Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the welcome to did peoples palace i want to welcome someone that served the governor and the Council Executive of king couldnt my friend gasping lock is here thank you very much. clapping. first, i want to acknowledge that our city is going into the pride month with a heavy heart were all shockedcy the tragic shootings in orlando and our thoughts remain with the that is my understanding and frames by this senseless act that violation against how or our Lgbt Community we stand in solidarity with them although the recent event cause us to pause gives us a renewed sense ever purchase for uniting with unity towards a Better Future for the entire community during the pride celebration well be having a heightened security for you with our Police Department and other Public Safety agencies i encourage everyone to Say Something if you see something happen this is how we work with our community to make sure that everyone is safe in our city has a proud history of inclusiveness and leading the fight against hiv and ada weve congresswoman come a long way since the dark days of aids countrys were getting closer to this because of the people in the room weve got closer to zero thank you to europe of you for all our participation your input, your gowns and leadership clapping. yeah. As you may know San Franciscos aiming become the first city to get to zero this means zero new hiv enacts and zero death from hiv and zero stigma and discriminates were on the right track last year fewer than 200 infections well going get closer and closer advertised go we can do better ill consist we focus on preservation getting people the care immediately slopt and making sure theyre in treatment and have many, many strength to build only one of the strengths ive that and always say that a Strong Community participation we owe much of our second, second to the practices of that diverse is community to tell the truth and listening to the community and collaborating for progress this is the only way to get to zero we want to commend permanent thank all the members of the hiv Planning Council for their hard work and their continued work say commitment in the future your participation in the two predecessor counsels that have shaped noble how our city cares forces those living with hiv and aid but presenting new infections thats a long road for the merging of the Councils Together thank you director garys and the Public Health department on this front is it so exist as one of the first of its kind in the nation the council will take on a unit front on accident fight against ada hiv thank you clapping. your work will allow San Francisco to better coordinate and strengthen our history infrastructure to do planning for the continuum from preservation to wrap around services in council can help us going get to zero and end sdriems we know i think we can make an impact about the discussion that or on blood thats the real stigma in our in addition, we have prioritized fidget against hiv and aids my budget has back filled because of our supervisors hero today supervisor wiener and, of course, supervisor campos and others we had to backfill the unfortunate back cuts from the federal government since nevada no matter what the challenge we did it. clapping. and we remain committed to providing comprehensive care and focus on care on the preservation side kept is a preservation strategy San Francisco started in 2010 our prep Income Tax Program connects people to the resources and there are new now 6 thousand people on the prep in San Francisco and id like to thank supervisor wiener for his leadership in making prep widely available and informed. clapping. so today in addition to swearing in our 0 Planning Council we want to narrow were launching the new Prep Campaign for an uptick of prevention of history let me innovative bearing and supervisor wiener 0 say a few few words about prep. clapping. thank you mr. Mayor im very proud to serve for mayor ed lee hes had every time the budget the first question what are redoing around the hiv dollars so take note of his leadership. clapping. and strong support but i want to make sure we acknowledge the charitable incidents against. Latino and Lgbt Community especially the that concludes my report. Renals and the other communities well hear more and more community the resolve and the currently youve seen from latino and latino Lgbt Community is incredible and im so proud of resolve and the responses and you think many times government loaders and other leaders we forgot the strength of people of color the fortitude we have as native and immigrant community so it is this strength we should count on and look to when they are thinking about our services new opportunity and medications like preparing that can survive ive been arena long enough to watch the urban pounceable names and new names of medications and many campaigns for hiv and aids that have satisfied so many lives in the past as for those new sxiefk games what is important at times what is more important how we tried treat our community of color and respect them and this honor will get us to zero transition and death and stigma i want to acknowledge all our dpw employees that do the work for us i cant do this alone i want to acknowledge folks can you stand for a second. clapping. we have researchers standing, department of Human Resources standing and activists standing theyve been the construction of our department but today, i want to honor our leaders on the hiv Planning Council it has seen me come to those meetings midmarket some days we disagree but many times agree but your role is announced by federal, state, and local government and im proud you have found a way to come together i ask is that mayor four or five years ago is it takes time to come together im proud of you so i want to thank you, very much. Thank you. clapping. im also proud today to announce that starting today, well see a new Prep Campaign that will celebrate prep as a way to reduce the risk of hiv by more than 90 terrace to working closely to make sure we eliminate contribution and remember the stigma is the code word for description and homophobia so thank you, thank you and thank you. clapping. help us get to zero thank you so much thank you. clapping. thank you barbara for really those moving words about orlando i think for a lot of us we woke up and saw those headlines it was like just an absolute punch to the gut to i think we can all remember for those who dont go out as much what it means to be in a gay bar or number those are our community sacrifices and ways that it is not outside of Lgbt Community for generations of our Community Members those are at times the only places where you can guess and be who you are and build community and in fact as were hearing from the extraordinarily hearing stories about the people that were killed in the club and their family members not knowing they were lgbt our lgbt night life no ones in 2016 to play that Community Building and Community Strengthening role and have that scared space stloiltd this go unbelievably horrible massacre is a violation i cant articulate and i think that we owe it to the people that were killed and the people injured to the family families the influence that we should continue to fight to end violation or violence with what is happening every single day and commit to that in terms of the matter at hand i want to thank the mayor for his continued support of the People Living with history and people at risked for the advisory we took office the same month we were hit with the First Federal ryan white and the mayor didnt blink my colleagues didnt bring we continued year after year to really backfill the failure of the federal government clapping. and you know, i came of age as a gay man in 1987 when we were living in the era of fear an association of death and sickness with sex when we didnt no effective treatment the terror of getting tested to wait two weeks will i be positive or dead in a few months and going through that and generations of lgbt people you know having that trauma and the progress weve made over the years is incredible and this cause of San Francisco the because of our communitybased organizations our Community Advocates this city as time and g time again set the standards created the template and nooshd and the rest of the country and world has followed we need to continue to do that and we are continuing to do that with our getting to zero effort ive been proud to work with the department on the getting to zero and again, a template that others replicate and those infections to make sure that People Living with the advisor are healthy and eliminating them and ii know well be successful about a year and a half ago in december of 2014 i announced that i am on preparing that was it was a little bit scary i want to thank the San Francisco aids foundation and uflg for helping me through that process it was a positive response i think that people fundamentally get it we have a tool that so dramatically reduces the risk of infection we need to promote and invest and make sure that people can assess no matter how wealthy i didnt or poor and should have insurance access to powerful prevention tool one our consultant communities are are voices including loud voices that are trying stigma its prep and we have to continue to push back and make sure that the word is out there this matters and will safe lives thank you to everyone and lets keep on fighting to i understand hiv infections. clapping. thank you, supervisor and let me say again, all of you who are im about the to swear in letting me give a personal thank you this is not easy work i know that when our faced with the need to change peoples behavior when our faced with discriminates with stigma when our trying to get informed about the facts it is not easy to do all of that in the faced of things that are going on that sometimes we dont have control over i want to first thank everyone that is stepping up to be on the hiv council without you, we couldnt find a way to get to zero on infections and prevent this deadly disease from increasing the disaster reduce effect please theyre your jobs seriously and also live proudly talk to people continue giving them the encouragement that they need to have in order to do the right thing to save their own lives or their friends or families lives with that, if i can ask all the members of hiv Planning Council to please stand up and raise your hand and yell your names out i repeated. repeated. foreign and domestic. repeated. and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. And to the constitution of the state of california. repeated. that i take this oath freely. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. repeated. and during such time as i hold office of as he member of the hiv Planning Council repeated for the city and county of San Francisco members thank you very much thank you congratulations clapping. all right. We get do go to woto go to work the city of San Francisco, board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for friday june 24, 2016 will begin shortly. The city of San Francisco, board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for friday, june 24, 2016 will begin shortly. Calling it a career and can imagine growth and dwomet quh we think otwork. For that group of women to say that care is as important as career is to say of course we should support all women in reaching for the stars, being as competitive they can be but it also says when we take time out when we need to or down shifti left a high state Department Job for a tinniered professioner. It was not working believe me, but it was a lateral move and said it i need more time for my children and me. It was the last 4 years they would be home and know if i looked back and missed that i would feel i made the wrong choice. Others caring for parents, caring for spousing, caring for disabled or ill family members however you define care and family as a collection oof people you love whether it is biological or constructed, taking the time and movaling latry and defering a profession and working part time or taking time out completely if ayou can afford it, for professional women and men valuing care means not seeing that as the black mark on the resume. The conttrary is something that validated character, responsibility and a host of other skills and values that we should lift up. So, for that group[applause]so that is what care means, valuing care for professional women and we have a long way to go in terms of changing our workplaces and values to get there. But now lets talk about a much larger group of women because we have too few women at the top and so much days like day is aimed getting more women to the top, which im all for in Political Office and private and non profit sector, there are too few of those women at the top but there are far too many women at the bottom. We just heard 2 3 of minimum and part time workers and tipped workers, the workers in the most fragile part of our society and most fragile jobs and least well paid job, 2 3 of those workers are women. We have too few women at the top but way too many at the bottom and too often when we focus on advancing women we look at the women at the top. The thing we hear is how many women are in the fortune 500. Way too few. 29 or 28 and ought to be 228 or 300. So, too few women at the top but way too many at the bottom and a focus on care helps us see all women because when we focus on care, we realize those women at the bottom as you jurs heard areench wellming single mothers or women who are simultaneously having to bread winner and care giver and we are supporting their bread winning and expecting them to work but we all not supporting their care givering. When you focus on care and start thinking about the policies of care and not just the policies of advancing women to the top, what you do as ill talk about in a few minutes is focus on all the policies that actually help women at the bottom much more than women add the top. Women at the top are able to buy their way out of care problems, but women at the bottom are not. Focusing on care lets us see all women and construct a Political Movement of all women and focus particularly on poor and minority and immigrant women. You will hear from aijen poo who are not subject to basic hour and wage protections. You will hear how lifting up the care givers who now are paid no more than the people we pay to walk our dogs or mix or drinksthink about that. We pay people who park cars, mix the drinks walk dogathize same as people who care for children and parents and ill and disibleed. If we focus on those women and focus on care, we get to a set of policies that will lift all women. The last thing i want to say about valuing care and again, i didnt think this way 4 years ago, i spent 3 years working through and deprogramming myself because i was raised to want to be like my dad, not my mom. That is what it meant to be a strong powerful woman when i was growing up, it was to do the work my dad did not the work my mom did. I was grateful i was born when i was born and not my mirther or grand mothers. That is the great progress we have made over my life time that women with do the work our fathers did but center to elevate the work our mothers did and value it just as much. [applause] the third piece of this, women in professional careers, women who are working at low paid jobs, but the third piece is the caring professions. When someone says to you now,if someone says im taking time out to care for my children or painchts you fall off the social scale in our society. Women are right one day they are a journalist or banker or lawyer and the nesh day caring for children or parents or anyone else and feel they are a nobody. What about when someone says im a teacher, im a coach or rabbi or minister or therapist from massage to mental therapy, any therapist is a caring profession. Or someone who says, im doing any kind of health work. Those are the caring professions and those professions are paid less well and valued much less than the competitive professions. So, we just heard mayor schaaf say this is a action summit. He is the first thing i will give you that you all can actively do at the end of today. I prefer not asking people what do they do because what we mean when we say that is what you do for money and that says if you are doing work that is not paid you are not valued. If someone says im caring for anyone or someone says, im a teacher, im a nurse, im a coach, im a therapist or minister, any of the caring professions, look at that person and say, that is such important work and train yourself to mean it. Thats the first point. We need to value care, we need to value it socially, economically and politically. That does not mean that we dont still value competition and the incredible striving that defines this region in many ways, but it means we insist that both are equal. The second thing we have to do is change the way we see and treat men. Because if i just talk about valuing care as much as i believe it and passionate i am about it, if i only talk about the value of care and the importance of respecting it and paying for it, that risks sending women backwards and that is one reason that many women were very upset with my original atlantic article because they thought it imperiled the work the women of my generation have done and more important 10 years from me. I graduated from college 1980 and plenty of sexism and didnt know women doctors lawyers or banker and never seen a woman in those positions but it is the women that graduated in 1970 who broke the barriers such for me it wasnt easy but it was acceptable by the time i was looking for a job around 1990. Women people were looking for women. Those women worried if we focus on care and the family well drag women backward and the only way to val ue care and competition equally without harming women, is to expect men to be equal care givers and assume they will be equally good at it. [applause] thiswe are just at the beginning of the rev lushz. You will hear from joshua love later. There are men among you, the men and there are a small Group Standing up and saying, wait a minute, i am a prisoner of constructed gender roles too. Men wrote to me and the first one i will make is that a gay man scott siegel wrote and said, how dare youthis is after my atlantic article. How day your in exclamation point and was 100 percent right. You wrote the article on the assumption only women need to take time for care. Only women are those that feel that enormous pull to be with those we love. How dare you im a gay man and care about my family every bit as much as you do and you dont have to be a gay man to feel that way. Plechby other men wrote and said you think women have this idea. You think men have it all, you have the idea working the way we work and providing for our families and having a family if we cant see them is having it all. I didnt ask for this job, my role is the provider of cash and if i say i want to talk leave paternity leave or work time or flexible time or all the things we need to fit care and career together, if i say that not only
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