more important than ever to makes these kinds of books available to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fiction teaches us how to dream,” Robbins said. “It teaches us how to connect with people who are not like ourselves, it teaches us how to listen and emphasize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sent 740 books so far, with each box worth $300 to $400, depending on the titles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the new Rose Dynasty Center in Lakeland, Florida, the books donated by Fabulosa are already on the shelves, said Jason DeShazo, a drag queen known as Momma Ashley Rose who runs the LGBTQ+ community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeShazo is a family-friendly drag performer and has long hosted drag story times to promote literacy. He uses puppets to address themes of being kind, dealing with bullies and giving back to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992583\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeShazo hopes to provide a safe space for events, support groups, and health clinics, and build a library of banned books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think a person of color should have to search so hard for an amazing book about history of what our Black community has gone through,” DeShazo said. “Or for someone who is queer to find a book that represents them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins’ favorite books to send are youth adult queer romances, a rapidly growing genre as conversations about LGBTQ+ issues have become much more mainstream than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The characters are just like regular kids — regular people who are also queer, but they also get to fall in love and be happy,” Robbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In an increasingly divisive political sphere, Becka Robbins focuses on what she knows best — books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operating out of a tiny room in Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District, one of the oldest gay neighborhoods in the United States, Robbins uses donations from customers to ship boxes of books across the country to groups that want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort she calls “Books Not Bans,” she sends titles about queer history, sexuality, romance and more — many of which are increasingly hard to come by in the face of a rapidly growing movement by conservative advocacy groups and lawmakers to ban them from public schools and libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The book bans are awful, the attempt at erasure,” Robbins said. She asked herself how she could get these books into the hands of the people who need them the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning last May, she started raising money and looking for recipients. Her books have gone to places like a pride center in West Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers are especially enthusiastic about helping Robbins send books to states like Florida, Texas and Oklahoma, often writing notes of support to include in the packages. Over 40% of all book bans from July 2022 to June 2023 were in Florida, more than any other state. Behind Florida are Texas and Missouri, according to a report by PEN America, a nonprofit literature advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Book bans and attempted bans \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-american-library-association-f84ac6fe3f8e3238fc54931bc1a5e054\">have been hitting record highs\u003c/a>, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/\">American Library Association\u003c/a>. And the efforts now extend as much to public libraries as school-based libraries. Because the totals are based on media accounts and reports submitted by librarians, the association regards its numbers as snapshots, with many bans left unrecorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside shot of Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PEN America’s report said 30% of the bans include characters of color or discuss race and racism, and 30% have LGBTQ+ characters or themes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most sweeping challenges often originate with conservative organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-2024-election-republican-candidates-f46500e0e17761a7e6a3c02b61a3d229\">Moms for Liberty\u003c/a>, which has organized banning efforts nationwide and called for more parental control over books available to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms for Liberty is not anti-LGBTQ+, co-founder Tiffany Justice \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-librarians-library-workers-gender-queer-book-bans-4ac552901f7ab0eca3a9dcf070b24350\">has told The Associated Press\u003c/a>. But about 38% of book challenges that “directly originated” from the group have LGBTQ+ themes, according to the library association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Justice said Moms for Liberty challenges books that are sexually explicit, not because they cover LGBTQ+ topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Among those topping banned lists have been Maia Kobabe’s \u003cem>Gender Queer\u003c/em>, George Johnson’s \u003cem>All Boys Aren’t Blue\u003c/em> and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins said it’s more important than ever to makes these kinds of books available to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fiction teaches us how to dream,” Robbins said. “It teaches us how to connect with people who are not like ourselves, it teaches us how to listen and emphasize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sent 740 books so far, with each box worth $300 to $400, depending on the titles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the new Rose Dynasty Center in Lakeland, Florida, the books donated by Fabulosa are already on the shelves, said Jason DeShazo, a drag queen known as Momma Ashley Rose who runs the LGBTQ+ community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeShazo is a family-friendly drag performer and has long hosted drag story times to promote literacy. He uses puppets to address themes of being kind, dealing with bullies and giving back to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992583\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeShazo hopes to provide a safe space for events, support groups, and health clinics, and build a library of banned books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think a person of color should have to search so hard for an amazing book about history of what our Black community has gone through,” DeShazo said. “Or for someone who is queer to find a book that represents them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins’ favorite books to send are youth adult queer romances, a rapidly growing genre as conversations about LGBTQ+ issues have become much more mainstream than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The characters are just like regular kids — regular people who are also queer, but they also get to fall in love and be happy,” Robbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Pride — one of the biggest LGBTQ+ events in the world — is happening Saturday and Sunday, June 29–30. Whether it’s your first Pride or your 30th, stay up to date with our guide on all the details about the parade and celebrations happening at Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the official festivities, there will also be fabulous parties happening all weekend throughout the Bay Area. Regardless of how you plan to celebrate or who you hope to meet, this guide offers some important tips on how to reduce STI and overdose risks.[aside postID=\"arts_13960283\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56872_002_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]“It’s Pride — we’re all going to these events to have a good time,” said Samuel Cuadra, associate director of community engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcommunityhealth.org/about\">San Francisco Community Health Center\u003c/a>, which provides medical services to lower-income residents, primarily communities of color, as well as LGBTQ+ and unhoused individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a plan in place ensures you have a good time, you’re safe, you hang out with your friends and make memories at Pride that are good and not regretful,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor1\">\u003cstrong>Is there a map of the Pride celebrations in San Francisco’s Civic Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#anchor2\">\u003cstrong>What are my transportation options?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor3\">\u003cstrong>Are there things I \u003ci>can’t\u003c/i> bring into Pride?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor4\">\u003cstrong>What’s the weather going to be like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor5\">\u003cstrong>What accessibility accommodations will there be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor6\">\u003cstrong>If doing drugs, what are some safety precautions to take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor7\">\u003cstrong>How do I prepare for potentially having new sexual partners?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>When is the Pride parade? And what’s the parade route?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During Pride weekend, there will be two completely free events in downtown San Francisco. One of them is \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/map\">a two-day celebration in the city’s Civic Center\u003c/a> that includes several block parties and musical performances. And then, of course, on Sunday is the legendary \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/parade\">Pride Parade\u003c/a>. The parade is one of the nation’s oldest Pride traditions, with hundreds of different floats and thousands of people marching, representing the wide variety of LGBTQ+ experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade on Sunday starts at 10:30 a.m. at Market and Beale streets, goes down Market Street and ends at Market and 8th streets, where the rest of the celebration will take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade takes up most of downtown San Francisco on Sunday, so save this map to your phone’s camera roll to keep track of what’s happening where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991995\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991995\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the SF Pride Parade route.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1154\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2-800x769.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2-1020x981.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2-160x154.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Pride Parade route. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The area between City Hall and the Civic Center BART station (highlighted in pink in the previous map) is where many of the bigger dance parties will take place on both Saturday and Sunday, including hip hop and Asian & Pacific Islander stages on Saturday and a Trans Futures and Latin music stages on Sunday, each featuring live performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On both days, Civic Center fills up with tens of thousands of people, so it’s possible you may have limited cell phone service. Save the map below that shows the different stages, along with the different locations of restrooms, food spots and medical tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991994\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing SF Pride festivities.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Pride festival grounds at Civic Center. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Thinking of driving to Pride on Sunday?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you plan to park near Market Street on Sunday, you may want to rethink that strategy. Finding a public parking spot in downtown San Francisco is already difficult on any other day of the year and nearly impossible during Pride. That said, there are private parking lots downtown, but they can be pricey, usually charging at least $30–$40 per car — and likely more during big events. You may need to drive to pretty far-off neighborhoods to find a spot, or you can \u003ca href=\"https://spothero.com/search?kind=address&latitude=37.793301236424945&longitude=-122.39645940189274&%243p=a_hasoffers&%24affiliate_json=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.spothero.com%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D1%26aff_id%3D1433%26file_id%3D28%26source%3Dsfpridestartline%26aff_sub2%3Dparkingpage%26format%3Djson&_branch_match_id=1326649323374618505&utm_source=Partnerships&utm_campaign=Tune_Platform&utm_medium=paid+advertising&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA32SwU7EIBCGn6bc7LZA260JMSbq0Yvx3MxSusVlCwI18e0dtnWzrsaEy%2FzDzPzzwRijC7ebTXA2jsrbHJzLjZ4OmxhKR5%2FfX1R5d9BTL6DvvQqBGIg6zr0SrMmblrGipKzmlLe8IsZO%2ByV5U1Kas7bmVcuLctvShpOMcuYEdCMEOwzKh6TAMGijIaruLdhJjOgnY%2FcZfcITPUicvc%2FP7qQ9oo41nczY06lLp%2FuMPZQZrZO8BJwxjLGxWgS6xTDY2UuFURic170KEXzEVdVaGuYdxawDn2Y62KfEYP0RIsrJHZm9OTkMZ4u%2FuCXbZ3LoMaNVWhs7XCyOja%2B8Z82jNFoeVqWgTVNx4JzSpq4L2FY71ZYVg%2B1OFut1G2InZ%2B%2FVJD%2Bx5vXl4SLxAWZOu66Xg5J26sF%2Fdm7eGR3QMiYTlBG68xOs0j%2Bc9hZMgkRJkKM6qoUGGXGk%2BIWCOIij%2BAHkjz9waiko%2BQYiSrI4ENfzyQUk8T8icg1IIB7yA44ovgD2DmjT%2FAIAAA%3D%3D&view=dl\">reserve a parking spot ahead of time using SpotHero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is to drive to a BART station outside the city, park there, and take BART to any of the downtown San Francisco stations on Market Street (Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero). That way, you’ll avoid the weekend traffic coming into the city on the Bay Bridge or Highway 101.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there things I \u003ci>can’t\u003c/i> bring to San Francisco Pride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There will be security checkpoints to get into both the Pride parade and celebrations taking place at the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Event organizers strongly discourage people from bringing “bags of any kind into the celebration.” But there are still some bags that will be allowed into the event, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Totally clear plastic bags that do not exceed 12” x 6” x 12”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small clutch bags, smaller than 4.5” x 6.5” in size, with or without a handle\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fanny packs/crossbody bags that are smaller than 12” x 6” x 4”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Organizers have also published a list of prohibited items at the parade and celebrations. The list includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Water bottles with any liquid in them (even if they are sealed). Empty water bottles, however, are allowed, and refilling stations are available in the Civic Center celebration space.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons, regardless of permit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cans, thermoses and glass bottles\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Outside food products and containers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcoholic beverages\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chairs of any kind\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brooms, poles and sticks (including selfie sticks)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Beach balls and inflatables\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Banners, totems or oversized signage\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/faq\">See the complete list of prohibited items at SF Pride.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the weather like in San Francisco during Pride weekend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Believe it or not, downtown San Francisco is expected to have clear, sunny weather this weekend. The National Weather Service forecast \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.781539&lon=-122.416571\">shows mostly sunny skies on Saturday with highs in the mid-60s\u003c/a>. Sunday looks to be a tad warmer, with the expected high near 70 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember that this is San Francisco and the weather can change very quickly. Even on a sunny day, it’s normal for the weather to still feel chilly, thanks to the strong winds pushing in from the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter the weather, remember to drink water, especially if you’re planning on drinking alcohol or taking any drugs. Cuadra, from SFCHC, said some mistakenly think that drinking water will prevent you from feeling the effects of alcohol or drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it really doesn’t — it will just help your body regulate itself,” he said. “So if you’re drinking alcohol, having a cup of water between each [drink] isn’t going to stop you from getting drunk … but you will feel much less hungover the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to bring water bottles to either the parade or the celebration at the Civic Center, don’t forget that they have to be empty plastic bottles that you can refill at each event.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to know about accessibility at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s Pride parade has a free accessible viewing area, which organizers say provides an “unobstructed view” of the parade for each person who needs it, plus one guest. This area at the parade grandstands also has accessible restroom facilities. In order to request a spot, \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.781539&lon=-122.416571\">you will need to complete an online form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride also offers American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and a special seating platform at the main stage on both days for people with hearing difficulties. To access this service, you will need to pick up a wristband at the SF Pride information booth at Fulton and Larkin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you are taking BART to Pride:\u003c/strong> All BART stations have accessible elevators, but being prepared for issues with those elevators is a good idea. You can sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/alerts\">BART alerts\u003c/a> to be notified of an issue with the elevator at the station you plan to use or check the status of elevator operations at any station by calling 510-834-LIFT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11991999 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A festively dressed dancer performs in front of samba drummer on the street, with the San Francisco Ferry Building in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of samba dancers and drummers participate in the Pride Parade on Market Street in San Francisco on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>My friends and I are thinking of doing drugs during Pride weekend. How do we keep each other safe?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Taking party drugs (molly, cocaine, ketamine, 2C-B or “tusi”) has become more dangerous in recent years as these drugs are now being laced with fentanyl more frequently. And while we’re certainly not encouraging folks to do drugs at Pride, we do hope this information can help reduce the risk of a bad trip or an accidental overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Before going out …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, Cuadra said, check in with yourself now, before the weekend starts, about what type of experience you want to have. “If you’re being realistic with yourself and you would like to do some drugs this weekend,” he said, “that’s probably something you want to prepare for ahead of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making a decision now about what you want to do can keep you from making risky decisions later on, Cuadra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You run a risk whenever you take any drugs, but I think the risk is heightened if you’re at a club and looking for drugs right there and then,” he said. “Maybe you don’t know the person that’s selling it to you at the club. You just might be a little bit more desperate for whatever you can get your hands on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuadra adds that if you do buy drugs, it’s best to do so in advance and from someone you know and trust — which, in turn, gives you more time to test for fentanyl. Many party drugs are increasingly laced with fentanyl, many times without the user’s knowledge. A 2022 scientific study found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/14/1199396794/fentanyl-mixed-with-cocaine-or-meth-is-driving-the-4th-wave-of-the-overdose-cris\">nearly a third of overdoses reported nationwide in 2021 involved both fentanyl and stimulants such as \u003c/a>cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you were told by someone else that none of your drugs have fentanyl, it’s still a good idea to test them for yourself, Cuadra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who do drugs that are not opioids sometimes think, ‘Well, I’m not doing opioids, so why should I be testing for fentanyl?’” he said. “Unfortunately, more opioid overdoses happen with people who are not used to those drugs because your body hasn’t built up a tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit FentCheck \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs-1\">provides a list of bars and other community spaces\u003c/a> that offer fentanyl test strips and Narcan. The group also has a \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs\">step-by-step tutorial on using test strips\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>While you’re out …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wherever you end up on Pride weekend, go with a group of friends. Even if you end up meeting someone else, Cuadra said, having your friends nearby can make the night less anxiety-inducing, especially if you’re having a bad trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you’re taking a drug regularly, it might not have the desired effect that day,” he said. “It might just mean you’re in a different space, and it’s just nice to check in with someone and take whatever steps you need to get into a better headspace or a safer environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to consider bringing with you when going out: Narcan. Narcan is the brand name for a naloxone nasal spray that is administered to someone when they are experiencing an opioid overdose (including from fentanyl).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can buy Narcan at a pharmacy without needing a prescription, and you can also get it free of charge at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/location/behavioral-health-access-center-bhac\">San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Health Services\u003c/a> pharmacy at 1380 Howard St. The pharmacy is open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hooking up with somebody new? Protect each other’s sexual health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, Pride in San Francisco has been a time when LGBTQ+ people have come together \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/resource-library/sfaf-history/\">to advocate for the health needs of their community\u003c/a>. Part of celebrating Pride is honoring that legacy and protecting our own sexual health and that of our partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most important things one can do before initiating a new sexual relationship is to get screened for HIV and STIs (sexually transmitted infections) and to know your status,” said Dr. Stephanie Cohen, director of HIV and STI prevention at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have insurance, call your healthcare provider and share that you need to know your status ahead of this weekend. And if you are uninsured, multiple clinics around the Bay Area offer free or low-cost STI testing. Here’s just a handful of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/programs/magnet/\">Magnet (the sexual health clinic located at Strut\u003c/a>) and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityclinic.org/services/sti-and-hiv-testing\">SF Free Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland: \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/sexual-health-services\">The Glenn Burke Wellness Clinic at the LGBTQ Community Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San José: \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/sti-and-hiv-testing-services\">The Crane Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We have more ways than ever to stay healthy and protect ourselves from HIV and STIs,” Cohen said, adding that people can talk to their providers about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis — or HIV PrEP — which comes either as a pill or injection and can help protect people from HIV infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HIV PrEP starts working quickly,” she said. “If somebody is not on HIV PrEP but anticipates that they may be having new partners during Pride, they can start and will be protected by [Pride] weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992016\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992016\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Drag dancer dance on an outdoor stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queens Nicki Jizz, Heaven on Earth and Snaxx dance on the Oasis SF float during the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cohen also points out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/02/424861/doxycycline-sti-prevention-highly-effective-minimal-drug-resistance\">doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis — or DoxyPEP —\u003c/a> an antibiotic taken after sex, can help prevent infections from other STIs, like chlamydia and syphilis. “We’ve shown through research that that strategy is very effective at preventing bacterial STIs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccines for mpox are now also widely available, and San Francisco health officials are encouraging at-risk populations, like men who have sex with men, to get vaccinated. Public health experts say we haven’t seen an outbreak this year like the one in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">but getting vaccinated is one way to protect the wider community from another potential outbreak\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said that although talking to your physician about STI prevention is critical, the conversations you have with your partner before having sex are equally important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never want to leave out talking to your partner,” she said. She acknowledges these talks can sometimes be a bit awkward, especially if you are just getting to know the person. “Some people prefer to have those conversations via chat, especially if they’re meeting someone on an app,” she said. “That’s perhaps a little lower stress than a face-to-face conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, these conversations don’t have to be a thorough examination of each other’s dating history. They can be pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make sure to ask your partner if they’ve been tested, what prevention strategies they use and decide if condoms or something that you or your partner also want to use as an additional layer of protection,” Cohen said. “We always want to think about all these different options together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This guide includes reporting from KQED’s Carly Severn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s Pride — we’re all going to these events to have a good time,” said Samuel Cuadra, associate director of community engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcommunityhealth.org/about\">San Francisco Community Health Center\u003c/a>, which provides medical services to lower-income residents, primarily communities of color, as well as LGBTQ+ and unhoused individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a plan in place ensures you have a good time, you’re safe, you hang out with your friends and make memories at Pride that are good and not regretful,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor1\">\u003cstrong>Is there a map of the Pride celebrations in San Francisco’s Civic Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#anchor2\">\u003cstrong>What are my transportation options?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor3\">\u003cstrong>Are there things I \u003ci>can’t\u003c/i> bring into Pride?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor4\">\u003cstrong>What’s the weather going to be like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor5\">\u003cstrong>What accessibility accommodations will there be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor6\">\u003cstrong>If doing drugs, what are some safety precautions to take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor7\">\u003cstrong>How do I prepare for potentially having new sexual partners?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>When is the Pride parade? And what’s the parade route?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During Pride weekend, there will be two completely free events in downtown San Francisco. One of them is \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/map\">a two-day celebration in the city’s Civic Center\u003c/a> that includes several block parties and musical performances. And then, of course, on Sunday is the legendary \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/parade\">Pride Parade\u003c/a>. The parade is one of the nation’s oldest Pride traditions, with hundreds of different floats and thousands of people marching, representing the wide variety of LGBTQ+ experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade on Sunday starts at 10:30 a.m. at Market and Beale streets, goes down Market Street and ends at Market and 8th streets, where the rest of the celebration will take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade takes up most of downtown San Francisco on Sunday, so save this map to your phone’s camera roll to keep track of what’s happening where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991995\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991995\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the SF Pride Parade route.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1154\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2-800x769.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2-1020x981.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image2-160x154.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Pride Parade route. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The area between City Hall and the Civic Center BART station (highlighted in pink in the previous map) is where many of the bigger dance parties will take place on both Saturday and Sunday, including hip hop and Asian & Pacific Islander stages on Saturday and a Trans Futures and Latin music stages on Sunday, each featuring live performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On both days, Civic Center fills up with tens of thousands of people, so it’s possible you may have limited cell phone service. Save the map below that shows the different stages, along with the different locations of restrooms, food spots and medical tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991994\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing SF Pride festivities.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Pride festival grounds at Civic Center. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Thinking of driving to Pride on Sunday?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you plan to park near Market Street on Sunday, you may want to rethink that strategy. Finding a public parking spot in downtown San Francisco is already difficult on any other day of the year and nearly impossible during Pride. That said, there are private parking lots downtown, but they can be pricey, usually charging at least $30–$40 per car — and likely more during big events. 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That way, you’ll avoid the weekend traffic coming into the city on the Bay Bridge or Highway 101.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there things I \u003ci>can’t\u003c/i> bring to San Francisco Pride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There will be security checkpoints to get into both the Pride parade and celebrations taking place at the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Event organizers strongly discourage people from bringing “bags of any kind into the celebration.” But there are still some bags that will be allowed into the event, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Totally clear plastic bags that do not exceed 12” x 6” x 12”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small clutch bags, smaller than 4.5” x 6.5” in size, with or without a handle\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fanny packs/crossbody bags that are smaller than 12” x 6” x 4”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Organizers have also published a list of prohibited items at the parade and celebrations. The list includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Water bottles with any liquid in them (even if they are sealed). Empty water bottles, however, are allowed, and refilling stations are available in the Civic Center celebration space.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons, regardless of permit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cans, thermoses and glass bottles\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Outside food products and containers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcoholic beverages\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chairs of any kind\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brooms, poles and sticks (including selfie sticks)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Beach balls and inflatables\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Banners, totems or oversized signage\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/faq\">See the complete list of prohibited items at SF Pride.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the weather like in San Francisco during Pride weekend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Believe it or not, downtown San Francisco is expected to have clear, sunny weather this weekend. The National Weather Service forecast \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.781539&lon=-122.416571\">shows mostly sunny skies on Saturday with highs in the mid-60s\u003c/a>. Sunday looks to be a tad warmer, with the expected high near 70 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember that this is San Francisco and the weather can change very quickly. Even on a sunny day, it’s normal for the weather to still feel chilly, thanks to the strong winds pushing in from the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter the weather, remember to drink water, especially if you’re planning on drinking alcohol or taking any drugs. Cuadra, from SFCHC, said some mistakenly think that drinking water will prevent you from feeling the effects of alcohol or drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it really doesn’t — it will just help your body regulate itself,” he said. “So if you’re drinking alcohol, having a cup of water between each [drink] isn’t going to stop you from getting drunk … but you will feel much less hungover the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to bring water bottles to either the parade or the celebration at the Civic Center, don’t forget that they have to be empty plastic bottles that you can refill at each event.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to know about accessibility at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s Pride parade has a free accessible viewing area, which organizers say provides an “unobstructed view” of the parade for each person who needs it, plus one guest. This area at the parade grandstands also has accessible restroom facilities. In order to request a spot, \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.781539&lon=-122.416571\">you will need to complete an online form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride also offers American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and a special seating platform at the main stage on both days for people with hearing difficulties. To access this service, you will need to pick up a wristband at the SF Pride information booth at Fulton and Larkin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you are taking BART to Pride:\u003c/strong> All BART stations have accessible elevators, but being prepared for issues with those elevators is a good idea. You can sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/alerts\">BART alerts\u003c/a> to be notified of an issue with the elevator at the station you plan to use or check the status of elevator operations at any station by calling 510-834-LIFT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11991999 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A festively dressed dancer performs in front of samba drummer on the street, with the San Francisco Ferry Building in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/043_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of samba dancers and drummers participate in the Pride Parade on Market Street in San Francisco on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>My friends and I are thinking of doing drugs during Pride weekend. How do we keep each other safe?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Taking party drugs (molly, cocaine, ketamine, 2C-B or “tusi”) has become more dangerous in recent years as these drugs are now being laced with fentanyl more frequently. And while we’re certainly not encouraging folks to do drugs at Pride, we do hope this information can help reduce the risk of a bad trip or an accidental overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Before going out …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, Cuadra said, check in with yourself now, before the weekend starts, about what type of experience you want to have. “If you’re being realistic with yourself and you would like to do some drugs this weekend,” he said, “that’s probably something you want to prepare for ahead of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making a decision now about what you want to do can keep you from making risky decisions later on, Cuadra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You run a risk whenever you take any drugs, but I think the risk is heightened if you’re at a club and looking for drugs right there and then,” he said. “Maybe you don’t know the person that’s selling it to you at the club. You just might be a little bit more desperate for whatever you can get your hands on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuadra adds that if you do buy drugs, it’s best to do so in advance and from someone you know and trust — which, in turn, gives you more time to test for fentanyl. Many party drugs are increasingly laced with fentanyl, many times without the user’s knowledge. A 2022 scientific study found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/14/1199396794/fentanyl-mixed-with-cocaine-or-meth-is-driving-the-4th-wave-of-the-overdose-cris\">nearly a third of overdoses reported nationwide in 2021 involved both fentanyl and stimulants such as \u003c/a>cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you were told by someone else that none of your drugs have fentanyl, it’s still a good idea to test them for yourself, Cuadra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who do drugs that are not opioids sometimes think, ‘Well, I’m not doing opioids, so why should I be testing for fentanyl?’” he said. “Unfortunately, more opioid overdoses happen with people who are not used to those drugs because your body hasn’t built up a tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit FentCheck \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs-1\">provides a list of bars and other community spaces\u003c/a> that offer fentanyl test strips and Narcan. The group also has a \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs\">step-by-step tutorial on using test strips\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>While you’re out …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wherever you end up on Pride weekend, go with a group of friends. Even if you end up meeting someone else, Cuadra said, having your friends nearby can make the night less anxiety-inducing, especially if you’re having a bad trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you’re taking a drug regularly, it might not have the desired effect that day,” he said. “It might just mean you’re in a different space, and it’s just nice to check in with someone and take whatever steps you need to get into a better headspace or a safer environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to consider bringing with you when going out: Narcan. Narcan is the brand name for a naloxone nasal spray that is administered to someone when they are experiencing an opioid overdose (including from fentanyl).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can buy Narcan at a pharmacy without needing a prescription, and you can also get it free of charge at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/location/behavioral-health-access-center-bhac\">San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Health Services\u003c/a> pharmacy at 1380 Howard St. The pharmacy is open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hooking up with somebody new? Protect each other’s sexual health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, Pride in San Francisco has been a time when LGBTQ+ people have come together \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/resource-library/sfaf-history/\">to advocate for the health needs of their community\u003c/a>. Part of celebrating Pride is honoring that legacy and protecting our own sexual health and that of our partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most important things one can do before initiating a new sexual relationship is to get screened for HIV and STIs (sexually transmitted infections) and to know your status,” said Dr. Stephanie Cohen, director of HIV and STI prevention at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have insurance, call your healthcare provider and share that you need to know your status ahead of this weekend. And if you are uninsured, multiple clinics around the Bay Area offer free or low-cost STI testing. Here’s just a handful of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/programs/magnet/\">Magnet (the sexual health clinic located at Strut\u003c/a>) and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityclinic.org/services/sti-and-hiv-testing\">SF Free Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland: \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/sexual-health-services\">The Glenn Burke Wellness Clinic at the LGBTQ Community Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San José: \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/sti-and-hiv-testing-services\">The Crane Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We have more ways than ever to stay healthy and protect ourselves from HIV and STIs,” Cohen said, adding that people can talk to their providers about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis — or HIV PrEP — which comes either as a pill or injection and can help protect people from HIV infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HIV PrEP starts working quickly,” she said. “If somebody is not on HIV PrEP but anticipates that they may be having new partners during Pride, they can start and will be protected by [Pride] weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992016\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992016\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Drag dancer dance on an outdoor stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queens Nicki Jizz, Heaven on Earth and Snaxx dance on the Oasis SF float during the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cohen also points out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/02/424861/doxycycline-sti-prevention-highly-effective-minimal-drug-resistance\">doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis — or DoxyPEP —\u003c/a> an antibiotic taken after sex, can help prevent infections from other STIs, like chlamydia and syphilis. “We’ve shown through research that that strategy is very effective at preventing bacterial STIs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccines for mpox are now also widely available, and San Francisco health officials are encouraging at-risk populations, like men who have sex with men, to get vaccinated. Public health experts say we haven’t seen an outbreak this year like the one in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">but getting vaccinated is one way to protect the wider community from another potential outbreak\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said that although talking to your physician about STI prevention is critical, the conversations you have with your partner before having sex are equally important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never want to leave out talking to your partner,” she said. She acknowledges these talks can sometimes be a bit awkward, especially if you are just getting to know the person. “Some people prefer to have those conversations via chat, especially if they’re meeting someone on an app,” she said. “That’s perhaps a little lower stress than a face-to-face conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, these conversations don’t have to be a thorough examination of each other’s dating history. They can be pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make sure to ask your partner if they’ve been tested, what prevention strategies they use and decide if condoms or something that you or your partner also want to use as an additional layer of protection,” Cohen said. “We always want to think about all these different options together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This guide includes reporting from KQED’s Carly Severn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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