[cheers and applause] we are all here wearing our Pink Triangle teachers out of can rotary for those who are forced to wear them out of the holocaust. [cheers and applause] ten years ago today, the Pink Triangle was set on fire right here on twin peaks. Like a phoenix we rose from the ashes and this display has continued ever since. It is ironic that a hate crime took place atop the symbol, which is there to prevent hate crimes. This display is a reminder that the third reich demonstrates how easily a government can die but divide minority scapegoats. Branding homosexuals as criminals lead most germans to feel comfortable looking the other way as the nazis went about their persecution. Can this happen again . Can happen now . It is a gradual process that dehumanizes people and is taking place in this country to stigmatize certain groups. Opinion polls show that for the first time in decades, Public Acceptance of lgbtq has actually gone down two years in a row. I would like to welcome our guests this morning. The sentence our San Francisco mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] trans rights advocate, claire farley. [cheers and applause] california state senator, scott weiner. [cheers and applause] the consul general of germany [cheers and applause] and his husband and two children. [cheers and applause] the consul general of france. The honorary consul general of monaco. Assembly member david chiu and his son. [laughter] San Francisco treasurer. [cheers and applause] San Francisco supervisor, rafael nadal in, who might still be running a marathon Raphael Mandel and who might still be running and meth a marathon. San francisco trustee. [applause] i would like to acknowledge matthew good oh, formerly of the mayors Mayors Office of protocol for the arts. Matthew . Several of the grand marshals and honourees of this parade are here and they will be introduced a bit later by the pride board president , jaclyn bishop. [applause] and of course, the San Francisco lesbian freedom band. Thank you. [cheers and applause] and of course, i would like to thank all of our 2019 sponsors, San Francisco pride. [applause] the Bob Ross Foundation and tom horn. [applause] , the incredible and fabulous sister fabulous sisters of perpetual indulgence. [cheers and applause] toad hall and badlands. [applause]. Lazy bear weekend fund. [applause]. The owner of steam work. Paul pendergast consulting group. [applause] brian garrison and his partner. Long time Pink Triangle volunteers who are now contributing. Hodgkins jewellers, my sister. [applause] starbucks for the coffee and pastries. [cheers and applause] barefoot and bubbly for what is behind me. We will be christening the Pink Triangles. [applause] katy hickox for the website. The San Francisco police department, thank you. [applause] and of course, my family. I couldnt do it without my husband, jose, in the middle there. [applause] my 60 my sisters and my nieces. [applause]. And lastly many volunteers have asked me how my 95yearold mother, edith, for over two decades, she has greeted all of the volunteers and handed out coffee and doughnuts right here on twin peaks. She unfortunately passed away a few months ago. She was not only the heart and soul of our family, but also this project. She is greatly missed. I thank her for the love and courage to be who i am. I know how lucky i am and how an everyday person is fortunate enough to have a mother like her she was a true treasure. [applause] we start our project each year by telling the history of the Pink Triangle and today we are honored to have an official representative of the German Government start off the program by telling the history of the Pink Triangle. We all know germany is the nation where the Pink Triangle began. However, germany is now one of the most gay friendly places on earth. [cheers and applause] speaking on behalf of the nation of germany, please welcome the German Council general and his husband and there two children. [applause] look what i found. [laughter] good morning, San Francisco, good morning friends. Im so glad to be here again at the Pink Triangle at twin peaks. Thank you for inviting me and fred and i were two kids. Today and tomorrow, it is about celebration. We are celebrating pride and we celebrate the accomplishments of the fight for emancipation which men and women in the lgbtq oh , my god, lgbt qi movement. [cheers and applause] one of the seat one of the key symbols is this Pink Triangle. We celebrate that in many countries, this movement has led to an astonishing degree of liberation. A lot of that happened, when looked at for from a historic perspective, in a fairly brief period of time. When i grew up as a gay boy in germany, in west germany, i wouldnt have dared to hope that one day i would be standing here with my husband and my two kids and a couple of other federal states of the United States and speak to you. So much for the good news. At the same time, of course, the struggle is far from over. There are 73 nations in the world where homosexuality is criminalized and some of these countries impose the death penalty. And there are many, many more societies where alternative lifestyles are frowned on, ridiculed and threatened. Also, it is fairly recent a development, it is achieved in many western liberal communities under threat. It is under threat by the newly emerging far right movement and by their right rise of hate speech on social media and by the rise of hate crime. Where we are in San Francisco is just one point in the long road of emancipation. In order to know where we are going from here, we must know what we are where we are coming from. That is the history of the Pink Triangle. In 1933, the nazis emerged from a general election as a strongest party. They managed to form a majority government because some conservative party leader supported them. These conservatives hoped they could contain the nazis and prevent the worst from happening by cooperating with them. That was a huge mistake and probably one of the biggest mistakes in history. As soon as the nazis were in power, they started picking out certain groups of people to stigmatize them. People who were different, different in their face, the culture, the traditions, the political convictions, there looks, and their sexual orientation. They single them out and tried to take away their personal dignity and persecuted them, incarcerated them and murdered so many of them. Among those persecuted were gay men, roughly 50,000 gay men were imprisoned and five to 15,000 of those were sent to concentration camps. In the concentration camps, all prisoners were identified by triangular labels on their jackets welsh yellow triangles identify jews, brown identified the gypsies, grey the political prisoners, green the criminals and like the antisocial his and purple, the witnesses, the Pink Triangle identified homosexuals. It often gave chris often gay prisoners were treated extremely badly and sometimes other prisoners joined in harassing them. When world war ii finally ended, for gay men in germany, east and west, the persecution continues. In the 1950s and sixties, gay men were imprisoned, fired from their jobs and were considered unworthy of society. It wasnt until the student revolt against the postwar elites in the sixties in europe, that homosexuality was eventually decriminalized in both parts of germany. What followed then was a struggle in society to do stigmatize lgbtq ways of life and this struggle is still ongoing. More and more of these years more and more of these symbols became a symbol of the struggle for the emancipation. The Pink Triangle was embraced by the community as a symbol of pride and resilience. I know many people would speak out to me and i will just end with a few words on the challenges we face in our liberal societies because it is very close to my heart. It is obvious that we have a resurgence in chauvinism and reaction as to tendencies, both in the u. S. And of course, in many european countries, including my own. History tells us that the earlier we stand up against the factors contributing, the better are our chances to fight for what we have to achieve what we have fought for. Therefore, it is for us to stand up against the growing divide between rich and poor, against anything that diminishes the social coherence of our society. Against the trend to make good education a privilege for the rich, against the Inhumane Treatment of any minority, any human being, no matter where they come from, whether they are legal or illegal migrants. Against politicians who also oversimplify and judge mental solutions to serious questions, against people who when speaking publicly are going on twitter and are willing to push back further and further the limits of language that seems to be publicly acceptable. Against people who present lies as truth and truth as lies. Against people finally who bully others just because they can. Lets be proud, confident and strong and lets where this triangle for the fight that is going to come. [applause] thank you to the Council General of germany. It is a great honor to have the mayor of San Francisco with us today. She works diligently every day to solve our citys problems and she is a great supporter of her lgbtq plus constituents. [cheers and applause] so mike and the band are going to do a special introduction for the mayor and all of you are going to participate via singalong cards. [laughter] i would like to thank the mayor and the board supervisors for putting into an ordinance that we are the official band. [applause] we hope you will lead us in a singalong to sing the official song of San Francisco. You will all singalong and we would have cue cards for you. [laughter] [ ] [singing] [singing] clap mac[singing] [singing] [applause] thank you to the lesbian gay freedom band. The official band of San Francisco. You know, we are celebrating pride month here in San Francisco and it feels like not too long ago we raise the flag at city hall. We had some amazing events, some great ribboncutting, some parties, some festivities, so many incredible things to celebrate pride month. That is why it is so appropriate that we are here today to take a moment to pause and reflect on our history, reflect on the challenges that we still face and to rededicate ourselves to being a force of good for the rest of the country to follow. I want to thank patrick for his dedication to this incredible event that he continues to host during pride month and all the amazing volunteers, and express my sincere condolences the loss of your mother, who year after year after year, people who came here to assist in putting up the triangle member her generosity, her support, and her love, not only for her son, but for this community. Thank you, patrick, for your leadership, and ongoing efforts in this. [applause] and as the Council General of germany reminded us that although we have made incredible gains and we are so fortunate to be in a place like San Francisco where there is love and respect and support for our differences, in over 70 countries around the world, there are still places where being who you are, as a member of our Lgbtq Community is illegal, and that is something that we have got to change and we know this. Ive got to say that in San Francisco, we are doing so many incredible things in order to advance this community. I am so glad that supervisor mandelman who was in the pride run earlier today probably ran up the hill to get here for this event. Working with him on the board of supervisors, the millions of dollars of investments that we are making to provide support for housing opportunities, for h. I. V. Funding, for all of the things that are truly important investments, we are doing it here in San Francisco and i am most excited about a new initiative. We are making. [applause] a 2 milliondollar investment to support trans home chefs after s. F. The first of its kind. [applause]. Because we know folks who are part of our Trans Committee are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than any other population. We must do more. We must do more to support our communities, we must be reminded of the challenges that still exist and we must continue to fight for the kinds of changes that will lead to a better society, not just here in San Francisco, but across the world. I was really excited about making the San Francisco lesbian and gay freedom band the official band of soup of San Francisco. Not just because i played french horn in junior high school, but because we are sending a message we are sending a message to people across the world about who we are and what our values are at sentences as san franciscans. We will continue to put forth the right policies. We will continue to make the right investments and we are so blessed to have incredible leaders who are fighting for equality for all of us. So i want to thank you all again for being here today. I know it is cold, but last year , remember it was burning up hot. We were all sweating and today we are freezing. That is just the way San Francisco goes. Thank you all so much and enjoy the day. [cheers and applause] i almost forgot, one of the most important things that you can do as mayor of San Francisco , today on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, i would like to declare it Pink Triangle day in the city and county of San Francisco. Patrick, just because it is Pink Triangle day, it doesnt mean that your parking tickets arent wait too. Congratulations. Thank you so much. [applause] [cheers and applause] thank you mayor london breed. Fabulous. [cheers and applause] i am going to make a change in the middle of the program. I would like Jennifer Bishop to come up. I would like to introduce all of the grand marshals because they have to get to another event. Jennifer is my wife, she is here today. [laughter] jacqueline. Hello, Jacklyn Bishop e. It is an honor to represent San Francisco pride. I would like to acknowledge our Board Members who are here today carolyn washington. [cheers and applause] and bruce gaudet. The Pink Triangle beekeeper. [laughter] with San Francisco what San Francisco pride accomplishes is not simple. But to us, our values are very simple. It is about visibility, inclusion, and community. The Pink Triangle is a beautiful symbol of resilience and it is an honor for us to support it. Speaking of honor of supporting, i would like to quickly introduce some of our grand marshals and honourees who are here today. Vince. [cheers and applause] sampson mccormick. [cheers and applause] and mrs. Vera. [cheers and applause] we have acknowledged my wife today and my mother is visiting from boston to support me and all of us. [cheers and applause] finally i would like to say [singing] [cheers and applause] [singing] were all family, we are a community, keep loving each other and resist. Inc. You. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] Jacklyn Bishop, thank you. When miss vera and michael gladstone, please at least walk across the stage. [cheers and applause] maybe even give us a few words, please. Hello and thank you all for being here. I will keep really brief because it is cold, but, you know, the Pink Triangle, to me, is such a powerful and clear symbol, and, you know, that simplicity means that what it stands for cant be forgotten. It is so thrilling to see it every year with the bittersweet qualities and the historical significance of it, and it just makes me realize that im so glad to live in San Francisco, which is a more complicated kind of symbol, but a really important and tiny one to this country and to the world and it is a little less clear what it means to different people, but that is where the dialogue is in this country right now, is which places are putting their money where their mouth is. What we stand for, and people are watching and people are seeing and, you know, california is really leading the way. I think all of our politicians and the people who support them, and just this surge to live well , live properly, live kindly , live decently and treat other people the way you would want them to treat you. It is not rocket science. Thank you for being here and remembering why were here to commemorate this important symbol. Thank you. [applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] just something she had hanging in her plump in her closet and a few other grand marshals before they run off, mr. Mccormick. [cheers and applause] mind your business. Telling me what to do. That is my job. Hi all, happy pride. Oh, my god, do you all feel that do you all feel the love . This is good. It is good to be in a place where we can see and experience love and community. I think we need to embrace that and we need to continue to fight for it because it is under attack and we need to hold onto it and hold onto each other. I kind of wasnt except expecting did you set this up and then you are going to tell me what to do, we are going to fight. I wasnt expecting this, but i will say that one thing that comes in handy in a situation like this is a did grow up a black, gay boy, poor without anything in the hood of southeast d. C. If theres one thing i learned how to do, is improvise. Okay . [laughter] i just want to say im happy to be here. I am honored to be chosen as one of the grand marshals. Im not crying, it is the cold air. For just standing. I dont necessarily look at it as anything special for me other then the people that i represent i remember growing up as the young, black, gay boy in an environment that i was told in every sunday that god did not love me. For those of you here who subscribe your religion, i believe we all know that god loves everybody and that there is a seat for everyone every one of us at that table. [applause] also, you know, in an environment where we had to fight for everything, there wasnt adequate housing, there wasnt adequate medical insurance. You did not know if you would be going home from, you know, school and the cops pulled you over just because you looked like a substance like a suspect. What to people should is that . Excuse my language. We had to fight through all of those things. We still stand and we still persevere. I say, representing and standing with our community, but also speaking on behalf of black, gay boys who need people to stand for them and fight for them. [applause] trans people of color, we need to continue to fight for them because they are being killed and nobody is saying anything about it. So the people who have the voices, we need to lift our voices to fight for them. Our hands, tomorrow when we are out there partying in the streets thank you all again and happy pride. [cheers and applause] [applause] i came out i graduated high school from guam in 1979 and that was the year i came out , that was my first pride parade and it was joyful. It was never it was liberation, he was everything i didnt experience as a teenager the next year 1980, i went back and i had my first love who dumped me at the end to date another man. That was kind of painful and i did not go back to pride for maybe another ten or 15 years and sometime after that, the aids epidemic hit. It was really hard to celebrate and for the last 20 years, i have avoided looking out into crowds like this and seeing who is there because all i could remember was he wasnt there in the fact that i won the popular vote told me i have to have the responsibility to be there in front of you to represent the people who are not here. [applause] to thank our politicians here in San Francisco, like what mayor breed had said, just talked about the trans, that is history. It is like the people who were in the sidelines with me in the nineties, they have been regulated they are nowhere to be found. So when someone does support the things that we have here in San Francisco, we need to lift them up because i have worked in countries where they dont have that. [applause] and i never called the 50 plus network, and i keep telling them , you need to be nice to these folks. Scott, raphael, because, you know, they are doing their best and it is really difficult. Anyway, the last thing i wanted to say is after all of that this week, yesterday i woke up and i thought, you know what . This is liberation. Not everybody gets a parade on their 40 Year Anniversary of their coming out. [cheers and applause] and had i not survived, i would have never known that, so thank you all. Thank you to San Francisco, thank you to our politicians who make the healthcare that has kept me alive and many of my people, and as you go about this week, pride is really important, but if you see anything that moves you, remember that because it is great to be celebratory this weekend, but we need it all year round. Please have a happy and safe pride. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, vince. There are stonewall celebrations all over the world this weekend. So to help honor stonewalls 50, it is good to add some more International Perspective by hearing from a representative of the nation of france. Please welcome the french consul general. [applause] [speaking french] it is so great to be here. I have one very simple message. I am 42 and i am gay. When i was in high school, i would have never dreamed i could come out, be here today with you when i was 15, living in the countryside in normandy, i was looking to here. I was reading about the history of the Lgbtq Community and i thought there was help coming from the west. I want to say thank you. These activities from this city has changed the world. And today in paris, we are honoring them. Im very happy to see that. Today, in paris, there is the harvey milk square. [cheers and applause] it was unveiled by the mayor no late no later than two you weeks ago. And today in paris, there is [indiscernible]. [applause]. Through this dedication, we are honoring them and we are saying thank you to San Francisco. As the mayor said, there is still a lot to do to have equal rights and we are fighting together in the world for that and we will achieve it. Our message today is, thank you, San Francisco. Happy pride. [cheers and applause] thank you very much. Please welcome senator scott weiner. [applause] thank you, patrick. First of all, i want to thank patrick for all the work he has done for so many years. Lets hear it for the first amendment. [cheers and applause] patrick, thank you for your work for more than two decades to do this. This takes so much energy and effort and wed take it for granted every year. Patrick gets it done. Lets hear it for patrick. [cheers and applause] patrick, im so sorry about your mother. It was seeing her every year, it is sort of part of what this event is and it is not the same without her. I know she is smiling down on us from heaven. She is he here in spirit. Rest in peace. Thank you for giving up patrick i remember growing up i remember growing up jewish, in a room or my parents talking to me about the holocaust and talking about how lucky, how fortunate my family was to have come here from Eastern Europe before 6 million jews were killed. And something that sometimes we forget is there is a boat full of jews that fled germany and came to the United States seeking refuge and the United States turned them away they went back to the concentration camps. When we look at this country and what his happening today, with a refusal to accept refugees with this horrific attacks that we are seeing on immigrants, on people who are fleeing terrible persecution, and i was down in tijuana recently meeting with lgbtq refugees from Central America who were being brutalized and trying to flee to this country to save their lives and make lives for themselves. We have to remember what happens when the United States of america turns its back on refugees and we have to keep fighting for our community, for our immigrant brothers and sisters, and to make sure that this country is what it has always been, a refuge to people who want to save themselves, save their families, make lives for themselves. I am so proud to be a san franciscan and to represent this great city and the California State Senate and, you know, they sometimes make fun of us and dismiss us. When we declared ourselves a sanctuary city a few decades ago , when we declared marriage equality, when we started Needle Exchange to try to stop the worst of the aids epidemic, we did all of these things and they laughed at us and said we were crazy, and then guess what . Five years later, everyone in california is doing it. Ten years later, it is happening across the country. That is what San Francisco is about. Seeing what is possible and leading. Happy pride, everyone. [cheers and applause] thank you, senator weiner. All the volunteers, thank you. [applause] please welcome one of our great straight allies, it simply member david chiu and his son, lucas. [applause] good morning, San Francisco and to our visitors, we want to welcome you to a classically hot and balmy day in our city. [laughter] thank you for taking part of this incredible ritual. This is my 11th year in public office. I have not missed this ceremony because of its importance, and i will tell you, another ritual i have is on saturdays, i always have my son. My 3yearold son, this is his third Pink Triangle event. [cheers and applause] wherever he just went. [laughter]. I will tell you, this is the year where my son learned both about colors and about shapes. As we were dragging up the hill, i told lucas, i said, lucas, look for the Pink Triangle. I dont think he yet understands the significance of the Pink Triangle, but through the work that all of you are doing, he is learning his first History Lesson of social justice and i cannot thank you, patrick, enough for that. [applause] im going to be very brief and simply to say, the Pink Triangle has symbolized the darkest times in human history. Times that it is important to remind us today when we still know that homophobia, antisemitism, discrimination, bigotry, racism, still infects too many parts of the world, including our very country. It is important we think of the symbol when we see images in the paper of a father and his child, face down in the water. It is also important that we remember this symbol because it is a symbol of light, it is a symbol of hope, this week, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of stonewall, i will tell you, in our state capitol, i was so proud to bring the owners of this dead to be honored for creating a safe space in the Lgbtq Community decades ago. I was honored to be part of the democratic majority that said that we must condemn hate. I was proud that we move forward to build a bill to say that transgender graduates of education educational institutions have the right to declare their gender identity whatever they want. [applause] we must remember, we will always remember, and the future of the Pink Triangle rests with my sons generation and beyond. And because of what we do today, someday, someday, the lights and warm weather will come not just a San Francisco, but to the entire world. Thank you very much. Come not just to San Francisco, but to the entire world. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, at some we member to, and thank you for the proclamation. Claire farley is the National Human rights and transgender rights advocates and a Senior Adviser advisor to the mayor of San Francisco. She will be discussing the transgender ban of the u. S. Military and also will be speaking of transgender issues in general. Please welcome claire farley. Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much, patrick, and mayor breeden everyone for coming out today yesterday we had a historic day where we launched the trans Housing CampaignHousing Campaign with mayor breed. When we look back at our history from 2005 when the first march started, we would be able to look up on the hill and remember our history and this Pink Triangle is one of those moments where we cannot forget our history. When we look at our trans community, we look at constance, we look at the cultural district , the point that started the movement before stonewall. And right now in our country, just within the last month alone , within we have lost five trans women of color during pride month in june. This year alone, since january we have lost nearly 20. And across the country and the world his, over 350 trans women die every year. So when we look at the history of violence that we have all come from, we have to remember that our communities are still being impacted. So yes, as folks have mentioned, we celebrate, but we come out to remember that we are still here, that we are still fighting. We come out to remember, for those that can no longer stand next to us, for the leaders like mayor breed who came from Public Housing and is now our mayor of San Francisco. [cheers and applause] to give dreams to other young women like myself, as the only Department Head in the city, the only also office of trans initiatives in the country. If we dont have hope, if we cant look around and remember our history and have hope for the future, then our resistance and our resiliency can never be understood. And what we say to trumping washington is that not here, not in our San Francisco. We will continue to fight, will continue to have policies and programs to shift this country and we will continue to be sanctuary for all. Thank you. [applause] we are grateful for the very long and continuing support from San Francisco treasurer from the San Francisco treasurer. Does that as treasurer, let me explain about what our office does. We bring in the revenue. This year in fact, we are bringing in over 5 billion for the city and county of San Francisco. And you know what that means . That means that the great programs that the mayor and supervisor mandelman are talking to to support the trans community, h. I. V. And aids sufferers and everything we do to support the Community Gets funded with our office. We are proud of that work, we are proud to be able to make that possible, and is patrick, you mentioned, i am particularly proud to be the longestserving ultimately gay elected official in San Francisco. And because of that, im here for the 15th year in the row to help you honor the work you do to display the Pink Triangle. Happy pride, everyone. [applause] fifteen years of support, thank you, jose. Please welcome the supervisor of the castro and district eight right here on twin peaks, Raphael Mandelman. He has the energy to be everywhere, all the time, all at once he ran the San Francisco marathon today, yet here he is. I could say it was the marathon, it was the pride run, it was a five k. Well do the same thing with my remarks. I will be brief and you guys will all say it was amazing. I want to say happy pride. Thank you patrick and jose for giving us patrick and i want to add my condolences to everyone else who has expressed them. I know your mom is still so proud of you and what you have done up here every year to see this giant Pink Triangle triangle. Reclaiming this historic symbol of oppression, reminding us of the importance of resistance, so much more important now than ever. This is an important pride year. It is the 50th anniversary of stonewall, but next year will be the 50th anniversary of our own pride, the 25th anniversary of the Pink Triangle , and the year that a giant, pink wave sweeps donald trump out of office. [cheers and applause] theyre theyre is incredibly important work to be done. I know People Volunteer this morning to help set up. [indiscernible] happy pride, everyone. [cheers and applause] this is beautiful. Thank you very much. I didnt realize see the was here. Hi. [laughter]. It is nice to meet you. [laughter] i would like to introduce our fabulous city college of San Francisco board of trustees, alex randolph, president , tom, Vice President , and trustee, chanel williams. [applause] chanel sends her regards, but it is just going to be tom and i for today. We will move even closer because im shriveling up any moment. It is so exciting for the two of us to be here. It is especially exciting for me because some of you have heard me in the past. My mothers side of the families german and i grew up in germany for about 16 years. This Pink Triangle is in my soul , it burns into my mind every single day that i live, and in the path of my family, and the things that they have done, not only, you know, decades ago, but throughout the terrible history of the holocaust. This year, particularly is a tough one because i was thinking , i never had the chance to talk to my grandparents about what were they thinking or doing during the time of the Pink Triangle, when they put these things on other human beings. And here in San Francisco, we what were they thinking when the native americans were rounded up and sent to reservations all over the country . What were our neighbors and residents thinking when their friends and neighbors were rounded up by the federal government in japan town and sent to internment camps across the country . What were the residents thinking when the stonewall rise was happening or the other rise was happening . What are we thinking now when they are separating families at the borders, when they theyre calling other human beings animals, insects, other names, im sure if donald trump could, he would put a triangle on people today. They are sending them to the same camps and types of infrastructure and places that they send the japanese families to. Some of the same locations are being used for camps right now where kids cant even have a toothbrush or a safe place to sleep. What are we thinking today . What are we doing today when we have another round of these type of things happening . We said never again. Now we are saying, how can this happen today . When will we say, what are we going to do today to stop this from happening in our own country, in our own backyard . For good thing is, history has lessons for us. At compton, at stonewall, a few groups of people stood up and made a difference. A small group of people. So here we are. We are a small group of people. We are in San Francisco. What are we going to do now to make sure that this stops . Lets take note on this important day, lets celebrate. But lets also make sure to stop this from happening in our own country. Thank you, everyone. [applause] perfectly said, president randolph. I will be brief. Happy pride, everyone. Thank you, patrick and all the volunteers. Nobody does pride like San Francisco. And part of the reason for that is we have the best backdrop of any pride in the entire world with this Pink Triangle. [applause] it is not just a wonderful backdrop, it is a reminder, it is an education about one of the darkest periods of our past as queer people. Thank you patrick for making sure that we take those lessons and as we celebrate, we remember what happened to folks just a couple of generations ago, and as alex said, what is happening to folks in our own country now. I have to give a city college plug. This year, we will be launching a social justice associative arts transfer in queer and trans trans studies at city college of San Francisco so that we can make sure we are educating our students on our past and their guiding us to a better future. I have to say, thanks to the generosity and support and commitment to the Free City Program that mayor breed has expressed in her budget, each and every San Francisco resident can go to city college of San Francisco to study queer and trans studies, and do it for free. [cheers and applause] signup, and roll, and have a happy pride, everybody. [cheers and applause] thank you. We are in good hands at city college, for sure. Now were at that part of the program where we christened the Pink Triangle while the dignitaries are shaking up there bottles of champagne. The San Francisco lesbian gay freedom band, the official band will entertain us. [ ] [ ] im nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. When we sign up, its always so gratifying. We want to be here. So im very excite ied to be here today. Your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. Last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. Without that we cant survive. Volunteering is really important because we cant do this. Its important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. We have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. Its fun to come out here. We have a park. Its better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. The street, every time, our friends. I think everybody should give back. We are very fortunate. We are successful with the company and its time to give back. Its a great place for us. The weather is nice. No rain. Beautiful San Francisco. Its a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. For more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. Get in touch with the parks and Recreation Center all right. It is pride month in San Francisco. Good morning, mayor. Here we go. [applause. ] welcome to San Francisco. Everybody is welcome. Happy tried everybody. Ever happy pride everyone. Thank you for joining us to quick off pride month 2019. My name is clair farley, Senior Adviser for mayor breed and director of the office of transinitiatives. I am so honored to be the mistress of ceremonies. There will be cocktails later. I know it is early. You know, i think that today we ask to really honor those whose stories often dont make the headlines, those brave folks in the community who do the work every day. We are excited to honor those folks today. I hope you join us