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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 542px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RenegadesTeamPhoto1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95188\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RenegadesTeamPhoto1.jpg\" alt=\"The Renegades team of the San Francisco Gay Softball League\" width=\"542\" height=\"394\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Renegades team of the San Francisco Gay Softball League\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some years back, at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nagaaasoftball.org/WorldSeries.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gay Softball World Series\u003c/a>, my San Francisco league team decided to exercise its penchant for kitschiness by scheduling a group dinner at the local Hooters. I think the team was also trying to throw a bone to us straight players -- a serious misconception, but you have to appreciate the gesture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, the waitress was quite amused at the concept of a gay softball team, thought it was just the funniest thing. So I challenged her to pick out the non-gay among us. She looked each and every one of us up and down, checking for telltale I don't know what -- receipts to Lady Gaga albums? She managed to correctly point out our hetero second baseman. But she had a harder time with No. 2, No. 2 being me, and finally opted for our big, sure-handed but quite gay first sacker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nope,” I said. “It’s me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What came next caused a minor identity crisis. “Really?\" she said, crinkling up her nose. \u003cem>You\u003c/em>?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it goes in the world of gay softball, where traditional stereotypes about sexual orientation and its preconceptions survive about as long as a soft line drive to the pitcher. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been thinking of this incident because of the recent buzz over the possibility of an active professional gay athlete imminently declaring his sexuality (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/sports/hockey/nhl-announces-initiative-in-support-of-gay-athletes.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/threads_and_laces/2013/04/nike-has-a-proposal-for-gay-athletes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/maleathletecomingout.html?33426\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>). The speculation started a couple of weeks ago, with an announcement by former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, an \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/brendon-ayanbadejo-gay-rights-usa-today_n_2631729.html\" target=\"_blank\">outspoken supporter of gay rights\u003c/a>, that up to four gay NFL players might come out. \"They're trying to be organized so they can come out on the same day together,\" he said. \"It would be a monumental day if a handful or a few guys come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Indeed it would. Though Ayanbadejo later \u003ca href=\"http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/07/ayanbadejo-now-says-four-gay-players-arent-considering-coming-out/\" target=\"_blank\">backed away a bit from his assertion\u003c/a>, the introduction of the very idea of actual current top athletes who are gay, as opposed to the extremely logical speculation that yes, of course some are, has created a certain excitement, and perhaps even washes away some of the ignorance that continues to ooze out even in this \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.itgetsbetter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">It Gets Better\u003c/a>\" age. You'll recall 49ers cornerback \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/chris-culliver-and-homophobia-in-sports-a-discussion/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Culliver's pre-Super Bowl comments\u003c/a> in January, when asked if he'd ever been approached by gay teammates: \"No, we don't got no gay people on the team,\" he said. \"They gotta get up out of here if they do. ... Nah, can't be in the locker room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comment was more about out-and-out disdain than an assessment of gay athletes' abilities (Culliver later apologized), but I myself have had a number of otherwise open-minded straight friends over the years make directly for the jokes when informed that I play in a gay league. And I should also say that their ignorance at one time mirrored my own. Since I had played baseball in high school, a friend's invitation to join his team in the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsl.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Gay Softball League\u003c/a> immediately prompted the notion that I was going to dominate, since surely everyone threw like a girl. Several years and a couple of benchings later, of that notion I had been disabused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SFGSL: 41 years and counting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league, in which former gay major leaguer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/11/10/premiere-tonight-the-glenn-burke-story/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Burke\u003c/a> once played, has been a haven for gay athletes for 41 years. But it's so welcoming of straight players that it got into hot water a few years back when a top World Series squad was disqualified for having too many heterosexuals on the roster. (That became the subject of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Not-gay-enough-softball-players-settle-suit-2297778.php\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a>.) Teams, including those in two women's divisions, are grouped by skill level, and the upper divisions are extremely competitive. Many of my teammates have played for decades, and lots of them are softball junkies, participating in multiple leagues, hustling off to weekend tournaments. More than one player has told me they've had a relationship go down the drain due to their preoccupation with the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I really had no idea. This was more than an athletic league. It was an entire subculture. A few years back, I interviewed one teammate, a five-tool outfielder with tremendous opposite field power, about what gay softball meant to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time I didn’t know anyone who was gay and who played sports,” he said. “I had my gay friends I’d go out with and my straight friends I’d play sports with. It was hard because a lot of gay guys said by playing sports I was trying to be straight. But when a friend told me about gay softball, I went to a game and it was like, 'Oh my goodness, all these guys play softball?' It was a whole different world. Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic, and that’s how I had been feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's actually a whole network of gay sports leagues in the city. Softball, tennis, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">swimming\u003c/a> (even \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Synchro/Schedule.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">synchronized swimming\u003c/a>). My friend Mike from the SFGSL has been playing in some of these for years, and he's coached in both gay and non-gay leagues. When I asked him what it was like for him to play in a \"straight league,\" he took me to task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually don't understand the labeling of gay, lesbian, straight to describe an athlete,\" he said. \"What does sexual orientation have to do with it? I feel when labels are being used it's due to insecurities, by either gays or straights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gay team, straight players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One team in the SFGSL, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesfrenegades.com/The_SF_Renegades/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Renegades\u003c/a>, actually has just four gay players; the other 11 are straight. John Steen, the team's pitcher, said he had concerns at first when he learned of that ratio, but was so inspired by the bonding that's developed between team members of different sexual orientations that he decided to make a \u003ca href=\"http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-renegades-what-team-are-you-on/x/835504\" target=\"_blank\">documentary\u003c/a> about the experience. The film will focus on the relationship between gay and straight men on and off the field.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/64459242?color=f00010\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I [asked] a bunch of friends before I had the idea,\" Steen said, \"do you have any straight male friends that you get together with and go have a drink with? And none of them did. And I’d never had that myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said the friendships he's developed with his straight teammates grew slowly, beginning with a team brunch. \"We had a great time and after ... I kind of wanted to ask them if they wanted to watch the Giants game. But I was too afraid to do that. So I texted one of them, and four of them came over. So I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked one of the straight guys on the team if he wanted to go to the Giants game with me on Tuesday, because it’s my birthday,\" Steen said. \"And I thought, 'Oh my God, a straight guy to hang out with on my birthday.' Stuff like that is happening organically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said there are still gay players in the league who believe in the \"70-30\" rule, which means 70 percent of the team must be gay or bisexual, a regulation that is enforced at the Gay Softball World Series. But he said he has not been able to find anyone who will say so on camera for his documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Are they going to be too aggressive?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My teammate Tony Robbins is a former league official who has been playing for about 10 years. He says he was wary at first when a handful of us straight guys signed on to the squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh f***, this is gonna be nasty,' \" he said. \"It started out kind of bouncy at first. ... The warmup period takes a little while. Maybe gay guys are thinking: 'Are they going to be too aggressive?' [But] I’ve only had one encounter where a straight player got way too aggressive. He just jumped on the umpire, which is a total no-no in our league.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's actually one of the reasons I like playing in the SFGSL. There's a big emphasis on sportsmanship, and if your testosterone happens to get the best of you in terms of your behavior, then that's going to be a problem. I've played in a lot of non-gay leagues where the ultra-competitive attitude borders on the rabid. I mean, I like to win, too, yet I have never felt the need or even the compulsion to trash-talk opponents when there are metal bats in proximity. There's very little if any of that in the SFGSL; at the end of each game, in fact, teams are required to shake hands and thank their opponents with a cheer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">My hope is someone will come out and everybody will go ... 'So? Can you play?' \" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't mean that the competition isn't fierce. Here's a 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.outsports.com/2010/7/18/4050136/a-straight-guy-loves-his-gay-softball-team\" target=\"_blank\">post\u003c/a> from a straight player who played in Boston's gay league. He writes, \"(T)he better teams in the gay league would absolutely wipe the floor with the straight teams I’ve played on and against.\" That has been my experience in San Francisco's league as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a perception that all gays are not as good as straights,\" one gay player told me. \"That's not true. There are some straight players I've played with who would not make some of the gay teams I've been on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike, who has moved comfortably between gay and non-gay leagues, said he's found that even gay players automatically assume straight players have more ability. \"When gay athletes do that, then they're just reinforcing what straight, insecure athletes think of gay athletes -- which is they're a lesser player,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, said John Steen, a lot of gay men have had bad experiences with athletics, and the wounds can run deep. He recounted the time when he'd first joined the SFGSL and his team decided to also play in San Francisco's city league. \"Which was all straight,\" he said. \"And we got demolished every game. A lot of guys on our team had a real hard time being beaten by straight guys like that. I feel like that’s internalized homophobia. A lot of gay guys growing up had a lot of issues with sports. ... This generation is sort of different, though. A lot more are coming out earlier and a lot are quite athletic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awaiting a pro \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the long-awaited announcement by a gay active NFL or MLB player, Mike said he isn't waiting with bated breath. \"Absolutely not a big deal,\" he said. \"I idolize athletes for their body of work and not their personal life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both John Steen and Tony Robbins disagreed. \"I do think it would be a very big deal if that happened,\" said Steen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins said a pro coming out would be important for younger gay men. \"There are younger gays out there who are looking up to these sports players, saying, 'Hey look, they’re playing with all these guys, so I can play this game, too.' They can look at it as, 'I have a chance, I don’t have to be blacklisted because I’m gay.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is someone will come out and everybody will go ... 'So? Can you play?' This is a professional sport, I’m looking at qualities of what you can do on the field, not who you’re sleeping with.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been thinking of this incident because of the recent buzz over the possibility of an active professional gay athlete imminently declaring his sexuality (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/sports/hockey/nhl-announces-initiative-in-support-of-gay-athletes.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/threads_and_laces/2013/04/nike-has-a-proposal-for-gay-athletes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/maleathletecomingout.html?33426\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>). The speculation started a couple of weeks ago, with an announcement by former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, an \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/brendon-ayanbadejo-gay-rights-usa-today_n_2631729.html\" target=\"_blank\">outspoken supporter of gay rights\u003c/a>, that up to four gay NFL players might come out. \"They're trying to be organized so they can come out on the same day together,\" he said. \"It would be a monumental day if a handful or a few guys come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Indeed it would. Though Ayanbadejo later \u003ca href=\"http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/07/ayanbadejo-now-says-four-gay-players-arent-considering-coming-out/\" target=\"_blank\">backed away a bit from his assertion\u003c/a>, the introduction of the very idea of actual current top athletes who are gay, as opposed to the extremely logical speculation that yes, of course some are, has created a certain excitement, and perhaps even washes away some of the ignorance that continues to ooze out even in this \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.itgetsbetter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">It Gets Better\u003c/a>\" age. You'll recall 49ers cornerback \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/chris-culliver-and-homophobia-in-sports-a-discussion/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Culliver's pre-Super Bowl comments\u003c/a> in January, when asked if he'd ever been approached by gay teammates: \"No, we don't got no gay people on the team,\" he said. \"They gotta get up out of here if they do. ... Nah, can't be in the locker room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comment was more about out-and-out disdain than an assessment of gay athletes' abilities (Culliver later apologized), but I myself have had a number of otherwise open-minded straight friends over the years make directly for the jokes when informed that I play in a gay league. And I should also say that their ignorance at one time mirrored my own. Since I had played baseball in high school, a friend's invitation to join his team in the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsl.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Gay Softball League\u003c/a> immediately prompted the notion that I was going to dominate, since surely everyone threw like a girl. Several years and a couple of benchings later, of that notion I had been disabused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SFGSL: 41 years and counting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league, in which former gay major leaguer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/11/10/premiere-tonight-the-glenn-burke-story/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Burke\u003c/a> once played, has been a haven for gay athletes for 41 years. But it's so welcoming of straight players that it got into hot water a few years back when a top World Series squad was disqualified for having too many heterosexuals on the roster. (That became the subject of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Not-gay-enough-softball-players-settle-suit-2297778.php\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a>.) Teams, including those in two women's divisions, are grouped by skill level, and the upper divisions are extremely competitive. Many of my teammates have played for decades, and lots of them are softball junkies, participating in multiple leagues, hustling off to weekend tournaments. More than one player has told me they've had a relationship go down the drain due to their preoccupation with the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I really had no idea. This was more than an athletic league. It was an entire subculture. A few years back, I interviewed one teammate, a five-tool outfielder with tremendous opposite field power, about what gay softball meant to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time I didn’t know anyone who was gay and who played sports,” he said. “I had my gay friends I’d go out with and my straight friends I’d play sports with. It was hard because a lot of gay guys said by playing sports I was trying to be straight. But when a friend told me about gay softball, I went to a game and it was like, 'Oh my goodness, all these guys play softball?' It was a whole different world. Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic, and that’s how I had been feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's actually a whole network of gay sports leagues in the city. Softball, tennis, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">swimming\u003c/a> (even \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Synchro/Schedule.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">synchronized swimming\u003c/a>). My friend Mike from the SFGSL has been playing in some of these for years, and he's coached in both gay and non-gay leagues. When I asked him what it was like for him to play in a \"straight league,\" he took me to task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually don't understand the labeling of gay, lesbian, straight to describe an athlete,\" he said. \"What does sexual orientation have to do with it? I feel when labels are being used it's due to insecurities, by either gays or straights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gay team, straight players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One team in the SFGSL, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesfrenegades.com/The_SF_Renegades/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Renegades\u003c/a>, actually has just four gay players; the other 11 are straight. John Steen, the team's pitcher, said he had concerns at first when he learned of that ratio, but was so inspired by the bonding that's developed between team members of different sexual orientations that he decided to make a \u003ca href=\"http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-renegades-what-team-are-you-on/x/835504\" target=\"_blank\">documentary\u003c/a> about the experience. The film will focus on the relationship between gay and straight men on and off the field.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/64459242?color=f00010\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I [asked] a bunch of friends before I had the idea,\" Steen said, \"do you have any straight male friends that you get together with and go have a drink with? And none of them did. And I’d never had that myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said the friendships he's developed with his straight teammates grew slowly, beginning with a team brunch. \"We had a great time and after ... I kind of wanted to ask them if they wanted to watch the Giants game. But I was too afraid to do that. So I texted one of them, and four of them came over. So I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked one of the straight guys on the team if he wanted to go to the Giants game with me on Tuesday, because it’s my birthday,\" Steen said. \"And I thought, 'Oh my God, a straight guy to hang out with on my birthday.' Stuff like that is happening organically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said there are still gay players in the league who believe in the \"70-30\" rule, which means 70 percent of the team must be gay or bisexual, a regulation that is enforced at the Gay Softball World Series. But he said he has not been able to find anyone who will say so on camera for his documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Are they going to be too aggressive?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My teammate Tony Robbins is a former league official who has been playing for about 10 years. He says he was wary at first when a handful of us straight guys signed on to the squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh f***, this is gonna be nasty,' \" he said. \"It started out kind of bouncy at first. ... The warmup period takes a little while. Maybe gay guys are thinking: 'Are they going to be too aggressive?' [But] I’ve only had one encounter where a straight player got way too aggressive. He just jumped on the umpire, which is a total no-no in our league.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's actually one of the reasons I like playing in the SFGSL. There's a big emphasis on sportsmanship, and if your testosterone happens to get the best of you in terms of your behavior, then that's going to be a problem. I've played in a lot of non-gay leagues where the ultra-competitive attitude borders on the rabid. I mean, I like to win, too, yet I have never felt the need or even the compulsion to trash-talk opponents when there are metal bats in proximity. There's very little if any of that in the SFGSL; at the end of each game, in fact, teams are required to shake hands and thank their opponents with a cheer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">My hope is someone will come out and everybody will go ... 'So? Can you play?' \" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't mean that the competition isn't fierce. Here's a 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.outsports.com/2010/7/18/4050136/a-straight-guy-loves-his-gay-softball-team\" target=\"_blank\">post\u003c/a> from a straight player who played in Boston's gay league. He writes, \"(T)he better teams in the gay league would absolutely wipe the floor with the straight teams I’ve played on and against.\" That has been my experience in San Francisco's league as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a perception that all gays are not as good as straights,\" one gay player told me. \"That's not true. There are some straight players I've played with who would not make some of the gay teams I've been on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike, who has moved comfortably between gay and non-gay leagues, said he's found that even gay players automatically assume straight players have more ability. \"When gay athletes do that, then they're just reinforcing what straight, insecure athletes think of gay athletes -- which is they're a lesser player,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, said John Steen, a lot of gay men have had bad experiences with athletics, and the wounds can run deep. He recounted the time when he'd first joined the SFGSL and his team decided to also play in San Francisco's city league. \"Which was all straight,\" he said. \"And we got demolished every game. A lot of guys on our team had a real hard time being beaten by straight guys like that. I feel like that’s internalized homophobia. A lot of gay guys growing up had a lot of issues with sports. ... This generation is sort of different, though. A lot more are coming out earlier and a lot are quite athletic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awaiting a pro \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the long-awaited announcement by a gay active NFL or MLB player, Mike said he isn't waiting with bated breath. \"Absolutely not a big deal,\" he said. \"I idolize athletes for their body of work and not their personal life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both John Steen and Tony Robbins disagreed. \"I do think it would be a very big deal if that happened,\" said Steen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins said a pro coming out would be important for younger gay men. \"There are younger gays out there who are looking up to these sports players, saying, 'Hey look, they’re playing with all these guys, so I can play this game, too.' They can look at it as, 'I have a chance, I don’t have to be blacklisted because I’m gay.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Sam Harnett\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/17/new-tic-to-condo-plan-would-impose-10-year-conversion-moratorium-in-exchange-for-lottery-bypass/tic-proposal/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94564\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-94564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/TIC-Proposal-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu presents his new TIC proposal alongside tenants' rights groups and Mary Phillips, a 97-year-old facing eviction. (Sam Harnett/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu presents his new TIC proposal alongside tenants' rights groups and Mary Phillips, a 97-year-old facing eviction. (Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After months of negotiations, a compromise is in the works to resolve the controversy over San Francisco's Tenants-in-Common (TIC) units. The new deal sticks to the original proposal to allow about 2,000 TICs to bypass the yearly conversion lottery and convert directly into condos. But it also adds a number of elements designed to protect the city's rental stock. The two most significant are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Offsetting the units lost through conversion by halting the lottery for a minimum of 10 years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Preventing buildings with more than four units from converting in the future\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing advocates say these are some of the most significant reforms to the condo-conversion system since it was created in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current debate over TICs broke out in January, when supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener proposed allowing TICs to bypass the conversion lottery. The average time for a TIC to win in the lottery is more than 10 years, and TIC owners, hit hard by the housing downturn, were more eager than ever to transform their units into condos, which would allow them to refinance into mortgages with better terms. Tenants' rights advocates, however, quickly protested, claiming the change would spur more renter evictions and real estate speculation. Talks on the proposal remained at a standstill until earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TICs: Always controversial\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a TIC, a group of residents jointly owns a housing property. Owners gets their own units, but they all collectively own the building.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In San Francisco, TICs have always been controversial. To homebuyers, they represent a less expensive opportunity to own a place to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world; to tenants' rights advocates, they are simply a backdoor method that erodes the city's rental stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the cumbersome ownership structure, TICs cost 10 to 20 percent less than a comparable condo. And unlike condos, they can be financed only with adjustable rate mortgages. Just about anyone who is part of a TIC hopes to convert the building to a condo, because conversion instantly raises the value of the property and allows the owner to refinance into a fixed-rate mortgage. But because the city allows only 200 units a year to convert, it can take years before those who wish to switch over win the chance to do so in the lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When condo prices soar ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anytime condo prices become out of reach, as they are to many right now, buyers start turning to TICs. But the current backlog in the lottery actually arose from the housing boom in the mid-2000s. Between 2002 and 2007, real estate agents sold about 2.500 TICs. Many of these buyers were erroneously told that they would be able to convert their buildings into a condo in just a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things got worse for TIC owners after the financial crisis hit in 2007. Housing values plummeted, just as interest rates on all those adjustable rate mortgages skyrocketed. That \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/22/san-francisco-struggles-with-decision-that-could-help-some-homeowners-and-hurt-renters/\" target=\"_blank\">left many TIC owners underwater, unable to refinance and facing foreclosure\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tenant Opposition to 'Bailout'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener's and Farrell's proposal to let about 2,000 TICs bypass the conversion lottery was intended to help struggling owners. But to understand the tenant opposition to this \"bailout,\" you have to look at how TICs are created in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the landlord has to clear out all of the tenants in the building. In the '90s, that meant evicting tenants under the highly controversial Ellis Act, which allowed landlords to kick out tenants if the landlords wanted to sell the units as a TIC. A number of the tenants protesting the current TIC legislation are those who were evicted via the Ellis Act in the '90s and early 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the '90s, protections have been put in place to prevent landlords from “Ellising” out tenants to sell a building as a TIC. For example, owners are penalized for evicting elderly or disabled tenants by not allowing them to condo-convert later.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Still, tenants' rights advocates say landlords are using intimidation, harassment and neglect to force tenants out so that owners are free to sell. One of the most common tactics, as seen in the letter below, is to combine the offer of a buyout with the threat of an Ellis Act eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/136338515/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-1pgc82pt29uxiajasbdg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The New Proposal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, on one side you have the TIC owners who are stuck underwater on their mortgages; on the other, you have renters who are feeling the pressure to leave from landlords who want to take advantage of the hot housing market. In addition, the real estate industry has a vested interest in the fight, as it stands to make millions from selling TICs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new proposal grew out of intense backroom negotiations at City Hall. After hitting an impasse in talks with the real estate industry, tenants' rights advocates worked with Board of Supervisors President David Chiu to create draft amendments to the original legislation that are intended to quell the threat of real estate speculation and tenant eviction. “The basic idea is simple,\" Chiu said. \"To ensure that as we expedite these conversions that we protect tenants by suspending the lottery for new participants for at least 10 years.\" The plan stipulates that the greater the number of units allowed to convert, the longer the mandated moratorium on future conversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Gullickson, head of the San Francisco Tenants Union, said the affordable housing community decided to push for the changes after they had the support of Supervisor Norman Yee. “We saw that we had an ally,” Gullickson said. “A very important ally in the sense that he was the sixth vote on two very big concepts that were acceptable to tenants.” Aside from the temporary freeze on the lottery, the other change Gullickson cites is a law would limit future conversions to buildings with four units or fewer instead of the current six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee also wants to provide incentives to affordable housing by allowing the length of the conversion moratorium to be shortened if the city creates additional affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Mark Farrell, the lead author on the original legislation, said he supports the changes, although he still wants to look over all the details. 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That \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/22/san-francisco-struggles-with-decision-that-could-help-some-homeowners-and-hurt-renters/\" target=\"_blank\">left many TIC owners underwater, unable to refinance and facing foreclosure\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tenant Opposition to 'Bailout'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener's and Farrell's proposal to let about 2,000 TICs bypass the conversion lottery was intended to help struggling owners. But to understand the tenant opposition to this \"bailout,\" you have to look at how TICs are created in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the landlord has to clear out all of the tenants in the building. In the '90s, that meant evicting tenants under the highly controversial Ellis Act, which allowed landlords to kick out tenants if the landlords wanted to sell the units as a TIC. 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"content": "\u003cp>I glanced at my Twitter feed the other day and did a double take. Flame was erupting from a house in Oakland in a photograph tweeted by OaklandFireLive. Another photo showed firefighters on the roof of the building, smoke billowing around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a moment it looked like a new social media extreme: firefighters pausing in the midst of a conflagration to update the world on their status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>E27, E29 making entry, Hunter Ct.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23oaklandfire\">#oaklandfire\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23structurefire\">#structurefire\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"http://twitter.com/OaklandFireLive/status/311142412506525697/photo/1\" href=\"http://t.co/zXTomcdCGL\">twitter.com/OaklandFireLiv…\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Oakland Firefighters (@OaklandFireLive) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OaklandFireLive/status/311142412506525697\">March 11, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Chief of Staff Cynthia Perkins assured me that Oakland firefighters are definitely not thumbing their iPhones while the city burns: “The Oakland Fire Department doesn’t have a Twitter account. And I can’t imagine that it was an actual line firefighter who was tweeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking further, I found that it wasn’t. At least not exactly. But the incident illustrates the complex issues that are popping up as social media finds its way into the hands of emergency responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial tweet came from what firefighters call a “fire buff,” Chuck Garcia, president of the International Association of Firefighters, Local 55, told me. That’s a civilian who listens to radio scanners and then dashes out to the scene of the emergency to snap photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire buff apparently sent the photo to a firefighter sitting in a firehouse somewhere else in Oakland, who tweeted it out on the union’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought maybe we could get our message out to people who didn’t know what we do,” Garcia said. “We want them to know we’re working hard to protect them and their property, and we’re very good at what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s next? Will the California Highway Patrol tweet about whom it stops along the highway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, yes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>The registration is paid.Sgt. Japay warns that a current year tab is still needed & to make a DMV appointment on line \u003ca title=\"http://twitter.com/CHP_GoldenGate/status/313810195321061376/photo/1\" href=\"http://t.co/D7rGFZ1arh\">twitter.com/CHP_GoldenGate…\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CHP Golden Gate (@CHP_GoldenGate) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CHP_GoldenGate/status/313810195321061376\">March 19, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The tweet was part of a virtual ride-along that the Golden Gate division’s spokeswoman, Diana McDermott, organized, sending out tweets that portrayed a few hours on the job for a patrol officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted people to know that we are out working on our beats even when we’re not visible to them,” McDermott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has found Twitter useful for a lot of other things as well. “It’s a quick medium to get information out immediately, and an important part of what we do for education,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Aug. 6, 2012, when a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/06/chevron-refinery-fire-shelter-in-place-for-richmond-north-richmond-and-san-pablo-residents/\">fire at the Chevron refinery\u003c/a> in Richmond sent a column of smoke into the air, McDermott tweeted that people who were planning to drive through the area should keep their windows shut. She also has tweeted about laws concerning car seats and about how to properly tie a kayak to your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media can even help solve crimes. San Francisco police were able to recover a bicycle stolen from a child with special needs by posting a photo on the department’s Facebook page. Someone recognized it and called the police with the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94191\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/14/draft-why-oakland-firefighters-are-tweeting-fire-photos/chevron-fire-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94191\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94191 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Chevron-fire1.jpg\" alt=\"Diane McDermott of the California Highway Patrol tweeted warnings about the Aug. 6, 2012 fire at a Chevron refinery in Richmond.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane McDermott of the California Highway Patrol tweeted warnings about the Aug. 6, 2012 fire at a Chevron refinery in Richmond. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that some people don’t get their news from TV or radio,” said Wilson Ng, who manages social media for the SFPD. “Social media is where they get their news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a more dramatic example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cresa911.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clark Regional Emergency Services\u003c/a> in Vancouver, Wash., mobilized citizens to find an elderly woman who had disappeared. More than 20,000 people shared information until finally someone discovered she had fainted behind a bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media are potentially valuable in a natural disaster, said Clark Emergency Manager Cheryl Bledsoe, who set up a \u003ca title=\"http://www.sm4em.org/\" href=\"http://www.sm4em.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website \u003c/a>on the topic of social media in her profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only can emergency agencies get alerts out quickly, they can also collect information about how crises are unfolding. “We can highlight problems and focus on them,” she said. “For example, in a flood we can find out that people need sandbags in a particular area. It’s all about gauging sentiment. If the public is really concerned about something, then we know we need to get more information out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But use of social media comes with risks as well, Bledsoe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>It takes time to keep Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other accounts up to date, time that could be used for other crucial emergency services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A photo could reveal the identity of someone being arrested or having a medical emergency, potentially violating their privacy. (In the ride-along, McDermott was careful not to tweet an image showing the drivers’ faces or license plates.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There are legal ramifications to any statement that government employees make.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And there’s a risk of publicly disclosing sensitive information. That problem cropped up in 2011 during the Occupy demonstrations when protesters gleaned strategic information about the police officers trying to control them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were incidents where officers were Facebooking or tweeting about their plans,” said Officer Albie Esparza of the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were just trying to communicate with their friends and family about work hours, SFPD Police Chief Greg Suhr told\u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/san-francisco-police-department-to-set-social/vFkFy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> KTVU\u003c/a>. The department planned to create a social media policy, according to that report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far it only has general guidelines, Esparza said. “The wisest thing is not to post anything about the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rank-and-file emergency responders may have their reasons to talk about their work online, however. For example, Garcia of the Oakland Fire Department said his union has successfully used a blog to get out its message about negotiations on its retirement plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he, too, has experienced a downside to social media: a \u003ca href=\"http://firechiefgeraldasimon.com/Declaration_of_Disgrace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog\u003c/a> with crude criticisms of him and other Oakland firefighters is the first hit that pops up if you Google him. Garcia and others have tried without success to get the site taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the only thing I don’t like,” he said. “It helps you, but it definitely can hurt you.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She also has tweeted about laws concerning car seats and about how to properly tie a kayak to your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media can even help solve crimes. San Francisco police were able to recover a bicycle stolen from a child with special needs by posting a photo on the department’s Facebook page. Someone recognized it and called the police with the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94191\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/14/draft-why-oakland-firefighters-are-tweeting-fire-photos/chevron-fire-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94191\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94191 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Chevron-fire1.jpg\" alt=\"Diane McDermott of the California Highway Patrol tweeted warnings about the Aug. 6, 2012 fire at a Chevron refinery in Richmond.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane McDermott of the California Highway Patrol tweeted warnings about the Aug. 6, 2012 fire at a Chevron refinery in Richmond. 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More than 20,000 people shared information until finally someone discovered she had fainted behind a bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media are potentially valuable in a natural disaster, said Clark Emergency Manager Cheryl Bledsoe, who set up a \u003ca title=\"http://www.sm4em.org/\" href=\"http://www.sm4em.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website \u003c/a>on the topic of social media in her profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only can emergency agencies get alerts out quickly, they can also collect information about how crises are unfolding. “We can highlight problems and focus on them,” she said. “For example, in a flood we can find out that people need sandbags in a particular area. It’s all about gauging sentiment. If the public is really concerned about something, then we know we need to get more information out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But use of social media comes with risks as well, Bledsoe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>It takes time to keep Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other accounts up to date, time that could be used for other crucial emergency services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A photo could reveal the identity of someone being arrested or having a medical emergency, potentially violating their privacy. (In the ride-along, McDermott was careful not to tweet an image showing the drivers’ faces or license plates.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There are legal ramifications to any statement that government employees make.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And there’s a risk of publicly disclosing sensitive information. 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Where was it taken, and what does it show? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can give you two clues:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>It’s somewhere in Alviso, down at the south end of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It was taken in 1948.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Through a unique history crowdsourcing project called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.historypin.com/project/13839007-YearoftheBay/#%7Cphotos/gallery/\">Year of the Bay\u003c/a>,” the California Historical Society is hoping the public will help uncover the story behind that picture --and many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/crowdsourcing-history-for-the-year-of-the-bay/girl_on_pier_alviso/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93367\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-93367\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Girl_on_pier_Alviso.jpg\" alt=\"Know what's in this photo? Tell us in a comment below. (Photo by Challis Gore, courtesy of the California Historical Society.)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Know where this is? Tell us in a comment below. (Photo by Challis Gore, courtesy of the California Historical Society.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2013 is a big year for San Francisco Bay, with the America’s Cup yacht race this summer and the new Bay Bridge scheduled to open. To celebrate, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/\">California Historical Society\u003c/a> is opening a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/exhibitions/curating_the_bay.html\">new exhibit called “Curating the Bay.\"\u003c/a> It's part of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.historypin.com/project/13839007-YearoftheBay/#%7Cphotos/gallery/\">Year of the Bay\u003c/a>,” a larger collaboration bringing together Stanford University and museums and archives from around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit, opening Sunday, shows the transformation of San Francisco Bay through photos, maps and paintings from the historical society’s collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bay itself has been changed dramatically by people, by industry, by military, by recreation, now by restoration and rising sea levels from climate change,” said guest curator Jon Christensen. “I think by looking back at the changes that have taken place, we can also think about what it is we value today about the bay and what we want it to look like in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence of San Francisco Bay’s evolution, both natural and man-made, is everywhere inside the historical society’s vaults directly underneath Mission Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93372\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/crowdsourcing-history-for-the-year-of-the-bay/yearofbay/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93372\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-93372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/yearofbay.jpg\" alt=\"Alison Moore and Jon Christensen look through photos in the vault of the California Historical Society. 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(Photo: Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Here you can see the timbers for the ship,” said librarian and archivist Alison Moore, holding a photo from the 1920s that shows a crew digging up an old ship near Battery Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Gold Rush, the city grew so fast that residents created land and buildings by filling in the spaces between ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beneath the surface of San Francisco, there’s still evidence of these old ships and wharves,” Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the half-million photographs in the collection hold clues to San Francisco Bay history, but include no specific information about the scenes and the people they depict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re interesting photographs, but we don’t know anything about them,” Christensen said. “So what we hope to do is get lots of people’s help in figuring out what these historical sources are and what they can tell us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mystery items will be shown in the exhibit and online at \u003ca href=\"www.historypin.com/project/13839007-YearoftheBay/\">YearoftheBay.org\u003c/a>, through a partnership with \u003ca href=\"http://www.historypin.com/\">Historypin\u003c/a> and Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. The hope is that the public will help explain some of their secrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re adding on to the great coral reef of knowledge about the past,” said Anthea Hartig, executive director of the California Historical Society. “And when you’ve been collecting off and on since 1870, there’s a lot to the coral reef. So, this project is so exciting for us because through both new technology and some old ones, we get to add on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other museums and archives also will be digitizing and sharing collections online, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.museumca.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a>, UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Bancroft Library\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpl.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a>. 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