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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Art Deco Society’s website provided guests with a list of vintage stores in the area. I picked the first one on the list and drove to San Francisco the day of the ball, hoping for a miracle. I headed for the Haight and entered a store called Decades of Fashion. It smelled like old clothes. It was filled with relics from every single decade until the 1960s. An androgynous woman dressed with a dapper 1920s look asked me how she could help. I said I was looking for a tux for a ball in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Preservation Ball?” she said. That’s when I realized that this event was bigger than just a few people gathering to play dress-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->She took me through a maze of aisles, each dedicated to a style or an era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95629\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/29/95625/lo_decoball/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95629\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95629\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Lo_DecoBall-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Reporter Lauren Benichou in a 1920s tux at the Art DecoBall. (Courtesy Camera Girl's Novelty PhotoBooth - ClockVine Studios)\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Lauren Benichou in a 1920s tux at the Art Deco Ball. (Courtesy Camera Girl's Novelty PhotoBooth - ClockVine Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is our tux section,” she said, as she started sliding hangers. She found an original 1920s tux that was exactly my size. Once I tried it on, my anxiety level dropped. I had found my outfit for the ball ... seriously. With the tux, I purchased a bowtie from the 1930s, suspenders and four studs for the shirt – they didn’t use buttons at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ball was held at the Paramount Theatre in honor of the 40\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary of its preservation and restoration. The Paramount opened its door in 1931, two years after “Black Thursday,” which was the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It was a time when people badly needed entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Bethards was the former executive director of the Oakland Symphony in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a great show business time,” Bethards said. “The studio system was turning out wonderful movies of all types, including big lavish musicals, which of course were ideal in this building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business was in full swing until the demand for large movie theaters dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s, large movie theaters that seated 3,000 people were simply not drawing that kind of audience anymore,” Bethards said. “Many theaters were broken up into smaller individual theaters we called multiplex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Oakland Symphony was looking for a new home and purchased the Paramount Theatre in 1973.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time, the art deco style wasn’t really recognized,” Bethards said. “It was considered to be passe and so many people, including many donors to the project, thought that the theater ought to be modernized, updated and simplified in design. But we set up a very simple standard. Architecture first, show business second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nine months of work and $1 million, the Paramount Theatre was completely renovated and had regained the splendor it once had. Since then, the management of the Paramount has made an ongoing effort to preserve the building. It was declared a California registered landmark in 1976 and a year later became a national historic landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ball was the opportunity to celebrate the restoration of the art deco building. And what better way to do so than time travel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked from my apartment in downtown Oakland to the Paramount in a tux. It was a long five-minute walk and I honestly didn’t know what to expect. I was walking on Broadway when I first saw the 1930s Ford. A tall broad-shouldered man in a top hat and small circular glasses stepped out of the car. He trotted around and opened the door on the passenger side. A woman, wearing a long ostrich feather in her hair and ermine fur covering her shoulders, elegantly emerged from the car. It felt like a window back in time. Their attitudes, their gaits, everything was perfectly on point. They must have been doing this a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter Lauren Benichou is working on a story about a Bay Area community of 1920s, ’30s and ’40s enthusiasts who go to great lengths to preserve the lifestyle of these eras. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But after a few classes run by the \u003ca href=\"http://cbe.ucsf.edu/cbe/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entrepreneurship Center at UCSF\u003c/a>, he has a new goal: launch a biotech startup with an app that will help diabetics track their health and make lifestyle choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95637\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/29/biotech-entrepreneurship/biotech-photo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95637\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95637 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Biotech-Photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"(Sam Harnett/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Hayes (foreground) is working with Charles Noble (background) at QB3. 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Schools are scrambling to help students turn their lab work into the next big thing commercially in biotech. While this emphasis on goal-oriented, product-driven research might resonate with investors, it grates on those who advocate for pure research and science for science’s sake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Peter Walter, whose cell biology lab is located on UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. His name appears on well over 100 publications. He has co-authored “Molecular Biology of the Cell,” a widely used textbook, has secured dozens of grants, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111226/UCSF-professor-receives-2012-Paul-Ehrlich-and-Ludwig-Darmstaedter-Prize.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the 2012 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize\u003c/a> for outstanding achievements in the field of cell biology. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s too soon to say whether the story of James Flavy Coy Brown is an anomaly, as Nevada regulators claim, or if budget-stressed mental health service professionals are “dumping” disoriented, mentally ill people on the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one thing is certain, it’s that a lot of people are now actively engaged in answering that question. Among them: at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/leavinglasvegas/\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, city attorney’s offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/hospitals.aspx\">commission\u003c/a> that certifies hospitals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s return to the beginning, to the story of a man who showed up at a Greyhound bus station in Sacramento on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/07/5322199/cast-out-by-nevada-he-finds-kindness.html\">Feb. 12\u003c/a>. 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Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s too soon to say whether the story of James Flavy Coy Brown is an anomaly, as Nevada regulators claim, or if budget-stressed mental health service professionals are “dumping” disoriented, mentally ill people on the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one thing is certain, it’s that a lot of people are now actively engaged in answering that question. Among them: at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/leavinglasvegas/\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, city attorney’s offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/hospitals.aspx\">commission\u003c/a> that certifies hospitals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s return to the beginning, to the story of a man who showed up at a Greyhound bus station in Sacramento on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/07/5322199/cast-out-by-nevada-he-finds-kindness.html\">Feb. 12\u003c/a>. Brown suffers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">schizophrenia\u003c/a>, which among other things makes it difficult for a person to think clearly. Fortunately for him, Brown was thinking clearly enough that morning to head toward a local police station and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story made it to the Sacramento Bee through \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>, a local provider of services to the homeless. The compelling nature of Brown’s adventure raised questions that went well beyond how one man got put on a bus to a city where he’d never been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no friends or family there. He had only a few days’ worth of medication and a few bottles of Ensure. He had no plan for continuing medical treatment. It looked a lot like Las Vegas’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was trying to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee’s Phillip Reese sat down with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304240850/b\">California Report\u003c/a> and explained where things went from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up,” Reese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown eventually found a new home in North Carolina with his daughter, but in the meantime the Nevada legislature became interested in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those hearings, they mentioned that they had sent around 100 people to California, just in the last seven or eight months,” Reese said. “And potentially many more to other states. So we had a feeling that this was not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Bee began reviewing five years’ worth of Greyhound bus receipts that Nevada’s \u003ca href=\"http://mhds.state.nv.us/\">mental health division\u003c/a> had purchased. The reporters put together an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">map\u003c/a> showing where patients ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Visit the Sacramento Bee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">interactive version\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/the-hunt-is-on-for-1500-psychiatric-patients-a-nev/patientbusingmap-sacbee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95201\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PatientBusingMap-SacBee-1024x785.png\" alt=\"PatientBusingMap-SacBee\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">Via the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. The San Francisco city attorney’s office is checking local codes that might provide grounds for a civil action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of patients bused out of Nevada were shipped to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese points to “severe” budget cuts in Nevada. The bus trips began to spike in 2009, around the same time a recent round of budget cuts took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he said, “They never had an elaborate safety net for mentally ill patients to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE [4/26/13]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) _ The federal agency that oversees Medicaid and Medicare compliance has put Nevada on notice of “serious deficiencies” at a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital following reports of patients being improperly discharged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April 25 letter from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, first reported by The Sacramento Bee and obtain Friday by The Associated Press, gave Nevada 10 days to correct problems in its mental health discharge policies at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital or risk loss of federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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