tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38738125050203837442024-03-23T03:13:54.230-07:00Megan RohrerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873812505020383744.post-70483005845511062332020-11-24T15:20:00.004-08:002020-11-24T15:20:54.069-08:00Sacred Sheltering: How to Have Fun Indoors With Kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/361wTpn" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Sacred Sheltering book cover" border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="318" height="231" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GOqVLANNCCo/X71z-VkP83I/AAAAAAAAVOI/i8Rfzw7ePWYKKmKyIbFKDq9moLWT9Ms0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w227-h231/54623799._SX318_.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> To inspire people to stay safe during the holidays, I created a sacred sheltering competition. My kiddos have been competing in different activities, which we post regularly in short videos to inspire others. The videos supplement my children's book <i><a href="https://amzn.to/361wTpn" target="_blank">Sacred Sheltering</a>. </i></p><p>Below are a few of our competition videos:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5JpkVRAY4o" width="320" youtube-src-id="Q5JpkVRAY4o"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sexCaoKuLDw" width="320" youtube-src-id="sexCaoKuLDw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s_Pu5GGRe7E" width="320" youtube-src-id="s_Pu5GGRe7E"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.41941559.4646956638211535 -157.5756655 66.085163336178852 -87.2631655tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873812505020383744.post-43876264587569256152020-09-19T00:32:00.001-07:002020-09-19T00:32:32.567-07:00In the News: KQED<p> </p><div class="routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostMinisite-___PostMinisite__mpost_Column" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 773.039px;" /><div class="routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostStandardImage-___PostStandardImage__postImage_FeaturedImgCaption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #939393; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 8px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Approximately 500 people gathered in the Castro for a candlelit vigil to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sep. 18, 2020.</span><cite class="routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostStandardImage-___PostStandardImage__postImage_FeaturedImgCaption_Credit" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Beth LaBerge/KQED)</cite></div></div></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #04151a; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grandel", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="post-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.52632;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">Hundreds of mourners gathered in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco Friday night for a candlelit vigil honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11838760/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff004c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">died Friday of complications from cancer at age 87</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">Many attendees rushed to Harvey Milk Plaza on less than one hour’s notice — alerted by social media posts and an email from organizer Manny Yekutiel, owner of the community space Manny’s in the Mission.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">Those assembled described feeling numb and in disbelief at Ginsburg’s passing.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">“I think a lot of us felt like, ‘Well, as long as RBG is there, we’re gonna be good, we’re gonna be good’,” said San Francisco resident Shawn Rosenmoss. “Now I’m a little lost, which is why I’m here.”</p><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_11838872" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 800px; width: 773.039px;"><img alt="Betty Doerr brought her Ruth Bader Ginsburg figurine that she bought at Cliff's Variety to the candlelit vigil in Ginsburg's honor on Sep. 18, 2020. " class="size-medium wp-image-11838872" height="533" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-800x533.jpg" srcset="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1.jpg 1920w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="800" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #939393; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grandel", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px;">Betty Doerr brought her Ruth Bader Ginsburg figurine that she bought at Cliff's Variety to the candlelit vigil in Ginsburg's honor on Sep. 18, 2020. <cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Beth LaBerge/KQED)</cite></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">Although there were few tears, every speech of the night contained an impassioned plea to continue fighting for the late Justice’s gains.</p></div></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #04151a; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grandel", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="post-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.52632;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">Pastor Megan Rohrer led the assembled group in singing the folk song “Singing for Our Lives” by Holly Near. Rohrer, a transgender pastor who ministers in the Sunset district, said that when their wife told them the news, they were distraught.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">“The feeling is just when you didn’t think you could have more fear and doubt about what might be happening next in the world, another thing happens and makes you wonder,” they said. “Not knowing what’s going to happen next becomes a source of fear once again.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">The evening’s impromptu program also featured two Hebrew prayers to honor Ginsburg, who was Jewish, on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the start of Jewish New Year.</p><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_11838869" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 1920px; width: 773.039px;"><img alt="The candlelit vigil in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made its way from Harvey Milk Plaza to the Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store where there were several speakers. The building was once home to Harvey Milk's camera shop, Castro Camera." class="size-full wp-image-11838869" height="1280" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" src="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg" srcset="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #939393; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grandel", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px;">The candlelit vigil in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made its way from Harvey Milk Plaza to the Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store where there were several speakers. The building was once home to Harvey Milk's camera shop, Castro Camera. <cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Beth LaBerge/KQED)</cite></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">The Castro, a predominately LGBT neighborhood, seemed a fitting location due to the contributions the late justice made to that community.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">“For the LGBTQ community — for us — elections and the courts are a matter of life and death,” said Senator Scott Wiener, who attended the gathering and ensuing march. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped create so much of the modern civil rights framework legally. There will never be another like her.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">The group of 200 swelled to more than 500 and slowly marched toward the site of Harvey Milk’s former camera shop on Castro Street. Wiener and District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman along with activist Cleve Jones led the march, flanked by signs reading “RBG” and “We Won’t Let You Down, RBG.” Diners sitting outdoors on the busy street stopped to watch, with many applauding.</p><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_11838866" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 800px; width: 773.039px;"><img alt="Gillian Reid holds a Ruth Bader Ginsburg candle during a vigil in her honor in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020." class="size-medium wp-image-11838866" height="533" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg" srcset="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="800" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #939393; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grandel", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px;">Gillian Reid holds a Ruth Bader Ginsburg candle during a vigil in her honor in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020. <cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Beth LaBerge/KQED)</cite></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he had “been a mess” since he heard the news. He said the Justice’s legacy “is very much up to us over these last two months,” stressing the importance of keeping Donald Trump from appointing Ginsburg’s successor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">That sentiment was echoed by Wiener, who called Ginsburg a “hero,” and emphasized the need to “fight to make sure Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell don’t steal this election.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">As for Rosenmoss, she pointed to her two daughters — one in medical school, one applying to law school — as carrying on Ginsburg’s legacy. More broadly, Rosenmoss gestured to the battles that Ginsburg fought “in her life to be an attorney and a mom and a married person. It’s really sad that we have to, every day, keep fighting those fights.”</p><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_11838878" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 800px; width: 773.039px;"><img alt="Stephan Ferris lights a candle for Cleve Jones during a vigil to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020." class="size-medium wp-image-11838878" height="533" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg" srcset="https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="800" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #939393; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grandel", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px;">Stephan Ferris lights a candle for Cleve Jones during a vigil to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020. <cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Beth LaBerge/KQED)</cite></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">Speakers urged those assembled to vote, stay politically involved, and organize in swing states. Many shared messages of hope for the future.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; width: 773.039px;">“Have her memory be a blessing and move forward to build a better country and a safer world,” said Jones. “That is what she would want us to do, and we all know that.”</p></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873812505020383744.post-80681671019102313852020-09-18T21:27:00.002-07:002020-09-18T21:27:56.224-07:00In the News: Kron4<p> </p>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">N.B. Contains potential season 5 spoilers</strong></em>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I’ve just spent the past few days binging all ten episodes of the upcoming fifth season of <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Queer Eye</em>, which lands on Netflix right on time for Pride month on June 5th, and I am feeling pretty amazing actually; upbeat and optimistic. It’s the kind of afterglow you get when you’ve had a weekend away with your kindest, wisest queer friends, who build up your confidence, give you good advice and who you share some good food and plenty of warm hugs with. Quite an achievement for a reality makeover show in the midst of a pandemic, and just the queer tonic for the soul we all need in our lives right now. Feel-good TV never felt so good.</div>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; height: auto; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-11968 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" data-attachment-id="11968" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.2","credit":"Ryan Collerd\/Netflix","camera":"ILCE-9","caption":"QUEER EYE (L to R) TAN FRANCE, JONATHAN VAN NESS, BOBBY BERK, ANTONI POROWSKI, and KARAMO BROWN of QUEER EYE. Cr. RYAN COLLERD\/NETFLIX \u00a9 2020","created_timestamp":"1565204690","copyright":"\u00a9 2020 Netflix, Inc.","focal_length":"33","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?fit=736%2C491&ssl=1" data-lazy-loaded="1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?fit=3600%2C2400&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3600,2400" data-permalink="https://thequeerreview.com/2020/05/25/tv-review-queer-eye-season-5-netflix/qeye_5_loft_unit_01245r/" data-recalc-dims="1" sizes="(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px" src="https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=736%2C491&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&ssl=1 1400w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?w=1472&ssl=1 1472w, https://i0.wp.com/thequeerreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QEYE_5_Loft_Unit_01245R.jpg?w=2208&ssl=1 2208w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Queer Eye: Season 5. Courtesy of Netflix.</em></figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32.4px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
Shot last summer, this season sees the Fab Five, Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine), Bobby Berk (Interior Design), Jonathan Van Ness (Grooming), Karamo Brown (Culture) and Tan France (Fashion) bring some queer magic to the City of Brotherly Love. Somehow they manage to spend an entire season in the nation’s birthplace without running up the “Rocky Steps” in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I can’t go more than a few hours in the city without heading there to do a slow mo run and celebratory fist pumping spin at the top. I guess it just goes to show that the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Queer Eye</em> producers have a little more imagination! In fact, as well ten gratifying transformation stories, the season is also a love letter to the city and an unconventional travel guide, introducing us to various Philly neighbourhoods and showcasing some great local businesses (as well as a few chain stores) along the way. And fittingly, Philadelphia born and raised queer pop star Vincint has recorded a new song for the season that’s used in the trailer. </div>
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The satisfying framework of the reliably entertaining show remains unchanged; the Fab Five spend a week a “hero”, nominated by their friends, family or colleagues, and transform them by teaching some self-love, reconnecting with them with the person they were always meant to be, (it’s essentially the message Dorothy learns in <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Wizard of Oz</em>, that she had the power all along). It’s a narrative structure that allows for some episodes to go deep, as evidenced by the powerful season opener where we meet Noah Helper, a pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Fishtown. He’s single, and lives with his two cats in the dilapidated parsonage, with holes in the ceiling. He also happens to be gay and out, but not exactly proud. Feeling guilty for not having stood up for the LGBTQ community sooner, he was previously married to a woman and having come out later in life he’s clearly dealing with some internalised homophobia. Understandable given that he grew up in a “homophobic Baptist denomination” as he describes it, where he was taught that “queer people were wrong and probably going to hell.”</div>
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About to celebrate its 125th birthday, Noah’s church puts Jonathan in mind of the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sister Act</em> movies, and he jokes during the grooming session with him that he feels like <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Preacher’s Wife</em>. But for Bobby these are far more uncomfortable surroundings having grown up in a church that preached hatred against LGBTQ people; “judgement, hurt and pain” is what the church means to him he says, but he wants to overcome those feelings in order to help Noah create a space that will be welcoming for all parishioners. Unlike the church of his youth, Noah wants his place of worship to be the one place where LGBTQ know for certain they will be accepted for who they are. During one of the standout scenes of the season Bobby and Noah discuss how faith has often been used against LGBTQ people, something that Noah feels churches needs to acknowledge if they are going to move forward and fill their pews; “the church owes you an apology” he tells Bobby. Noah also shares a fascinating Biblical story about Jesus healing a Centurion’s beloved, essentially his boyfriend; not one I heard in Sunday school. Meanwhile Karamo facilitates a deeply moving meeting between LGBTQ Lutherian clergy; activist Megan Rohrer, the first openly trans minister to be ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), and Guy Erwin, the first openly gay bishop to be ordained by ELCA, who are both further along the road of self-acceptance than Noah and offer their support. “Go in peace and be fabulous for the Lord” Noah ends his sermon, having shared his personal journey with his congregation publicly for the first time; the impact of spending a week with Fab Five clearly apparent. </div>
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A year after his 'Queer Eye' makeover, Philly’s Pastor Noah remains a changed man</h1>
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At Atonement Church, everyone is welcome. But, as a gay member of the clergy, its leader was going through an identity crisis — until The Fab Five arrived.</h2>
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From the outside, it looks just like any other church. But inside the doors of <a data-original-title="" href="https://www.elcota.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c8cca; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement</a> in Fishtown lies a sanctuary, both figuratively and literally, for people from all walks of life, many of whom have been ostracized by religion at large due to their sexual orientation, race or gender. </div>
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With rainbow accent lights and a purple backdrop, however, it doesn't take long to realize you're in a different kind of church. </div>
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And the driving force behind Atonement becoming "the quirkiest church in FIshtown" is Pastor Noah Hepler, a man who has struggled with his own identity as a gay man while trying to navigate his way through a belief system and community that wasn't afraid to tell him in very plain terms that people who acted on those feelings would be sent to hell without a second chance. </div>
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For Pastor Noah, that struggle continued even after he came out to his then-wife over a decade ago. And it may have continued to this very day if not for the help of five very special people who he says changed his life in a profound way.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Last year, Hepler received a boost in the form of a visit from The Fab Five, the quintet who make up the new cast of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> on Netflix. And earlier this month, the fifth season of the hit show, which was filmed entirely in the Philly area, dropped on the streaming platform. Hepler and Atonement, which is located just off Frankford Ave., starred in the premiere, the first of a series-long 10-episode season. </span></div>
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If you're unfamiliar with <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i>, that's fine, but it's most definitely a series you should give a chance before dismissing entirely, especially those of you turned off by the name, because you're probably among those who could most benefit from its lessons. </div>
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"Honestly, I think it's more important [for straight people to watch]," <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye </i>design expert Bobby Berk told PhillyVoice. "The only way to change anyone's mind about negative feelings they might have about a group of people they know nothing about is by visibility. And that's not just for the LGBT community, that's for any human being."</div>
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A typical episode of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i> is about an hour in length and follows the transformation of that episode's hero at the hands of The Fab Five, each of whom specialize in a different area. There's fashion aficionado (and French tuck enthusiast) Tan France; grooming master (and eternal optimist) Jonathan Van Ness; culture guru (and unlicensed therapist) Karamo Brown; food expert (and avocado advocate) Antoni Porowski, and Berk, who basically renovates your entire home, community center, or in this case, church (no big deal).</div>
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And after spending a week with them, you're guaranteed to be a different person — in the best way possible.</div>
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That was precisely the experience for Pastor Noah Hepler, who not only needed a new look, but the confidence to go along with it. And that was only scratching the surface. </div>
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For Hepler, a lifetime of feeling as though he didn't belong, as if he was an imposter within in his own life, had led him to a stagnant place, one that found him timidly leading a small congregation and living in a building that had mold from a leaky roof. He didn't much worry about his appearance, and although he knew something needed to be done, he lacked the motivation to make the change himself, largely because he failed to see that he was a worthwhile cause. </div>
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As a pastor, he had no problem helping others, but when it came to his own life, he was lost.</div>
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"I think the biggest thing for me personally was helping me identify what was wrong," said Hepler, sitting in the still-brand-new looking break room at Atonement. "I mean, is it possible I could've done it on my own? Probably, but it would've taken me a lot longer and therefore drug the congregation through a lot more of me trying to figure out what I was doing. So they at least accelerated it, but I think being able to identify problems — again, every one of the [The Fab Five] touching on one aspect or another of how I was hiding myself from myself — I think they really identified that for me and I think that was one of my biggest issues."</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Hepler, his issues stemmed from the fact</b> that he grew up as a closeted gay man in a very religious household, one that taught him that all gay people are destined for hell and worse. In denial of his sexual orientation, Hepler married and became a pastor of the Lutheran faith, despite the fact that at the time the church had still not changed its views on homosexual clergy (although that has since changed), and lived what he called "a lie that I had been told that I had begun to believe." </div>
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Eventually, Hepler knew he couldn't continue like this, and he came out to his wife.</div>
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"That was really tough, and it was really the center for a lot of the guilt that I felt," Hepler said. "Not just her, but her family and everyone else that I kind of drug into what I now describe as a lie that I had been told that I had begun to believe. And now, I felt guilty about pulling other people into that, so we actually spent a year trying to process through what this would mean. And it just seemed as time progressed that divorce became more inevitable. There was just no way out of it. </div>
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"We kind of joked and they would say, 'There's nothing you can do about it now; we've already submitted it.' And I laughed and said, 'That's fine, because nothing that interesting ever happens in my life.'"</blockquote>
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"And [pause] so it was tough because I care for her deeply, and yet I was also realizing that I was going to have to radically change our relationship because it was on the way — the trajectory it was on was going to end in a very bad situation for both of us. So I felt like after we had had some difficulty and it was dawning on me that I think I know what's causing this, I needed to admit it. So that's what started that.</div>
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"It still bothers me. I wish I could go back in time and do it differently. Hindsight is always 2020, but I think we'd still end up in the same place. It's just there's things that I know now that would have made it a lot easier back then for both of us."</div>
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Hepler says the two no longer communicate, and although at times he wishes they still did, he believes it's for the best. </div>
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Following his divorce, Hepler was looking for a new start at a new congregation, but because the recession had hit his home state of North Carolina earlier than others, there were a limited number of openings, so he decided to return to school to finish the doctorate he had previously started. That led him to the Philadelphia area, where he earned his degree and eventually landed at Atonement, where he's been for the last six years.</div>
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Atonement itself is also partly responsible for Hepler's appearance on the latest season of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i>, as a parishioner and member of the church council found the flyer and nominated him. </div>
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"So, it was a parishioner who found a flyer, who also happened to be a member of [church] council at that time," Hepler explained. "And, I think, they just found it lying around somewhere, that's the one detail of it I don't really remember. So they did the questionnaire — and obviously did a good job — and submitted it, and then they texted me and said, 'Hey, I just nominated you for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i>.'</div>
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"So I knew I had been nominated, but we kind of joked and they would say, 'There's nothing you can do about it now; we've already submitted it.' And I laughed and said, 'That's fine, because nothing that interesting ever happens in my life.' And so, I think it was within a couple of days, a week tops, the person who nominated me contacted me and said there's a casting director that would like to talk to you tomorrow. And it just went from there."</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">The next thing Hepler knew, Netflix gave the green light</b> and he was destined for a week with The Fab Five. What he didn't know, however, was when they would arrive and what exactly that experience would be like. </div>
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"I knew that I was going to be on [the show] but I had no idea what it was going to be like," Hepler said. "You hear a lot of stories about reality TV actually be an over-produced, sort of scripted thing. That was not my experience with the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i> team. In fact, there was one part that's some of the B-roll footage where the producer said this would be some of the most produced part, and after that it's going to be the camera, the Fab Five and you, and we're just going to fade into the background. And that was my experience. </div>
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"At that point, it just becomes a conversation like the one we're having, except there's a camera there that you know eventually is going to produce [a show]. And I've got to say, now that I've seen the episode, it's an accurate representation of my experience with them. So are the surprises in the show — the show's just very genuine."</div>
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And that includes the surprise appearance by The Fab Five at the beginning of every episode, which was hard to believe was authentic given there's always a camera in the room before they arrive. But Hepler says he was never told they would be arriving that day, only that a film crew from Netflix would be there for some background footage. In fact, The Fab Five didn't even realize this until Season 3 or 4, according to Berk. </div>
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"We never really understood. We're like, 'God, why do they always act so surprised? Obviously they know we're here,'" Berk explained. "And it wasn't until — I don't even know what episode it was — our executive producer was like, 'Wait, you guys think they know you're here?' And we're like, Well, don't they?' And they were like, 'No. We always just tell them that we're filming their backstory... and you're coming another day.' And we went, 'Ohhhhh, we get it now!' [laughs]."</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But that day that began as any other quickly morphed into the beginning of the transformation of a lifetime for Hepler. </span></div>
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"They're real people, who are absolutely wonderful, who are helping other people, and by extension everyone else who sees the show," Hepler said of The Fab Five. "They're just helping people see how beautiful they are, and by extension, I was already feeling like maybe I need to start looking at myself differently. And then to have them here and walk through that, that's exactly what they're doing."</div>
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Berk also said the authentic nature of the show is just that: authentic. It's actually something they actively work on throughout filming, trying to make the hero forget they're on a television show. If something great is said off camera or the audio wasn't turned on, too bad. </div>
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"It's when we get them to forget there are cameras there and get them to forget that they are on a show is when we get an authentic experience, not only for the viewers but for our hero," Berk added. "We're always so, so aware — like when the cameras aren't rolling, we go out of our way to separate ourselves from the hero because we always want to make sure that the conversations that we're having on camera are real organic conversations. We don't want to accidentally talk to them about something off-camera and then we're like, 'Oh, God, this totally needs to be something that's on camera.' And then be like, 'Remember what we were talking about before? Talk about that again.' Because then it becomes unauthentic." </div>
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"One of the things he said, 'When someone is suffocating you...it's not your fault for trying to breathe.' And to me, that re-cast the decisions that I had made as not my fault, but a systemic problem that the church has..."</blockquote>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Before meeting Jonathan, Bobby, Antoni, Karamo and Tan, Hepler wasn't feeling all that beautiful, both inside and out. And with each member of The Fab Five, there was a different part of Pastor Noah that needed work. </span></div>
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With Antoni, Hepler got out of his comfort zone as he was surrounded by "a gaggle of gays" in the kitchen. Jonathan showed him the transformative beauty of a haircut and a shave. And Tan helped him realize that there's life beyond cargo shorts and t-shirts, which was the area Hepler identified as the biggest basic change he needed to make heading into the makeover. </div>
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"It's definitely a net effect," Hepler said of his experience on <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i>. "All five of them, they work as a team even though they're doing their own thing and you're meeting with them separately. I don't think it's planned, although maybe they do, but it just seems like a very natural thing from their own cohesion together as a group."</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each episode also allows for a different member of The Fab Five to shine</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and i</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">n Hepler's case, it was Karamo and Bobby who helped facilitate two of the most moving and impactful moments of the episode, the kind the hero never sees coming but often leads to the most meaningful change possible. </span></div>
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With Karamo, it was a meeting he facilitated with two other LGBTQ figures in the Lutheran faith, Bishop Guy Erwin, the first openly gay bishop in the church, and Pastor Megan Rohrer, the church's first trans pastor, that opened Hepler's eyes to the fact that he was not to blame for his negative experience with the church and the way its affected his life. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I went in wondering what my time with Karamo was going to be like," Hepler said. "Culture? Is he going to take me to a rock-climbing gym or something like that and help me with my imposter syndrome, that negative script? Which, he did [not the rock-climbing part of it]. I don't know how he picked up on it, I guess he's good at his job — but he got to a really big roadblock for me that I wasn't — I mean, I knew it was there, but I didn't know how much it was just sitting in my life. The guilt that I felt about what had happened with people. </span></div>
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"One of the things he said, 'When someone is suffocating you' — and in this case that someone was what I believe are unfair misapplications of what scripture is saying and how it's been applied to me — 'it's not your fault for trying to breathe.' And to me, that re-cast the decisions that I had made as not my fault, but a systemic problem that the church has that I was trying to figure out how to navigate and be a good faithful Christian. And then there's a domino effect when someone helps you out like that. What I remember thinking is that I wanted to defend the church; I was like, no, because the church has been nice to me now. But then it was that realization that in those experiences of vulnerability for me about my own story, I was experiencing a peculiar kind of strength."</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">The time with Bobby was something else entirely</b>. Like Hepler, he was raised in a strict Christian household and a church that vilified homosexuality. And for someone who knew at very young age that he was gay — and prayed that God would make him straight — that was a life-altering experience that he still struggles with to this day. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In a previous season, Bobby had already reckoned with his issues with the church — although he still refused to enter the church itself — and went into greater detail about how those struggles shaped his life, something he was unwilling to do originally, but was forced into when a last minute schedule changed landed the The Fab Five at Mama Tammye's church in Gay, Georgia.</span></div>
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"You know, I think I've just had more time to process it," Berk said of the differences between the two church visits. "The Mama Tammye episode, I almost refused to do — actually in the beginning I did refuse to do it. That was shown as the first episode of Season 2, but it was actually the very last episode that we shot. And it was an episode that was sprung on us about 48 hours before we shot it. The original hero that had been cast for that episode fell very ill and production had to re-cast that episode very quickly. ... After the medical issue happened, not only was she the best option but in the end, I mean, I'm so glad we did it. But she was one that was queued up, and was ready to go. So I didn't have a lot of time to process it.</div>
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"I also hadn't seen <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queer Eye</i> yet. None of our episodes had come out. We were still filming Seasons 1 and 2 together. I was having a lot of emotions doing that whole season, because none of us had to expose ourselves emotionally like we had been doing for the last three or four months, and I was kind of just emotionally drained. And I didn't have the strength. But at the end of the day, I'm very glad we had the chance to share what we and Miss Tammye showed each other, because I think that her show had a huge impact on the world. And she has had a huge impact on the world, and continues to have a huge impact on the world. And she's allowed for a lot of healing for millions of people, so I couldn't be happier that we did it."</div>
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Unlike Hepler, Bobby has never returned to the church after coming out. And although he managed to cross the threshold at Atonement, he still wore a "fire-proof suit" into the church for the surprise at the beginning of the episode.</div>
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Pastor Noah Hepler and Bobby Berk, rocking his “fire-proof suit.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"My feelings have definitely changed, because I've had time to process it," Berk added. "I've had time to put the emotions where they need to be and learn how to protect myself from those emotions, where back then, I didn't. [The Mama Tammye episode] was sprung on me so quickly, I was like, 'Nope. I didn't even want to do this episode, I am not walking in this church.'</span></div>
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"Atonement, though, is a very different kind of church. And so I definitely felt more comfortable walking into that church knowing that it was a church that accepts the LGBTQIA+ community and that the pastor was gay. So have my views on religion changed? No. But some of the pain that it's caused me has healed."</div>
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Despite that both these men were greatly harmed by their church's views on their sexuality, they both wound up on very different paths. And by the end, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">after spending some time with Hepler and seeing this different type of church, it was clear the impact the pastor had on The Fab Five's design guru. Following a conversation in the car in which he explains to Bobby one example of how positive views of homosexuality have been more or less written out of the scripture — not to mention his own revelation during his time with Karamo — Hepler does something unexpected. </span></div>
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"I just felt like anybody who's experienced what I have needs to hear an apology, even if it's from somebody who just represents the institution but hasn't actively participated, because, in fact, I heard the same thing from Bishop Guy, who is an openly gay bishop, the day before," Hepler said of his decision to speak on his church's behalf. "And I was like, this is exactly what we need to be doing, and I wanted an opportunity to carry that forward. The opportunity presented itself in being able to talk to Bobby again to say thank you for putting yourself into this project for a church that you owe nothing to... <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I'm not a fan of trying to drag people back into the church, especially when they've been hurt because that just hurts more. The church's job right now is to say we're sorry for how we've been complicit."</span></div>
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"People, through hearing his story and my story, have been able to realize that they're not alone and it's not their fault."<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></blockquote>
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And while Bobby appreciated the apology, he was disheartened by the fact that the only person from the church willing to apologize was someone who had been treated equally as viciously by organized religion.</div>
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"On one hand, I greatly appreciated his words," Berk said. "On another hand, it made me kind of sad to have a man who was equally as hurt by the church as I was, if not more, feel that it's his responsibility to apologize to me, when the church is really the one that needs to apologize to him. God bless him. The church destroyed him and greatly hurt him, and there he is still in that church when I was like, 'F--k you. I'm gone.' He stuck with it, and he is still in there serving the church. So I appreciate the sentiment, but getting an apology from someone who was equally damaged by the church [and didn't participate in the harm], didn't feel right.</div>
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"I totally appreciate the sentiment but it's coming from the wrong person. The church needs to be apologizing to him. He's done nothing wrong but continue to dedicate his life to an institution that has dedicated itself to judging him and breaking him down. He's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful man. Better man than I am."</div>
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What viewers didn't see was the full conversation, which included Bobby sharing some words of encouragement for the pastor as well as some of the messages he received after the Mama Tammye episode, not just from others in the gay community who had been harmed by religion, but also from pastors and ministers saying his story helped change their views on homosexuality in the church. Based on the early reaction, it seems like Pastor Noah's story could have a similar impact.</div>
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"I just shared with him a lot of the emails and DMs I've gotten — and I mean, I've since gotten hundreds and hundreds of them about his episode — from people who have grown up in the church that are gay who felt abandoned and hated and not loved and through watching this episode have been able to have some healing," Berk said. "People, through hearing his story and my story, have been able to realize that they're not alone and it's not their fault. </div>
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"You know, I shared some stories with him about pastors and ministers who have messaged me saying that I've always thought that being gay was a choice and that gays were an abomination and evil. And I've learned that growing up and I taught that in my church, but after hearing your story and knowing that you begged God your whole life not to make you gay, yet here you are, I've realized that being gay is not a choice and I'll never preach that hate again.</div>
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"So, it goes back to my comment earlier about visibility. The more we can be visible, the more people can see we are just like anybody else, the more acceptance there will be."</div>
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"The communication we've gotten has just been amazing," said Emily Resnick, a member of the congregation for over two decades who also helps with administrative duties at Atonement. "So many people have commented either how they lost their faith, how they haven't felt at home in church, but this really felt like a place that was inclusive where they felt they could find a home again, and it's just been so moving. There's been people who have identified as gay specifically, but just people of all types of identities who are saying this feels like a place where I could have faith again. </div>
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"We're hoping that when we reopen, we're going to have more people coming. But even still, we're going to livestream the Pastor's sermons just in response to people from literally all over the world saying they would love to watch them. And then people specifically asking if Pastor would help them with their own coming out journeys. Some of these I'm crying like I'm watching the show because there are people saying, you know, 'I'm in my 50s or 60s and I worry that I'm going to hell,' or 'I feel like I love God but feel so guilty that maybe you could help me come out.' It's been so incredibly moving in so many ways."</div>
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"The different social problems that we're facing are not just ones that intersect or overlap, they share a lot of common methods of interpreting the bible, whether it's the role of women, or race or sexuality..."</blockquote>
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And it didn't take long for those messages of support to start flooding in. </div>
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"After staying up late to watch the episode, I went to bed and at about 7:30 in the morning, my phone was going <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">buzz, ding, ding, buzz, ding, ding, ding</i>," Hepler recalls. "I'm like, 'What is going on?' It didn't even dawn on me and notifications just kept going. I was like, 'What is happening? Oh, oh...'"</div>
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In addition to helping those struggling to reconcile their faith with their sexual orientation, Hepler thinks his quirky church can be a model for others who should be spreading acceptance and tolerance, not the opposite. Moreover, they can help open some eyes to a community that is welcoming to all, something that may be a far cry from the churches in which they were raised.</div>
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"That is definitely some of the messages I've been hearing," he said. "The different social problems that we're facing are not just ones that intersect or overlap, they share a lot of common methods of interpreting the bible, whether it's the role of women, or race or sexuality, and think you can probably add 'others.' You can go back and look at how the bible is used, and when you peel back the text and the approach to reading the bible in general, it's a pretty consistent way of doing it. And if that method of reading the bible has never produced anything healthy, it might be time to let go of it. And then look for these others that are life-giving and supporting. It's from the same set of texts." </div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">While Pastor Noah's story is new to most</b>, he's been living his new life for nearly a year now. And the changes he made on the show are sticking. </div>
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Well, most of them, at least.</div>
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"I am taking more time, picking out what I wear," Hepler said, before revealing something that may make Tan cringe. "Some days if I'm not going out and I'm going to be cleaning the house, a t-shirt and that one pair of cargo shorts I kept that has an ugly ink stain from when a pen exploded that I just don't care about. So some days on cleaning days, that's what I might wear, but on the other days, I have to stop a moment — or I'm inviting myself to stop for a moment, I should say — to think about what I'm going to be doing that day and what will best help me be heard if I need to be heard. And that also includes stopping for a couple moments in the bathroom, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">zhuzh</i> myself up, and then going out, instead of not caring.</div>
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"As they talk about frequently, this is not about vanity, it's about self care. There's a kind of vanity in me saying I'm not important enough — that's sort of an inverted vanity — and it's not about that. If you listen to them either inside the show or outside of it, they're talking about intrinsic human beauty that can be found in anyone, and it's about highlighting that. It's not that kind of vanity that we often worry about, and that's what I think is beautiful. That's what they're trying to teach people to do. You're beautiful. Find the way that you can express that.</div>
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"The clothing that they got for me, and the grooming products, they range [in price]. Some of that is clearly gift [quality]. I'm not going to be able to maintain that level. It's a very kind gift. But the bulk of it is stuff that I can afford even on my budget. This is something that can be done. It's not about trying to push us into an atmosphere that we can't live in."</div>
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In addition to (mostly) ditching his signature cargo shorts, Hepler has also moved out of the space above the church that Bobby renovated, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">in part because that area is almost completely open to the church below,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and moved back into the parsonage next door. When The Fab Five arrived, they were unable to renovate that area because a leak in the ceiling had led to mold and other issues. That leak has been fixed — and a high-quality air purifier keeps him breathing safely — but more renovations are still needed, both to the parsonage and the church itself. </span></div>
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For example, the 125-year old stained glass windows are in desperate need of repair, but fixing them would eat up Atonement's entire operating budget for the year. And with services remaining halted until at least July as Hepler tries to keep his congregation safe from COVID-19, donations are harder to come by. </div>
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For now, Hepler lives in the partially-finished parsonage with his two cats, Thor and Sateen, the other stars of the Season 5 premiere.</div>
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"They're doing well," Hepler said. "Obviously for them, it's not sinking in that they're now Netflix stars, but they're doing well. Sateen, by the way, she's pushing 19 years old, so she's got some health problems but she's doing OK. We're looking forward to a check in with the vet after COVID really settles down." </div>
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As for Hepler, he doesn't plan on leaving his quirky Fishtown church any time soon.</div>
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"One of the things that really excites me about Atonement particularly — and they got a lot of great clips of why we might be called the quirkiest church — but I think another way we're a quirky church which they quickly realized is that it's an interesting cross-section. There's a significant number of people who have been wounded by the church who have found this community to be a part of and then that works itself into the fabric of the congregation in a way that it is a very traditional church in a lot of ways, with very unexpected outcomes from processing that tradition... <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is kind of an old-school engagement with religion that at the same time is refreshed with this intensity and desire to really listen beyond just what we've heard so far... and it's a really good fit for me. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I think I'm married to Atonement now." </span></div>
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“As a transgender Latina, I bring a breath of fresh air into all the places I walk into,” the 60-year-old told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-latina-makes-history-evangelical-lutheran-pastor-n1100831" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 50, 143); border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff328f; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">NBC News</a>.</div>
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The Latina’s road to the altar was decades in the making. While she was raised Roman Catholic, she abandoned the church in her 20s. At the time, she was divorced from a woman she had been married to for eight years, dependent on alcohol and angry with God for not being able to “fix” her.</div>
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Nearly two decades later, Garcia began accepting herself and embarked on her transition journey. “I’ve always been Nicole. I’ve always been a woman,” she says.</div>
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Her 10-year transition was accompanied by a “come-to-Jesus” moment. She found an inclusive space within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a Christian denomination founded in 1988 with more than 4 million followers.</div>
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In 2008, Garcia was appointed transgender representative to the national board of directors of ReconcilingWorks: Lutherans for Full Participation, and four years later she applied and was surprised to be accepted into the Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minn.</div>
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Garcia’s pastorship comes 13 years after Megan Rohrer became the first-ever trans person to be ordained by the Lutheran church.</div>
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“Nobody can question my faith, my devotion to Christ, my devotion to the church,” Garcia told the news site. “That’s why I’m the pastor here. Being trans is secondary.”</div>
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At an August 26 meeting at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott apologizes directly to Joanne Chadwick, left, for abusive treatment by the police department against the LGBTQ community. Chadwick attended the New Year's Eve party in 1965 at California Hall that was raided by the police and led to widespread criticism of the police department. Photo: Rick Gerharter </div>
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San Francisco Police Chief William Scott apologized to the LGBTQ community at a reflection and reconciliation session Monday.</div>
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The meeting was held in the sanctuary of Glide Memorial Church to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria riot. The Compton's riot, which preceded the Stonewall riots by three years, was "the first known instance of collective militant queer resistance to police harassment in U.S. history," according to transgender historian Susan Stryker, who co-directed the Emmy Award-winning 2005 documentary "Screaming Queens" about the incident.</div>
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Scott apologized on behalf of the department.</div>
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"I and the men and women of this police department are truly sorry," the chief said to the crowd of about 100 people. "We're sorry for what happened and we're sorry for our role in it and we're sorry for the harm that it caused. Some here tonight may ask, why now? Why are we doing this now? And for those of you that might wonder why, I say it's because we are listening. We hear you. And because it's time."</div>
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But not everyone in the room was buying it.</div>
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"If you want to truly apologize for something, you have to stop what you're doing," said one activist, as he referenced the police sweeps of homeless people.</div>
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The meeting was the first in a series between the police and community members. Scott said that he hopes these meetings will build bridges between the SFPD and the LGBTQ community.</div>
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While some thanked the chief for reaching out, others expressed trepidation, pointing to the protesters at June's San Francisco Pride parade who held up the march for 50 minutes with a list of demands that included keeping the police and corporations out of Pride. One of the protesters was allegedly slammed into the pavement and dragged across the street, according to organizers.</div>
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"I showed up at the first Pride board meeting after the parade because I was devastated by the way the police violently removed peaceful protesters at our own parade," said Cheryl Rosenthal, a 58-year-old lesbian. "For me it was a call to action that our community needs to mobilize to make sure we're safe in our own city and prepare for how we are currently being targeted."</div>
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Longtime gay activist Tre Allen suggested that there be two Pride marches, one in which the police take part and another without the police for those who do not feel safe in the police's presence.</div>
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Attendees described other examples of mistreatment by police.</div>
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"I've been homeless on both coasts and submitted to domestic violence at the hand of my ex-husband," said one woman. "I got slammed to the ground by the cops at Ocean Beach. People were filming it and egging the police on. The bullying must stop."</div>
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Scott listened attentively to all the speakers, assuring everyone that the safety of all parties involved was his top priority.</div>
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"You all police us," said the chief. "Our department is set up where we have the civilian oversight board. And we have the Department of Police Accountability, which is separate from the police department. Any complaint that comes from a resident or a member of this community goes to the Department of Police Accountability. It's not investigated by the San Francisco Police Department. As the police chief I can impose discipline up to a 10-day suspension. Anything above that goes to the police commission, which is the civilian oversight board."</div>
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Breanna, a transgender woman who said that she's bipolar and declined to give her last name, expressed concern for how the police handle calls in which someone was in a mental health crisis.</div>
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"We spend a lot of time to get better at that and we've been doing that for a number of years," Scott said. "Our department has invested a lot in training to deal with those types of issues, and we've made a lot of progress. In the past year we've had over 50,000 of those types of calls and there is less than half a percent of those calls which resulted in any kind of force being used. It's not perfect, but I want to emphasize how much work we put into that issue. We still have some more work to do. We have more officers that need to be trained, but everyone who comes into this department today gets that training."</div>
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One African American woman who did not give her name pointed out that blacks are treated differently by the police. She also called on the police to take inventory of the police sweeps against homeless people.</div>
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The public comment section of the meeting lasted about 75 minutes, with many people thanking the police chief for his apology and for organizing the meeting.</div>
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The evening included a history lesson in which the Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer, a trans person who is a volunteer chaplain with SFPD, spoke of the harassment and criminalization faced by LGBTQ people in the past. Rohrer also showed two videos in which people who lived through those times recalled and shared their experiences.</div>
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Scott told the Bay Area Reporter that he was pleased with the way the meeting turned out.</div>
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"I feel good about it," he said. "The fact that we were allowed by members of the LGBT community to listen, to hear them, and to be heard. This moment is overdue," he said. "This is a starting point to get to those difficult conversations. We need to continue to hear, to reconcile our past and to address the present."</div>
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Members of Scott's command staff were also at the meeting.</div>
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"It's a start to a larger conversation," said Commander Teresa Ewins, a lesbian who used to oversee the station in the Tenderloin. "I felt that there was a lot of positive things being said. It's important for the command staff and other members to hear the community and understand the pain they have. Their experiences and viewpoint are very important to us."</div>
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Those who attended generally gave the police department credit for addressing the community.</div>
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"It's good to see the dialogue on how the police are interested in holding themselves accountable," said William Walker, a 40-year-old gay man. "I think that putting everyone's safety first is key but police have to keep in mind that they are always in a more powerful position."</div>
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"I feel less afraid of the police," said Attakai Yazzie, a 22-year-old gay man. "I think the night was productive. I saw a young peer of mine voice his opinion and I saw police of color listen to him and I'm glad to see this interaction. I'm extremely grateful to live in a period where it's OK to be queer."</div>
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More than five decades after officers clashed with members of the transgender community during the Compton’s Cafeteria riot in the Tenderloin, Police Chief Bill Scott apologized Monday for the department’s history.</div>
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“We the members of the San Francisco Police Department are here to reflect and apologize for our past actions against the LGBTQ community,” Scott said during a meeting with LGBTQ community members at Glide Memorial.</div>
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“We want to listen to you and want to truly hear you,” the chief added. “We will atone for our past.”</div>
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There was exuberant applause from the room after Scott’s apology.</div>
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Scott agreed to meet with the LGBTQ community after tensions flared over arrests at a Pride Parade protest in June. Police and the community had already been meeting to discuss reconciliation.</div>
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At the evening event, which was facilitated by Glide Memorial and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the department heard stories of decades of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer people.</div>
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The conversation centered around the 1966 riot that erupted in the Gene Compton’s cafeteria, in the Tenderloin neighborhood, after police targeted and arrested a transgender woman.</div>
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People sat in the church pews under stained glass windows, listening to stories told in the open where confession is usually heard in private.</div>
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Though some were grateful for the apology for the past, others pushed Scott to acknowledge what they called the wrongs of today.</div>
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Anubis Daugherty, 25, said he is a member of the LGTBQ community who was homeless for six years.</div>
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Daugherty told Scott that LGBTQ people are disproportionately caught up in sweeps of homeless communities in The City.</div>
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“I was born here, I was raised here,” Daugherty said. “If you want to truly apologize for something you have to stop what you’re doing.”</div>
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Jo Chadwick, who for decades has advocated for the LGTBQ community as a straight ally from the Lutheran church, was among the more than 100 people in attendance.</div>
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“I especially want to apologize to you,” Scott told Chadwick.</div>
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“For 50 years you’ve been fighting and fighting for what’s right,” the chief added.</div>
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Chadwick told the crowd that many who died in the AIDS crisis had faced police discrimination and should be honored following the apology.</div>
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“I’ll go home tonight and I have names, I’ll remember those names in my prayers,” Chadwick said.</div>
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In comment cards read by event organizers, one community member asked if SFPD would voluntarily agree not to march in the Pride Parade because some LGBTQ people may be triggered by the presence of officers.</div>
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But Cmdr. Teresa Ewins, an out lesbian member of the department, said it is important to celebrate wins for LGBTQ representation within SFPD.</div>
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It is important “for kids to see us,” she said. “Many of us joined to make a difference. It’s a special day for me as well as everyone in the department who is LGBT.”</div>
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Aria Sa’id, executive director of the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, said she wasn’t moved by the apology.</div>
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“I think there needs to be more than just an apology.,” Sa’id told the San Francisco Examiner.</div>
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Fifty years after the riot, Sa’id said the ways in which police discriminate against transgender people, and other people in the LGBTQ spectrum, have changed.</div>
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With high portions of San Francisco’s homeless community and impoverished Tenderloin neighbors being gay, queer or transgender, Sa’id said homeless sweeps homeless are in fact an action against the LGBTQ community.</div>
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“We’re often criminalized for being poor in the Tenderloin,” Sa’id said. “The mayor has increased patrols. There has to be more than an apology.”</div>
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San Francisco LGBTQ groups have previously called on SFPD to apologize for its historic discriminatory actions.</div>
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The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, a local progressive group that traces its roots back to the fiery gay rights trailblazer, called on SFPD to apologize for the Compton’s Cafeteria riots and for the department’s handling of the Pride protest in July.</div>
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Those protesters blocked the parade to call for police to be barred from it. One person who identified as transgender was injured during the arrests and hospitalized. An officer was also injured in the scuffle, according to SFPD.</div>
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“The irony of SFPD committing acts of brutality against peaceful protesters of the Resistance Contingent at the San Francisco Pride Parade on the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall is not lost on us,” the Milk Club wrote at the time. “It warrants outrage and swift recourse.”</div>
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The 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot predated the infamous Stonewall Riots in New York City. At present, both are credited with kick starting calls for LGBTQ civil rights.</div>
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The SFPD was also notorious for beating gay men, and sometimes women, who frequented gay bars in the Castro.</div>
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Officers would require they show identification far more frequently than people drinking in straight bars.</div>
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The White Night riots, also, pitted the local gay community against a violent SFPD following the light sentencing of Dan White, the San Francisco supervisor and former SFPD officer who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone.</div>
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At the meeting Monday, a transgender woman who goes by the name “The Supergirl of San Francisco” told Scott in a teary testimonial that she was wrongly beaten by a hospital security guard.</div>
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When she came to SFPD for help, she said she was not listened to.</div>
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“My body was dragged and pulled up a hill,” she said. “You didn’t believe the victim. You didn’t believe me. You’re supposed to help people here, not engage in transphobia.”</div>
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SFPD to hold LGTBQ ‘reconciliation and recognition’ night at Glide Memorial</h2>
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Police hope to acknowledge hateful history, build trust</div>
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Change isn’t easy — but the San Francisco Police Department is ready to give it a try.</div>
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Monday night, roughly 53 years after San Francisco police transphobia and violence spurred the Compton’s Cafeteria riot, SF police command staff will sit in front of members if the LGBTQ community at Glide Memorial with a single goal.</div>
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To listen.</div>
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Billed as a “reflection and reconciliation” session, San Francisco police hope it will be a first step in rebuilding trust with marginalized communities.</div>
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U. Inn even hotly critiqued police just this year, for their arrest of LGBTQ activists which many described as overly violent. Flipping the script, U. Inn starred in a short video promoting the reconciliation event in a hope to jump-start a conversation.</div>
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“We are not going to resolve the disdain that people have for the SFPD and especially in light of what happened at this year’s Pride” right away, U. Inn said. “So it’s a start.”</div>
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Even the video U. Inn stars in acknowledges this disdain, with members of the LGBTQ community pointing out San Francisco police history of raiding gay bars and harassing transgender people for wearing dresses, which used to be against San Francisco law.</div>
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Two of the event’s organizers, Commander Teresa Ewins, who is the highest-ranking member of the LGTBQ community in SFPD, and Pastor Megan Rohrer, a trailblazing transgender Lutheran pastor and SFPD chaplain, acknowledged this history.</div>
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Friday, they told me they don’t want the community to hold back.</div>
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“It’s bringing a community together that needs to be heard. There’s a lot of mistrust of law enforcement and there are definite reasons why. Monday is a start of hopefully a new relationship,” Ewins said. “I don’t shy away from the conversation.”</div>
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That’s true even in her own department.</div>
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To ready for Monday’s real talk, I asked Ewins to speak frankly about her own experiences in SFPD. While the department isn’t busting windows of gay bars indiscriminately, as they did decades ago, there’s still some fumbling in the dark.</div>
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Rising through the ranks as an out lesbian, she fields questions from her comrades in blue often. “Some officers’ children just came out. Or they’re asking, ‘why is a person gay?’ How did those feelings shape my life, where it is today?”</div>
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The racist and homophobic text messages exchanged by San Francisco police that were revealed in 2015 also uncovered an ugliness that she had to contend with.</div>
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“That was difficult,” she told me. The department has since instituted technology to review officers texts and has “many ways” it can detect that type of behavior. “It was a rather big surprise for me, when I found out about it, to be honest with you. The thing that came to mind was, how does this happen?”</div>
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Ewins has also learned a lot from Pastor Rohrer, who has studied the history of the Compton’s Cafeteria riot, among other similar incidents in San Francisco’s LGBTQ history.</div>
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Conversation is important, Rohrer said, because it can steer history.</div>
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“People don’t know that some of the laws that effected the Compton Cafeteria riot changed very quickly after because people didn’t take those as stopping points,” Rohrer said. “They continued the conversation.”</div>
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That doesn’t mean the police won’t stumble in trying to initiate that conversation.</div>
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Aria Sa’id, executive director of the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, isn’t too happy with the police rollout of the reconciliation event. There were some crossed wires, with the police claiming they reached out to members of the district, and Sa’id saying they never reached out to her personally — a particularly egregious oversight considering they’re tying their event to the Compton’s Cafeteria riot anniversary.</div>
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Whatever happened, it isn’t a good first step, she said. And besides the stumble, she feels “listening” is moot at this point; SFPD needs to act.</div>
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“I have some words,” she started.</div>
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Firstly, police should reduce their presence at the SF Pride parade, and apologize for their handling of protests this year. “We weren’t just resisting, we were resisting the police” themselves, she said.</div>
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She also thinks talk about SFPD’s homophobic past being in, well, the past, is premature.</div>
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Many of San Francisco’s homeless youth are kids fleeing far-flung homes where they were rejected for their LGTBQ identities, Sa’id said, and many impoverished homeless people in the Tenderloin are transgender or gay.</div>
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“Trans people are affected by the criminalization of poverty,” Sa’id said. “Police tell people in tents to pack up and go. Sit and lie is still a law.”</div>
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So sure, the police aren’t beating wealthy gay people in bars anymore, she said — instead, they’re catching up homeless LGTBQ people in sidewalk tent sweeps.</div>
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James Lin, senior director of mission and spirituality at Glide, agreed with some of Sa’id’s points.</div>
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“The police were doing sweeps in the sixties and they’re doing sweeps now, in San Francisco,” Lin said. “I’m from a generation that can still remember going to establishments that had windows all boarded up because they operated in an environment where things like holding hands in a same-sex couple were punishable.”</div>
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It’s not that far back. It’s not history. It’s living memory.</div>
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But after Compton’s Cafeteria riots, Glide Memorial played a leading role in moving the community forward. Glide’s leaders helped form Vanguard, a queer youth organization whose youth members were rioters in Compton’s.</div>
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So that anger? Lin understands it. And embraces it.</div>
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Hard feelings are welcome on Monday night. In fact, that’s pretty much the point of it.</div>
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“Bring it all. Bring the anger. But bring the love. Bring the love you have for your people, and the people you know need you at this moment,” Lin said. “It would not be a good event if it were an easy night. It can only be a good event if there was enough difficulty for us to work through something.”</div>
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Lin had a point.</div>
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“If it’s easy, then, why do it?”</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The reconciliation event will be held Monday, August 26, 2019 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at GLIDE’s Sanctuary room (2nd floor) at 330 Ellis Street (please use the Taylor Street entrance).</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Religious Pain </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When I worked at a care center for kids age 3-12 I met a young boy who tried to kill himself 12 times. He was five years old and wouldn't tell anyone why. On Sunday, while watching Veggie Tales with the kids, he climbed on my lap and told me what was wrong. "I know I'm bad," he said. "And I want to die before I'm so bad that I can't go to heaven." </div>
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Each week I hear more stories of individuals who have been lied to and told that they God's love is limited. To anyone who has heard words like these, I am sorry. I assure you, God is so much bigger than our faithful tunnel vision. </div>
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I wrote a book called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Grumpy-Christian-Megan-Rohrer/dp/1329946871/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523913983&sr=8-1&keywords=mr.+grumpy+christian">Mr. Grumpy Christian</a> to support kids who have experiences like this, but <span style="background-color: transparent;">today I want to share a few ways adults with the wounds of religious abuse can work on healing them. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="font-size: 15px;">Create a sacred space </u><span style="font-size: 15px;">- It could be a drawer, a shelf, a corner or any other space that works for you. Put things in the space that connect you to God, including: bits of nature (shells, rocks, flowers); photos, cards, inspirational phrases; a bible; or anything else that is important to you.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="font-size: 15px;">Read Faithful Self Care Books</u><span style="font-size: 15px;"> - there are lots of books by others who have been inured by faith. Books by authors like Anne Lamott, Jeanette Winterson and Nadia Bolz-Webber may help you feel less alone. The authors I have listed above are also humorous writers. I picked them, to remind you to</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="font-size: 15px;">Laugh</u><span style="font-size: 15px;"> - Finding faithful people with a sense of humor can help you experience a positive emotion with faith. Some of my favorite faithful ways to laugh is to watch the Vicar of Dibley or the comedy of Eddy Izzard.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><u>Reignite your Senses</u> - Miss the smells of church? Light the same incense from your childhood. Taste some of the foods that delight your tongue and remind you God is good. Listen to podcasts or recorded sermons. Get a massage to remind your body it is good and that others can care for you.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><u>Sing</u> - Whether you choose a hymn or another song that connects you to God, vibrating your voice in honor of the sacred is a part of faithful practice around the globe.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><u>Look for God in Nature</u> - Some find God near water, on top of mountains or in the beauty of the woods.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><u>Love</u> - One of the best ways to learn about the kind of love God has for you is to give and receive love.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Lato, Myriad Pro, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><u>Join an Online Worship Service</u> - Find one on your own, or you can always <a href="https://www.facebook.com/meganrohrer">join my services at Grace Lutheran each Sunday at 10:30 am PST</a>. I stream them on Facebook Live.</span></span></li>
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<b>Refuse to Get Stuck</b></div>
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The ideas above are available for you to choose your own adventure. If something works for you, do it. If something doesn't work for you, don't do it. Saying "no" and learning to express when people are pushing you away from faith will also be a part of your healing process. </div>
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When it is too hard to connect with communities, work on your individual connection to God. When it is too hard to sing, read about faith. When contemporary people bug you or are mean, learn more about faithful people of the past (saints, bible characters, reformers, etc). When church buildings trigger you, connect with a pastor through social media. </div>
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The most important thing you can do is to refuse to get stuck. Keep moving and working on connecting with God. </div>
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When you are able, remember that it was the Kid-dom of God that hurt you, not God (hopefully). </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Your Pain is Real</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Only you will be able to check in with your body to see when you are able to worship with others again. Be gentle with yourself. The pain caused by religion and faithful people is a very real thing, even if no one around you understands it. As someone who has experienced religious adversity, I know how hard it is to even consider opening yourself up to faith again. I am proud of you for your willingness to try. </div>
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Blessings on your journey. I'm rooting for you. </div>
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Hundreds gathered in the Castro Sunday, March 11, to remember medical cannabis pioneer Dennis Peron.</div>
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Peron, 71, died of lung cancer January 27. He dedicated his life to the legalization of medical cannabis after he saw the positive effects marijuana had on the lives of people with AIDS during the 1990s.</div>
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Peron's memorial and celebration of life took place in a tent that was erected on Noe Street next to Flore cafe. In addition to hundreds of supporters and friends, Peron's husband, John Entwistle, and Jeff Peron, his brother, were in attendance. Several people said they had traveled from as far away as Florida and New York in order to be there.</div>
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"Dennis would have loved this," Entwistle told the Bay Area Reporter.</div>
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Entwistle pointed out that Flore, formerly known as Cafe Flore, was where Peron co-wrote the ballot measure that became Proposition 215 and led to the legalization of medical cannabis in California in 1996. He ate lunch at the cafe a few days before he died.</div>
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"He loved Cafe Flore," Jeff Peron said. "This is where it began and ended."</div>
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Florida resident Danny Loveland recalled rolling joints for Peron for $50 a day. "Thirty-five years later he offered me a room in his house," Loveland said. "His legacy is the positive effect he had on so many people. All the things he did for us changed society. The proudest moment of my life was walking around with Dennis."</div>
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District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, a gay man who uses medical cannabis to treat his HIV, also attended the celebration.</div>
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"The thing I most remember about Dennis is that he saved lives, countless lives," Sheehy told the B.A.R.</div>
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Peron led a varied life. In 1991 he fought for the passage of San Francisco's Proposition P, which called upon the state to allow for the use of medical cannabis – the measure received 79 percent of the vote. That same year he co-founded the San Francisco Cannabis Buyer's Club, the first medical marijuana dispensary. The club was raided by the police.</div>
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In 1996 Peron co-authored Prop 215. The proposition passed, allowing Peron's dispensary to reopen. In 1996 Peron ran for president as a member of the Grassroots Legalize Cannabis Party. In 1998 he ran for governor in the California primary as a Republican, against his nemesis, then-state Attorney General Dan Lungren.</div>
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The celebration began with Fantuzzi, a friend of Peron's who is known by a single name. "When I'm gone I hope to see a crowd like this celebrate my life," Fantuzzi, who flew in from New York, told the audience. "I can see Dennis smiling from wherever he is."</div>
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Fantuzzi then led the crowd in a Buddhist-styled chant. "Take a moment to connect with our brother and give him thanks," he said.</div>
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Sheehy talked about the importance of medicinal cannabis on the HIV/AIDS community.</div>
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"I am the first openly positive medical marijuana patient in office," he said. "I remember when apartment buildings were emptied out because everyone died. Dennis gave cannabis to his sick lover, that's where the medical cannabis movement began. His cannabis club kept hundreds of people with AIDS alive."</div>
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Jeff Peron recalled the childhood home he shared with his brother on Long Island in New York.</div>
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"We would argue about whether we should watch 'The Three Stooges' or the news," he said. "Later, he brought a lot of reefer home during visits. His legacy is compassion and compassion is not selective. He was a kind and compassionate man. He helped the homeless, he was generous."</div>
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Jeff Peron told the crowd that he did not want the event to be a memorial.</div>
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"So have a good time," he said.</div>
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Singers of the Street, a group comprised of homeless people, formerly homeless people, and homeless advocates, performed several songs, including "Over The Rainbow" and "Stand By Me."</div>
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In addition to Sheehy, several gay leaders spoke, including former Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and mayoral candidate Mark Leno, as did many of Peron's friends. All of the speakers remembered Peron's compassion for people living with AIDS and for the homeless, and his medical cannabis advocacy.</div>
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The Reverend Megan Rohrer, a trans person who is pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, volunteered to help run the celebration.</div>
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"As a queer person I am grateful for Dennis' work during the dawn of the AIDS epidemic," Rohrer said. "His care for those experiencing the side effects of experimental medications and preventing wasting was heroic."</div>
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Others remarked that he ushered in a new way of thinking about cannabis.</div>
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"His legacy is that he changed the conversation on how people view medical marijuana," added District 5 Supervisor and mayoral candidate London Breed.</div>
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As the celebration drew to a close, people were invited to help themselves to the potted marijuana plants that were set down in front of the podium.</div>
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For every day in March, we're highlighting one woman who saw a problem in the world and decided to do something about it.</h2>
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As we ease into Women's History Month, we want to recognize some of the women making history <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">right now</i>. Every day in March, we'll be adding one new profile to the list—highlighting a total of 31 women who each saw a problem and decided to do something about it.</div>
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In this global dumpster fire of an era, women and other marginalized groups are constantly framed and treated as victims. But it's increasingly important to be aware of our collective power. The women we’ll feature include South African anti-poaching activists taking species preservation into their own hands, skateboarding “brujas” creating inclusivity on the half-pipe, and doctors advancing reproductive technology for trans people. Working in a wide range of fields, they have all taken it upon themselves to build a more just and livable future.</div>
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The mission of the Black Mambas is to combat poaching with education, not guns. Mambas will spend 21 days straight patrolling the park for four hours in the morning and four hours at night, listening for the sound of gunshots and looking for suspicious activity. Recently, the group started offering tours to guests in order to teach them about the land and the animals that live on it.</div>
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In July 2016, two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, were shot and killed by the police within days of each other. Molecular biologist Ashley Baccus-Clark wanted to do something about it but felt like she didn’t have an avenue to express her feelings or help the situation in any tangible way at the time. So she decided team up with Hyphen-Labs, a collective with a focus on storytelling through art, tech, and science that centers women of color as the pioneers of emerging technology. Hyphen-Labs’ latest installation, called <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism,</i> is a VR experience that aims to tackle racism by allowing viewers to live through the avatar of a black woman in a futuristic hair salon.</div>
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<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59kk5d/this-neuroscientist-uses-art-to-fight-hate" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2cc2d8; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Read more about Ashley Baccus-Clark here.</a></div>
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In January 2017, President Donald Trump announced his initial “Muslim Ban,” a travel ban barring the populations of seven majority Muslim countries from entering the United States. In response, protests erupted at airports and public spaces across the nation. One protest in downtown New York City’s Foley Square was planned by then-high school senior, Hebh Jamal, who tasked herself with organizing the hundreds of high school students who had pledged on social media to walk out of class in protest of the Trump administration and its ban. During the school walkout, Hebh rallied the young masses, urging youth to commit to a lifetime of activism and to stand up for the rights of others. Since then, Jamal has established herself a formidable and thoughtful leader in the resistance against Trump. Now a college freshman, Jamal has continued her work on establishing interfaith networks of action and protest against 45.</div>
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<i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/kzew79/meet-the-bronx-teen-organizing-the-mass-student-walkout-in-nyc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2cc2d8; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Read more about Hebh Jamal here.</a></i></div>
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In Somalia, a country where over two thirds of youth are unemployed, the al-Qaeda backed terror group al Shabaab targets children in its efforts to train and enlist soldiers. Children as young as nine are lured to al Shabaab through false promises of education and aid and are instead trained to use weapons, transport explosives, carry ammunition, and even enter combat. In Somalia, between 2010 and 2016, over 6,000 children were recruited to become child soldiers. For Somali-Canadian activist Ilwad Elman, those numbers are intolerable and she has dedicated her life's work to ending the inhumane practice. Currently, Elman serves as the Director of Programs and Development of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Center, a NGO located in Somalia’s capital which provides rehabilitation for former child soldiers in addition to education and aid to vulnerable youth. Through her work, Elman is on a mission to ensure that Somalia’s children grow up as kids, not soldiers.</div>
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<a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjpq5x/we-spoke-with-an-activist-rehabilitating-child-soldiers-in-somalia" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2cc2d8; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Read more about Ilwad Elman here.</a></div>
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When Fraidy Reiss was 19 years old, her family arranged her marriage to a man within their Orthodox Jewish community that she had only known for three months. After she was wed, Reiss learned that her new husband was a domestic abuser who repeatedly threatened to end her life. Because she had neither a college education, a job, nor was supported by her family in her decision to leave her husband, it took 15 years for Reiss to obtain a divorce. In 2011, after leaving her husband and obtaining full custody of her two daughters, Reiss founded the nonprofit Unchained at Last to support other women who wish to leave arranged and forced marriages through legal assistance and representation.</div>
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Reverend Megan Rohrer is America’s first openly transgender minister to be ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church. While on her pulpit, Rohrer preaches about the power of harmony and acceptance. In 2017, she became the San Francisco Police Department’s first-ever LGBTQ Chaplain, allowing her to spread her deeply held belief that religion should unite, not divide, us even further.</div>
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Backers of this weekend’s Women’s March aren’t looking for a repeat of last year’s landmark event, where millions of people in cities across the world took to the streets to protest President Trump’s election, his proposed policies and his treatment of women.</div>
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This time they want something more. And different.</div>
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“We don’t want to march just because we did it last year. This isn’t a reunion in the streets,” said Vicky Mattson of Monte Sereno, co-leader of the San Jose march set for Saturday. “Last year was sort of cathartic, just getting out on the street. But this year we have people who are both engaged and willing to get involved.”</div>
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Action, not words, will be the key, added Martha Shaughnessy, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco march.</div>
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“We’re looking for people not to just empathize or go on Facebook or talk about it at dinner parties, but to take action,” she said. “We’re connecting all sorts of disparate groups who have always operated in their own silos.”</div>
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That’s a big change from a year ago, when just showing up in amazing numbers seemed for many to be message enough.</div>
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On Jan. 21, 2017, an estimated 500,000 people marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., dwarfing the 200,000 spectators crowd-counting experts — but not Trump — said had shown up for the president’s inauguration the day before.</div>
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But that number paled compared to the number of marchers outside the nation’s capital. Sister events in San Francisco and Oakland each brought out more 100,000 marchers, with another 40,000 showing up in San Jose. Similar crowds were seen in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver and other cities across the county.</div>
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Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman, a pair of academic researchers, found that more than 4 million people showed up at better than 650 reported marches in the United States, with another 300,000 walking in some 261 marches outside the United States.</div>
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“Despite all the talk about it, the Women’s March has never gotten its due,” said California’s Barbara Boxer, who retired in 2016 after 24 years in the U.S. Senate. “It was the largest march in the country’s history.”</div>
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That didn’t stop some people from disparaging the protest. Trump, for example, defiantly accused the media of downplaying the crowd at his inauguration and professed bewilderment at the march.</div>
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“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote?” he asked in a Jan. 22 tweet, although he later added, “Even if I don’t always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.”</div>
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Others took their unhappiness further. And paid for it.</div>
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John Carman, a Republican on New Jersey’s Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the equivalent of a county supervisor, shared a meme that mockingly asked “Will the women’s protest end in time for them to cook dinner?”</div>
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Not everyone found it as funny as Carman did. In November, the veteran public official found himself ousted from office by 32-year-old Democrat Ashley Bennett, a political novice who decided to run after being infuriated by Carman’s quick dismissal of the march.</div>
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Bennett wasn’t alone in either the anger or the resolve spotlighted by the Women’s March. In cities, counties and states across the country, a never-before-seen wave of women have signed up to run for office in 2018.</div>
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So far this year, 596 women have said they plan to run for Congress or statewide office in 2018, more than double the early January numbers in 2016 and 2012, and nearly double the 311 who were interested in 2014, said Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at New Jersey’s Rutgers University. Registration for the center’s annual “Ready to Run” training workshop for potential female candidates had to be closed last year after a record number of signups.</div>
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“There’s a new energy and enthusiasm out there ... with a lot of it about (Trump) winning and Hillary (Clinton) losing,” she said. “Women say they have always been on the sidelines and decided they can’t do that anymore. I’ve heard it over and over again.”</div>
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Those numbers are long-awaited balm for Boxer.</div>
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“Having been one of those elected in the Year of the Woman (1992), I always thought it was overstated, since we tripled the number of women in the Senate to six,” she said. “I’ve wondered when we’re going to have a real Year of the Woman, and this might be it.”</div>
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That push for political clout is only part of the still-growing legacy of last year’s Women’s March. Many women inspired by that day of energy and action have stayed involved, fighting for issues ranging from supporting immigrant rights to ending sexual harassment.</div>
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“When you fight for equality for women, you fight for equality for all,” Boxer said.</div>
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But keeping the fires of action and advocacy burning wasn’t easy, march organizers admit, especially since so many of those original marchers were first-time protesters.</div>
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“I cared a lot about social justice,” said Mattson of the San Jose march. “I was a good citizen and I voted, but the 2016 election taught me ... that it wasn’t enough. I needed to do more.”</div>
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The march not only let people speak out against the problems and concerns they saw around them, but also let them know that they weren’t alone.</div>
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“A lot of people were willing to step out of their comfort zone and take actions they had never done before,” Mattson added. “They realized that, ‘If I stand up, I’ll have people behind me and people alongside me.’”</div>
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That feeling of feminist solidarity born of the Women’s March brought power that swelled well beyond politics.</div>
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Volunteer shirts and vest for the Women’s March are strewn across a table in San Francisco, Calif. Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018.</div>
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The #MeToo movement was born of sexual harassment in Hollywood, and it was a new willingness by TV and film stars to talk about their appalling experiences with louts, molesters and rapists in positions of power in their industry that made the headlines. But it was the thousands of other people — maids, waitresses, students, office workers and others — who pushed the realization that harassment wasn’t just a “boys will be boys” problem in one single industry, but an ongoing nationwide assault on women that had to be stopped without delay.</div>
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At least some of that change can be attributed to the Women’s March, with the focus it put on women’s issues and the bonds of solidarity it created, said Sophia Andary, co-leader of this weekend’s San Francisco march.</div>
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“Fear controlled many people, fear of not being believed,” she said. “But when #MeToo happened, people said they weren’t going to put up with that crap anymore. People were willing to stand up because they knew people had their back.”</div>
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In recent months, powerful men in business, entertainment, politics, academia and other pursuits have found themselves shamed and instantly unemployed for conduct that for many years was either ignored or punished with little more than a slap on the wrist.</div>
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The growing focus on women’s issues also has pushed plenty of long-standing concerns to the forefront.</div>
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In one example, for years there have been complaints about the way women are depicted in advertising, with women arguing that the continual pictures of impossibly thin models with perfect hair and flawless skin create body image problems for young girls.</div>
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This month, though, the giant pharmacy chain CVS agreed to do away with the airbrush and stop “materially altering” the images — and models — associated with its beauty products.</div>
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In San Francisco, police have agreed not to arrest prostitutes and other sex workers when they report a crime, dumping the unspoken but long-standing belief that certain people are asking for it when it comes to being a victim of crime.</div>
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In Sacramento, Assemblyman Bill Quirk, D-Hayward, has co-authored a bill, AB1761, that would require hotels to provide maids with a “panic button” they could use if they were harassed or attacked.</div>
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It’s not a new idea. Similar programs already are operating in Seattle and Chicago.</div>
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“It’s got a lot of visibility and that’s probably because of #MeToo,” Quirk said. “We’ve had our eyes on the bill for a while, but #MeToo brought it into focus.”</div>
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Those victories throughout the year, both big and small, have helped last year’s marchers keep moving forward, said Andary of San Francisco.</div>
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“Our biggest fear now is inaction,” she said. “We have to make sure we stand aligned with our community,” which means providing opportunities for political and social involvement, even after the thrill of once again marching with thousands of fellow-believers, women, men and children.</div>
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The marchers now have to move beyond protesting the inequities they see to actually doing something about them, said Jenny Bradanini, a co-leader of the San Jose march. This year’s slogan, “Hear Our Vote,” points to the effort to gain the political power needed to change the country.</div>
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“Last year, a lot of people were really new to taking action,” she said. “Now they’re experienced and comfortable with having their voices heard.”</div>
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Reverend <a href="https://www.revrohrer.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2cc2d8; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Megan Rohrer</a> is the first openly transgender minister with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The 37-year-old activist, pastor, and author preaches that we should use faith to unite, rather than divide us.</div>
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After growing up in small town South Dakota, Rohrer moved to California to complete their Master of Divinity degree from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkley. Shortly after, they started working at the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco, and has been a <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">pastor</span> for just over a decade.</div>
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This year, Rohrer became the San Francisco Police Department’s first LGBTQ Chaplain, founded <a href="http://sfwelcomeministry.blogspot.it/2017/02/february-newsletter.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2cc2d8; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Singers of the Street</a>, a choir made up of homeless or formerly homeless people and advocates, and initiated <a href="http://sfwelcomeministry.blogspot.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2cc2d8; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Welcome</a>, an organization aiming to abolish poverty with housing, clothing, and food programs.</div>
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Broadly spoke with this pioneering faith leader about their accomplishments, common misconceptions about religion, and how we can all be more accepting in 2018.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">BROADLY: You've been a <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">pastor</span> for 10 years: what have you learned over the past decade? </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">MEGAN ROHRER:</span> I have. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">pastor</span> is that being your truest, most authentic self is a gift to others. Each week, I preach about ancient stories of faithful people who were just as diverse, fabulous, and motley as we are today. Their stories inspire me to find hope in hopeless times, having the courage to come out, act and remain authentic saves the lives of others. I receive notes every week from people who decided not to take their own lives, just because I exist. I must confess that sometimes that feels like it’s too much for one person’s shoulders. But, during a time when the president’s tweets can attack a trans policy, I’m grateful that I can use social media to inspire others.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How can people use faith to unite instead of divide? </span>If people of faith could love the fabulous diversity of their neighbors as much as they love God—we would change the world. I wrote a children’s book called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Grumpy-Christian-Megan-Rohrer/dp/1329946871" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2cc2d8; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Mr. Grumpy Christian</a> as my response to the presidential debates last year: The moral is that God’s love is not debatable. Rather than using faith to unite, I hope we will use faith to diversify. Meaning, we will be able to live ourselves enough to be vulnerable and honest without shame or fear. And we will love others enough to love them just as they are. Christians must proclaim "never again" to the kind of faith that seeks sameness—like white supremacy and anti-Semitism.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How does it feel being the first trans <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">pastor</span> in the Lutheran Church? </span>I’m really fortunate to be Lutheran (ELCA), as Lutherans strongly affirm God’s love for trans folk. But it feels kind of lonely sometimes. While there are a large number of LGBT pastors who I can share experiences with, there are only 20 openly trans pastors and seminarians in the ELCA. Most of the colleagues I work with have little understanding of trans issues. Being known as a trans <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">pastor</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How do you respond to that?</span>Because I’m a <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">pastor</span>, I have decided not to clarify incorrect assumptions about my private parts. This is a choice—to not participate in inappropriate conversations about my body. But this sometimes leads to people dismissing my voice. Ironically, this has happened on both sides of the coin; conservative people have dismissed me, presuming females cannot speak with authority about God. Progressive people have dismissed me as being "masculine of center."</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How can people be more accepting?</span>Mind their own business and let other people’s private parts remain private. While we live in a time where some people need to be vocal to help advocate, my hope is that in the future, people are allowed to use bathrooms in peace and be celebrated for their merit rather than their bodies. When you can, try not to be a jerk, but that’s advice for all, not just trans issues.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">What was your biggest accomplishment in 2017 and what are you looking forward to in 2018?</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />This year, I became the San Francisco Police Department’s first LGBTQ Chaplain and it was an honor to be able to support the officers who lost love ones in the Ghostship Fire, affected by mass casualty shootings, who were injured by bullets or other vehicles and those who mourn deaths of fellow officers. While some of the most important and life giving work I do is confidential, in ICU's, mortuaries or crime scenes, I was also able help with some major public events.</div>
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The most notable was my work to help nonviolent protests remain nonviolent. In August, I worked with community leaders, including Cleve Jones, to support over 10,000 nonviolent protesters who gathered in the weeks after Charlottesville to protest white supremacy. Marchers descended from the Castro, Mission and Grace Cathedral united at City Hall. The march also resulted in over $110,000 for diverse community groups in San Francisco. In 2018, I’ll continue my working helping to support nonviolence, by leading the Women’s March’s Peace Ambassadors. I will also be working to create a Community Chaplaincy to support San Francisco’s community policing efforts by providing a diverse interfaith chaplaincy for victims and their families.</div>
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Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer (pronouns they/them) is a "work in progress," they said. Raised in South Dakota, Rohrer was part of a heavily Lutheran community growing up. </div>
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"You can imagine it's not the most fun place to figure out you're trans," they said.</div>
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In college, Megan says they were constantly harassed, and some students would use the Gospel of Matthew to insinuate it'd be better if they drowned in the ocean.</div>
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Despite the hatred, Rohrer found a way to rise above and use their faith as a source of love and acceptance. Rohrer says they received enough abuse to prompt them to pursue religious education. "I did a lot of studying and I ended up becoming a pastor," they said. "Just trying to vocalize what I knew in my gut was OK."</div>
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"Using faith to tear other people down is not good news," they said. "We need to all be as loud and as angry as the people who want to declare that there are types of people that God can't love."</div>
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Rohrer has written several works relating to faith and the LGBT community, which can be purchased <a class="body-link" data-href="https://www.amazon.com/Megan-Rohrer/e/B00O6H2SKI/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1512499499&sr=8-3" href="https://www.amazon.com/Megan-Rohrer/e/B00O6H2SKI/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1512499499&sr=8-3&tag=cosmopolitan_auto-append-20&ascsubtag=[artid|10049.a.14106086[src|" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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After Strut, the men's health center in the Castro, abruptly canceled its Black Love event in July, some LGBT African-Americans and others began discussing whether people of color feel welcome in the Castro.<br />
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, which operates Strut, said the Black Love cancellation was due to an "odd" email it received that officials said "raised concern." But they never made the email public and declined further comment. They said Black Love would resume at a later date, which happened this month.<br />
For members of San Francisco's queer African-American community, the Black Love cancellation was the latest in a long line of incidents in which people of color have felt that they are not wanted in the Castro.<br />
Decades ago, Asian-Americans, blacks, and other minorities often had to show multiple IDs to enter bars. In 2004, blacks and others accused Les Natali of discriminating against African-Americans at his Badlands bar. That resulted in findings by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission that Natali had discriminated against African-Americans, but the findings were never official, because the HRC director at the time did not sign off on the report. The parties eventually reached a mediated settlement, and Natali has always denied the charges. After numerous court battles, Natali later bought the Pendulum, a Castro bar that catered to African-American gays, closed it for renovations, and reopened it as Toad Hall in 2009.<br />
In 2016, Black Lives Matter dropped out of being the organizational grand marshal in the San Francisco Pride parade after Pride officials announced they were increasing police presence at the event in the aftermath of the massacre at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 people died. BLM cited the numerous shootings of unarmed African-Americans by police as the reason for its decision.<br />
Shaun Haines is a gay African-American organizer in San Francisco. He attended the October 19 Black Love program, the first one since the July cancellation.<br />
"The event has changed. It was held on a different floor and day of the week and attracted a lot less people than what seems to be the average for events held at Strut. Someone suggested that security might be organized in conjunction with Castro Community on Patrol. They weren't present," he said, referring to the volunteer safety group.<br />
Haines added that he greatly enjoyed the performances he saw at Black Love, which included poetry, spoken word, and comedy. He shared his feelings about both the good and bad sides of the Castro.<br />
"The Castro is often a great place for community gatherings, recreation, and protests against our overall oppression," Haines told the Bay Area Reporter. "The Castro represents our mainstream gay community."<br />
Haines said that the Castro can be a place where queers can gather against the Trump administration. <br />
"We have the opportunity to join forces with other communities who are slowly starting to understand that we are all in this together," he said.<br />
But Haines agrees that there are problems that need to be addressed.<br />
"Among LGBT minorities, the transgender community, and for individuals with non-mainstream identities, the Castro is not widely considered to be a mecca for all," Haines said. <br />
"We have been marching, holding rallies, and organizing demonstrations and yet not much has changed," he noted. "We feel undervalued and are underserved. We must, at every turn, demand to be heard or fight for a seat at the table or else our cultural heritage and contributions will be lost and not preserved alongside mainstream LGBT identities."<br />
Haines feels that in most representations of the community, diversity is ignored. <br />
The B.A.R. also spoke to Sister Merry Peter of the<a href="https://www.thesisters.org/"> </a>Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer of Grace Lutheran Church about solutions.<br />
"As long as there has been a Castro, vulnerable LGBTQ individuals who have felt unwelcome or unable to afford a Castro lifestyle have urged reforms, safety, and legal opportunities to become homeowners and merchants in the area and support for artists and activists," Rohrer, the first out trans pastor to lead a Lutheran congregation, said. <br />
"The screaming queens and the vanguard youth on Polk Street in the 1960s and 1970s protested the same issues we see today," added Rohrer, referring to trans people, drag queens, and young LGBTs.<br />
Rohrer, who prefers gender-neutral pronouns, made a point of saying that they want businesses in the Castro to succeed. <br />
"At the same time, our LGBTQ community must address the racial disparities, economic inequalities, and, sometimes, outright biases of our community," Rohrer said.<br />
Rohrer urged the community to look back upon its history. <br />
"LGBTQ activists must find ways to both thank the queer heroes who have brought us this far and name the ways that we have benefited from racism, economizing the bodies of others, and encouraging addiction," they said. "We must also do what we can to mentor and financially support the art, advocacy, businesses, and low-income housing options that support the most vulnerable in our LGBTQ community."<br />
Peter also feels that much can be learned from looking back. <br />
"Discrimination has been part of the Castro since the beginning," Peter said. "We need to listen to people's stories – people of color have never been welcome in bars. To change this, we have to admit that this is a systemic issue. We have to believe the people who feel excluded – we can't pretend that these aren't real stories. We have to start making deep and powerful changes."<br />
Peter said that there are things people can do on a personal level. <br />
"We have to confront our own prejudices," Peter said. "We have to make an effort to get to know people who are different from us – we have to be honest as a community that our institutions profit from discrimination."</div>
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“Berkeley and San Francisco heads up…. Patriot Prayer will be in town and march next week,” he wrote.</div>
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Short of turning into the Flash, I was still a bit confused, and asked him to illuminate again. Gibson wrote, “I can’t give you specific details on what we are doing but it will be different but the same as what we did last time in SF.”</div>
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To be clear, what he did last time was cancel his rally a day before it was set to take place Aug. 26 at Crissy Field, and and instead hopped over to Pacifica as 15,000 or so San Franciscans marched in opposition to Patriot Prayer. Gibson and his followers eventually swung back into The City, and led counter-protesters and journalists on a merry chase from neighborhood to neighborhood.</div>
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One of the few stragglers was a self-identified transgender woman who calls herself The Supergirl. She told me she felt Gibson and Patriot Prayer were misunderstood, and that she cried as she hugged Gibson and could feel his positive “energy.”</div>
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By contrast, the Rev. Megan Rohrer, a frequent rabble rouser in San Francisco, tweeted earlier this month that “On Aug 15, 2017 Joey said ’there are good members of Antifa.’ He is on whatever side the person he is talking to is on.”</div>
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It should be mentioned that the Oath Keepers, a militia that likely would not find many supporters in our lefty town, backed out of Patriot Prayer’s rally (before it was canceled) partly because Gibson scheduled Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman — who allegedly has direct white nationalist ties — as a speaker.</div>
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Still, Gibson was vague enough that I’d take it all with a huge ol’ grain of salt. If he does come, it’s a shame it may be Monday and not this weekend …</div>
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Can you imagine the right-wing Patriot Prayer accidentally finding themselves wandering through the leather-filled Folsom Street Fair on Sunday? Now that would’ve been a serious hoot.</div>
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New polling results have confirmed what faith leaders have long known, that many LGBT people eschew religion.<br /><br />According to Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, nearly half of LGBT Americans, at 46 percent, are religiously unaffiliated. The finding is roughly twice the number of Americans overall (24 percent) who are religiously unaffiliated.<br /><br />The findings are from the firm's "America's Changing Religious Identity" report, which was released last week. It is the largest survey of American religious and denominational identity ever conducted, according to PRRI.<br /><br />"I thought it was very accurate based on what I see among LGBTQ folks. I think it is harder in the Bay Area to come out as a Christian than as a queer person," said the Reverend Megan Rohrer, Ph.D., who is transgender and the pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco.<br /><br />Michael Chertok, a gay man who is president of San Francisco's LGBT Jewish synagogue Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, was also unsurprised by the findings. "In general, Americans are less religiously affiliated today. This is even more so in urban areas where many LGBT people live," Chertok, who was out of town attending a conference for LGBT Jews, wrote in an emailed reply. "And it is further exacerbated in the LGBT community, where some have not been accepted as who they are by their faith – and even worse, sometimes persecuted."<br /><br />The report is based on findings from PRRI's American Values Atlas and interviews with more than 101,000 Americans from all 50 states. It found that only 43 percent of Americans identify as white and Christian, and only 30 percent as white and Protestant. In 1976, roughly eight in 10 (81 percent) Americans identified as white and identified with a Christian denomination, and a majority (55 percent) were white Protestants.<br /><br />"For a long time a lot of this was anecdotal. Now, we can more clearly see this decline in religions and can see it with greater accuracy," said the Reverend Jim Mitulski, a gay man who is the interim senior minister at the Congregational Church of the United Church of Christ in Needham, Massachusetts.<br /><br />Mitulski said the largely white congregation is emblematic of the churches in decline. "And we are liberal," he said. "In a sense, while I hate to see the decline, I am seeing it firsthand."<br /><br />Thus, the PRRI poll "does confirm what I have been seeing," added Mitulski. It also should be a wake-up call for political leaders, he said.<br /><br />"The political message is they need to stop making alliances with conservative religious leaders who are trying to use religion to control people," said Mitulski. "They need to stop seeing their alliances with religious leaders and religious organizations as something they can translate into votes."<br /><br />As for the findings about LGBT Americans, the report found few identify as Christian. Only six percent of LGBT Americans are white evangelical Protestant, according to PRRI, while similar numbers identify as white mainline Protestant (8 percent) and white Catholic (6 percent).<br /><br />Fewer than one in 10 identify as black Protestant (6 percent), Hispanic Catholic (5 percent), or Hispanic Protestant (3 percent), reported PRRI.<br /><br />The report found stark generational differences among LGBT Americans in their religious identity. A majority (56 percent) of LGBT young adults (age 18 to 29) are religiously unaffiliated, compared to one-quarter (25 percent) of LGBT seniors (age 65 or older).<br /><br />Notably, Buddhists and Unitarian-Universalists have a much higher proportion of LGBT members than other religious traditions, reported PRRI. One in seven Buddhists (14 percent) and Unitarian-Universalists (14 percent) identify as LGBT.<br /><br />As for LGBT Jews, the survey found that LGBT Americans are somewhat overrepresented among non-Christian religions with 6 percent identifying as Jewish, compared to 2 percent of the general public.<br /><br />"Particularly over the past year, we've seen a sharp upswing in the number of people attending our prayer services and programs – and some of the highest numbers of new members joining our community in our history, including many young people," wrote Chertok.<br /><br />The Reform Jewish movement (URJ) has embraced LGBT Jews, noted Chertok, ordaining gay, lesbian, and transgender rabbis, permitting rabbis to marry same-sex couples for many years, and encouraging congregations to reach out to LGBT Jews. The Conservative Jewish movement has followed this trend, he added, noting that even some of the most fundamentalist Orthodox Jews "are starting to show openness" toward LGBT Jews.<br /><br />"In general, the American Jewish community has been relatively accepting of LGBT people, compared to some other faiths," wrote Chertok. "Jewish synagogues in most major American cities, like Sha'ar Zahav in San Francisco, have had an outreach to the LGBT community for more than 40 years."<br /><br />While certain Christian denominations continue to preach against LGBT people, there are those that are LGBT-affirming, pointed out Rohrer, and welcome LGBT individuals looking for a religious home.<br /><br />"I think in the same way people would understand if you go to one Chinese restaurant that serves terrible food it is not emblematic of all Chinese restaurants. Research churches like where you want to go to the movies or eat food," said Rohrer. "It is work to figure out what is a safe or supportive space. We can't just assume every faith community is going to be terrible because we had abusive experiences with one faith." Despite the poll findings, Mitulski said he doesn't believe that Americans' "religious impulse" is on the decline. Prior to his moving to Boston last year, he worked in Denver and in Dallas "where church-going – even among LGBT people – is very strong," he noted.<br /><br />And many LGBT people "are still gravitating," added Mitulski, to more liberal religions. "All of this is to say church leaders need to take notice that LGBT people are spiritual people but not interested in homophobic, oppressive religions," he said. "In the end I don't think anybody is."<br /><br />The full report can be found online at <a href="https://www.prri.org/research/american-religious-landscape-christian-religiously-unaffiliated/" style="color: #7e8ce7; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.prri.org/research/american-religious-landscape-christian-religiously-unaffiliated/</a>.<div style="margin-bottom: 8px;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873812505020383744.post-73079261655809934402017-09-14T19:55:00.002-07:002017-09-14T19:55:59.617-07:00In the News: Nonviolence Radio<strong>1 PM</strong> “Nonviolence Radio” Empathic listening can do
powerful work in nonviolence. In this episode, we talk with Edwin Rutsch
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Joey Gibson and Megan Rohrer, two key organizers (at political odds)
from this past weekend’s rallies in SF/Berkeley. Audio here: http://kwmr.org/broadcasts/10438Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873812505020383744.post-15145541081568938582017-09-14T19:52:00.003-07:002017-09-14T19:52:35.413-07:00In the News: ESPN<b>Lincoln High School Announces 2017 Hall of Fame Class </b><br />
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Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls will induct 10 new members into their Hall of Fame class in 2017.<br />
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Residents
of San Francisco are bracing for thousands to descend on the city's
streets this weekend — and hoping that there will not be violence. Weeks
after a deadly confrontation between white nationalists and
counter-protestors in <a data-reactid="254" href="http://time.com/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally-clashes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charlottesville, Va</a>., right-wing organizers are hosting a "<a data-reactid="257" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1454498877929964/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A108%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22post_page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22surface%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D&source=108&action_history=%5B%7B%22surface%22%3A%22post_page%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D&has_source=1&fref=mentions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free speech" event</a> near the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday, and left-wing organizers have planned <a data-reactid="260" href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1R_8tVmclr-ubzi9nCwB-l5BEa3E&ll=37.75769737038017%2C-122.45027480000005&z=13" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">more than a dozen</a> events around the city in response.</div>
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Though
the organizers of the "free speech" event have disavowed white
nationalism and say their intention is to gather peacefully, many fear
that neo-Nazis will show up, a specter that has sent San Francisco's
progressive activists into overdrive. "People are very alarmed by what's
going on in the country," says longtime activist Cleve Jones, a
well-known figure in the gay rights movement. "I have never seen the
level of activity that I’ve seen over the last year.”</div>
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On
Wednesday, the National Park Service issued a finalized permit for the
"free speech" rally to a right wing group known as Patriot Prayer,
allowing the event planned for <a data-reactid="268" href="https://www.nps.gov/goga/upload/Presdio_Access_Plan_Map_082317_V8.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Crissy Field</a>
to go forward. The expanse that runs along the city's northern shore is
federal land, and the park service said that after consulting with
their law enforcement arm, as well as the San Francisco Police
Department, the decision was made to issue a permit "to promote the
peaceful, non-violent expression of views."</div>
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The
permit also came with conditions: not only will firearms be banned
(normally concealed carry laws allow them in the area) but ralliers will
not be allowed to bring anything that might be used as a weapon —
pepper spray, drones, shields, bats, selfie sticks, as well as <a data-reactid="273" href="https://www.nps.gov/goga/first-amendment-permits.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">other items</a>.</div>
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City
officials do not have estimates for how many people might show up. But
grassroots organizers believe there could be as many as 50,000 people in
attendance this weekend, the vast majority taking part in
counter-demonstrations that range from a musical celebration in Civic
Center to a "mobile dance party" to the formation of a 100-foot "human
heart" on Ocean Beach. Another right-wing rally planned for Sunday in
Berkeley is expected to draw additional crowds from both sides.</div>
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Joey
Gibson is the man behind Patriot Prayer (which he says is an "ideology"
more than a group). His guess is also that the people at his rally will
be vastly outnumbered by counter-protestors, and it's an educated one:
The 33-year-old from Portland, Ore., has organized about a dozen similar
events in the last several months.</div>
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Though
they began as pro-Trump rallies, Gibson says he's left issues of "who
you vote for" behind and is now focused on the belief that the First
Amendment is being threatened by people who are intolerant of any
viewpoints that don't match their own, on the left and the right.
"People have a right to say whatever they want," says Gibson. "Hate
speech is free speech ... Everyone has a right to be hateful.
Unfortunately it’s not good for our society. But there is no debate, the
law is the law.”</div>
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While he has publicly disavowed white supremacy and racism, Gibson also casts <a data-reactid="318" href="http://time.com/4899658/charlottesville-antifa-protests/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">anti-fascist organizers known as antifa</a>
as one of the enemies of free speech — a belief that many white
nationalists share. He acknowledges that individuals with extreme views
have been attracted to his events in the past and that part of the
intention of hosting an event in San Francisco is to show how "extremely
intolerant" such liberal cities can be.</div>
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"There’s
a lot people who disagree with the culture but they’re too afraid to
stand up to it because they get called names, they get called Nazis,
racists,” he says. There are people in cities like San Francisco who
have "a meltdown when I’m sending a good message ... they’re going to
get triggered and they freak out. That stuff gets on film and we send
that film out so the country can see, they can see the insanity.” Such
statements give credence to the notion that these rallies are being held
to provoke the left, even if Gibson has spoken often about love and
peace.</div>
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While
officials are working to keep opposing groups far apart from each
other, hoping the weekend ends without serious injuries as <a data-reactid="325" href="http://time.com/4907681/boston-free-speech-rally-protests-charlottesville/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">recent gatherings in Boston did</a>, many expect extremists on the right and left to clash. Local lawmaker Mark Farrell, a driving force behind a <a data-reactid="328" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/266804640483421" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Peace, Love and Understanding" rally</a>
being hosted in the city's Civic Center, says his intention is to draw
counter-protestors far from Crissy Field so that people can "celebrate
our spirit in San Francisco in a way that does not give them any
oxygen."</div>
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<a data-reactid="332" href="http://www.sfweekly.com/topstories/s-f-officials-battle-alt-right-rally/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Like other city officials</a>,
Farrell has cast the Patriot Prayer event as a "Nazi rally" that will
be catnip for white supremacists. When asked what he thinks of Gibson's
statements about opposing such groups and promising to turn them away,
he says, "I don't buy what they are selling for a minute."</div>
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His
office oversees the area of the city that abuts Crissy Field and has
been dealing with an influx of phone calls and emails from residents who
are "angry and frightened," he says. “We want to do everything possible
to encourage people not to show up at the event.”</div>
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Local
organizers have been grappling with how to balance safety and the
desire that residents in San Francisco have to make a statement about
their beliefs. On a recent conference call, organizers from several
groups swapped tips about how to maintain non-violence and traded ideas
about what form protest should take.</div>
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Some of those ideas were high-minded, like <a data-reactid="341" href="https://nohatesf.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">setting up a website</a>
where people can, from the comfort of their homes, donate to groups
that have missions antithetical to neo-Nazis. Others were lower brow,
like taking dogs to poop en masse in Crissy Field before the rally was
supposed to start. A suggestion to throw glitter on the rally's speakers
was scrapped when someone pointed out that the glitter might hurt the
"sensitive environmental habitat" in the area.</div>
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One
of the people on that call was Megan Rohrer, a Lutheran pastor and
volunteer chaplain for the SFPD. Rohrer, who uses the pronoun <em data-reactid="346">they</em>,
says some people also imagined unfurling a giant rainbow flag from the
Golden Gate Bridge, which will be the backdrop for the "free speech"
event.</div>
Rohrer
acknowledges that "there might be people who want to go there to have a
violent encounter.” Many expect anti-fascist groups to meet the
ralliers head on. But Rohrer also hopes people will attend a march from
the city's Castro district to Civic Center instead. “The more we can
feed people sandwiches rather than an adrenaline," they say, "the better
our chances for keeping peace.”Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3873812505020383744.post-67623062629502756412017-08-26T20:29:00.000-07:002017-08-26T20:29:08.768-07:00In the News: NBC<h1 class="headline" itemprop="headline">
San Francisco to Counter Patriot Prayer Rally by Eating Cake, Dancing and Leaving 'Dog Poop' at Crissy Field</h1>
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Call it uniquely "San Francisco," but the City by the Bay has its own ideas for counter protests</h2>
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The National Park Service on Wednesday granted a permit for a hotly-debated rally at Crissy Field this weekend.</div>
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Right-wing group, Patriot Prayer, last week applied for a permit to host "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1454498877929964/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_upcoming_events_card%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A[]%7D]%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D">Freedom Rally San Francisco</a>" on Saturday.</div>
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Despite
criticism from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor
Ed Lee and Superintendent London Breed, the National Park Service said,
"We cannot deny a permit to anyone planning to <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Mayor-Reacts-to-National-Park-Services-Decision-to-Issue-Permit-For-Crissy-Field-Rally-441548083.html">exercise their First Amendment rights</a> based on their political stance or beliefs."</div>
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Wary of whether the rally will draw white nationalists and invite violence, San Franciscans have made it known that <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Nancy-Pelosi-Urges-National-Park-Service-to-Reconsider-Permit-for-Alt-Right-Rally-at-Crissy-Fields-440617523.html">racism and hatred are unwelcome in their hometown</a>.</div>
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And the City by the Bay isn't stopping there. Residents have begun organizing counter-protests with unusual themes. </div>
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Up first is <b>"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/333457693777088/?active_tab=about">Leave your dog poop on Crissy Field</a></b>" from 12 p.m. Aug. 25 through 10 a.m. Aug. 26. </div>
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Organizers wrote on Facebook that the idea behind the event is to "leave a gift for our Alt-Right friends."</div>
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They
continued: "Take your dog to Crissy Field and let them do their
business and be sure not to clean it up! Watch out for landmines,
friends! We can get together Sunday and clean up the mess and hug each
other!"</div>
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San Francisco artist Tuffy
Tuffington, who has two dogs, came up with the curious way to protest
the Crissy Field rally, without needing direct conflict. </div>
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"I
was walking around and had this idea of people marching around in
fields of poop," Tuffington said. "I thought that would be a nice form
of civil disobedience and a way to not actually be there when they’re
there."</div>
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He didn't know it would
generate the interest it has, but is committed to making a stink — both
literally and figuratively. So far, 525 people have demonstrated
interest in this gathering, which has piqued the interest of nearly
3,000 more.</div>
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"I really intended
for it to be a joke for my friends and I didn’t realize I made it
public," Tuffington said. "A few hours later, there was 500 people
interested."</div>
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Other
counter-protesters, in true San Francisco style, are encouraging people
to dance as "an alternative to hate, confrontation and aggression."</div>
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The "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1946489382274941/?hc_location=ufi"><b>SF LovedUp Mobile Dance Counter-Rally</b></a>"
will last from 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 26 at Marina Green Park. Attendees will
not interrupt the white supremacist rally, but will dress in their
"amazing colorful fabulous best" and "groove to cheesy, party pop dance
athems," organizers wrote on Facebook. </div>
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More than 1,000 people have said they will be at the event and nearly 6,000 more are interested.</div>
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Meanwhile,
Stop the Violence, Galeria de la Raza, Queer Nation-San Francisco,
Castro Community on Patrol, Unafraid, and a slew of other community
organizations have teamed up with the Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer for what is
described on Facebook as "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/266804640483421/?ti=icl"><b>San Francisco Peacefully Unites Against White Nationalists</b></a>."</div>
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Organizers
have issued a special invite to "all drag performers and sparkly
freaks" to counter "violent behaviors" from 12 to 5 p.m. Aug. 26. </div>
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They
wrote: "Believing hate groups are coming to San Francisco to bait folk
into helping them recruit others to their cause and to instigate violent
behaviors so lawsuits can fund their hate work, we are uniting with
diverse advocates and leaders around San Francisco who are urging
safety, peace, and events that will help preserve the fragile diversity
of Crissy Field."</div>
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However, this
peaceful gathering will not occur at Crissy Field. It will be held at
Civic Center, and roughy 2,300 people have signed up to attend and
another 6,200 have expressed interest.</div>
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Supporters are also encouraged to attend a march for equality called "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1461327617288267"><b>Come Together</b></a>" at Harvey Milk Plaza between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. </div>
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As Saturday's controversial rally nears, a growing number of unique protests are coming out of the woodwork.</div>
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"<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2056766091209760/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D">Sheetcake Picnic - Protest Alternative</a></b>" invites people to Hellman Hollow at Golden Gate Park to — you guessed it — eat cake between 2 and 5 p.m. Saturday.</div>
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"I'm
a left handed, Jewish homosexual. I don't always love labels, but I do
love myself. And in these times of tension, that's something to
celebrate," the event's organizer, Simon Betsadel, wrote on Facebook.</div>
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Instead
of adding to hateful rhetoric at Crissy Field, Betsadel has invited
people to lay on blankets, listen to music, and enjoy food and each
others' presence.</div>
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By way of
extravagence, "sparkles and eye makeup" are suggested, but attendees are
free to "just do whatever gives you joy," he wrote.</div>
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Betsadel urged: "Let's think about everything we have that makes us diverse, fabulous, and totally unique." </div>
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At the same time, Resistence SF is hosting "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1559563154102936/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2244%22%2C%22unit_ref%22%3A%22related_events%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5b%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22permalink%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22RHC%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5b%5d%7D%5d%22%7D"><b>Calling All Clowns: Fascism is no laughing matter</b></a>" from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Crissy Field Beach.</div>
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The
gathering is a call to action for "anti-racist, anti-fascist clowns" to
"mercilessly ridicule any neo-nazis, white supremacists, or alt right
trolls who dare show their face in San Francisco," according to its
Facebook page.</div>
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The group's Facebook page also advertises an event simply called "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1160628720704672/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A3%2C%22source_newsfeed_story_type%22%3A%22regular%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22newsfeed%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22feed_story%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A[]%7D]%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D&source=3&source_newsfeed_story_type=regular&action_history=[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22feed_story%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A[]%7D]&has_source=1&hc_ref=ARTmdYywn3-1M0FdvHCQo09o8bPEnxc2lrvLQxwh97SL2nyB4bUZTjzuR_XuIx8M5Gs"><b>Resist SF</b></a>" between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Crissy Field Beach. </div>
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Organizers
wrote: "Racism is evil. It must be eradicated from the face of the
earth. We will not let facist, racist, morally bankrupt degenerates
invade our beautiful city and spew hate. The time for passive tolerance
is over. It's time to stand our ground. Its time to stand up."</div>
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Stressing
the importance of relaying to protesters that there is no room for
bigotry and hate in San Franciso, Resist SF cautioned: "We are not
advocating violence or physical conflicts. We are advocating
(participants) -- young, old, brave, bold; show up in force, create
signs and disrupt the agenda of the unwelcomed hate groups.</div>
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"One voice. One people. One love. United we will stand."</div>
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It appears that San Franciscans also refuse to rob children of the opportunity to stand up for their home.</div>
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"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1951582161786250/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D"><b>The Cutest Lil Counter Protest</b></a>" is billed as a peaceful, family-friendly protest.</div>
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The
goal is to "smother hate with as much love and cuteness as possible,"
starting at 11 a.m. at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers,
according to Facebook.</div>
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A
so-called "Cuties Parade" will start at 11:30 a.m. and end with a group
photo in front of the de Young Summer of Love wall. Donations for the
Southern Poverty Law Center will also be accepted.</div>
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An organization called Brown Lives Matter is hosting an "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/822986844534064/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2244%22%2C%22unit_ref%22%3A%22related_events%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22permalink%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22RHC%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D"><b>Anti-Racist Rally</b></a>," which will start at 490 Marina Boulevard at 9 a.m. Saturday. </div>
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Human Rights Commission has also spent days brainstorming on
non-violent responses to the controversial free speech rally. To that
end, the organization is setting up Help Against Hate stations across
San Francisco and holding a <a href="http://sf-hrc.org/article/community-conversations">peace festival, empowerment conference, community conversations</a> and more.</div>
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It seems Crissy Field
will remain pretty and pristine tomorrow as the expected alt right
rally there has blessedly fallen through.</h2>
Earlier this
afternoon, Joey Gibson, the group's organizers, announced he was pulling
the plug on the rally, allegedly due to safety concerns. All we can say
to that is Bravo! to the city, the GGNRA, and the many passionate San
Francisco resisters who scared them away. Despite the cancellation, the
many <a href="http://www.7x7.com/the-bay-area-rallies-vigils-demonstrations-political-gatherings-you-ne-2094745176.html" target="_blank">wonderful unity events planned at Civic Center, the Castro, and around the city</a> will still go off as planned.<br />
Gibson's
posse is planning a (so far un-permitted) press conference at 2pm at
Alamo Square Park. But just as we pledged to stay away from Crissy
Field, we won't be taking our signs to the Painted Ladies either.
(What's a press conference without the press?!) We'll be jammin' out to
Michael Franti at Civic Center instead.<br />
"Yes we are still on," said <a href="https://www.facebook.com/meganrohrer/" target="_blank">Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer</a>—one of the organizers of the group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/266804640483421/?ti=icl" target="_blank">San Francisco Peacefully Unites Against White Nationalists</a>—in
a Facebook message to 7x7. "All the planners of our events met with the
SFPD to ensure the safety of our events no matter how the plans of the
rally would change," she said. "Our desire to unite against hate and in
support of love is even more resolved." // <em>For more information on tomorrow's peaceful demonstrations, go to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/266804640483421/?ti=icl" target="_blank">facebook.com</a>.</em><br />
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A <a data-reactid="249" href="http://time.com/4915097/crissy-field-rally-counter-protest-san-franciso/" rel="">"free speech" rally</a> planned for San Francisco's Crissy Field this weekend has been cancelled, the organizers said in a <a data-reactid="252" href="https://www.facebook.com/uniteamericafirst/videos/683391841864101/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook Live post</a> on Friday.</div>
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event was planned for Saturday by a right-wing group known as Patriot
Prayer. Joey Gibson, the 33-year-old founder of the Portland, Ore.-based
group, said that after consulting with law enforcement, he believed
that people might be at risk for harm. "It doesn't seem safe. A lot of
people's lives are going to be in danger," Gibson said on <a data-reactid="257" href="http://fortune.com/fortune500/facebook/" rel=" noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, adding that "tons of extremists" planned to show up and the event had the potential to become "a riot."</div>
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blamed liberal politicians and critics — who repeatedly characterized
the event in terms like "Nazi rally" — for attracting extremist groups,
despite his repeated public insistence that white nationalists are not
welcome at the event. "It just seems like a huge set up," he said.</div>
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Patriot Prayer will host a news conference on Saturday at Alamo Square,
to discuss the "rhetoric in San Francisco." The purpose of holding the
rally, Gibson has said, was to challenge people on the left and the
right who are too intolerant of any viewpoints that don't match their
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the organizer of that event has also asked that "no one come" due to
"violent threats" and "grave concerns for the safety of the people
attending my event."</div>
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The specter of neo-Nazi groups coming to the liberal city had sent progressive activists <a data-reactid="284" href="http://time.com/4915097/crissy-field-rally-counter-protest-san-franciso/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">into hyperdrive</a>
on both sides of the bay. By Friday, they had organized more than a
dozen counter-demonstrations in San Francisco and Berkeley, ranging from
dance parties to a marches to the formation of a 100-foot "human heart"
that would be photographed from the sky. People gathered on Friday
afternoon for a "Unite Against Hate" event in San Francisco's city
center, and residents have been bracing for thousands to arrive
throughout the weekend.</div>
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Crissy Field. But the streets won't be quiet. Megan Rohrer, a Lutheran
pastor who has been helping to coordinate the organization of those
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<em><strong>Update at 3:49 p.m. PT: </strong>Organizer Joey Gibson
says he is canceling the Crissy Field rally on Saturday and will instead
hold a 2 p.m. press conference in Alamo Square, several blocks from a
planned Civic Center counterprotest. "We asking the city to keep us
safe," Gibson said on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/1454498877929964/?active_tab=about" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. </em><br />
<em><strong>Update at 9:10 p.m. PT: </strong>Gibson has <a href="https://home.nps.gov/goga/learn/news/patriot-prayer-permit-relinquished.htm" target="_blank">relinquished his permit</a>
for the Patriot Prayer rally, the National Park Service said Friday
night. Presidio road closures will be lifted and Crissy Field will be
open Saturday, along with nearby businesses.</em><br />
<em><em>"After several conversations with the police, and
understanding the situation, we've decided that tomorrow really feels
like a set-up," Gibson said earlier on Facebook Live. "A lot of people's
lives aren't going to be safe. The rhetoric from Nancy Pelosi, Mayor Ed
Lee, the media, all these people are saying we're white supremacists,
bringing in tons of extremists, and it just seems like a huge set-up, so
we're not going to fall into that trap, we're not going to rally at
Crissy Field."</em></em><br />
<em>The Public Press will be covering events Saturday. Look for us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.</em><br />
<em>Here's our original article:</em><br />
Joey Gibson has one goal in mind with his rally Saturday at Crissy
Field: to attract San Francisco’s moderate, “good liberals” to his “free
speech” message targeting government corruption and what he sees as
hateful intolerance on the left and right.<br />
The 33-year-old Japanese-American holds events in the name of Patriot
Prayer, which is often called an organization but which Gibson
described as a philosophy. A vocal campaigner for President Donald Trump
and his “Make America Great Again” agenda, Gibson says he advocates for
nonviolent protest and diverse viewpoints while rejecting extremism on
both sides.<br />
Gibson’s peaceful intentions will be put to the test at the Crissy
Field gathering, which follows the deadly violence in Charlottesville,
Va., two weeks ago and is set against a backdrop of heightened anxiety,
inflamed passions and fear.<br />
As a result, city and federal officials are sealing off the Presidio,
a former military installation, making it as difficult as possible to
get to the event by any means except a long walk as a tactic for
reducing the possibility of violence. They are diverting public
transportation, cars and bicyclists, with only one access point by foot
at Marina Gate — itself a mile from the rally site along the beach. To
minimize risk and maximize discomfort, officials are <a href="https://www.nps.gov/goga/upload/Presdio_Access_Plan_Map_082317_V3.pdf" target="_blank">prohibiting</a>
26 categories of items, including all weapons and ammunition, large
backpacks, bicycles, helmets, balloons, aerosol cans, sticks of any kind
and water that is not in factory-sealed plastic bottles.<br />
Despite his message of “peace, love and prayer,” Gibson has been
accused of inciting the violence that accompanied his recent events in
Berkeley and Portland, especially through his use of the far-right,
anti-government <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers" target="_blank">Oath Keepers</a> militia as security.<br />
To some extent, Gibson said, that is true. But he said he does not
instigate violence by throwing punches or yelling at others for their
opinions.<br />
“I don’t instigate by being a bad person,” Gibson said in an interview with the Public Press. “I instigate just by existing.”<br />
Top officials, activists and residents anticipate trouble, however.
They have condemned Gibson and his rallies, which have attracted white
supremacists and other right-wing extremists, leading to clashes with
counterprotesters. Nonetheless, the city’s political heavyweights —
Mayor Ed Lee, Board of Supervisors President London Breed, Police Chief
William Scott, Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris and House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — failed to persuade the National Park
Service.<br />
“The shameful, anti-American trend of hate-filled extremist rallies
will unfortunately be allowed to continue this weekend in our city,” Lee
said in a statement Wednesday after the Park Service approved Gibson’s
permit.<br />
Cicely Muldoon, the general superintendent for the Golden Gate
National Recreation Area, said in a statement that the National Park
Service “cannot deny a permit to anyone planning to exercise their First
Amendment rights based on their political stance or beliefs.”<br />
Muldoon added that the park can deny an application for public safety
reasons, but law enforcement officials said that issuing a permit with
significant conditions would increase their ability to ensure public
safety. Park Service law enforcement personnel from around the country
will be joined by a massive San Francisco police turnout for the rally,
from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Crissy Field Beach.<br />
Counterprotests are planned throughout the city as well, with street
closures and parking restriction at Civic Center, where several groups
plan to converge.<br />
Pastor Megan Rohrer, who is organizing one of the counterprotests,
said the goal is to stand against Gibson’s message and the white
supremacists who sometimes attend his events, triggering violence. For
example, in an Aug. 6 rally in Portland, members and a local leader of
the white-nationalist group Identity Evropa marched with Patriot Prayer
and initiated or took part in violent brawls along the way.<br />
Rohrer said that hate speech is not free speech and pointed out that
Gibson “incorporates a lot of symbols and the coded language of these
white supremacy groups,” which conflicts with his stated message of
peace and prayer.<br />
In a mediated conversation on Tuesday, Rohrer addressed this issue
with Gibson, along with the fact that his promotional material often
includes violent music and images. Rohrer said Gibson is aware of these
allusions, so it is hard to believe he is not making them deliberately.<br />
But Rohrer said Gibson does not preach supremacist views, which is
part of why counterprotests will occur in the Castro and the Mission,
not at Crissy Field. A separate group of activists will still meet
Patriot Prayer supporters by the bay.<br />
“I’m not protesting Joey, I’m protesting white supremacy,” Rohrer
said, adding that they chose the locations because “we want to make sure
that in the places that people are susceptible to hate crimes on a
regular basis that there are communities there to support them, that
people aren’t out alone.”<br />
In an effort to dispel remaining accusations of white supremacy,
Gibson scheduled speakers who range not only in their political views,
but are also racially and ethnically diverse like himself — even though
he said he does not believe that race should matter.<br />
The event’s Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1454498877929964/?active_tab=about" target="_blank">advertises</a>
that speakers include three African-Americans, two Hispanics, one
Asian, one Samoan, one Muslim, two women — one of whom identifies as
transgender — and one white male.<br />
But Rohrer criticized the choices. One was <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Stick-that-brought-fame-may-put-Trump-supporter-11945198.php&sa=D&ust=1503682622609000&usg=AFQjCNFCN7wsC60HIeaw5IVKNPxSBDbECw" target="_blank">recently charged</a> with felony assault and another claimed there were too many Muslims in the country.<br />
“Almost every one of these speakers speaks in a way that promotes violence or insinuates violence,” Rohrer said.<br />
Gibson said the various speakers can say “what they want,” but Gibson
named several groups that will not be permitted to share their views:
neo-Nazis, communists, Antifa (or antifascists), white supremacists and
white nationalists. Gibson also said that, unlike some of his past
events, the rally has a permit, which allows law enforcement to prevent
white supremacists from entering, though critics remain dubious of that
promise.<br /><br />
“I'm going to continue bringing moderates together, and I refuse to let
politicians, society, hate or all of this stuff silence me,” Gibson
said.<br />
He purposely holds events in liberal strongholds like Berkeley,
Seattle and his base in Portland, Oregon. Ahead of a peaceful Aug. 13
rally in Seattle, the day after Charlottesville, Gibson <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1728719397142731/" target="_blank">explained his philosophy</a> on Facebook:<br />
<blockquote>
The West Coast has slowly been infected with communist
ideologies throughout our entire culture. It is a belief that the
individual is weak and that we are all victims. This is the lie of the
century. No matter who you are, we are all amazing people with the
ability to do anything that we put our minds to. These liberal
strongholds run off of hatred and negativity. Patriot Prayer will bring
in a positive message to Seattle that the people are starving for. With
light we will change the hearts and minds of those who are surrounded by
darkness.<br />
</blockquote>
“We try to pick the towns where there's a lot of intolerance,” Gibson
told the Public Press. “The majority of citizens in San Francisco are
really just good liberals, you know, who have good hearts and have good
morals. The problem, though, in these big cities … the ones that are the
most hateful are the loudest.”<br />
“I hope that people can leave the rally understanding how much
deception was put in before this rally from the politicians, from
certain media outlets,” he said. “Because they were told one thing by
certain groups, certain protesters, certain politicians, media and
stuff. But then they can come in there and be like, OK, this is not a
white supremacist rally.”<br />
Rohrer hopes that the counterprotests will have higher turnout than the rally so they can spread a message of inclusion.<br />
“We want there to be no ambiguity about what is hate speech and what equality looks like,” Rohrer said.<br />
In Berkeley, officials denied a permit for a “No to Marxism in
America” rally on Sunday that was to be hosted by one of the scheduled
speakers at Crissy Field, Amber Cummings, who is transgender.
Authorities said that the request was filed too late and that Cummings
had not provided crucial details, such as proper identification and
information on how she would ensure safety at Martin Luther King Jr.
Civic Center Park. Thousands of counterprotestors will still attend a
“Rally Against Hate” in Berkeley to promote solidarity against
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