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Some of the others involve former executive officer Jack Broadbent, who led the agency for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuits, Broadbent, who is not named as a defendant, told a colleague that women who cried in front of him were using a tactic to “manipulate men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a female worker complained to upper management about the aggression of white heterosexual men in the office, Broadbent allegedly responded that the employee needed to “wear her big girl panties.” He made fun of the facial hair of a Jewish, LGBTQIA+ board member, stating that she looked like Hitler, Sanders alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadbent, in an email response to KQED, said he had read \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/05/bay-area-air-quality-agency-a-discriminatory-old-boys-club-hostile-to-minorities-lawsuit/\">news coverage\u003c/a> about the complaints but had not read the legal documents and couldn’t comment on ongoing litigation. But he defended his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my 18 years as executive officer for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, I took extensive efforts to diversify the organization at all levels to reflect the Bay Area community and culture,” Broadbent said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11933997,news_11957894,news_11791348\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“I hired and promoted women, people of color and LGBTQIA+ individuals into leadership positions throughout the agency. I created the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the air sistrict to identify and adopt policies and practices to ensure and promote diversity and cultural awareness. I am proud of these efforts and strongly do not agree with the allegations as reported in the media,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firing of Sanders and Levels, along with Breen’s retirement, took place after other recent leadership changes at the district. The agency fired Jeff McKay, then its chief financial officer. Broadbent retired in June 2022. Brian Bunger, the agency’s top lawyer for more than 20 years, also left last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders and Levels claim McKay used the derogatory term “torpedo t____” in reference to a female contractor’s breasts. The lawsuits say Broadbent subsequently used the same words to refer to the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levels and Sanders both alleged that they, along with other women of color and LBGTQIA+ individuals at the agency “were routinely silenced by white heterosexual men in group settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the suits say McKay held his hand up at a meeting to a woman of color to signal her to stop speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKay said in a text he had not seen the complaints until contacted by KQED and declined to comment after receiving them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1545471783976873984?s=20\">awkward appearance before the board\u003c/a> before he left the agency, McKay claimed he was threatened with being fired if he told district board members about “ongoing and escalating illegal activity at the district,” activity he never publicly outlined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits describe the air district as “a hostile and discriminatory ‘old boys club’ where heterosexual white men are in charge, while others are deprived of equal opportunities and treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits recount a number of incidents they say bear out those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both cite an episode during which a white heterosexual male employee is alleged to have “grabbed a woman of color by her wrist when she tried to leave a conversation, forcing her to stay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits say a top executive called multiple women of Asian descent the wrong names in several meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levels’ suit says a manager asked her if he could borrow her hair for Halloween and wore fake mole stickers, a kind of temporary face tattoo, to mock her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An air district representative pushed back against the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our position is that the legal claims are without merit, and our legal team is confident the facts and circumstances will prove this to be the case,” said the district’s communications director, Kristine Roselius, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The air district works to foster an inclusive culture and we view diversity as one of our greatest strengths,” the statement added. “Once all the facts are known, we fully expect to prevail in this matter and remain committed to upholding the highest standards of professionalism and fairness for all our employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roselius pointed to copies of air district letters that were included in the complaints that explained the agency’s firing decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those letters accused Sanders and Levels of making a series of costly missteps in overseeing district policy and setting pay levels for officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the issues raised in the 15-page letter air district interim Chief Operating Officer Sharon Landers sent Sanders was the fact they approved a 46% pay increase for the acting district counsel while the counsel was investigating a complaint Sanders had filed against other district executives. The district found that Levels had also exercised “poor judgment” in approving the raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landers also accused Sanders of wasting district resources and being dishonest during the process of developing an anti-bullying policy for the district, and she charged Sanders had been insubordinate and disrespectful toward her on numerous occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landers wrote that during a forum Sanders made a “veiled reference to unfounded allegations made against me from a previous job. Taking cheap shots at me like this, when you knew I was in the hospital dealing with serious health problems, was unfair, mean-spirited, and highly inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders disputes the district’s justifications for their firing. They argue they were fired for opposing the agency’s discriminatory practices, that during their time at the district they were treated poorly because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, sex and disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders and Levels also say the workplace problems are getting in the way of the job the regulatory agency is tasked with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard for an agency to establish equitable processes and systems for the community we serve if we’re not having those same systems,” Levels said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two recently fired top managers at the agency say the district is beset by a culture of racism, sexism and homophobia, perpetuated in part by the person who ran the district for decades.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1692048860,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1358},"headData":{"title":"Former Air District Officials Sue Agency, Alleging Racist, Sexist Behavior | KQED","description":"Two recently fired top managers at the agency say the district is beset by a culture of racism, sexism and homophobia, perpetuated in part by the person who ran the district for decades.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Former Air District Officials Sue Agency, Alleging Racist, Sexist Behavior","datePublished":"2023-08-14T21:00:42.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-14T21:34:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11958151/former-air-district-officials-sue-agency-leaders-over-hostile-work-culture","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two recently fired top managers at the agency tasked with protecting the Bay Area from air pollution say the district is beset by a culture of racism, sexism and homophobia, perpetuated in part by the person who ran the district for close to two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rex Sanders, who oversaw four offices at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and Terri Levels, the agency’s former human resources officer, are separately suing the agency that fired them, they say, after they spoke up about rampant discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When the air district isn’t at its best, it’s the residents who suffer.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rex Sanders, former chief administrative officer, Bay Area Air Quality Management District","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“My value and what I brought to the table in my role was overlooked and when I spoke about it, it was just swept under the rug,” said Levels, the first Black woman to hold the position of HR officer at a director level at the district. “Being in leadership, I was expected to take notes as a secretary. I’ve been talked down to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the air district isn’t at its best, it’s the residents who suffer,” Sanders told KQED in a joint interview with Levels. Sanders, who was the agency’s chief administrative officer, identifies as gay and nonbinary and uses the pronouns he/they. “Employees that are under that type of duress can’t innovate or take risks. They can’t work collaboratively together. It reduces efficiency at the agency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two lawsuits, filed earlier this month in San Francisco Superior Court, come eight months after another top official left the agency after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933997/senior-official-at-air-district-on-leave-over-alleged-racist-sexist-incident\">using a racist, sexist slur\u003c/a> during a confrontation with a security guard at the agency’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That episode involved Damian Breen, the district’s senior deputy executive officer of operations. He retired after the incident, which was first reported by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen’s conduct is cited among a series of comments and practices Sanders and Levels recount in their lawsuits. Some of the others involve former executive officer Jack Broadbent, who led the agency for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuits, Broadbent, who is not named as a defendant, told a colleague that women who cried in front of him were using a tactic to “manipulate men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a female worker complained to upper management about the aggression of white heterosexual men in the office, Broadbent allegedly responded that the employee needed to “wear her big girl panties.” He made fun of the facial hair of a Jewish, LGBTQIA+ board member, stating that she looked like Hitler, Sanders alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadbent, in an email response to KQED, said he had read \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/05/bay-area-air-quality-agency-a-discriminatory-old-boys-club-hostile-to-minorities-lawsuit/\">news coverage\u003c/a> about the complaints but had not read the legal documents and couldn’t comment on ongoing litigation. But he defended his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my 18 years as executive officer for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, I took extensive efforts to diversify the organization at all levels to reflect the Bay Area community and culture,” Broadbent said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11933997,news_11957894,news_11791348","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I hired and promoted women, people of color and LGBTQIA+ individuals into leadership positions throughout the agency. I created the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the air sistrict to identify and adopt policies and practices to ensure and promote diversity and cultural awareness. I am proud of these efforts and strongly do not agree with the allegations as reported in the media,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firing of Sanders and Levels, along with Breen’s retirement, took place after other recent leadership changes at the district. The agency fired Jeff McKay, then its chief financial officer. Broadbent retired in June 2022. Brian Bunger, the agency’s top lawyer for more than 20 years, also left last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders and Levels claim McKay used the derogatory term “torpedo t____” in reference to a female contractor’s breasts. The lawsuits say Broadbent subsequently used the same words to refer to the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levels and Sanders both alleged that they, along with other women of color and LBGTQIA+ individuals at the agency “were routinely silenced by white heterosexual men in group settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the suits say McKay held his hand up at a meeting to a woman of color to signal her to stop speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKay said in a text he had not seen the complaints until contacted by KQED and declined to comment after receiving them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1545471783976873984?s=20\">awkward appearance before the board\u003c/a> before he left the agency, McKay claimed he was threatened with being fired if he told district board members about “ongoing and escalating illegal activity at the district,” activity he never publicly outlined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits describe the air district as “a hostile and discriminatory ‘old boys club’ where heterosexual white men are in charge, while others are deprived of equal opportunities and treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits recount a number of incidents they say bear out those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both cite an episode during which a white heterosexual male employee is alleged to have “grabbed a woman of color by her wrist when she tried to leave a conversation, forcing her to stay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits say a top executive called multiple women of Asian descent the wrong names in several meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levels’ suit says a manager asked her if he could borrow her hair for Halloween and wore fake mole stickers, a kind of temporary face tattoo, to mock her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An air district representative pushed back against the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our position is that the legal claims are without merit, and our legal team is confident the facts and circumstances will prove this to be the case,” said the district’s communications director, Kristine Roselius, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The air district works to foster an inclusive culture and we view diversity as one of our greatest strengths,” the statement added. “Once all the facts are known, we fully expect to prevail in this matter and remain committed to upholding the highest standards of professionalism and fairness for all our employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roselius pointed to copies of air district letters that were included in the complaints that explained the agency’s firing decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those letters accused Sanders and Levels of making a series of costly missteps in overseeing district policy and setting pay levels for officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the issues raised in the 15-page letter air district interim Chief Operating Officer Sharon Landers sent Sanders was the fact they approved a 46% pay increase for the acting district counsel while the counsel was investigating a complaint Sanders had filed against other district executives. The district found that Levels had also exercised “poor judgment” in approving the raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landers also accused Sanders of wasting district resources and being dishonest during the process of developing an anti-bullying policy for the district, and she charged Sanders had been insubordinate and disrespectful toward her on numerous occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landers wrote that during a forum Sanders made a “veiled reference to unfounded allegations made against me from a previous job. Taking cheap shots at me like this, when you knew I was in the hospital dealing with serious health problems, was unfair, mean-spirited, and highly inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders disputes the district’s justifications for their firing. They argue they were fired for opposing the agency’s discriminatory practices, that during their time at the district they were treated poorly because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, sex and disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders and Levels also say the workplace problems are getting in the way of the job the regulatory agency is tasked with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard for an agency to establish equitable processes and systems for the community we serve if we’re not having those same systems,” Levels said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11958151/former-air-district-officials-sue-agency-leaders-over-hostile-work-culture","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20628","news_22681","news_19216","news_20088"],"featImg":"news_11957856","label":"news"},"news_11935695":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11935695","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11935695","score":null,"sort":[1671307008000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-tattoo-artist-starts-a-movement-to-ink-pansies-in-support-of-trans-rights","title":"Oakland Tattoo Artist Starts a Movement to Ink Pansies in Support of Trans Rights","publishDate":1671307008,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The pansy is a delicate flower — but it’s more than just a flower, it’s also a symbol of trans solidarity. Oakland-based tattoo artist Cedre Csillagi started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/a1000pansies/\">A Thousand Pansies project\u003c/a> as a way to dedicate their art to something bigger, and also raise money for a Black-led trans organization in Alabama called \u003ca href=\"https://www.tkosociety.org/\">The Knights and Orchid Society\u003c/a> (TKO). Thus far, over 18 people have received matching pansy tattoos, and, as of today, the project has raised nearly $15,000 dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it’s a beautiful project and an example of how to show up for grassroot organizations,” said TC Caldwell, director of community engagement for the Alabama-based organization. They added that Black trans-led organizations in the South don’t see the same funding opportunities as others. The needs of their clients range from assistance with name/gender marker changes on IDs to food and stable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do this work without community. This is critical life-saving work,” Caldwell said. Solidarity is key to their work, which can \"look like fighting anti-trans legislation, making sure trans youth have safe places/spaces to exist whole, making sure that there are jobs for trans folks, and allowing trans people to lead the work,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Kerman echoed the importance of ensuring Black trans people are financially supported, in an interview with KQED while she got her pansy tattoo.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cedre Csillagi\"]'I feel more and more connected to the image every time I do it. Which is really beautiful to just do it over and over. It's like I'm reiterating on my own ideals and my own politics around this.'[/pullquote]“Black trans people need love and support and resources, and that's what the project is going to bring,” she said. Kerman is a Bay Area resident and author of \u003cem>Orange Is the New Black\u003c/em>, the book on which the hit Netflix series is based, chronicling her experience with incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerman said that when she was incarcerated, she had a Black trans neighbor who was an important figure in her life. In the Netflix series, that figure is played by Laverne Cox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerman said she also has an aunt named Pansy, and that one of her great-grandmothers was named Pansy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Csillagi, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.divingswallow.com/\">Diving Swallow Tattoo\u003c/a> in downtown Oakland, explained that the word \"pansy\" used to be a derogatory term and that the choice of this flower is also a nod to the work of another artist, Paul Harfleet, who began planting pansies at the sites of homophobic incidents he experienced in Manchester, England. “The species of plant was of course vitally important and the pansy instantly seemed perfect,” Harfleet wrote, explaining the project on his website. “The name of the flower originates from the French verb; penser (to think), as the bowing head of the flower was seen to visually echo a person in deep thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Csillagi, care and thought in action is what the A Thousand Pansies project is all about. It's a way to connect their own politics to something bigger. The custom-designed tattoo is part of a vision to spread a physical symbol of “love, alliance and protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Csillagi grew up in the South and has seen the impact of homophobia firsthand. For them, it's solidified the importance of creating a shared symbol in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just started to feel like I needed to do something, anything to help,” Csillagi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a tattoo artist is [an] incredibly beautiful profession, but it is often very individualized. It's like one person's journey through grief or transition ... I wanted to open up my job and my skills to be more community-minded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Csillagi, a highly sought tattoo artist, is booked until 2024, but they will be creating a weekly time slot for those looking to get inked with a pansy tattoo. And they are also sharing the design so other tattoo artists can participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel more and more connected to the image every time I do it,\" Csillagi said. \"Which is really beautiful to just do it over and over. It's like I'm reiterating on my own ideals and my own politics around this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The custom-designed tattoo is part of a vision to spread a physical symbol of 'love, alliance, and protection,' Cedre Csillagi said. 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Oakland-based tattoo artist Cedre Csillagi started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/a1000pansies/\">A Thousand Pansies project\u003c/a> as a way to dedicate their art to something bigger, and also raise money for a Black-led trans organization in Alabama called \u003ca href=\"https://www.tkosociety.org/\">The Knights and Orchid Society\u003c/a> (TKO). Thus far, over 18 people have received matching pansy tattoos, and, as of today, the project has raised nearly $15,000 dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it’s a beautiful project and an example of how to show up for grassroot organizations,” said TC Caldwell, director of community engagement for the Alabama-based organization. They added that Black trans-led organizations in the South don’t see the same funding opportunities as others. The needs of their clients range from assistance with name/gender marker changes on IDs to food and stable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do this work without community. 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In the Netflix series, that figure is played by Laverne Cox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerman said she also has an aunt named Pansy, and that one of her great-grandmothers was named Pansy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Csillagi, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.divingswallow.com/\">Diving Swallow Tattoo\u003c/a> in downtown Oakland, explained that the word \"pansy\" used to be a derogatory term and that the choice of this flower is also a nod to the work of another artist, Paul Harfleet, who began planting pansies at the sites of homophobic incidents he experienced in Manchester, England. “The species of plant was of course vitally important and the pansy instantly seemed perfect,” Harfleet wrote, explaining the project on his website. “The name of the flower originates from the French verb; penser (to think), as the bowing head of the flower was seen to visually echo a person in deep thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Csillagi, care and thought in action is what the A Thousand Pansies project is all about. It's a way to connect their own politics to something bigger. The custom-designed tattoo is part of a vision to spread a physical symbol of “love, alliance and protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Csillagi grew up in the South and has seen the impact of homophobia firsthand. For them, it's solidified the importance of creating a shared symbol in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just started to feel like I needed to do something, anything to help,” Csillagi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a tattoo artist is [an] incredibly beautiful profession, but it is often very individualized. It's like one person's journey through grief or transition ... I wanted to open up my job and my skills to be more community-minded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Csillagi, a highly sought tattoo artist, is booked until 2024, but they will be creating a weekly time slot for those looking to get inked with a pansy tattoo. And they are also sharing the design so other tattoo artists can participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel more and more connected to the image every time I do it,\" Csillagi said. \"Which is really beautiful to just do it over and over. It's like I'm reiterating on my own ideals and my own politics around this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11935695/oakland-tattoo-artist-starts-a-movement-to-ink-pansies-in-support-of-trans-rights","authors":["11626"],"categories":["news_223","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_20257","news_19133","news_27626","news_5438","news_22681","news_32181","news_32180","news_31900"],"featImg":"news_11935699","label":"news"},"news_11920864":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11920864","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11920864","score":null,"sort":[1659129088000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lgbtq-community-hears-painful-echoes-of-aids-crisis-in-government-response-to-monkeypox","title":"LGBTQ+ Community Hears Painful Echoes of AIDS Crisis in Government Response to Monkeypox","publishDate":1659129088,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As epidemiologists warn that the U.S. is running out of time to contain the monkeypox outbreak — with vaccines in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919593/misery-for-many-people-local-leaders-decry-federal-governments-slow-distribution-of-monkeypox-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">woefully short supply\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/25/1107416457/monkeypox-outbreak-in-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testing capacity “abysmal”\u003c/a> — some Bay Area LGBTQ+ leaders say the federal government’s response has begun to feel painfully reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that emerged in the early 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to control the initial spread of monkeypox would have been swifter and messaging clearer, they argue, if the virus were not primarily affecting the gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco AIDS Foundation formed [in 1982] in a similar moment of crisis, due to an initial failure in the federal public health response to what was then the HIV epidemic,” Dr. Tyler TerMeer, the group's CEO, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889874/shortage-of-monkeypox-vaccine-sparks-protest-and-fear-in-bay-area\">told KQED Forum last week\u003c/a>. “It was really our own community that had to rise up to support one another, educate each other, and fight for access and resources that we needed and deserved as LGBTQ people.”[aside postID=news_11920764 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153755-1020x680.jpg']More than 4,900 people in the U.S. have so far tested positive for monkeypox, though experts say the true size of the outbreak is almost certainly larger. As of Thursday, there were some 800 cases reported in California, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox-cases#:~:text=On%20July%2022%2C%202022%2C%20SFDPH,for%20Disease%20Control%20and%20Prevention.\">281 of those in San Francisco alone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monkeypox is rarely fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); more than 99% of people who contract the virus survive. But the illness can be extremely uncomfortable, say those who have experienced it, with symptoms including fever, headache, and lesions that can take weeks to completely heal. And, as with COVID-19, those who contract monkeypox experience the burdens of isolating while contagious — which, for some, may include lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dangers of framing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the vast majority of monkeypox cases have been recorded in men who have sex with men, the CDC also has reported infections in cisgender women. And on July 23, the agency announced two documented cases in children, including a toddler in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC director Rochelle Walensky noted that the children’s cases “are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men’s community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framing she used quickly came under fire from critics who called it \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/COLAGENational/status/1550945655786553350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">irresponsible\u003c/a> and potentially \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1551182127542272000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dangerous\u003c/a>, especially at a time when experts say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879644/aligning-dollars-with-values-5-more-states-placed-on-californias-no-travel-list-for-anti-lgbtq-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LGBTQ+ rights\u003c/a> are increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913295/lgbtq-advocates-fear-implications-of-overturning-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">under attack\u003c/a>, and homophobic accusations of gay people “grooming” children have become a staple of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1096623939/accusations-grooming-political-attack-homophobic-origins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">right-wing rhetoric\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that we do not use this moment to propagate homophobic or transphobic messaging,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said during a press conference Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/26/1110431299/dr-fauci-monkeypox-vaccine-stigma-hiv-aids\">told NPR\u003c/a> this week that the government should work to combat homophobic stigma associated with monkeypox by focusing on the virus itself, not the people who are infected with it — and by ensuring “access to testing, to treatment, and to vaccines, as opposed to making it a situation where people are afraid to come forward for those types of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press briefing on Friday, California Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón said officials were actively working with community groups to reduce any stigma around the virus that targets the LGBTQ+ community, which he said “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">has been singled out and treated unfairly.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No single individual or community is to blame for the spread of any virus,” Aragón stressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts also say messaging that focuses exclusively on the LGBTQ+ community is actually counterproductive in containing the virus, which is not sexually transmitted, but rather spreads through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">close physical contact\u003c/a> with an infected person, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11920878 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people hold signs at a protest, while one man speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a rally to demand that the federal government respond quickly to the recent San Francisco monkeypox outbreak, including increasing access to vaccines and fighting stigma against the LGBTQ+ community, at the San Francisco Federal Building on July 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you hear that, for instance, monkeypox is only a gay man thing, you automatically check out if you're not a gay man,” George Mizrahi Jackson, executive director of AIDS Project of the East Bay, told KQED. “And that misinformation is problematic. Everyone can get monkeypox. If we're talking about gay men perhaps being the vectors of monkeypox, the reality is the families that they're around are going to be the ones exposed. So we want to make sure that we're being honest about the actual risk that you're putting yourself at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A painful history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/26/1113713684/monkeypox-stigma-gay-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health experts caution\u003c/a> that the AIDS crisis illustrates the potentially dire consequences of inaccurate messaging. In the early 1980s, it was commonly referred to as “gay-related immune deficiency,” and in 1982, the year the SF AIDS Foundation was founded, a\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/11/science/new-homosexual-disorder-worries-health-officials.html\"> New York Times headline\u003c/a> referred to HIV as a “homosexual disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease ultimately took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people of all genders and sexual orientations, as the public’s understanding of the disease lagged well behind the reality of its scope. [aside postID=news_11920455 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57399_GettyImages-1408879341-qut-1020x765.jpg']But Dr. TerMeer, who has lived with HIV for 18 years, cautioned against drawing “a direct correlation between this moment and the beginning of the HIV epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story of HIV really has its own crucially important yet complicated and tragic memoir that is a scar on American history, and that needs its own moment of reflection in an ongoing way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what is very similar and important to note, he added, is the lack of urgency from government officials in responding to a disease that, at least initially, has primarily affected men who have sex with other men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That we've been left on our own to share information, to ensure that folks know when clinics are popping up, to support one another, when you may stand in a line for a day and not get access to the vaccine that you feel you need and deserve,” TerMeer said. “And to rally together to fight against what has been, yet again, another public health failure that may not have existed if [the virus] was impacting another population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — both San Francisco Democrats — are among a growing number of officials who have publicly criticized the pace of the federal government’s response to the outbreak, with both pointing specifically to the vaccine shortage in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Thursday, following heavy criticism of the city's initial public health response to the virus, San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920764/an-epicenter-for-the-country-san-francisco-declares-state-of-emergency-over-monkeypox-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared a state of emergency in the city\u003c/a>, slated to take effect Aug. 1. The declaration will allow local officials to “accelerate emergency planning, streamline staffing, coordinate agencies across the city, allow for future reimbursement by the state and federal governments and raise awareness throughout San Francisco” about monkeypox, according to a release from the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes days after city health officials reported that the city had again run out of monkeypox vaccine — for the second time this month. With a new federal shipment of vaccines on the way, the clinic at San Francisco General Hospital is expected to reopen on Monday, Aug. 1, and remain open while those limited supplies last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our predominant advocacy at the moment is, ‘We need vaccines and we need them now,’” said TerMeer.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The federal government's response, say local LGBTQ+ leaders, has been woefully inadequate and ignores many of the hard-learned lessons of the AIDS epidemic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1659484493,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1327},"headData":{"title":"LGBTQ+ Community Hears Painful Echoes of AIDS Crisis in Government Response to Monkeypox | KQED","description":"The federal government's response, say local LGBTQ+ leaders, has been woefully inadequate and ignores many of the hard-learned lessons of the AIDS epidemic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"LGBTQ+ Community Hears Painful Echoes of AIDS Crisis in Government Response to Monkeypox","datePublished":"2022-07-29T21:11:28.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-02T23:54:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11920864 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11920864","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/07/29/lgbtq-community-hears-painful-echoes-of-aids-crisis-in-government-response-to-monkeypox/","disqusTitle":"LGBTQ+ Community Hears Painful Echoes of AIDS Crisis in Government Response to Monkeypox","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11920864/lgbtq-community-hears-painful-echoes-of-aids-crisis-in-government-response-to-monkeypox","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As epidemiologists warn that the U.S. is running out of time to contain the monkeypox outbreak — with vaccines in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919593/misery-for-many-people-local-leaders-decry-federal-governments-slow-distribution-of-monkeypox-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">woefully short supply\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/25/1107416457/monkeypox-outbreak-in-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testing capacity “abysmal”\u003c/a> — some Bay Area LGBTQ+ leaders say the federal government’s response has begun to feel painfully reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that emerged in the early 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to control the initial spread of monkeypox would have been swifter and messaging clearer, they argue, if the virus were not primarily affecting the gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco AIDS Foundation formed [in 1982] in a similar moment of crisis, due to an initial failure in the federal public health response to what was then the HIV epidemic,” Dr. Tyler TerMeer, the group's CEO, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889874/shortage-of-monkeypox-vaccine-sparks-protest-and-fear-in-bay-area\">told KQED Forum last week\u003c/a>. “It was really our own community that had to rise up to support one another, educate each other, and fight for access and resources that we needed and deserved as LGBTQ people.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11920764","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153755-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than 4,900 people in the U.S. have so far tested positive for monkeypox, though experts say the true size of the outbreak is almost certainly larger. As of Thursday, there were some 800 cases reported in California, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox-cases#:~:text=On%20July%2022%2C%202022%2C%20SFDPH,for%20Disease%20Control%20and%20Prevention.\">281 of those in San Francisco alone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monkeypox is rarely fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); more than 99% of people who contract the virus survive. But the illness can be extremely uncomfortable, say those who have experienced it, with symptoms including fever, headache, and lesions that can take weeks to completely heal. And, as with COVID-19, those who contract monkeypox experience the burdens of isolating while contagious — which, for some, may include lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dangers of framing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the vast majority of monkeypox cases have been recorded in men who have sex with men, the CDC also has reported infections in cisgender women. And on July 23, the agency announced two documented cases in children, including a toddler in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC director Rochelle Walensky noted that the children’s cases “are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men’s community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framing she used quickly came under fire from critics who called it \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/COLAGENational/status/1550945655786553350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">irresponsible\u003c/a> and potentially \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1551182127542272000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dangerous\u003c/a>, especially at a time when experts say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879644/aligning-dollars-with-values-5-more-states-placed-on-californias-no-travel-list-for-anti-lgbtq-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LGBTQ+ rights\u003c/a> are increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913295/lgbtq-advocates-fear-implications-of-overturning-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">under attack\u003c/a>, and homophobic accusations of gay people “grooming” children have become a staple of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1096623939/accusations-grooming-political-attack-homophobic-origins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">right-wing rhetoric\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that we do not use this moment to propagate homophobic or transphobic messaging,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said during a press conference Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/26/1110431299/dr-fauci-monkeypox-vaccine-stigma-hiv-aids\">told NPR\u003c/a> this week that the government should work to combat homophobic stigma associated with monkeypox by focusing on the virus itself, not the people who are infected with it — and by ensuring “access to testing, to treatment, and to vaccines, as opposed to making it a situation where people are afraid to come forward for those types of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press briefing on Friday, California Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón said officials were actively working with community groups to reduce any stigma around the virus that targets the LGBTQ+ community, which he said “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">has been singled out and treated unfairly.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No single individual or community is to blame for the spread of any virus,” Aragón stressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts also say messaging that focuses exclusively on the LGBTQ+ community is actually counterproductive in containing the virus, which is not sexually transmitted, but rather spreads through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">close physical contact\u003c/a> with an infected person, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11920878 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people hold signs at a protest, while one man speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1242153769-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a rally to demand that the federal government respond quickly to the recent San Francisco monkeypox outbreak, including increasing access to vaccines and fighting stigma against the LGBTQ+ community, at the San Francisco Federal Building on July 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you hear that, for instance, monkeypox is only a gay man thing, you automatically check out if you're not a gay man,” George Mizrahi Jackson, executive director of AIDS Project of the East Bay, told KQED. “And that misinformation is problematic. Everyone can get monkeypox. If we're talking about gay men perhaps being the vectors of monkeypox, the reality is the families that they're around are going to be the ones exposed. So we want to make sure that we're being honest about the actual risk that you're putting yourself at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A painful history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/26/1113713684/monkeypox-stigma-gay-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health experts caution\u003c/a> that the AIDS crisis illustrates the potentially dire consequences of inaccurate messaging. In the early 1980s, it was commonly referred to as “gay-related immune deficiency,” and in 1982, the year the SF AIDS Foundation was founded, a\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/11/science/new-homosexual-disorder-worries-health-officials.html\"> New York Times headline\u003c/a> referred to HIV as a “homosexual disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease ultimately took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people of all genders and sexual orientations, as the public’s understanding of the disease lagged well behind the reality of its scope. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11920455","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57399_GettyImages-1408879341-qut-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Dr. TerMeer, who has lived with HIV for 18 years, cautioned against drawing “a direct correlation between this moment and the beginning of the HIV epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story of HIV really has its own crucially important yet complicated and tragic memoir that is a scar on American history, and that needs its own moment of reflection in an ongoing way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what is very similar and important to note, he added, is the lack of urgency from government officials in responding to a disease that, at least initially, has primarily affected men who have sex with other men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That we've been left on our own to share information, to ensure that folks know when clinics are popping up, to support one another, when you may stand in a line for a day and not get access to the vaccine that you feel you need and deserve,” TerMeer said. “And to rally together to fight against what has been, yet again, another public health failure that may not have existed if [the virus] was impacting another population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — both San Francisco Democrats — are among a growing number of officials who have publicly criticized the pace of the federal government’s response to the outbreak, with both pointing specifically to the vaccine shortage in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Thursday, following heavy criticism of the city's initial public health response to the virus, San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920764/an-epicenter-for-the-country-san-francisco-declares-state-of-emergency-over-monkeypox-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared a state of emergency in the city\u003c/a>, slated to take effect Aug. 1. The declaration will allow local officials to “accelerate emergency planning, streamline staffing, coordinate agencies across the city, allow for future reimbursement by the state and federal governments and raise awareness throughout San Francisco” about monkeypox, according to a release from the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes days after city health officials reported that the city had again run out of monkeypox vaccine — for the second time this month. With a new federal shipment of vaccines on the way, the clinic at San Francisco General Hospital is expected to reopen on Monday, Aug. 1, and remain open while those limited supplies last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our predominant advocacy at the moment is, ‘We need vaccines and we need them now,’” said TerMeer.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11920864/lgbtq-community-hears-painful-echoes-of-aids-crisis-in-government-response-to-monkeypox","authors":["7237"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_22681","news_20003","news_31133","news_31325","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11920887","label":"news"},"news_11917624":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11917624","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11917624","score":null,"sort":[1656111928000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-young-gay-man-survived-one-of-the-darkest-eras-in-california-queer-history","title":"How a Young Gay Man Survived One of the Darkest Eras in California Queer History","publishDate":1656111928,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story takes us back to an era before the rights of gay people were recognized as inherent to their humanity and right to privacy. This week, that era seems less far away than it used to.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade\u003c/a> makes clear that the removal of a woman's right to privacy and bodily autonomy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913295/lgbtq-advocates-fear-implications-of-overturning-roe-v-wade\">might next mean the removal of federally protected rights for LGBTQ people\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Indeed, Justice Clarence Thomas, in his opinion concurring with the ruling, wrote that the court “should reconsider” three \"demonstrably erroneous decisions:” \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/496\">Griswold v. Connecticut\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a 1965 decision granting married couples the constitutional right to contraception; \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-102\">Lawrence v. Texas\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a 2003 case that struck down anti-sodomy laws; and \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-556\">Obergefell v. Hodges\u003c/a>\u003ci>, the 2015 case granting gay couples the constitutional right to marry.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a collaboration between MindSite News and KQED's The California Report Magazine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]G[/dropcap]ene Ampon committed the poem he called “Spider Spider” to memory when he was a teenager locked in solitary confinement at Atascadero State Hospital. It was the early 1960s, and across the country, state laws and psychiatric diagnoses had converged to create a dark era for LGBTQIA+ people – especially gay men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spider, spider, along the ceiling slide\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spin your prison cell locking me inside,\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">now should my fearful trembling send\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a tremor through your webbed descent\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">then it is true what I surmise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that men their dreadful dooms devise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on as thin a silk as yours.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">- Gene Ampon, #11302\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero State Hospital, circa 1962\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The state psychiatric facility on California’s central coast had opened just eight years before Ampon got there, proudly proclaiming to be the only one in the world to specialize in the treatment of “sexual deviants.” Scholars would come to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066356-dishonorablepassions_atascadero\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">describe it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the most notorious facility in the Western United States to confine and mistreat gay men. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gene Ampon\"]'It wasn’t like I’d killed somebody or stole something, but they didn’t really have any idea what to do with gay kids.’[/pullquote]Most patients were adults who’d been targeted, entrapped and arrested for public displays of gay behavior. And because “homosexuality” was considered a \u003ca href=\"https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=orwwu\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric disorder\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, judges could commit them to Atascadero – sometimes before their criminal cases had been adjudicated – for evaluation and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066374-uncontrolleddesires\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">indefinite treatment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others weren’t even adults. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ampon was just 16 years old when law enforcement delivered him to the locked hospital. His story is part of a dreadful chapter in California history, when gay men, and even teens, were confined by the state and subjected to treatments that today would be considered torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a time that’s been largely forgotten, crowded out by celebrations of LBGTQIA+ Pride. Yet it’s essential that we remember. Because gay rights are once again under attack – in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Florida\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-gops-new-platform-calls-gay-people-abnormal-rejects-trans-identi-rcna34530\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/04/08/families-share-questions-fear-alabama-approves-anti-trans-bills/9510912002/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and beyond. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As in most bleak chapters of history, there are points of light – heroes who rejected the notion of “homosexuality” as a mental illness, and galvanized a movement that brought about radical change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men stand next to each other inside a house.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon and Roger Anderson had been together for 44 years when a reporter visited their Seattle home on Queen Anne hill in August 2021. Their walls are covered in photos and postcards of their global adventures. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 75-year-old Gene Ampon agreed to an interview in August 2021. The Seattle home he’s shared with his life partner for four decades sits atop peaceful Queen Anne Hill. Wind chimes that Ampon collected cover the porch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He suffered a stroke in 2019, and at the time of the interview he had just completed a round of chemotherapy for cancer in his liver and lungs. His hope in openly sharing his experience, he said, was that “moving forward,” the country and world would have more “enlightened attitudes toward dealing with gay people, especially young gay people.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was born in the Bay Area in 1946 to a Filipino father and Irish mother, who soon split up. Money was tight and chaos in his home life gave him some freedom to roam. At age 13, he was spending school days at an arcade near San Francisco’s Tenderloin and its thriving gay scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I used to like pinball machines,” he said. “And there were always older men who would say, ‘Oh you need another quarter?’ I said sure, why not?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon, Ampon was lying about where he was spending the night in order to hang out with other gay teens – and hook up with men for a place to sleep and a free meal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We did actually a lot of cuddling,” he said, “and there was some sex.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’d been picked up for truancy before, so Ampon was on the radar of local police. One day, while he was having lunch at a diner, officers strolled in to question him. He landed in juvenile hall and “it snowballed from there.” He said youth corrections officials told him they didn't want his “homosexuality” to corrupt other kids, so they moved him through a series of youth facilities for nearly five months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Men in Ampon’s era were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066379-criminallawsusedagainstlgbtq\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">often criminalized for being gay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They could be charged with “lewd and lascivious behavior” for simply holding hands, kissing in public or dancing in a bar. Undercover cops who posed as potential sex partners entrapped men in public parks and restrooms. Charges included solicitation, loitering, vagrancy and indecent exposure. Oral and anal copulation carried more serious consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Ampon was a juvenile, so all he had to do to get locked up was skip school and hang around the gay scene. Because back then, a judge could find a teen to be a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066368-psychopathicdelinquent\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic delinquent”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> simply for violating social norms. If their parents or guardians agreed, they’d get shipped off to a state facility for an indefinite stay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the perspective of time, Ampon can laugh at the label.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It kind of sounds like you're little monsters,” he said. “It wasn’t like I’d killed somebody or stole something, but they didn’t really have any idea what to do with gay kids.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg 1294w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-800x905.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-1020x1154.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-160x181.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon shortly after his release from Atascadero State Hospital. The photo is among many that cover the walls of the Seattle home that he and Roger Anderson have shared for decades. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Roger Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon insisted that his years at Atascadero do not define him. But as a young man, he conceded, “I was angry.” He wrote an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066382-insideatascaderogeneampon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">account of his confinement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after his release that was published by two gay newspapers in the early 1970s. He dedicated his prose poem to “all homosexual prisoners who must daily endure heterosexual justice-oppression.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that written account, he described how guards came to his cell with the judge’s order, signed by his parents, too. Soon, he was in handcuffs in the back of a Sheriff’s car, headed to Atascadero. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The car sped south along the California coast\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stretching, snapping the ties of family and home.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sitting, watching his childhood fade thru\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the rear-view mirror into mile-long years of fog behind.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reminding himself to not let them know they’d hurt him;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">his defiance shackled to the backseat.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imprisoned by names he’d been labeled with:\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incorrigable, truant, vagrant, queer, faggot, punk. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A Menace to Society,” he recalled them saying;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a crime whose only victim was himself. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like everyone committed to Atascadero, Ampon was considered a patient, not a prisoner. He was there for “treatment,” because “homosexuality” had been listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – since the first edition was published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1952. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1973, the APA removed the diagnosis of \"homosexuality\" as a mental illness from the DSM. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2310px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917726\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg\" alt='An old pamphlet that reads \"Mental Disorders\" on the front.' width=\"2310\" height=\"1733\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg 2310w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2310px) 100vw, 2310px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Homosexuality' was listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – beginning with the first edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952. Gene Ampon’s life partner, Roger Anderson, obtained a rare copy of this 1965 supplement. It moved all types of so-called 'sexual deviance,' homosexuality included, to the catagory of 'sociopathic personality disturbance,' from the former 'psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.' \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if you were gay in 1962, when Ampon got to the hospital, you’d be diagnosed with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066383-1965dsm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.” \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teens at Atascadero were in the minority, housed with grown men, some of whom were seriously mentally ill and had committed violent crimes. On Ampon’s second day, a group of adult patients sexually assaulted him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was in the utility room, one of the few rooms that didn’t really have a door,” he said. “It’s where the buckets and mops were.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To reclaim some power, he converted future assaults into transactions – agreeing to sex in exchange for cigarettes and food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I guess I was a growing boy and I always wanted more,” he said, “kind of like Oliver Twist.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero would get excoriated in the radical gay press in the early 1970s for a host of inhumane treatments. One headline picked up nationwide described the facility as a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066385-dachau\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dachau for Queers.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A review of historical records indicates that by the time those reports were circulating, the worst was over. But in Ampon’s day, there was no radical gay press in existence to call attention to the horrors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/243118795\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transorbital lobotomies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, performed with an ice pick, occurred largely during the 1950s and were rare by Ampon’s time. But electroconvulsive shock therapy was in full force for all kinds of patients, not just gay patients. Some received as many as 60 treatments in a single year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11917727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg\" alt=\"A handwritten note.\" width=\"800\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-1020x341.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-160x54.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066388-ect4homosexuality\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handwritten notes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. He was given ECT in the late 1960s to “cure” his attraction to men. Then the doctor taunted him, “I bet you won’t do that again.” Ampon knew about these treatments, and wrote about them in his prose poem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He saw the electric shock box wheeling down the hall\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stopping at someone else’s room; the guards taunting\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">him with the threat, “Your turn next.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new terror shot through his thoughts as the overhead light \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">flickered while each jolt burned into some unfortunate brain. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon’s age spared him the electroshock. Instead, for more than two years, he got a morning dose of phenobarbital – a barbiturate used to control seizures or, for very short periods, to control anxiety. Psychiatric medication was relatively new but widely used, often with the sole goal of sedating patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was also punished with solitary confinement, he said. The longest stint stemmed from “a puppy love” crush. When hospital guards noticed the friendship, they shipped his crush off to prison, and Ampon to a sweltering windowless concrete cell, with nothing but a thin sleeping mat. He spent a month there, lost in thought, composing poems about spiders and doom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond punishment and pills, \"treatment\" consisted of pressuring Ampon to not be gay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I remember this one doctor who was talking about homosexuality,” Ampon recalled with a mischievous smile. “And he said, 'Well, there is a normal homosexual period between 8 and 12 and then beyond that it’s abnormal.' So I piped up and said, ‘Is that a.m. or p.m.?’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His humor was a testament to his resilience even then. But Ampon wanted out, and he’d end up trying to play the game, telling his treatment team he wanted to “explore” heterosexual experiences “They thought that was good,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Gene Ampon turned 18, in mid-1964, he was released. His parents had hardly visited. He was on his own, with no follow-up support. As it happens, he got out just in time. Because “treatment” at Atascadero was about to become even more sadistic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2022/06/24/when-gayness-was-a-crime-and-a-mental-illness-one-mans-journey-from-involuntary-confinement-to-pride/\">Read a full-length version of this story at MindSite News\u003c/a>, and learn about a few key people who stepped in to fight on behalf of gay men while they were confined at Atascadero, and as they were released to the community.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lee Romney is an independent journalist with a specialty in mental health and criminal justice. Jenny Johnson is a former public defender who co-founded San Francisco’s Behavioral Health Court. This story is a preview of their podcast-in-production, \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://novemberinmysoul.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">November In My Soul\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about mental illness, confinement and liberty in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their reporting has received support from a California Humanities California Documentary Project Production grant; the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism California Impact Fund; and the California Health Care Foundation. Also, t\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hey also thank the research librarians at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC, and at the California State Archives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the early '60s, state laws and psychiatric diagnoses created a dark era for LGBTQIA+ people by treating homosexuality as a psychological disorder. Even in California, teenagers like Gene Ampon were committed to psychiatric facilities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1656120713,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":69,"wordCount":2310},"headData":{"title":"How a Young Gay Man Survived One of the Darkest Eras in California Queer History | KQED","description":"In the early '60s, state laws and psychiatric diagnoses created a dark era for LGBTQIA+ people by treating homosexuality as a psychological disorder. 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This week, that era seems less far away than it used to.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade\u003c/a> makes clear that the removal of a woman's right to privacy and bodily autonomy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913295/lgbtq-advocates-fear-implications-of-overturning-roe-v-wade\">might next mean the removal of federally protected rights for LGBTQ people\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Indeed, Justice Clarence Thomas, in his opinion concurring with the ruling, wrote that the court “should reconsider” three \"demonstrably erroneous decisions:” \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/496\">Griswold v. Connecticut\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a 1965 decision granting married couples the constitutional right to contraception; \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-102\">Lawrence v. Texas\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a 2003 case that struck down anti-sodomy laws; and \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-556\">Obergefell v. Hodges\u003c/a>\u003ci>, the 2015 case granting gay couples the constitutional right to marry.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a collaboration between MindSite News and KQED's The California Report Magazine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">G\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ene Ampon committed the poem he called “Spider Spider” to memory when he was a teenager locked in solitary confinement at Atascadero State Hospital. It was the early 1960s, and across the country, state laws and psychiatric diagnoses had converged to create a dark era for LGBTQIA+ people – especially gay men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spider, spider, along the ceiling slide\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spin your prison cell locking me inside,\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">now should my fearful trembling send\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a tremor through your webbed descent\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">then it is true what I surmise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that men their dreadful dooms devise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on as thin a silk as yours.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">- Gene Ampon, #11302\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero State Hospital, circa 1962\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The state psychiatric facility on California’s central coast had opened just eight years before Ampon got there, proudly proclaiming to be the only one in the world to specialize in the treatment of “sexual deviants.” Scholars would come to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066356-dishonorablepassions_atascadero\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">describe it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the most notorious facility in the Western United States to confine and mistreat gay men. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It wasn’t like I’d killed somebody or stole something, but they didn’t really have any idea what to do with gay kids.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Gene Ampon","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most patients were adults who’d been targeted, entrapped and arrested for public displays of gay behavior. And because “homosexuality” was considered a \u003ca href=\"https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=orwwu\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric disorder\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, judges could commit them to Atascadero – sometimes before their criminal cases had been adjudicated – for evaluation and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066374-uncontrolleddesires\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">indefinite treatment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others weren’t even adults. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ampon was just 16 years old when law enforcement delivered him to the locked hospital. His story is part of a dreadful chapter in California history, when gay men, and even teens, were confined by the state and subjected to treatments that today would be considered torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a time that’s been largely forgotten, crowded out by celebrations of LBGTQIA+ Pride. Yet it’s essential that we remember. Because gay rights are once again under attack – in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Florida\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-gops-new-platform-calls-gay-people-abnormal-rejects-trans-identi-rcna34530\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/04/08/families-share-questions-fear-alabama-approves-anti-trans-bills/9510912002/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and beyond. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As in most bleak chapters of history, there are points of light – heroes who rejected the notion of “homosexuality” as a mental illness, and galvanized a movement that brought about radical change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men stand next to each other inside a house.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon and Roger Anderson had been together for 44 years when a reporter visited their Seattle home on Queen Anne hill in August 2021. Their walls are covered in photos and postcards of their global adventures. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 75-year-old Gene Ampon agreed to an interview in August 2021. The Seattle home he’s shared with his life partner for four decades sits atop peaceful Queen Anne Hill. Wind chimes that Ampon collected cover the porch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He suffered a stroke in 2019, and at the time of the interview he had just completed a round of chemotherapy for cancer in his liver and lungs. His hope in openly sharing his experience, he said, was that “moving forward,” the country and world would have more “enlightened attitudes toward dealing with gay people, especially young gay people.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was born in the Bay Area in 1946 to a Filipino father and Irish mother, who soon split up. Money was tight and chaos in his home life gave him some freedom to roam. At age 13, he was spending school days at an arcade near San Francisco’s Tenderloin and its thriving gay scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I used to like pinball machines,” he said. “And there were always older men who would say, ‘Oh you need another quarter?’ I said sure, why not?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon, Ampon was lying about where he was spending the night in order to hang out with other gay teens – and hook up with men for a place to sleep and a free meal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We did actually a lot of cuddling,” he said, “and there was some sex.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’d been picked up for truancy before, so Ampon was on the radar of local police. One day, while he was having lunch at a diner, officers strolled in to question him. He landed in juvenile hall and “it snowballed from there.” He said youth corrections officials told him they didn't want his “homosexuality” to corrupt other kids, so they moved him through a series of youth facilities for nearly five months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Men in Ampon’s era were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066379-criminallawsusedagainstlgbtq\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">often criminalized for being gay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They could be charged with “lewd and lascivious behavior” for simply holding hands, kissing in public or dancing in a bar. Undercover cops who posed as potential sex partners entrapped men in public parks and restrooms. Charges included solicitation, loitering, vagrancy and indecent exposure. Oral and anal copulation carried more serious consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Ampon was a juvenile, so all he had to do to get locked up was skip school and hang around the gay scene. Because back then, a judge could find a teen to be a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066368-psychopathicdelinquent\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic delinquent”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> simply for violating social norms. If their parents or guardians agreed, they’d get shipped off to a state facility for an indefinite stay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the perspective of time, Ampon can laugh at the label.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It kind of sounds like you're little monsters,” he said. “It wasn’t like I’d killed somebody or stole something, but they didn’t really have any idea what to do with gay kids.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg 1294w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-800x905.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-1020x1154.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-160x181.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon shortly after his release from Atascadero State Hospital. The photo is among many that cover the walls of the Seattle home that he and Roger Anderson have shared for decades. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Roger Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon insisted that his years at Atascadero do not define him. But as a young man, he conceded, “I was angry.” He wrote an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066382-insideatascaderogeneampon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">account of his confinement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after his release that was published by two gay newspapers in the early 1970s. He dedicated his prose poem to “all homosexual prisoners who must daily endure heterosexual justice-oppression.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that written account, he described how guards came to his cell with the judge’s order, signed by his parents, too. Soon, he was in handcuffs in the back of a Sheriff’s car, headed to Atascadero. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The car sped south along the California coast\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stretching, snapping the ties of family and home.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sitting, watching his childhood fade thru\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the rear-view mirror into mile-long years of fog behind.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reminding himself to not let them know they’d hurt him;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">his defiance shackled to the backseat.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imprisoned by names he’d been labeled with:\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incorrigable, truant, vagrant, queer, faggot, punk. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A Menace to Society,” he recalled them saying;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a crime whose only victim was himself. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like everyone committed to Atascadero, Ampon was considered a patient, not a prisoner. He was there for “treatment,” because “homosexuality” had been listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – since the first edition was published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1952. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1973, the APA removed the diagnosis of \"homosexuality\" as a mental illness from the DSM. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2310px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917726\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg\" alt='An old pamphlet that reads \"Mental Disorders\" on the front.' width=\"2310\" height=\"1733\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg 2310w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2310px) 100vw, 2310px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Homosexuality' was listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – beginning with the first edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952. Gene Ampon’s life partner, Roger Anderson, obtained a rare copy of this 1965 supplement. It moved all types of so-called 'sexual deviance,' homosexuality included, to the catagory of 'sociopathic personality disturbance,' from the former 'psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.' \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if you were gay in 1962, when Ampon got to the hospital, you’d be diagnosed with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066383-1965dsm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.” \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teens at Atascadero were in the minority, housed with grown men, some of whom were seriously mentally ill and had committed violent crimes. On Ampon’s second day, a group of adult patients sexually assaulted him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was in the utility room, one of the few rooms that didn’t really have a door,” he said. “It’s where the buckets and mops were.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To reclaim some power, he converted future assaults into transactions – agreeing to sex in exchange for cigarettes and food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I guess I was a growing boy and I always wanted more,” he said, “kind of like Oliver Twist.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero would get excoriated in the radical gay press in the early 1970s for a host of inhumane treatments. One headline picked up nationwide described the facility as a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066385-dachau\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dachau for Queers.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A review of historical records indicates that by the time those reports were circulating, the worst was over. But in Ampon’s day, there was no radical gay press in existence to call attention to the horrors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/243118795\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transorbital lobotomies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, performed with an ice pick, occurred largely during the 1950s and were rare by Ampon’s time. But electroconvulsive shock therapy was in full force for all kinds of patients, not just gay patients. Some received as many as 60 treatments in a single year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11917727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg\" alt=\"A handwritten note.\" width=\"800\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-1020x341.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-160x54.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066388-ect4homosexuality\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handwritten notes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. He was given ECT in the late 1960s to “cure” his attraction to men. Then the doctor taunted him, “I bet you won’t do that again.” Ampon knew about these treatments, and wrote about them in his prose poem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He saw the electric shock box wheeling down the hall\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stopping at someone else’s room; the guards taunting\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">him with the threat, “Your turn next.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new terror shot through his thoughts as the overhead light \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">flickered while each jolt burned into some unfortunate brain. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon’s age spared him the electroshock. Instead, for more than two years, he got a morning dose of phenobarbital – a barbiturate used to control seizures or, for very short periods, to control anxiety. Psychiatric medication was relatively new but widely used, often with the sole goal of sedating patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was also punished with solitary confinement, he said. The longest stint stemmed from “a puppy love” crush. When hospital guards noticed the friendship, they shipped his crush off to prison, and Ampon to a sweltering windowless concrete cell, with nothing but a thin sleeping mat. He spent a month there, lost in thought, composing poems about spiders and doom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond punishment and pills, \"treatment\" consisted of pressuring Ampon to not be gay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I remember this one doctor who was talking about homosexuality,” Ampon recalled with a mischievous smile. “And he said, 'Well, there is a normal homosexual period between 8 and 12 and then beyond that it’s abnormal.' So I piped up and said, ‘Is that a.m. or p.m.?’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His humor was a testament to his resilience even then. But Ampon wanted out, and he’d end up trying to play the game, telling his treatment team he wanted to “explore” heterosexual experiences “They thought that was good,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Gene Ampon turned 18, in mid-1964, he was released. His parents had hardly visited. He was on his own, with no follow-up support. As it happens, he got out just in time. Because “treatment” at Atascadero was about to become even more sadistic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2022/06/24/when-gayness-was-a-crime-and-a-mental-illness-one-mans-journey-from-involuntary-confinement-to-pride/\">Read a full-length version of this story at MindSite News\u003c/a>, and learn about a few key people who stepped in to fight on behalf of gay men while they were confined at Atascadero, and as they were released to the community.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lee Romney is an independent journalist with a specialty in mental health and criminal justice. Jenny Johnson is a former public defender who co-founded San Francisco’s Behavioral Health Court. This story is a preview of their podcast-in-production, \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://novemberinmysoul.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">November In My Soul\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about mental illness, confinement and liberty in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their reporting has received support from a California Humanities California Documentary Project Production grant; the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism California Impact Fund; and the California Health Care Foundation. Also, t\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hey also thank the research librarians at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC, and at the California State Archives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11917624/how-a-young-gay-man-survived-one-of-the-darkest-eras-in-california-queer-history","authors":["byline_news_11917624"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_223","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_22681","news_2651","news_3113"],"featImg":"news_11917720","label":"news_26731"},"news_11692066":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11692066","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11692066","score":null,"sort":[1536800003000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"high-court-denies-sfpd-officers-attempt-to-avoid-discipline-in-racist-texting-case","title":"High Court Denies SFPD Officers' Attempt to Avoid Discipline in Racist Texting Case","publishDate":1536800003,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 8:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the latest legal attempt by nine San Francisco police officers to avoid discipline for swapping racist, sexist and homophobic text messages in 2011 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summary denial marks the end of legal challenges that kept the officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667077/as-s-f-appeals-textgate-ruling-accused-cops-collect-pay-at-least-2-million-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the city's payroll\u003c/a> since the texts were made public in a 2015 federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10798240/judge-nears-ruling-on-s-f-cops-who-sent-bigoted-texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the officers in late 2015, finding the Police Department sat on the texts for over two years, blowing a one-year statute of limitations for officer discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a sample of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4454517-Attachment-Government-Opposition-to-Defendant.html#document/p1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">texts\u003c/a> made public, officers sent sometimes violently racist messages that used racial slurs and referenced cross burning and white power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also swapped sexist, homophobic and otherwise offensive texts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10441338/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger\u003c/a>, who was convicted in late 2014 of federal corruption charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco appealed Goldsmith's ruling, arguing that the statute of limitations paused until Furminger's sentence. A state appellate panel \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671641/appellate-court-rules-against-s-f-officers-in-racist-texting-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed with the city\u003c/a> in May, and the Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the officer's petition to overturn that ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\">The SFPD Text Messaging Scandal\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14516_475371681-qut-1440x961.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Police should not have to compromise a criminal case in order to discipline officers accused of appalling behavior, like these text messages revealing prejudice against the very communities our officers are sworn to protect,\" City Attorney Denis Herrera said in a written statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers accused of misconduct don’t get a free pass just because their texts came to light during a corruption investigation. That is not what the law says, and it would make no sense. Now these officers can answer to the Police Commission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' lead attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson, said the officers can't fight the city's right to discipline them any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the denial of the petition for review, all legal avenues to challenge the proposed disciplinary actions have been exhausted,\" Wilkinson said in an emailed response. \"The matter will now return to the Police Commission to consider each individual discipline case on the merits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the city was prevented from firing the officers, their text messages rippled through San Francisco's criminal justice system, prompting a review of thousands of criminal cases that involved testimony or other participation from the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11017027/panel-finds-sfpd-code-of-silence-outsized-influence-of-police-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convened a panel\u003c/a> of retired judges to review the Police Department, a precursor to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10851435/feds-launching-comprehensive-review-of-s-f-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal review\u003c/a> of SFPD launched in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11126015/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">272 recommendations\u003c/a> issued by the U.S. Department of Justice that are guiding ongoing reform of the Police Department was automated audits of officers' communications for racist or otherwise biased language. The audit flagged 70 text messages, 5,611 emails and 35 entries into a law enforcement database in the second quarter of this year, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceCommission/PoliceCommission090518-ElectronicDeviceBiasAudit2ndQ2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a> to the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each message was reviewed and determined to be a false positive, the Police Department reported, because the audit captures potentially inappropriate words contained within innocuous words, as well as communications from the public and from informants.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Supreme Court's summary denial marks the end of legal challenges that kept the officers on the city's payroll since the texts were made public in 2015.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1536810396,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":523},"headData":{"title":"High Court Denies SFPD Officers' Attempt to Avoid Discipline in Racist Texting Case | KQED","description":"The California Supreme Court's summary denial marks the end of legal challenges that kept the officers on the city's payroll since the texts were made public in 2015.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"High Court Denies SFPD Officers' Attempt to Avoid Discipline in Racist Texting Case","datePublished":"2018-09-13T00:53:23.000Z","dateModified":"2018-09-13T03:46:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11692066 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11692066","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/09/12/high-court-denies-sfpd-officers-attempt-to-avoid-discipline-in-racist-texting-case/","disqusTitle":"High Court Denies SFPD Officers' Attempt to Avoid Discipline in Racist Texting Case","path":"/news/11692066/high-court-denies-sfpd-officers-attempt-to-avoid-discipline-in-racist-texting-case","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 8:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the latest legal attempt by nine San Francisco police officers to avoid discipline for swapping racist, sexist and homophobic text messages in 2011 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summary denial marks the end of legal challenges that kept the officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667077/as-s-f-appeals-textgate-ruling-accused-cops-collect-pay-at-least-2-million-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the city's payroll\u003c/a> since the texts were made public in a 2015 federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10798240/judge-nears-ruling-on-s-f-cops-who-sent-bigoted-texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the officers in late 2015, finding the Police Department sat on the texts for over two years, blowing a one-year statute of limitations for officer discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a sample of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4454517-Attachment-Government-Opposition-to-Defendant.html#document/p1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">texts\u003c/a> made public, officers sent sometimes violently racist messages that used racial slurs and referenced cross burning and white power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also swapped sexist, homophobic and otherwise offensive texts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10441338/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger\u003c/a>, who was convicted in late 2014 of federal corruption charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco appealed Goldsmith's ruling, arguing that the statute of limitations paused until Furminger's sentence. A state appellate panel \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671641/appellate-court-rules-against-s-f-officers-in-racist-texting-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed with the city\u003c/a> in May, and the Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the officer's petition to overturn that ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\">The SFPD Text Messaging Scandal\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14516_475371681-qut-1440x961.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Police should not have to compromise a criminal case in order to discipline officers accused of appalling behavior, like these text messages revealing prejudice against the very communities our officers are sworn to protect,\" City Attorney Denis Herrera said in a written statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers accused of misconduct don’t get a free pass just because their texts came to light during a corruption investigation. That is not what the law says, and it would make no sense. Now these officers can answer to the Police Commission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' lead attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson, said the officers can't fight the city's right to discipline them any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the denial of the petition for review, all legal avenues to challenge the proposed disciplinary actions have been exhausted,\" Wilkinson said in an emailed response. \"The matter will now return to the Police Commission to consider each individual discipline case on the merits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the city was prevented from firing the officers, their text messages rippled through San Francisco's criminal justice system, prompting a review of thousands of criminal cases that involved testimony or other participation from the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11017027/panel-finds-sfpd-code-of-silence-outsized-influence-of-police-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convened a panel\u003c/a> of retired judges to review the Police Department, a precursor to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10851435/feds-launching-comprehensive-review-of-s-f-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal review\u003c/a> of SFPD launched in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11126015/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">272 recommendations\u003c/a> issued by the U.S. Department of Justice that are guiding ongoing reform of the Police Department was automated audits of officers' communications for racist or otherwise biased language. The audit flagged 70 text messages, 5,611 emails and 35 entries into a law enforcement database in the second quarter of this year, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceCommission/PoliceCommission090518-ElectronicDeviceBiasAudit2ndQ2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a> to the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each message was reviewed and determined to be a false positive, the Police Department reported, because the audit captures potentially inappropriate words contained within innocuous words, as well as communications from the public and from informants.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11692066/high-court-denies-sfpd-officers-attempt-to-avoid-discipline-in-racist-texting-case","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_548","news_19542","news_22681","news_19216","news_38","news_545","news_20088","news_17945"],"featImg":"news_11692071","label":"news_72"},"news_11670826":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11670826","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11670826","score":null,"sort":[1533955344000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"illegal-love-a-ugandan-refugees-california-dream","title":"Illegal Love: A Ugandan Refugee's California Dream","publishDate":1533955344,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Even though Eddris Sseguya blends in with Los Angeles' diverse population, he is 10,000 miles away from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sseguya, a 32-year-old Muslim from Kampala, the Ugandan capital in East Africa, is a refugee in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Uganda, Sseguya seemed to have it all -- a family, a construction business, a house, and a wife. But on the inside, he knew he was not being honest. He knew he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, that secret cost him everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning, Sseguya and his male partner were kissing in bed. They forgot to close the door, and a neighbor walked in on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started screaming, making noise, ‘You people! Why are you like this? Sseguya recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While same-sex marriage is legal in California, 72 countries still criminalize people who are part of the LGBTQ community, according to a \u003cspan class=\"s1\">2017 report \u003c/span>by the \u003ca href=\"https://ilga.org/state-sponsored-homophobia-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Uganda, homosexuality is illegal and can lead to jail sentences, sometimes for life, for those found guilty.\u003cbr>\nSseguya knew what could happen for loving someone of the same sex. Just a year earlier, in 2011, David Kato, a teacher and one of Uganda’s most outspoken LGBTQ rights activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/27/ugandan-gay-rights-activist-murdered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had been hammered to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This same violent outrage met Sseguya when he was discovered by his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it was morning time, a lot of people came out of their homes. [They] were chanting, ‘Let us kill them, let us kill them!’\" he recalls. “When we locked ourselves in the house, people wanted to burn down the house. They destroyed almost everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlord begged protesters not to burn down the house, but to call the police instead. When the officers arrived, they arrested Sseguya and his partner and put them in a crowded jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police then told the other inmates that the two men were gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immediately after closing, chaos erupted in the cell,” Sseguya remembers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inmates beat and threatened to kill both of them. When the officers came back a few minutes later, Sseguya was bleeding. This was the last time Sseguya saw his partner before they were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sseguya’s family never visited him in jail. “Most of them, they were happy that I [was] in jail, that’s why they didn’t come to see me,” he explains. “If you know somebody who is a gay and you don’t report, you are also taken as a criminal. Maybe that’s why they didn’t show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After one month in jail, a colleague bailed him out. But Sseguya’s ordeal did not end there. He was required to report regularly to authorities. Additionally, he could not get his business license renewed because of his sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, life became so stressful for Sseguya that he decided to take a break and visit the U.S. It was there he learned that the Ugandan police issued a warrant for his arrest because he had failed to report to the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend… he’s the one who told me, ‘You know what? Don’t come back,’” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing for his life, Sseguya decided to seek political asylum in California. But four years after his arrival in Los Angeles, he is still wary of revealing too much to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even here in California, a state almost two times the size of Uganda, he has not escaped homophobia in the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People they always want to know: 'Why? Why? Why?’” he says. “At the end of the day, it’s none of their business. It’s your business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persecution is not the only reason Sseguya is guarded. Not only did he lose his family, his partner, and his job, but here in Los Angeles, he is homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got here, I had some money,” he describes. “Then, the person I was living with kicked me out because I had no money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explains why our interviews took place inside his friend’s battered old minivan. It took him a while to admit it, but this is where he lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To survive, Sseguya wakes up at the break of dawn every day, collects scrap, and backs up the van to the recycling bins at a swap meet in Van Nuys. He manages to scrape together around $300 each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the circumstances, he does not complain. Instead, he is grateful to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to live my life to the fullest, the way I wanted to be,” he said. “I chose what was best for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sseguya now sets his sights on becoming a defense attorney to fight for people’s rights, he has a long journey ahead. First, he has to secure his political asylum by proving what happened to him in Uganda. In the meantime, he has to survive financially and try to get off the streets, in the hopes that one day he will be able to live openly as a gay man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, I have hope,” he said. “As long as I’m still alive, I have hope that one day I can make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only then can he make his California dream a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with an advanced reporting class at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Students spent a semester examining what the California Dream means to Angelenos from different walks of life.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Eddris Sseguya can't go back home to Uganda because he is wanted by the police. His crime? Being gay.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1534005753,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":957},"headData":{"title":"Illegal Love: A Ugandan Refugee's California Dream | KQED","description":"Eddris Sseguya can't go back home to Uganda because he is wanted by the police. His crime? Being gay.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Illegal Love: A Ugandan Refugee's California Dream","datePublished":"2018-08-11T02:42:24.000Z","dateModified":"2018-08-11T16:42:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11670826 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11670826","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/08/10/illegal-love-a-ugandan-refugees-california-dream/","disqusTitle":"Illegal Love: A Ugandan Refugee's California Dream","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/08/SaidiIllegalLoveUganda.mp3","nprByline":"Karina Saidi","path":"/news/11670826/illegal-love-a-ugandan-refugees-california-dream","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even though Eddris Sseguya blends in with Los Angeles' diverse population, he is 10,000 miles away from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sseguya, a 32-year-old Muslim from Kampala, the Ugandan capital in East Africa, is a refugee in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Uganda, Sseguya seemed to have it all -- a family, a construction business, a house, and a wife. But on the inside, he knew he was not being honest. He knew he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, that secret cost him everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning, Sseguya and his male partner were kissing in bed. They forgot to close the door, and a neighbor walked in on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started screaming, making noise, ‘You people! Why are you like this? Sseguya recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While same-sex marriage is legal in California, 72 countries still criminalize people who are part of the LGBTQ community, according to a \u003cspan class=\"s1\">2017 report \u003c/span>by the \u003ca href=\"https://ilga.org/state-sponsored-homophobia-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Uganda, homosexuality is illegal and can lead to jail sentences, sometimes for life, for those found guilty.\u003cbr>\nSseguya knew what could happen for loving someone of the same sex. Just a year earlier, in 2011, David Kato, a teacher and one of Uganda’s most outspoken LGBTQ rights activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/27/ugandan-gay-rights-activist-murdered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had been hammered to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This same violent outrage met Sseguya when he was discovered by his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it was morning time, a lot of people came out of their homes. [They] were chanting, ‘Let us kill them, let us kill them!’\" he recalls. “When we locked ourselves in the house, people wanted to burn down the house. They destroyed almost everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlord begged protesters not to burn down the house, but to call the police instead. When the officers arrived, they arrested Sseguya and his partner and put them in a crowded jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police then told the other inmates that the two men were gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immediately after closing, chaos erupted in the cell,” Sseguya remembers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inmates beat and threatened to kill both of them. When the officers came back a few minutes later, Sseguya was bleeding. This was the last time Sseguya saw his partner before they were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sseguya’s family never visited him in jail. “Most of them, they were happy that I [was] in jail, that’s why they didn’t come to see me,” he explains. “If you know somebody who is a gay and you don’t report, you are also taken as a criminal. Maybe that’s why they didn’t show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After one month in jail, a colleague bailed him out. But Sseguya’s ordeal did not end there. He was required to report regularly to authorities. Additionally, he could not get his business license renewed because of his sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, life became so stressful for Sseguya that he decided to take a break and visit the U.S. It was there he learned that the Ugandan police issued a warrant for his arrest because he had failed to report to the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend… he’s the one who told me, ‘You know what? Don’t come back,’” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing for his life, Sseguya decided to seek political asylum in California. But four years after his arrival in Los Angeles, he is still wary of revealing too much to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even here in California, a state almost two times the size of Uganda, he has not escaped homophobia in the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People they always want to know: 'Why? Why? Why?’” he says. “At the end of the day, it’s none of their business. It’s your business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persecution is not the only reason Sseguya is guarded. Not only did he lose his family, his partner, and his job, but here in Los Angeles, he is homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got here, I had some money,” he describes. “Then, the person I was living with kicked me out because I had no money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explains why our interviews took place inside his friend’s battered old minivan. It took him a while to admit it, but this is where he lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To survive, Sseguya wakes up at the break of dawn every day, collects scrap, and backs up the van to the recycling bins at a swap meet in Van Nuys. He manages to scrape together around $300 each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the circumstances, he does not complain. Instead, he is grateful to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to live my life to the fullest, the way I wanted to be,” he said. “I chose what was best for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sseguya now sets his sights on becoming a defense attorney to fight for people’s rights, he has a long journey ahead. First, he has to secure his political asylum by proving what happened to him in Uganda. In the meantime, he has to survive financially and try to get off the streets, in the hopes that one day he will be able to live openly as a gay man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, I have hope,” he said. “As long as I’m still alive, I have hope that one day I can make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only then can he make his California dream a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with an advanced reporting class at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Students spent a semester examining what the California Dream means to Angelenos from different walks of life.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11670826/illegal-love-a-ugandan-refugees-california-dream","authors":["byline_news_11670826"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19491","news_21879"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_20305","news_22681","news_2651","news_82","news_17896","news_4","news_20463","news_6228"],"featImg":"news_11675633","label":"news_72"},"news_11653010":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11653010","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11653010","score":null,"sort":[1520038105000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"at-oaklands-queer-skateboarding-meet-ups-everybody-can-shred","title":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred","publishDate":1520038105,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Growing up in Oakland, Jeffrey Cheung felt like he lived in two different worlds: in one, he was gay, and in the other, he was a skateboarder. It was clear to him that the two didn’t mix. Nobody else knew he was gay, but when he went to the skatepark, other skaters threw around the word ‘gay’ as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would get called like 'faggot' a lot, or like 'that's so gay' and like 'you're gay',\" Cheung tells me. \"It’s very homophobic. And not very welcoming. And I remember feeling very ashamed about myself and sexuality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Cheung was 18, he decided to stop skating. It was just too hard to live in both worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity founder Jeffrey Cheung is also an artist. He paints skateboard decks with inclusive images of genders and sexualities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Ramirez grew up in Southern California, but he also lived in those two worlds. In high school he \u003ci>wanted\u003c/i> to try skateboarding, but says he was \"too afraid to experience what would happen\" if anyone found out he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez remembers the day he met Cheung at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!\" Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made 'zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity's queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The first one was just amazing, so many people came,\" Cheung recalls. \"And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity's queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it's just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I've never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like 'here's water', and...it's unbelievable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people -- skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight -- who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BWqPkXYDwUp/?taken-by=unityskateboarding\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, they actually have a place to come together indoors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With money earned from their full-time jobs, Jeffrey and Gabriel are renting the top floor of a bookstore downtown Oakland. Jeffrey says it’s important to have a permanent safe space for their community. The walls of the wooden loft are covered with skateboards and artwork. There’s a printing press in one corner, a couch in the other. It reminds me of a clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People crowd into Unity Skateboards' new loft space for the opening party. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tiny shop is packed for the opening party. Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: \"I'm a skateboarder and I'm a queer, and then I'm also female and... I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom like hated it,\" she says. \"She thought girls shouldn't be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like 'I'm going to skate anyway.' So I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn't think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. He wouldn’t have felt so alone and ashamed of being gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Unity Skateboards, Cheung says he hopes he’s making it a little easier for the next generation of young people to find acceptance -- at school, at home, and at the skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>On March 4, 2017 Jeffrey Cheung and Unity Press will be hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/riso-printing-unity-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zine making workshop\u003c/a> at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A queer skateboarding collective called Unity is changing the sport's homophobic culture -- one skate session at a time.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1520040431,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":888},"headData":{"title":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred | KQED","description":"A queer skateboarding collective called Unity is changing the sport's homophobic culture -- one skate session at a time.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred","datePublished":"2018-03-03T00:48:25.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-03T01:27:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11653010 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11653010","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/02/at-oaklands-queer-skateboarding-meet-ups-everybody-can-shred/","disqusTitle":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/03/QueerSkateboarding.mp3","path":"/news/11653010/at-oaklands-queer-skateboarding-meet-ups-everybody-can-shred","audioDuration":336000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Growing up in Oakland, Jeffrey Cheung felt like he lived in two different worlds: in one, he was gay, and in the other, he was a skateboarder. It was clear to him that the two didn’t mix. Nobody else knew he was gay, but when he went to the skatepark, other skaters threw around the word ‘gay’ as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would get called like 'faggot' a lot, or like 'that's so gay' and like 'you're gay',\" Cheung tells me. \"It’s very homophobic. And not very welcoming. And I remember feeling very ashamed about myself and sexuality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Cheung was 18, he decided to stop skating. It was just too hard to live in both worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity founder Jeffrey Cheung is also an artist. He paints skateboard decks with inclusive images of genders and sexualities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Ramirez grew up in Southern California, but he also lived in those two worlds. In high school he \u003ci>wanted\u003c/i> to try skateboarding, but says he was \"too afraid to experience what would happen\" if anyone found out he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez remembers the day he met Cheung at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!\" Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made 'zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity's queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The first one was just amazing, so many people came,\" Cheung recalls. \"And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity's queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it's just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I've never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like 'here's water', and...it's unbelievable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people -- skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight -- who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BWqPkXYDwUp"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>And now, they actually have a place to come together indoors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With money earned from their full-time jobs, Jeffrey and Gabriel are renting the top floor of a bookstore downtown Oakland. Jeffrey says it’s important to have a permanent safe space for their community. The walls of the wooden loft are covered with skateboards and artwork. There’s a printing press in one corner, a couch in the other. It reminds me of a clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People crowd into Unity Skateboards' new loft space for the opening party. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tiny shop is packed for the opening party. Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: \"I'm a skateboarder and I'm a queer, and then I'm also female and... I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom like hated it,\" she says. \"She thought girls shouldn't be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like 'I'm going to skate anyway.' So I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn't think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. 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