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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">public schools\u003c/a> will officially move toward neighborhood-based enrollment after decades of giving families the choice over where they send their children.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The school board directed staff on Tuesday to propose an enrollment policy to take effect in fall 2028 that would ensure San Francisco Unified School District applicants a seat in a school by their home — but drastically reduce the number of campuses they can attend based on where they live.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The school board’s decision, which passed in a 5-2 vote, went against broad parent support to retain the option to apply to any San Francisco public school. But Superintendent Maria Su said she believes the pivot to neighborhood schools is necessary to improve educational quality across the city.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Families should not have to roll the dice and try their luck in our system,” Su said. “Families should not have to leave where they live to secure their child’s future. The school down the street should be a good option and a certain one.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFirstDay-20-MC_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFirstDay-20-MC_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFirstDay-20-MC_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFirstDay-20-MC_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students arrive at Jose Ortega Elementary School for the first day of their school year on Aug. 17, 2026, in San Francisco. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For years, San Francisco families and school district staff have lamented over the “lottery” enrollment system. Introduced in 2011, it aimed to give applicants a broad choice over where they attended school and reduce socio-economic segregation across campuses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Each fall, prospective SFUSD applicants submit ranked lists of schools and programs in order of preference, and then wait for an assignment in the spring — determined by an algorithm that considers their home addresses, siblings’ schools and other factors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s long been criticized as unpredictable, confusing, and frustrating enough to turn some families away from the city’s public school system entirely. But it’s also been seen as an “escape hatch” for others who don’t feel that the schools in their neighborhoods have the resources their kids need. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2018, the school board vowed to scrap the lottery, but putting a new policy in place has proven to be a Herculean task.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s now expected to change in fall of 2028. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Students entering SFUSD elementary schools that year will automatically be assigned to a school near their home — their neighborhood school — first. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If they choose to accept that placement, their enrollment process will end there.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, if they would like to apply to a citywide program that the district offers, like its language pathways or kindergarten through eighth grade campuses, they’ll have the option to do so. Like the lottery, there’s no guarantee they’ll nab a seat in one of those coveted schools. It’s unclear what factors will determine who is most likely to get their choice.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Su acknowledged that the selected proposal, known as “Option C,” wasn’t most parents’ top preference, but she called it the “bold” choice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The alternative considered Tuesday, which was dubbed “Option B,” would also have first assigned students to a neighborhood school, but it would have then allowed them to apply to any other school in the district with open seats.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12053561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Mission Education Center, a bilingual elementary school in the San Francisco Unified School District, in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood on Aug. 25, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While that system would have maintained more choice for applicants, Su said it would “keep the status quo.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Families who do not trust their neighborhood schools will continue to leave those schools,” she said. “Those schools will remain under-enrolled, and that pattern impacts our southeast neighborhoods the hardest.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many of the parents who spoke at Tuesday’s packed board meeting voiced concerns about losing the choice that the lottery affords, especially for lower-income families and those who live in the southeast region of the city. And in an engagement survey conducted prior to the meeting, 72% of the nearly 3,000 respondents said Option B would meet their needs, while 48% approved of Option C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There are big equity issues in the district, and when you create a system that favors neighborhood schools with very limited choice, it forces families who are living nearest to those struggling schools to not have options,” said Rebecca Kee, the executive director of the SF Parent Coalition. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Option B was also supported by board members Alida Fisher and Supriya Ray, who voted against Option C. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The board previously considered multiple options that would have created enrollment zones, similar to a 2020 policy passed but never adopted, but those were abandoned in earlier discussions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-MC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-MC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-MC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-MC-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students arrive at Jose Ortega Elementary School for the first day of their school year on Aug. 17, 2026, in San Francisco. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For decades, SFUSD has struggled to ensure that schools in lower-income neighborhoods and where students have had lower academic performance rates receive equitable resources, staff and programs — creating a loop of underenrollment, and thus, a lack of funding, for schools with the most acute needs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under the current system, one of the tiebreakers that determines who gets a seat at their requested school when it has more requests than seats available is called “CTIP1,” or test score area. Students who live in the census tracts in the city with the lowest average test scores get priority access to a seat, after students with a sibling already in the school, and Pre-K or transitional kindergarten students who live in the school’s attendance area.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many of the board members acknowledged that the lottery provides some students the opportunity to move into better resourced schools. However, Commissioner Matt Alexander said, not all get to do so. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The choice system creates an escape valve for the families that have the most … understand, the most ability to navigate the system,” he said. “But we’re still operating those schools.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Choice is not a solution, because it doesn’t offer a solution for all of the families,” Alexander continued.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s vote only sets up a broad framework for the new policy. Staff will now begin to work with demographers to draw maps with attendance area boundaries, determine tiebreaker criteria for citywide school seats and draft a strategic investment plan for next year to begin redistributing district resources. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094191\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A classroom at Mission Bay Elementary School in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2026. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s schools could soon pivot to neighborhood-based enrollment, 15 years after the controversial “lottery” system aimed to give families a sweeping choice of schools anywhere in the city, but offered little certainty of where their child would be placed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The school board is expected to approve one of two plans that would overhaul the San Francisco Unified School District’s student assignment system in favor of a policy staff said will be more predictable and keep more students closer to home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SFUSD’s current enrollment system allows families to apply to any of its elementary school campuses across the city, but does not guarantee students’ acceptance in any specific one.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Critics have called the system stressful, confusing, and frustrating enough to turn some families away from the city’s public school system entirely. 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But others are wary of losing the element of choice, especially for families who live in neighborhoods where schools have weathered decades of underinvestment and underenrollment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, SFUSD’s board and staff have spent late nights discussing possible enrollment options, narrowing down their choices to two last week. 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(Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The board is expected to direct staff to hammer out the details for one of those policies, called “Option B” and “Option C,” for approval by April.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under Option B, students would be given the option to accept a seat at their neighborhood school. They would have the option of applying to other SFUSD schools and could be assigned if there are empty seats. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Option C would similarly give applicants the choice to accept their neighborhood school. They could also apply to other campuses, but only those that offer special programs like language pathways, newcomer services or a kindergarten through eighth grade model. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last week, the board eliminated a third option, Option A, which would have created enrollment zones. Under that policy, students would have been guaranteed a seat in one of three to five elementary schools near their home, but not necessarily their first choice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Option A was most similar to a policy the district approved in 2020, but never implemented after the COVID-19 pandemic and significant community pushback. That policy would have had applicants rank schools in their attendance zone and assign them based on that list, as well as diversity and tiebreaker considerations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Board members expressed concerns that Option A would be difficult to implement before enrollment for fall of 2028 begins, and poses equity concerns between neighborhoods. It also wouldn’t eliminate some of the perils of the current system — applicants would need to rank multiple schools, likely tour multiple campuses and manage the stress of uncertainty while awaiting an assignment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Option A rivaled Option B in popularity among families who responded to a district engagement survey this fall.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Of more than 2,700 respondents, 73% said Option A would meet their needs, while 71% said Option B would. Option C received much lower approval, at just 48%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Within those percentages, families’ preferences were starkly divided along neighborhood lines: west side and central neighborhoods favored Option A, while the Southeast leaned toward Option B.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Historically, students in the Sunset and Richmond have been more likely to favor neighborhood schools, while some in the Bayview, Mission Bay and Excelsior have preferred schools outside of their neighborhoods, worried that the schools closest to them don’t have the resources their kids need. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mirna Vasquez, a Bayview resident whose three children have attended SFUSD schools, said choice remains a priority for her.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My priority looking at schools [was] they provided a bilingual program,” she said. “I realized that schools near to my house, they don’t have it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She also said she wanted to send her children to a campus that was “really funded” and had a full staff.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-36-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-36-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-36-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260806_SFUSDNEWSCHOOL_GC-36-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mission Bay Elementary School in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2026. Mission Bay School is the first new public SFUSD school to open in 20 years. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, families who responded to the district’s survey said that for them to enroll a child in a school by their home, they would need an environment that felt safe, has strong math and reading instruction and a stable teaching staff. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Until they guarantee me as a parent, ‘we’re going to fund it,’ maybe I can enroll my children in my neighborhood schools. 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The executive order curbs states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence. Trump and tech leaders met last month to sign a voluntary safety pact surrounding AI. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Tech Week comes to an end in San Francisco on Sunday, packing the city’s restaurants this last week with venture capitalists and founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> — namely, don’t do it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101526/openai-pauses-training-of-latest-models-after-agents-probed-government-sites-in-unexpected-ways\">U.S. government websites\u003c/a> to healthcare data, the nation now finds itself further from governing AI systems than it was a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-anthropic-musk-595796511f110fc006cca0d01329733e\">brought tech titans to Washington\u003c/a> late last month for a luncheon and ceremonial signing of a voluntary safety pact he described as “almost a constitution” surrounding “Super Intelligence,” the administration’s new preferred term for AI.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12066914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1-1536x1059.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The executive order curbs states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence. Trump and tech leaders met last month to sign a voluntary safety pact surrounding AI. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The 308-word agreement lays out that advanced AI labs should follow safety protocols and set up internal teams to monitor their own progress, but the administration has yet to provide details on how, in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s words, to keep “bad things” from happening.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Safety challenges were not top of mind inside a crowded event space in San Francisco on Wednesday, where founders and funders said the government’s hands-off approach would net higher profits for companies building AI-powered defense and security systems.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Panelists praised the government’s bullish industry support at one meeting aimed at “investing in the forefront,” part of the blitz of popup events organized by Andreessen Horowitz, a venture firm whose head is a Trump science and tech adviser.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I want to start with one figure that I think really emphasizes the investment opportunity of defense, and that’s $1 trillion. The U.S. government, for the first time, is allocating $1 trillion to its defense spending. And $13.5 billion of that will go to autonomous systems and AI,” said Kyle Stanford, a venture capital research director at PitchBook, a market intelligence platform. “That has obviously brought a lot of capital into defense tech spending, more than we’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New concerns emerge on AI safety\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A day later, three researchers at OpenAI’s headquarters said the ChatGPT maker had fired them, posting that “fear and unclear rules stymie AI safety work.” Separately, David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI’s safety team until he recently resigned, said he was worried about letting the advanced labs police themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is no substitute for hard law, and it does give a lot of freedom to the companies,” Robinson said. “The time between model generations is measured in weeks … and I think we have some very serious safety challenges in front of us in the nearer term.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Trump has staked his political capital on the AI industry’s success, saying its unbridled development is key to winning the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/china-us-ai-models-safety-concerns-adb45169d436d5f940fc7b4ebeaeef3b\">AI race against China\u003c/a>. On the first day of his second term, the Republican president \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-repeal-biden-executive-order-artificial-intelligence-18cb6e4ffd1ca87151d48c3a0e1ad7c1\">repealed a Biden-era executive order\u003c/a> aimed in part at guarding against the risks that AI systems pose to consumers, workers and national security.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His administration has since reoriented federal policy away from oversight and toward rapid growth, including by canceling \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-ai-artificial-intelligence-safe-395591bcde523416db88767fa54f30f5\">previous requirements\u003c/a> for AI developers to share safety test results with the federal government. In December, Trump signed an executive order aimed at blocking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102337/newsom-signs-slate-of-ai-workplace-laws-barring-robo-bosses-and-surveillance\">AI regulations at the state level\u003c/a>, saying a patchwork of rules could stifle the industry.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Even as Silicon Valley companies have disclosed their models’ involvement in troubling cyberattacks throughout the year, the burgeoning tech sector has continued to drive \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tech-stocks-ai-investments-8a0ff4c95d5cae6f65c6e2ba03047058\">economic growth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Concerns about AI safety centered on existential risk, rather than current real-world harms, landed at the center of debates last month, when a relatively unknown \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-safety-jacob-coxon-2ed549e07f2f941600a135070487d83d\">Anthropic engineer quit\u003c/a> and called for a pause on tech development to keep “superhuman” systems from eluding controls. Then, Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs echoed the call to slow AI development. To some critics, their public manifestos appeared aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ai-slowdown-midterms-anthropic-openai-ipo-9a057de94eb8f30a2fdb5b938918627e\">currying favor\u003c/a> with investors ahead of their public listings and the midterm elections, when the political tides could turn with many \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/data-centers-rural-farm-artificial-intelligence-trump-e5a350af1bc12e6a4f470d3b68be51d7\">voters opposed\u003c/a> to data centers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump posted in response on Truth Social, warning voters not to “kill the Golden Goose,” a term he has used to refer to both AI and data centers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">White House pact preserves wide latitude for AI companies\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As calls mounted for stricter control of AI, the administration brought tech executives to the White House for lunch, followed by a ceremonial signing of the agreement on AI safety.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m seeing tremendous self-policing,” Trump told reporters after the event.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The document was signed by representatives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, SpaceXAI and Nvidia.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OpenAI is committed to embedding external assessors and finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors, said a spokesperson, who referred AP to a company post stating that the researchers were fired for violating “clear policies on handling sensitive information.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24134775174210-scaled-e1770337042768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11985952\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT on March 21, 2023, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Michael Dwyer/Associated Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Google referred to CEO Sundar Pichai’s post that the company does appropriate testing and evaluations and is collaborating “to establish norms and build public confidence.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meta recently updated its standards for training, evaluating and releasing its most capable AI models, and spokesman Andy Stone pointed to the company’s efforts to refine its board of directors’ governance structure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nvidia and SpaceXAI did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Anthropic, which voluntarily disclosed Friday that its agents \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-anthropic-claude-0acc6ac46d4d80db805e8d55468a6fe1\">submitted a false tip\u003c/a> to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case, is bringing in independent evaluators and discussing collaborations with industry groups, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, the White House reiterated Trump’s comments about working with industry to balance innovation and security and did not directly answer questions about how the administration plans to monitor the AI companies’ implementation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Following the new Anthropic disclosure, it added that the Trump administration expected full transparency from the company, saying notification and remediation was “not optional. It is a critical national security obligation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under Democratic President Joe Biden, leading AI companies also made voluntary commitments to promote “safe, secure, and transparent development” of their models that included specific guidelines for tests and transparency reports. The current accord lacks that, said Sarah Myers West, a former senior AI adviser to the Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Across the board, this self-regulatory approach has consistently done one thing, which is failed to work. It’s failed to in any meaningful way ensure that these companies are honestly even keeping their house in order, let alone ensuring that they are compliant with existing law,” said Myers West, now co-executive director of the New York-based nonprofit AI Now. “All that they’re getting is grace from this government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After last month’s luncheon with Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ftc-ai-investigation-anthropic-openai-89ac416717adbfb1d72f2d85e6ce83d1\">the FTC said\u003c/a> it had opened an investigation into OpenAI, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/anthropic-pbc\">Anthropic\u003c/a> and other companies over dangers their technology may pose to consumers. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-state-valkyries\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a> are heading to the 2026 Women’s National Basketball Association Finals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s WNBA team defeated the defending champions, the Las Vegas Aces, on Friday night 87-77 in overtime, sweeping their semifinals opponent 3-0 in the best-of-five series. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Valkyries fans decked out in violet spilled out onto the sidewalk at a watch party at the Mission brewery Standard Deviant cheering after the final buzzer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I feel elated, just absolutely buzzed. This just means so much for the city and so much for sports,” said Becky Mincio. “We’re literally in tears because this just means so much.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12103933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_016_qed-40cc2b0d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103933\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_016_qed-40cc2b0d.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_016_qed-40cc2b0d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_016_qed-40cc2b0d-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans applaud as the Golden State Valkyries face the Las Vegas Aces during a watch party at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. 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(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valkyries will play the Atlanta Dream in Game 1 of the finals next Saturday, Oct. 17 at Chase Center. It’s only the team’s second season but already the Valkyries’ second time in a WNBA playoff series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082769/the-valkyries-first-season-was-a-huge-success-can-they-take-it-to-the-next-level\">since launching in 2025\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Friday’s win in Las Vegas didn’t come easy. Fans were on edge for nearly all of the first half as the Valkyries trailed behind the Aces, who had home court advantage. 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Nobody believed in us, but it honestly made us smile because all we need is each other.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When the team ultimately clinched the win, the Mission brewery erupted in cheers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12103934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_030_qed-cdb409da.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103934\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_030_qed-cdb409da.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_030_qed-cdb409da-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chelsea Blockin jumps and cheers as the Golden State Valkyries defeat the Las Vegas Aces at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. 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(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m a season-ticket holder, been at every single game, losing my voice every single night,” said Angelina Zamatia, who came out to watch the game with friends in San Francisco on Friday night. “I’m so proud of this team. Literally a dream come true.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Megan Gerwe came to Friday’s watch party at Standard Deviant with her moms and friends to celebrate her aunt’s birthday, even handmaking lavender party hats with the team logo for extra flair. 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(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12103931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_007_qed-d0db134d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103931\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_007_qed-d0db134d.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_007_qed-d0db134d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_007_qed-d0db134d-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries merchandise and party favors cover a table before a watch party at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valkyries will play the Atlanta Dream in Game 1 of the finals next Saturday, Oct. 17 at Chase Center. It’s only the team’s second season but already the Valkyries’ second time in a WNBA playoff series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082769/the-valkyries-first-season-was-a-huge-success-can-they-take-it-to-the-next-level\">since launching in 2025\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Friday’s win in Las Vegas didn’t come easy. Fans were on edge for nearly all of the first half as the Valkyries trailed behind the Aces, who had home court advantage. The Aces led at halftime, and the teams traded the lead back and forth throughout the fourth quarter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valkyries managed to claw back to a tie, sending the game into overtime. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a post-game press conference, Center Kiah Stokes and guard Gabby Williams said the overtime win was a mix of excitement — and relief.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It feels special because this is a special group,” Williams said. “We’re about to have some bandwagoners because we didn’t get no love all season. Nobody believed in us, but it honestly made us smile because all we need is each other.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When the team ultimately clinched the win, the Mission brewery erupted in cheers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12103934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_030_qed-cdb409da.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103934\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_030_qed-cdb409da.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_030_qed-cdb409da-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chelsea Blockin jumps and cheers as the Golden State Valkyries defeat the Las Vegas Aces at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12103938\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_028_qed-20ea4e3b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_028_qed-20ea4e3b.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_028_qed-20ea4e3b-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zac Brown throws his arms in the air as the Golden State Valkyries defeat the Las Vegas Aces at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In the last game, Gabby [Williams] said that she felt like Ballhalla was the sixth person on the court,” said Chelsea Locklin referring to recent comments from the team’s star forward about fans at the Chase Center. “It felt like we were still sending the same Ballhalla energy to them in Vegas.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ballhalla, a play on the mythological hall called Valhalla in the same Norse mythology that the Valkyries are named after, has become a source of joy and pride for the team’s fanbase. Many of the viewers at Standard Deviant said they had gone to games in person before Friday’s away game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101382/golden-state-valkyries-playoffs-wnba-2026-chase-center-ballhalla\">Fandom\u003c/a> for the team has exploded with celebrity-studded games and sold-out matches leading up to their finals debut. Their homecourt has been packed with fans in purple shirts, winged headpieces and other homages to the team’s mythical mascot. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After their inaugural season, the Valkyries were deemed the most valuable team in the league, reaching around $850 million valuation in 2026 after a record-breaking $78 million in revenue, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/48645552/valkyries-wnba-most-valuable-team-2nd-straight-year\">ESPN\u003c/a>, largely fueled by the team’s thousands of season-ticket holders and sponsorship. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_019_qed-9d5b3406.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103942\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_019_qed-9d5b3406.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_019_qed-9d5b3406-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_019_qed-9d5b3406-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Golden State Valkyries fan wearing a No. 15 jersey throws his arms in the air during the team’s game against the Las Vegas Aces at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m a season-ticket holder, been at every single game, losing my voice every single night,” said Angelina Zamatia, who came out to watch the game with friends in San Francisco on Friday night. “I’m so proud of this team. Literally a dream come true.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Megan Gerwe came to Friday’s watch party at Standard Deviant with her moms and friends to celebrate her aunt’s birthday, even handmaking lavender party hats with the team logo for extra flair. She said the team has been especially meaningful to her family. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There are lots of queer players on our team, which is super important and cool for my family, because we’re represented,” Gerwe said. “I’m just so glad that so many people here are into the Valkyries it’s such a special thing to be a part of, especially for women and queer women.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fiona Lin grew up watching NBA games with her dad and grandfather in China, and said it’s been thrilling to feel represented by players like Kaitlyn Chen. She said having a home team to root for in San Francisco has been an exciting and, at times nerve-wracking, experience. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12103941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_010_qed-57cb1f9a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103941\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_010_qed-57cb1f9a.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_010_qed-57cb1f9a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_010_qed-57cb1f9a-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Max Chang (left) and Fiona Lin pose in matching Golden State Valkyries shirts outside Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12103944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_017_qed-121b07fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103944\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_017_qed-121b07fd.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_017_qed-121b07fd-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_017_qed-121b07fd-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Four Golden State Valkyries fans wear matching Kaitlyn Chen jerseys while watching the team’s playoff game against the Las Vegas Aces at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We went to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102708/valkyries-comeback-win-catapults-team-to-its-first-semifinals\">one of the playoffs last Friday\u003c/a>. I was so stressed the whole time. I was so nervous that my Oura ring was like, ‘you were so stressed for the last two hours and a half,’” Lin laughed, referring to a health monitoring wearable device. “But the crowd was just amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coach Natalie Nakase, a former WNBA player and assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers, knows the playoff circuit well. In her previous role as assistant coach for the Las Vegas Aces, she steered the team to two WNBA championships in 2022 and 2023. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nakase was awarded WNBA Coach of the year after leading the Valkyries’ debut season in 2025. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That year, the Valkyries quickly gave fans something to cheer for by reaching the playoffs, making history as the first expansion team to reach a postseason in their inaugural season. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_006_qed-63bbf2f9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103946\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_006_qed-63bbf2f9.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_006_qed-63bbf2f9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/10092026Valkyries-Friday-Night_GH_006_qed-63bbf2f9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Niki Hsu (left), Alyssa Leu and Kayla Curameng pose in matching Golden State Valkyries Kaitlyn Chen jerseys at Standard Deviant Brewing in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However the Valkyries 2025 playoff series fell short when the Minnesota Lynx knocked the team out in the first round. This year, the Valkyries managed to push further. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Andrew Pospeshil and other rowdy fans Friday night couldn’t be more excited for the next round. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m watching every game for the finals,” he said. “This is the greatest sports environment and fandom. It’s so much fun. I feel like the team has a great chemistry. The fans are just enjoying this so much. I’m having a f— time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Williams said the team culture and the work they’d put in together made it feel like they “had something worth fighting for.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Shout out to the Valkyries organization, they had this vision from the start and to see it come to fruition already in year two, it’s pretty amazing. It’s special,” Stokes said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nakase said she saw a “new level of fight” from her players last night.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Literally this is a dream come true to be going to the finals in our second year — it can come true,” Nakase said. “As we know, job’s not done and we now have to go another gear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Those charges carried a maximum of two years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Central to the weeklong trial was video evidence of the confrontation taken from multiple angles, shown numerous times in court. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It shows around nine to 10 protesters outside the field office garage as two vans are escorted out by around 20 federal agents, mainly with ICE and Federal Protective Services. After the vans depart, the agents return to the garage. Protesters are seen banging on the garage door as it closes, knocking it off its track, before an agent fires several pepper balls outside through the door. The protesters run across the street. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12077382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building at 630 Sansome St. on Feb. 5, 2020. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Moments later, multiple agents come back outside through another door. One officer picks up a backpack left by a protester, at which point Ranney runs back and pushes another nearby ICE officer. He and another protester who tried to intervene are then tackled and detained. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The prosecution’s charging document alleged that Ranney “forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated and interfered with” an ICE deportation officer, later identified in court as Officer Joe Love, and that he damaged a secure vehicle entrance on the Jackson Street side of the building. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In closing statements on Friday, the defense said that while the video shows Ranney hitting the garage door and putting hands on Love, agents had escalated the temperature of the situation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“To a hammer, everything is a nail,” Assistant Federal Public Defender Angela Chuang said. “To an ICE agent, every protester is a violent threat.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said that once the vans were escorted out of the garage, the immigration officers’ duties were complete, and they had no reasonable cause to come back out and confront the remaining protesters, including Ranney. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Part of the definition of assaulting a federal agent is doing so while the agent is on official duties. The defense maintained that confronting protesters is not within ICE’s duties. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said that Ranney only returned once an agent seized a protester’s backpack. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Once the garage closed, that could have been the end of it,” Chuang said. “Something that wouldn’t even get a yellow card in a soccer game. … they’re trying to turn into a federal crime.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prior to the start of the trial, Ranney’s defense asked U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Hixson, who presided over the trial, to consider the actions of Federal Protective Service Inspector Stephen Glumaz, another officer on the scene. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both parties agreed on the fact that Glumaz fired pepper ball rounds into the crowd shortly before the alleged assault in a way that violated policy. He was later decertified from using the equipment for his conduct in the protest and another on Aug. 20, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Eli Cohen of the prosecution said that context was not relevant to the case. He reminded the jury to set aside their feelings about ICE and federal immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Focusing on ICE’s deportation practices is a distraction. Focusing on the government’s immigration practices is a distraction. What the agents did at a protest 12 days later, the conduct of other agents, is a distraction. The evidence proves the defendant’s guilt,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The government isn’t saying this is the most serious assault. He didn’t knock him over, but that doesn’t matter,” he said. “The defendant is charged with assaulting Officer Love. The evidence proves that beyond a reasonable doubt.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>It took a few years for Anne Rice and her family to realize that, after a shaky start, her 1976 debut novel “Interview with the Vampire” was striking a chord. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But it makes sense that it happened in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city she had called home for years — when several young, elegant men waltzed into one of her book signings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As her son, the author Christopher Rice, told KQED, the men were decked in 18th-century waistcoats, their long hair tied off in a ribbon. They were, in short, dressed as the main characters of Rice’s said shaky debut novel: Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As the men posed for pictures with a flustered Rice, the author saw personally, for the first time, that the novel Christopher said she’d regarded as “this black spot on her career” was finally finding its home: with the queer community. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1304\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce-1536x1001.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Authors Christopher Rice (left) and Anne Rice sign copies of their books “The Heavens Rise” and “The Wolves Of Midwinter,” respectively, at Barnes & Noble bookstore at The Grove on Nov. 2, 2013, in Los Angeles, California. (Amanda Edwards/WireImage via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“Over time this underground audience discovered the book, discovered how transgressive it was, how rule-breaking it was,” Christopher said. “And all of that really did happen in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Interview with the Vampire” marks its 50th anniversary this year, and Christopher details \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/books/review/anne-rice-interview-with-the-vampire-50th-anniversary.html\">this very anecdote\u003c/a> in his afterword to \u003ca href=\"https://annerice.com/InterviewWithTheVampire50th.html\">a new semicentennial reissue\u003c/a> of the novel by Penguin Random House. (His behind-the-scenes nugget that didn’t make the final print edition: how Rice and his aunt “just went bananas over how attractive these guys were.”)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#vampire-events\">Vampire-themed gatherings and events in the Bay Area in October\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The novel chronicles the tumultuous life and relationship between Louis and the man who turned both him and their companion Claudia into vampires: Lestat. And despite initial mixed reviews, the book and its subsequent sequels making up the “Vampire Chronicles” series have, over the decades, become a bona fide gothic classic — further popularizing the idea of the vampire as a tortured protagonist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rice also wrote the screenplay for the 1994 film adaptation of “Interview With the Vampire” starring Brad Pitt, a young Kirsten Dunst and, most notoriously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-21-ca-41119-story.html\">Tom Cruise\u003c/a>. Then, in the 2020s, the series was introduced to a new generation of fans through the television show adaptation on AMC.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q662gCwpKfI\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that the story’s pivotal framing device — the titular interview between Louis and a young journalist — takes place in a San Francisco Victorian on Divisadero Street, New Orleans has understandably pulled rank as the “home” of “Interview with the Vampire.” Not only is the Louisiana city a recurring setting in the books, but it’s also where Rice herself was born and raised and where, after finally finding her success as a writer, she lived in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DOM3-YpkQKa/?img_index=3\">a gorgeous historic home\u003c/a> for over a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s also where she rests in a family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery, where \u003ca href=\"https://annerice.com/COL.html\">her memorial\u003c/a>, attended by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/anne-rice-vampire-memorial-documentary/article_36ac316f-b1e8-4e58-8309-bfaa8024e537.html\">over a thousand people\u003c/a>, was held. And New Orleans has now become a central gathering point for fervent Rice fans, where they regularly \u003ca href=\"https://vamplestat.com/\">hold a Vampire’s Ball\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But according to Christopher, his mother’s most famous series of novels “don’t just have a San Francisco connection.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They have a San Francisco foundation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Rebellion against that darkness’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rice first lived here as a University of San Francisco student, and moved back to the city in the early 60s with Stan, the high-school sweetheart who’d become her husband. They were both \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CKIMtBEpAjp/?vrfl=b3Awc3d2eGN3bjd3\">in their early twenties\u003c/a>, and they were in the midst of the Beat Generation and the Summer of Love. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But even though the Rices were more observers than participants — “in the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 60s, I was typing away while everybody around me was dropping acid and smoking grass,” Rice told \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20130524225924/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/books/other-incarnations-of-the-vampire-author.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 1988 — the ethos of the city is firmly reflected in the “Interview With the Vampire” series. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I like to say the young men who probably inspired Louis and Lestat were people she saw on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury or the Castro District,” Christopher said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d.JPG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d.JPG 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Anne Rice novel, “Interview with the Vampire” in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The hints of the idea of “letting your freak flag fly,” Christopher said, are there from the first book. But it really crescendos in the second book of the “Vampire Chronicles” series, 1985’s “The Vampire Lestat,” in which the raucous Lestat holds an earth-shattering rock concert (for vampires!) in none other than Daly City’s own Cow Palace. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In contrast to the Bay Area, New Orleans is Rice’s setting for “the old vampire world,” Christopher said. But “when on the contemporary stage, [Lestat] says, ‘Vampires should come out, come out wherever you are, and be counted among all the great diversity of the human world.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s the city by the Bay, baby,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Rice family lived around the Bay Area for over two decades. “In California, almost all of us have an acquired lifestyle: We came here to have it,” she said in a 2014 interview with \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/ann-rice-in-palm-desert/\">\u003cem>The California Sunday Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>“To be a writer, to be a bohemian, to put our art and our liberal ideas before, say, pleasing our cousins.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After giving birth to Christopher in Berkeley, the Rices moved back across the bay into a Castro District home at 3887 17th Street — a place Christopher said he “loved growing up.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af.JPG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af.JPG 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Victorian home located on 503 Divisadero St., which inspired Anne Rice’s novel, “Interview with the Vampire,” in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>A key setting from “Interview With the Vampire” is just a 30-minute walk from the house: The Victorian home on 503 Divisadero Street, where Rice set the titular interview. Rice said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoSb8H3znfI\">2011\u003c/a> that she came across the house — which is now painted a deep, dark blue — when her professor husband was being interviewed for a radio show nearby. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s where I got the idea of a boy-interviewer,” she said. “Little things like that spark short stories, novels.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But tragedy in the city was in full force: In the Castro, Christopher said, the Rice family was “living at ground zero” during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Neighbors were dying. There were lines out of pharmacies, he said, and shuttered storefronts with signs reading “Closed due to illness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that, in some part, the rock star energy of \u003cem>The Vampire Lestat\u003c/em> was about a rebellion against that darkness,” Christopher said. “It was this attempt to have queerness rise up and put on a leather jacket and sing to the masses, to push back all the death.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family was still suffering with a personal loss of their own, too. In 1972, the couple’s daughter Michele had died of leukemia at the age of 5 — before Christopher was born.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"instagram-no-caption-wrapper\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 540px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;\">\n \u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CixSBcULxR8/embed/?captioned=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e3e3e3; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 1px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Christopher said he learned about Michele by accident in school. Over the course of his life, he got to learn about his sister from his parents, about her “otherworldly endurance” and her “zen brilliance.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it was easy for them to be living at the ground zero of another epidemic that was about the blood,” Christopher said. “It was incredibly influential on [Rice].” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the years after Michele’s death, Rice returned to an old short story and expanded it in just five weeks into what became “Interview with the Vampire,” written in her \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/ann-rice-in-palm-desert/\">North Berkeley garden apartment.\u003c/a> This version further developed the character of a surrogate daughter for Lestat and Louis, Claudia — turned into a vampire at age five and forever a child.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>”I never noticed when I was writing,” Rice said in \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>interview. ”It may be hard to believe, but I didn’t connect Claudia with my daughter at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘The vampire is an outsider’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Interview with the Vampire” represented a “paradigm shift in how we look at monsters in ourselves,” said author Eric Shaw Quinn, Rice’s friend who helps oversee the estate with Christopher. “And our own persecution of ourselves, and of monsters in our culture.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I was there at the beginning of \u003cem>Interview with a Vampire\u003c/em>, and it was such an inspirational moment in my life,” Quinn said. “We’re all inspired by the San Francisco philosophy of it — or the Anne philosophy of it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Being you is exactly what you should do; you are exactly as you should be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1964\" height=\"1304\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677.jpg 1964w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677-1536x1020.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1964px) 100vw, 1964px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anne Rice on Aug. 15, 1995. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“The vampire is an outsider,” Rice herself \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20260408070054/https://www.thedailybeast.com/anne-rice-on-sparkly-vampires-twilight-true-blood-and-werewolves/\">told the Daily Beast in 2011\u003c/a>. “He’s the perfect metaphor for those things.” And Rice’s exploration of the outsider figure has resonated with its queer fanbase over half a century.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the book may have initially been received as a gay allegory, it is now widely understood to be “a full-on queer narrative,” Christopher said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The audience that made the “Vampire Chronicles” into what Christopher called “underground hits” was “largely made up of queer people,” he said. “They were the people who saw the passionate, romantic connection between Louis and Lestat and their determination to raise a child.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This narrative heavily imprinted on many fans at an early age. Like Grey Starr of Oakland, who first encountered Rice’s work after watching the 1994 film adaptation when she was young. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been queer, so I could always suss that out as a kid,” Starr said. “I read the books when I was way too young … I used to go to school wearing a shirt that said, ‘Red Beans, Anne Rice.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20-1536x988.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kirsten Dunst in a scene from the film “Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles,” 1994. (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“The sensuality of that book really got me at a young age, because this was right around the time that I’m hitting puberty, I’m discovering kind of my own sexuality,” San Francisco drag performer Piranha Psychotronica said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a kid visiting the city, Psychotronica remembered being excited to pass Castro Street, because the “Vampire Chronicles” series featured a vampire bar — called Dracula’s Daughter — in the area. “Not realizing really at that time that it’s \u003cem>also \u003c/em>where all the gays were and where I eventually would be,” she said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The series also explored gender identity. Rice herself told an interviewer \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anne-rice-feel-like-im-gay_n_585d33cae4b0d9a59457fc44\">in a 2016 interview\u003c/a> that it was “very hard for me to remember that I have a gender.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When I grew up in the 90s, when you’d see trans folks in media, oftentimes it would be trashy talk shows where they were the butt of the joke, and described as mentally ill,” said Psychotronica, who is a trans woman. But the language of gender in Rice’s books rang true to her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That was one of the biggest things that made me a lifelong fan of her writing,” she said. “Because it was the first door that I felt opened to me to any kind of self-discovery.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For many Bay Area fans, the series’ inherent queerness has made a huge impact not just on their lives, but their art too. Psychotronica credits what she called the “sensuality and decadence” of Rice’s writing as one of the major reasons she began performing onstage. “I want to channel rock star Lestat when I’m on stage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Psychotronica learned of the series through her mother, who she described as an Anne Rice superfan — similar to Starr’s mother, a “cool goth mom” who is part of her band, Pretty Frankenstein. In fact, that intergenerational nature of Rice’s fanbase is a recurring theme among Bay Area fans and even reminiscent of the writer’s bond with her son Christopher as he became an author in his own right. (Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/9605/anne-and-christopher-rice-fall-in-love-with-this-mother-son-author-team\">this delightful 2013 KQED interview\u003c/a> that asks the pair which of their gay fanbases would win in a fight.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of surreal that this media has essentially shaped our lives in such an amazing way,” Starr said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘A home to androgynous pansexual ancient vampires’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Psychotronica is just one of the acts in Starr’s forthcoming “Interview with the Vampire”-themed drag show in Oakland, right before Halloween. (Starr hosted past themed drag nights as Lumpia Anne Rice.) \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another of the performers slated for that night is Sacramento’s Alexa Gerrity — a cosplaying burlesque act who’ll be performing as Louis. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gerrity counts herself as a newer fan of the “Vampire Chronicles”’ thanks to her best friend Desrea Sabo — a Rice fan who described cutting their own bangs as a kid “because I thought \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIm8HfwnmVE\">they would grow back like Claudia’s\u003c/a>” — introducing them to the AMC television series.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(L-R): Mark Johnson, Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Delainey Hayles, Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian seen onstage at the AMC Networks media presentation of Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire” during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on Feb. 6, 2024, in Pasadena, California. (JC Olivera/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>What inspired Gerrity about the series was a major change it makes from the books in the casting of Louis and Claudia, portrayed variously by Black actors Jacob Anderson, Delainey Hayles and Bailey Bass. Along with a shift in time period and a more overt portrayal of sexuality, the show reimagined Louis not as the white plantation owner of the books but as a Black brothel owner in 1900s New Orleans. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As a Black woman, it just really hit a lot harder … him coming to terms with who he is as a person,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The queer experience, trying to see how he feels coming to terms with his sexuality … those are things that I can relate to growing up as a Black woman who grew up in the South as well and coming out to my family, to my friends,” Gerrity said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it comes to Black characters in the gothic romance genre, “sometimes it’s looked at as weird, or we’re excluded from those spaces,” she said. “So to see us be embraced so wholly, and in these beautiful vibrant colors and scenes and imagery — it was just incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, Gerrity and Sabo regularly cosplay together as Louis and Lestat at fan conventions — not unlike those readers who entered Rice’s San Francisco book signing all those decades ago. “It’s beautiful to be able to cosplay such a dynamic duo,” Garrity said. “Being able to be covered in blood with my best friend — I’m never going to be upset.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Sabo, who was born and raised in San Francisco, Rice’s work has only strengthened their connection to their home. “As a kid who has always — and still hopes — to be turned into a vampire someday, being able to walk down the street and see those locations, it made the fantasy so much more deep and real for me,” Sabo said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment echoed by Psychotronica — a way of seeing this city, with its rolling fog and Victorian houses looming over its steep streets, in all its gothic splendor. “I can totally see how San Francisco would be such an attractive home to these androgynous pansexual ancient vampires,” Psychotronica said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think [Rice] loving it so much was one of the things that really made me fall in love with the city. Now I can’t imagine living anywhere else,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vampire-events\">Vampire-themed gatherings and events in the Bay Area in October\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To mark “Interview with the Vampire”’s 50th anniversary, we’ve compiled a list of vampiric affairs across the Bay Area, including elegant masquerades, fashion shows, raves and drag.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Earth Gala’s Vampire Ball at Verdi Club\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Friday, Oct. 9, at the Verdi Club in San Francisco, there will be \u003ca href=\"https://partiful.com/e/ow96u5LIkuJMIeEndMi4\">a vampire ball and fashion walkway\u003c/a> centered on “eco-couture,” where the winner can receive a $1000 cash prize. The gala is serving as a fundraiser for the Amazon rainforest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-galas-vampire-ball-halloween-costume-ball-in-san-francisco-tickets-1999189409340?aff=oddtdtcreator\">General admission \u003c/a>costs around $108, but late entry after 10 p.m. is around $40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CAVE RAVE: CLAWZ – VAMPIRE RAVE at The Foundry\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This rave on Friday, Oct. 9 at The Foundry in San Francisco starts at 10 p.m. Tickets \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cave-rave-clawz-vampire-rave-tickets-2001031409813?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">can be found online\u003c/a> and are around $20.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHBhKbF2xMA\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">International Vampire Fest at The Balboa Theater\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Oct. 17 at The Balboa Theater in San Francisco, there’ll be a series of vampiric movies playing all day long from 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/international-vampire-film-fest\">Individual tickets \u003c/a>are around $15. A full day pass is $30. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Particularly exciting for this reporter: two of her favorite movies of all time are part of the international lineup: Sweden’s “Let the Right One In” (2008) and Iran’s “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”\u003cem> \u003c/em>(2014).\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And if you aren’t able to make it that day, the following day in Richmond there’s a free \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd_nZm_OvZ1/?stkn=Y3ozeHRnOXllaTVh\">screening of “Fright Night”(1985) in 16 mm\u003c/a> at The Planetarium venue.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vampire’s Ball at SP2 Communal Bar\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Oct. 17 at SP2 Communal Bar in San José, there’s a vampire’s ball with a best-dressed contest. It is free to enter before 10:30 p.m. and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vampires-ball-tickets-2002597411767?aff=ebdssbcategorybrowse\">$12.51 afterward\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Théâtre des Vampires Drag Show at The Thee Stork Club\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Oct. 29 at Thee Stork Club in Oakland, there’s an “Interview with the Vampire”-themed drag show featuring \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3XR0RM128haG3D0EyeNKvH\">music from the television show’s third season\u003c/a>, “The Vampire Lestat,” by Pretty Frankenstein. Tickets \u003ca href=\"https://wl.eventim.us/event/the-vampire-lestat-drag-show/695682?afflky=TheeStorkClub\">are available online for $12 and at the door for $15\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Helena’s Masquerade at QBar\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Not quite vampire-themed but very important for any emo kid, t\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8\">he broken, the beaten and the damned\u003c/a>: On Thursday, Oct. 29 at San Francisco’s QBar, you’ll find a Hot Topic-filled dance night of My Chemical Romance, Evanescence and Paramore. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/helenas-masquerade-emo-night-halloween-party-in-the-castro-tickets-1998505545886?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Tickets\u003c/a> range from around $7 to $14.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Halloween Vampire Tour of San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Oct. 31 in San Francisco, a six-stop tour with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Harker\">Mina Harker\u003c/a> throughout the Nob Hill Neighborhood. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-halloween-vampire-tour-of-san-francisco-tickets-2001672663821?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Tickets\u003c/a> are around $40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Dracula Kiss” at Coqueta\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Oct. 31 at Coqueta in San Francisco, there’s an immersive production of the play “Dracula Kiss.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dracula-kiss-tickets-2002563537448?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Tickets\u003c/a> are $44.52.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Black Cat Hotel at The Palace Theater\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This immersive theatrical experience runs through Halloween at the Palace Theater in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.thepalacetheatersf.com/blackcat#linkourstory\">Reservations \u003c/a>start at $39. (Keep in mind, this is not a real hotel!)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Dracula” at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Throughout October, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a stage production of “Dracula\u003cem>” \u003c/em>at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts\u003cem>. \u003c/em>Tickets \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/mainstage/dracula/\">start around $44\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Le Bal Des Vampires at Alameda Elks Lodge\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Nov. 7 at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/alameda-elks-lodge-1015-at-2255-santa-clara-avenue-alameda-ca/le-bal-des-vampires/1959917641345476/\">the Alameda Elks Lodge\u003c/a>, there’s a vampire affair in an elegant ballroom featuring music throughout the centuries: 18th-century Baroque contredanses, 19th-century Victorian rotary and Viennese waltzes, 20th-century tangos, blues and rock and roll. \u003ca href=\"https://www.peersdance.org/vamps2026.html\">Tickets \u003c/a>are around $50.\u003c/p>\n",
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They were, in short, dressed as the main characters of Rice’s said shaky debut novel: Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As the men posed for pictures with a flustered Rice, the author saw personally, for the first time, that the novel Christopher said she’d regarded as “this black spot on her career” was finally finding its home: with the queer community. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1304\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty2-2a1f88ce-1536x1001.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Authors Christopher Rice (left) and Anne Rice sign copies of their books “The Heavens Rise” and “The Wolves Of Midwinter,” respectively, at Barnes & Noble bookstore at The Grove on Nov. 2, 2013, in Los Angeles, California. (Amanda Edwards/WireImage via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“Over time this underground audience discovered the book, discovered how transgressive it was, how rule-breaking it was,” Christopher said. “And all of that really did happen in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Interview with the Vampire” marks its 50th anniversary this year, and Christopher details \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/books/review/anne-rice-interview-with-the-vampire-50th-anniversary.html\">this very anecdote\u003c/a> in his afterword to \u003ca href=\"https://annerice.com/InterviewWithTheVampire50th.html\">a new semicentennial reissue\u003c/a> of the novel by Penguin Random House. (His behind-the-scenes nugget that didn’t make the final print edition: how Rice and his aunt “just went bananas over how attractive these guys were.”)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#vampire-events\">Vampire-themed gatherings and events in the Bay Area in October\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The novel chronicles the tumultuous life and relationship between Louis and the man who turned both him and their companion Claudia into vampires: Lestat. And despite initial mixed reviews, the book and its subsequent sequels making up the “Vampire Chronicles” series have, over the decades, become a bona fide gothic classic — further popularizing the idea of the vampire as a tortured protagonist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rice also wrote the screenplay for the 1994 film adaptation of “Interview With the Vampire” starring Brad Pitt, a young Kirsten Dunst and, most notoriously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-21-ca-41119-story.html\">Tom Cruise\u003c/a>. Then, in the 2020s, the series was introduced to a new generation of fans through the television show adaptation on AMC.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/q662gCwpKfI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/q662gCwpKfI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that the story’s pivotal framing device — the titular interview between Louis and a young journalist — takes place in a San Francisco Victorian on Divisadero Street, New Orleans has understandably pulled rank as the “home” of “Interview with the Vampire.” Not only is the Louisiana city a recurring setting in the books, but it’s also where Rice herself was born and raised and where, after finally finding her success as a writer, she lived in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DOM3-YpkQKa/?img_index=3\">a gorgeous historic home\u003c/a> for over a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s also where she rests in a family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery, where \u003ca href=\"https://annerice.com/COL.html\">her memorial\u003c/a>, attended by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/anne-rice-vampire-memorial-documentary/article_36ac316f-b1e8-4e58-8309-bfaa8024e537.html\">over a thousand people\u003c/a>, was held. And New Orleans has now become a central gathering point for fervent Rice fans, where they regularly \u003ca href=\"https://vamplestat.com/\">hold a Vampire’s Ball\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But according to Christopher, his mother’s most famous series of novels “don’t just have a San Francisco connection.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They have a San Francisco foundation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Rebellion against that darkness’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rice first lived here as a University of San Francisco student, and moved back to the city in the early 60s with Stan, the high-school sweetheart who’d become her husband. They were both \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CKIMtBEpAjp/?vrfl=b3Awc3d2eGN3bjd3\">in their early twenties\u003c/a>, and they were in the midst of the Beat Generation and the Summer of Love. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But even though the Rices were more observers than participants — “in the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 60s, I was typing away while everybody around me was dropping acid and smoking grass,” Rice told \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20130524225924/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/books/other-incarnations-of-the-vampire-author.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 1988 — the ethos of the city is firmly reflected in the “Interview With the Vampire” series. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I like to say the young men who probably inspired Louis and Lestat were people she saw on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury or the Castro District,” Christopher said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d.JPG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d.JPG 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00064_TV_qed-c1495c2d-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Anne Rice novel, “Interview with the Vampire” in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The hints of the idea of “letting your freak flag fly,” Christopher said, are there from the first book. But it really crescendos in the second book of the “Vampire Chronicles” series, 1985’s “The Vampire Lestat,” in which the raucous Lestat holds an earth-shattering rock concert (for vampires!) in none other than Daly City’s own Cow Palace. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In contrast to the Bay Area, New Orleans is Rice’s setting for “the old vampire world,” Christopher said. But “when on the contemporary stage, [Lestat] says, ‘Vampires should come out, come out wherever you are, and be counted among all the great diversity of the human world.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s the city by the Bay, baby,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Rice family lived around the Bay Area for over two decades. “In California, almost all of us have an acquired lifestyle: We came here to have it,” she said in a 2014 interview with \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/ann-rice-in-palm-desert/\">\u003cem>The California Sunday Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>“To be a writer, to be a bohemian, to put our art and our liberal ideas before, say, pleasing our cousins.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After giving birth to Christopher in Berkeley, the Rices moved back across the bay into a Castro District home at 3887 17th Street — a place Christopher said he “loved growing up.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af.JPG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af.JPG 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260929-annericesf-00030_TVA_qed-060d71af-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Victorian home located on 503 Divisadero St., which inspired Anne Rice’s novel, “Interview with the Vampire,” in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>A key setting from “Interview With the Vampire” is just a 30-minute walk from the house: The Victorian home on 503 Divisadero Street, where Rice set the titular interview. Rice said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoSb8H3znfI\">2011\u003c/a> that she came across the house — which is now painted a deep, dark blue — when her professor husband was being interviewed for a radio show nearby. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s where I got the idea of a boy-interviewer,” she said. “Little things like that spark short stories, novels.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But tragedy in the city was in full force: In the Castro, Christopher said, the Rice family was “living at ground zero” during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Neighbors were dying. There were lines out of pharmacies, he said, and shuttered storefronts with signs reading “Closed due to illness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that, in some part, the rock star energy of \u003cem>The Vampire Lestat\u003c/em> was about a rebellion against that darkness,” Christopher said. “It was this attempt to have queerness rise up and put on a leather jacket and sing to the masses, to push back all the death.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family was still suffering with a personal loss of their own, too. In 1972, the couple’s daughter Michele had died of leukemia at the age of 5 — before Christopher was born.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"instagram-no-caption-wrapper\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 540px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;\">\n \u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CixSBcULxR8/embed/?captioned=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e3e3e3; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 1px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Christopher said he learned about Michele by accident in school. Over the course of his life, he got to learn about his sister from his parents, about her “otherworldly endurance” and her “zen brilliance.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it was easy for them to be living at the ground zero of another epidemic that was about the blood,” Christopher said. “It was incredibly influential on [Rice].” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the years after Michele’s death, Rice returned to an old short story and expanded it in just five weeks into what became “Interview with the Vampire,” written in her \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/ann-rice-in-palm-desert/\">North Berkeley garden apartment.\u003c/a> This version further developed the character of a surrogate daughter for Lestat and Louis, Claudia — turned into a vampire at age five and forever a child.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>”I never noticed when I was writing,” Rice said in \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>interview. ”It may be hard to believe, but I didn’t connect Claudia with my daughter at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘The vampire is an outsider’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Interview with the Vampire” represented a “paradigm shift in how we look at monsters in ourselves,” said author Eric Shaw Quinn, Rice’s friend who helps oversee the estate with Christopher. “And our own persecution of ourselves, and of monsters in our culture.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I was there at the beginning of \u003cem>Interview with a Vampire\u003c/em>, and it was such an inspirational moment in my life,” Quinn said. “We’re all inspired by the San Francisco philosophy of it — or the Anne philosophy of it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Being you is exactly what you should do; you are exactly as you should be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1964\" height=\"1304\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677.jpg 1964w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-502548923-a900e677-1536x1020.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1964px) 100vw, 1964px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anne Rice on Aug. 15, 1995. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“The vampire is an outsider,” Rice herself \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20260408070054/https://www.thedailybeast.com/anne-rice-on-sparkly-vampires-twilight-true-blood-and-werewolves/\">told the Daily Beast in 2011\u003c/a>. “He’s the perfect metaphor for those things.” And Rice’s exploration of the outsider figure has resonated with its queer fanbase over half a century.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the book may have initially been received as a gay allegory, it is now widely understood to be “a full-on queer narrative,” Christopher said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The audience that made the “Vampire Chronicles” into what Christopher called “underground hits” was “largely made up of queer people,” he said. “They were the people who saw the passionate, romantic connection between Louis and Lestat and their determination to raise a child.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This narrative heavily imprinted on many fans at an early age. Like Grey Starr of Oakland, who first encountered Rice’s work after watching the 1994 film adaptation when she was young. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been queer, so I could always suss that out as a kid,” Starr said. “I read the books when I was way too young … I used to go to school wearing a shirt that said, ‘Red Beans, Anne Rice.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/InterviewVampireGetty-11ba3b20-1536x988.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kirsten Dunst in a scene from the film “Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles,” 1994. (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“The sensuality of that book really got me at a young age, because this was right around the time that I’m hitting puberty, I’m discovering kind of my own sexuality,” San Francisco drag performer Piranha Psychotronica said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a kid visiting the city, Psychotronica remembered being excited to pass Castro Street, because the “Vampire Chronicles” series featured a vampire bar — called Dracula’s Daughter — in the area. “Not realizing really at that time that it’s \u003cem>also \u003c/em>where all the gays were and where I eventually would be,” she said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The series also explored gender identity. Rice herself told an interviewer \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anne-rice-feel-like-im-gay_n_585d33cae4b0d9a59457fc44\">in a 2016 interview\u003c/a> that it was “very hard for me to remember that I have a gender.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When I grew up in the 90s, when you’d see trans folks in media, oftentimes it would be trashy talk shows where they were the butt of the joke, and described as mentally ill,” said Psychotronica, who is a trans woman. But the language of gender in Rice’s books rang true to her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That was one of the biggest things that made me a lifelong fan of her writing,” she said. “Because it was the first door that I felt opened to me to any kind of self-discovery.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For many Bay Area fans, the series’ inherent queerness has made a huge impact not just on their lives, but their art too. Psychotronica credits what she called the “sensuality and decadence” of Rice’s writing as one of the major reasons she began performing onstage. “I want to channel rock star Lestat when I’m on stage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Psychotronica learned of the series through her mother, who she described as an Anne Rice superfan — similar to Starr’s mother, a “cool goth mom” who is part of her band, Pretty Frankenstein. In fact, that intergenerational nature of Rice’s fanbase is a recurring theme among Bay Area fans and even reminiscent of the writer’s bond with her son Christopher as he became an author in his own right. (Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/9605/anne-and-christopher-rice-fall-in-love-with-this-mother-son-author-team\">this delightful 2013 KQED interview\u003c/a> that asks the pair which of their gay fanbases would win in a fight.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of surreal that this media has essentially shaped our lives in such an amazing way,” Starr said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘A home to androgynous pansexual ancient vampires’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Psychotronica is just one of the acts in Starr’s forthcoming “Interview with the Vampire”-themed drag show in Oakland, right before Halloween. (Starr hosted past themed drag nights as Lumpia Anne Rice.) \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another of the performers slated for that night is Sacramento’s Alexa Gerrity — a cosplaying burlesque act who’ll be performing as Louis. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gerrity counts herself as a newer fan of the “Vampire Chronicles”’ thanks to her best friend Desrea Sabo — a Rice fan who described cutting their own bangs as a kid “because I thought \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIm8HfwnmVE\">they would grow back like Claudia’s\u003c/a>” — introducing them to the AMC television series.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AnneRiceGetty3-c6d0f1da-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(L-R): Mark Johnson, Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Delainey Hayles, Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian seen onstage at the AMC Networks media presentation of Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire” during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on Feb. 6, 2024, in Pasadena, California. (JC Olivera/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>What inspired Gerrity about the series was a major change it makes from the books in the casting of Louis and Claudia, portrayed variously by Black actors Jacob Anderson, Delainey Hayles and Bailey Bass. Along with a shift in time period and a more overt portrayal of sexuality, the show reimagined Louis not as the white plantation owner of the books but as a Black brothel owner in 1900s New Orleans. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As a Black woman, it just really hit a lot harder … him coming to terms with who he is as a person,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The queer experience, trying to see how he feels coming to terms with his sexuality … those are things that I can relate to growing up as a Black woman who grew up in the South as well and coming out to my family, to my friends,” Gerrity said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it comes to Black characters in the gothic romance genre, “sometimes it’s looked at as weird, or we’re excluded from those spaces,” she said. “So to see us be embraced so wholly, and in these beautiful vibrant colors and scenes and imagery — it was just incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, Gerrity and Sabo regularly cosplay together as Louis and Lestat at fan conventions — not unlike those readers who entered Rice’s San Francisco book signing all those decades ago. “It’s beautiful to be able to cosplay such a dynamic duo,” Garrity said. “Being able to be covered in blood with my best friend — I’m never going to be upset.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Sabo, who was born and raised in San Francisco, Rice’s work has only strengthened their connection to their home. “As a kid who has always — and still hopes — to be turned into a vampire someday, being able to walk down the street and see those locations, it made the fantasy so much more deep and real for me,” Sabo said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment echoed by Psychotronica — a way of seeing this city, with its rolling fog and Victorian houses looming over its steep streets, in all its gothic splendor. “I can totally see how San Francisco would be such an attractive home to these androgynous pansexual ancient vampires,” Psychotronica said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think [Rice] loving it so much was one of the things that really made me fall in love with the city. Now I can’t imagine living anywhere else,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vampire-events\">Vampire-themed gatherings and events in the Bay Area in October\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To mark “Interview with the Vampire”’s 50th anniversary, we’ve compiled a list of vampiric affairs across the Bay Area, including elegant masquerades, fashion shows, raves and drag.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Earth Gala’s Vampire Ball at Verdi Club\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Friday, Oct. 9, at the Verdi Club in San Francisco, there will be \u003ca href=\"https://partiful.com/e/ow96u5LIkuJMIeEndMi4\">a vampire ball and fashion walkway\u003c/a> centered on “eco-couture,” where the winner can receive a $1000 cash prize. The gala is serving as a fundraiser for the Amazon rainforest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-galas-vampire-ball-halloween-costume-ball-in-san-francisco-tickets-1999189409340?aff=oddtdtcreator\">General admission \u003c/a>costs around $108, but late entry after 10 p.m. is around $40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CAVE RAVE: CLAWZ – VAMPIRE RAVE at The Foundry\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This rave on Friday, Oct. 9 at The Foundry in San Francisco starts at 10 p.m. Tickets \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cave-rave-clawz-vampire-rave-tickets-2001031409813?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">can be found online\u003c/a> and are around $20.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gHBhKbF2xMA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gHBhKbF2xMA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">International Vampire Fest at The Balboa Theater\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Oct. 17 at The Balboa Theater in San Francisco, there’ll be a series of vampiric movies playing all day long from 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/international-vampire-film-fest\">Individual tickets \u003c/a>are around $15. A full day pass is $30. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Particularly exciting for this reporter: two of her favorite movies of all time are part of the international lineup: Sweden’s “Let the Right One In” (2008) and Iran’s “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”\u003cem> \u003c/em>(2014).\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And if you aren’t able to make it that day, the following day in Richmond there’s a free \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd_nZm_OvZ1/?stkn=Y3ozeHRnOXllaTVh\">screening of “Fright Night”(1985) in 16 mm\u003c/a> at The Planetarium venue.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vampire’s Ball at SP2 Communal Bar\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Oct. 17 at SP2 Communal Bar in San José, there’s a vampire’s ball with a best-dressed contest. It is free to enter before 10:30 p.m. and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vampires-ball-tickets-2002597411767?aff=ebdssbcategorybrowse\">$12.51 afterward\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Théâtre des Vampires Drag Show at The Thee Stork Club\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Oct. 29 at Thee Stork Club in Oakland, there’s an “Interview with the Vampire”-themed drag show featuring \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3XR0RM128haG3D0EyeNKvH\">music from the television show’s third season\u003c/a>, “The Vampire Lestat,” by Pretty Frankenstein. Tickets \u003ca href=\"https://wl.eventim.us/event/the-vampire-lestat-drag-show/695682?afflky=TheeStorkClub\">are available online for $12 and at the door for $15\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Helena’s Masquerade at QBar\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Not quite vampire-themed but very important for any emo kid, t\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8\">he broken, the beaten and the damned\u003c/a>: On Thursday, Oct. 29 at San Francisco’s QBar, you’ll find a Hot Topic-filled dance night of My Chemical Romance, Evanescence and Paramore. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/helenas-masquerade-emo-night-halloween-party-in-the-castro-tickets-1998505545886?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Tickets\u003c/a> range from around $7 to $14.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Halloween Vampire Tour of San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Oct. 31 in San Francisco, a six-stop tour with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Harker\">Mina Harker\u003c/a> throughout the Nob Hill Neighborhood. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-halloween-vampire-tour-of-san-francisco-tickets-2001672663821?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Tickets\u003c/a> are around $40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Dracula Kiss” at Coqueta\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Oct. 31 at Coqueta in San Francisco, there’s an immersive production of the play “Dracula Kiss.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dracula-kiss-tickets-2002563537448?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Tickets\u003c/a> are $44.52.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Black Cat Hotel at The Palace Theater\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This immersive theatrical experience runs through Halloween at the Palace Theater in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.thepalacetheatersf.com/blackcat#linkourstory\">Reservations \u003c/a>start at $39. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-public-defender\">San Francisco Public Defender’s Office\u003c/a> is seeking to decertify three San Francisco Police officers, alleging they so brutally injured a man that he had to be medically induced into a coma. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During a press conference at the public defender’s office on Thursday, attorneys presented body camera footage from Aug. 17, 2025, in which San Francisco police officers Brendan Caraway, Brian Conway and Gabriel Rivera tackled 33-year-old Kevon Gibson to the ground. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They repeatedly punched him in the head, pulled his hair, and kneeled on his neck in the hallway of a residential hotel on Sixth Street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m scared right now,” Gibson told the officers as they laid on top of him and struck him. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gibson repeatedly told the officers, “I can’t breathe,” words which Public Defender Mano Raju said were also the last by Eric Garner, who was killed in New York police custody in 2014. One officer also knelt on Gibson’s neck, the way George Floyd was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987911/how-george-floyds-murder-ignited-solidarity-in-the-streets-and-californias-reparations-movement\">murdered\u003c/a> by police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1539\" height=\"884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a.jpg 1539w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a-1536x882.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1539px) 100vw, 1539px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office released footage of the Aug. 17, 2025 arrest of 33-year-old Kevon Gibson, who was hospitalized after San Francisco Police officers Brendan Caraway, Brian Conway and Gabriel Rivera tackled and punched him and knelt on his neck. (Courtesy of San Francisco Public Defender's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gibson was treated in the ICU, put into a medically induced coma and intubated, before being held at the San Francisco County Jail for a year — awaiting trial for three felony counts of resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deputy public defenders Bonnie Chan-Silen and John Paul Passaglia represented Gibson in the case, where a San Francisco jury acquitted him of all three charges.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Although Gibson was acquitted of the three felony counts, the jury still convicted him of being a felon in possession of a firearm and three misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gibson was sentenced last month. He was given credit for the year he served in jail, and the judge allowed him to serve the remaining 17 days of his sentence in home detention, at the residence of a loved one. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chan-Silen said the DA’s office attempted to keep the jury from hearing audio from the body camera, but the jury heard his cries for help. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What makes this horrific police beating even more egregious is the way the district attorney’s office tried to cover it up, and charge Mr. Gibson with crimes that he did not commit,” Chan-Silen said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103650\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Bonnie Chan-Silen takes questions from reporters at a press conference at the public defender’s office on Oct. 8, 2026. The office released footage of the Aug. 17, 2025 arrest of 33-year-old Kevon Gibson, who was hospitalized after San Francisco Police officers Brendan Caraway, Brian Conway and Gabriel Rivera tackled and punched him, as well as knelt on his neck. A jury found Gibson guilty of three counts of misdemeanor resisting arrest and being a felon in possession of a firearm, but acquitted him of three felony resisting charges. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, the district attorney’s office said it never asked the court to exclude the footage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The jury convicted Mr. Gibson of four crimes. Calling this a ‘cover-up’ isn’t just an attack on our prosecutors—it shows remarkable disrespect for the court and the jurors who heard the evidence and rendered the verdict,” the statement said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Passaglia alleged the officers were caught in three lies at trial: One said Gibson bit him and another said Gibson punched him in the face multiple times, and even took his radio off and wrapped the cord around his neck. The third claim was that Gibson attempted to break his thumb.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The jury knew these were lies because they were shown a volume of various videos that collectively showed unequivocally that not one of those incidents happened,” Passaglia said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Following Gibson’s conviction, the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://sfdistrictattorney.org/man-convicted-of-illegal-firearm-possession-and-resisting-arrest-in-soma/\">issued a press release on Aug. 19\u003c/a> that described the sequence of events: “When officers attempted a pat search for weapons, Mr. Gibson started to actively resist their attempts and fight with officers. Eventually three officers were able to restrain Mr. Gibson and handcuff him.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That statement also thanked the officers and the jury. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“She [Brooke Jenkins] omitted any mention of the fact that they had brutally beaten Mr. Gibson nearly into a coma,” Chan-Silen said. “She villainized Mr. Gibson as a Black man with a gun.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Police were called to the residential hotel and spoke with a neighbor who complained about Gibson, calling him the [N-word] and threatening to “stick this knife into his Black ass” and “slice and watch him bleed everywhere.” Police did not further investigate the man’s threats to Gibson.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chan-Silen said Gibson only briefly possessed a handgun for protection against that “racist” neighbor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caraway, Conway and Rivera attempted to locate Gibson at his friend’s apartment, loudly kicking on the door and telling the occupants that they could break the door in with no repercussions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Ain’t nobody gonna do shit if I kick this door down, right?” One of the officers said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The officers found Gibson as he was coming out of an elevator. They told him he wasn’t under arrest, but immediately put their hands on him in an attempt to detain him. All three officers had contact with Gibson, and all four men were soon on the ground. Besides body cameras, the scuffle was captured by a surveillance camera in the hallway. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the end, there was a noticeable amount of blood coming from Gibson’s forehead. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The public defender’s office said it wasn’t aware of whether the officers had been reprimanded, but believed one of them was promoted shortly after the incident. SFPD has not yet responded to a request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The public defender said it plans to file a complaint with the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability, and notify the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST, to seek decertification of the officers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Prosecutors often charge and overcharge our clients with resisting arrest as leverage to punish our clients and then excuse the police officers’ actions, and then misrepresent the true nature of these incidents,” Raju said. “All of this is a disservice to our clients, a disservice to the community, and a disservice to the pursuit of justice itself.”\u003c/p>\n",
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One officer also knelt on Gibson’s neck, the way George Floyd was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987911/how-george-floyds-murder-ignited-solidarity-in-the-streets-and-californias-reparations-movement\">murdered\u003c/a> by police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1539\" height=\"884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a.jpg 1539w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-03-KQED-50c5e94a-1536x882.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1539px) 100vw, 1539px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office released footage of the Aug. 17, 2025 arrest of 33-year-old Kevon Gibson, who was hospitalized after San Francisco Police officers Brendan Caraway, Brian Conway and Gabriel Rivera tackled and punched him and knelt on his neck. (Courtesy of San Francisco Public Defender's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gibson was treated in the ICU, put into a medically induced coma and intubated, before being held at the San Francisco County Jail for a year — awaiting trial for three felony counts of resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deputy public defenders Bonnie Chan-Silen and John Paul Passaglia represented Gibson in the case, where a San Francisco jury acquitted him of all three charges.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Although Gibson was acquitted of the three felony counts, the jury still convicted him of being a felon in possession of a firearm and three misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gibson was sentenced last month. He was given credit for the year he served in jail, and the judge allowed him to serve the remaining 17 days of his sentence in home detention, at the residence of a loved one. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chan-Silen said the DA’s office attempted to keep the jury from hearing audio from the body camera, but the jury heard his cries for help. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What makes this horrific police beating even more egregious is the way the district attorney’s office tried to cover it up, and charge Mr. Gibson with crimes that he did not commit,” Chan-Silen said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103650\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SF-Defender-02-KQED-86f37b79-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Bonnie Chan-Silen takes questions from reporters at a press conference at the public defender’s office on Oct. 8, 2026. The office released footage of the Aug. 17, 2025 arrest of 33-year-old Kevon Gibson, who was hospitalized after San Francisco Police officers Brendan Caraway, Brian Conway and Gabriel Rivera tackled and punched him, as well as knelt on his neck. A jury found Gibson guilty of three counts of misdemeanor resisting arrest and being a felon in possession of a firearm, but acquitted him of three felony resisting charges. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, the district attorney’s office said it never asked the court to exclude the footage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The jury convicted Mr. Gibson of four crimes. Calling this a ‘cover-up’ isn’t just an attack on our prosecutors—it shows remarkable disrespect for the court and the jurors who heard the evidence and rendered the verdict,” the statement said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Passaglia alleged the officers were caught in three lies at trial: One said Gibson bit him and another said Gibson punched him in the face multiple times, and even took his radio off and wrapped the cord around his neck. The third claim was that Gibson attempted to break his thumb.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The jury knew these were lies because they were shown a volume of various videos that collectively showed unequivocally that not one of those incidents happened,” Passaglia said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Following Gibson’s conviction, the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://sfdistrictattorney.org/man-convicted-of-illegal-firearm-possession-and-resisting-arrest-in-soma/\">issued a press release on Aug. 19\u003c/a> that described the sequence of events: “When officers attempted a pat search for weapons, Mr. Gibson started to actively resist their attempts and fight with officers. Eventually three officers were able to restrain Mr. Gibson and handcuff him.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That statement also thanked the officers and the jury. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“She [Brooke Jenkins] omitted any mention of the fact that they had brutally beaten Mr. Gibson nearly into a coma,” Chan-Silen said. “She villainized Mr. Gibson as a Black man with a gun.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Police were called to the residential hotel and spoke with a neighbor who complained about Gibson, calling him the [N-word] and threatening to “stick this knife into his Black ass” and “slice and watch him bleed everywhere.” Police did not further investigate the man’s threats to Gibson.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chan-Silen said Gibson only briefly possessed a handgun for protection against that “racist” neighbor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caraway, Conway and Rivera attempted to locate Gibson at his friend’s apartment, loudly kicking on the door and telling the occupants that they could break the door in with no repercussions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Ain’t nobody gonna do shit if I kick this door down, right?” One of the officers said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The officers found Gibson as he was coming out of an elevator. They told him he wasn’t under arrest, but immediately put their hands on him in an attempt to detain him. All three officers had contact with Gibson, and all four men were soon on the ground. Besides body cameras, the scuffle was captured by a surveillance camera in the hallway. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the end, there was a noticeable amount of blood coming from Gibson’s forehead. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The public defender’s office said it wasn’t aware of whether the officers had been reprimanded, but believed one of them was promoted shortly after the incident. SFPD has not yet responded to a request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The public defender said it plans to file a complaint with the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability, and notify the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST, to seek decertification of the officers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Prosecutors often charge and overcharge our clients with resisting arrest as leverage to punish our clients and then excuse the police officers’ actions, and then misrepresent the true nature of these incidents,” Raju said. “All of this is a disservice to our clients, a disservice to the community, and a disservice to the pursuit of justice itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Alameda County Superior Court Judge Rebekah Evenson is presiding over the jury trial in a small San Francisco courtroom, after all San Francisco judges recused themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Bailey was an exemplary lifelong public servant, receiving letters of recommendation for promotions and advancement in places like San Quentin State Prison and the San Francisco Unified School District. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By 2001, she was working in the DA’s office, where she routinely received top marks on her evaluations, with ratings from her supervisors as “exceeding expectations.” She eventually began working as an investigative assistant. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In January 2015, while under the leadership of George Gascón, the office had a mouse infestation, which Bailey had reported to human resources. On Jan. 22, Bailey’s co-worker Saras Larkin – who had previously been her supervisor – pointed out that she saw a mouse run by Bailey’s desk, which the plaintiff testified caused her to jump out of her chair. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261007-SFDACONFERENCE-NG-5_QED-KQED-1-057279c0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261007-SFDACONFERENCE-NG-5_QED-KQED-1-057279c0.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261007-SFDACONFERENCE-NG-5_QED-KQED-1-057279c0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261007-SFDACONFERENCE-NG-5_QED-KQED-1-057279c0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Police Department Chief Derrick Lew speaks at a press conference outside the Warfield in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bailey testified that Larkin then said, “You [N-words] is so scary.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said that she mumbled the phrase back to herself under her breath.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bailey said she told co-workers about the incident, but initially didn’t report it to human resources because the office’s HR director, Evette Taylor-Monachino, was good friends with Larkin. That, and two other Black women in the office, were either harassed or removed from the office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I was scared,” Bailey said. “I didn’t want to get harassed.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eventually, a supervisor overheard her discussing it at a holiday party and told Bailey that they would report it, she said. But three months later, when Bailey went to HR to get a copy of her report, Taylor-Monachino told her there was no report or formal complaint. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bailey said Taylor-Monachino warned her that telling people in the office that Larkin called her a racial slur could create a “hostile work environment” for her. Bailey testified that she left that meeting crying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bailey said that, from then on, Taylor-Monachino would give her “nasty, unpleasant looks” while laughing at her in the office on a daily basis. That took a toll on her, Bailey said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was working in a war zone. I felt like I had to dodge the HR manager,” Bailey said on the stand as she started to cry. “I never experienced anything like this. I didn’t know if I was going to lose my job.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By April 2015, Bailey testified, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which eventually deemed her claim insufficient. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I felt that it was wrong that they didn’t do an investigation,” Bailey said. “It made me feel that I had to accept being called a scary [N-word].”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That summer, Bailey received numerous negative allegations against her in her performance evaluation, none of which she said were brought to her attention before being documented in her review. Bailey said she appealed that evaluation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In August 2015, Bailey filed a formal complaint against Taylor-Monachino, who was reassigned to different duties two months later, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Soon, Bailey said she was waiting for a parking spot when Taylor-Monachino pulled up to her car, rolled her window down slightly, and made a pointing gesture at Bailey, which she interpreted as “you’re going to get it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bailey filed her lawsuit in December 2015, but the case was dismissed on appeal by the city attorney’s office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/73076353_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11991291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/73076353_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/73076353_qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/73076353_qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/73076353_qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/73076353_qut-1536x1009.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A section of the California seal hangs in San Francisco on the front of the State of California Earl Warren building on Jan. 22, 2007. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the California Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/supremecourt/default/documents/1-10-s265223-app-pet-rev-102620.pdf\">overturned that ruling in 2024\u003c/a>, saying a single instance of being called that slur by a co-worker with no oversight of an employee was enough to proceed, as that particular racial epithet carries “the stinging barbs of history, which catch and tear the psyche the way thorns tear at skin.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As Bailey testified, her attorney, Daniel Bacon, attempted to admit a trove of documents as evidence, including Bailey’s performance reviews from the DA’s office, her handwritten notes documenting months of alleged harassment, and more. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Judge Evenson repeatedly warned Bacon not to read from documents or refer to documents not yet admitted into evidence, as Deputy City Attorney Matthew Yan objected to many of those documents being admitted. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During her cross-examination by Yan, Bailey described her relationship with Larkin as a “working friend,” but said she later developed some animosity towards Larkin for repeatedly breaking office rules, like leaving work for hours at a time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“She was always protected,” Bailey said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yan insinuated that Bailey may have misheard what Larkin said to her, saying that would have been the only day anyone ever heard Larkin use a racial slur. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You heard your longtime friend call you a racial slur and you didn’t confront her about it?” Yan said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No, I didn’t. 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Alameda County Superior Court Judge Rebekah Evenson is presiding over the jury trial in a small San Francisco courtroom, after all San Francisco judges recused themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Bailey was an exemplary lifelong public servant, receiving letters of recommendation for promotions and advancement in places like San Quentin State Prison and the San Francisco Unified School District. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By 2001, she was working in the DA’s office, where she routinely received top marks on her evaluations, with ratings from her supervisors as “exceeding expectations.” She eventually began working as an investigative assistant. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In January 2015, while under the leadership of George Gascón, the office had a mouse infestation, which Bailey had reported to human resources. 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But three months later, when Bailey went to HR to get a copy of her report, Taylor-Monachino told her there was no report or formal complaint. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bailey said Taylor-Monachino warned her that telling people in the office that Larkin called her a racial slur could create a “hostile work environment” for her. Bailey testified that she left that meeting crying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bailey said that, from then on, Taylor-Monachino would give her “nasty, unpleasant looks” while laughing at her in the office on a daily basis. That took a toll on her, Bailey said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was working in a war zone. I felt like I had to dodge the HR manager,” Bailey said on the stand as she started to cry. “I never experienced anything like this. 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