From this larger Economic System we have and im glad to see year after year with the backpack give away. The delivery of the ipads and your mailers. You dont have to be a tech company this is the philanthropy and the spirit of innovate by being a great store and partnering up with the rest of the city. This has been an under utilized space and a match the visibilitycy along the corridor and with the employment were seeing with the local resident is incredible. I have to say to the store management i picked a local girl because shes demonstrated her ability to recognize community and i like to see our residents top the leadership roles. By the way, i understand that she does a chinese new years eve with her dad so well be able to do martial arts laughter im so glad to be here with the celebration of the secondstory of target opening up but with the hiring thats sensitive to what we all inside to see. Its my pleasure to give a proclamation i know the board will join me to saying in the the west target day in San Francisco clapping barking . Go bullseye. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much mayor its such a pleasure to have you here tonight we want to thank you for your vision and leadership. Next clapping next id like to introduce the executive vp of the area Eric Mcdonald has helped his knowledge and understanding of the bay area has helped strengthen our relationship in the community. Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Mcdonald good evening, everyone i say welcome because youre in my neighborhood. So native san franciscan its the neighborhood i grew up in but also, because in this building in this space is where i spend my afternoons my mother worked in the receiving department and i had to come after school. So i want to say thats tlooiflg u thrilling to be here. More importantly its important to see target growing in this city. The community is intrinsic to the value of the organization and it shows up from to that to bottom. We love the team members who show up in Community Giving of their time and talents in our schools. At hill street it was chavez before that. In and through unit campaigns theyve give. Weve celebrated 90 years and target was a major part of this partnership vested 100,000 in our beacons initiative so on behalf of unit way our community at large were thrived target is here and we look forward to them growing as they invest more and more of themselves so thank you very much clapping thank you so much eric were getting an awesome crowd. I want to introduce supervisor farrell. So supervisor farrell id like to invite you up clapping thanks so much its hard to believe were here today. Weve been working on this project i want to thank all who made this happen it takes from the teams. I want to thank targeted not only for all the giving but coming into this location and also another person who is heading up the project. Theyve been hiring a lot of local people especially from the western edition so it took a village and i want to thank everyone involved. My mother didnt work here but i came when it was a sears and recognize. This is about creating jobs as mayor lee mentioned its also about rehe storing a Shopping Center people didnt want to come. Thooim im thrived to be here. Im going to remember most is my son jack and i were the first customers hearing here at target clapping and that was the first item officially purchased in target tonight clapping thank you so much supervisor and thank you for helping us find an amazing home here per we love the Shopping Center and thank you for the sale we appreciate it. Now guys before i invite you all out to shop i want to invite tiffany and her team back up here so we can cut the ribbon and ingratiate our store. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah. clapping go bullseye. barking feel like it really is a community. They are not the same thing, but it really does feel like theres that kind of a five. Everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. The best lit in San Francisco. Friendly, free, and you might get fed. [applause] this San Francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. She was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990s and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi its ic in the mission. Although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. People writing poems about being jerks. Beatty their chest onstage. She was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. Touring the country and sharing genx 7 as a. Her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. Theses San FranciscoPublic Library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. A lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. Theyre just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. Coming in to the library is awesome. Very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. At first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really . Things like that. As a documentary, there are interviews [inaudible] radar readings are focused on clear culture. Strayed all others might write about gay authors. Gay authors might write about universal experiences. The host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. There is no cultural barrier to entry. The demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. It is very simple. If we want more people of color, you book more people of color. You want more women, your book more women. Kind of like that. It gets mixed up a little bit. In general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. Their ages and very. We definitely have some folks who are straight. The loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. Established authors bring in an older audience. Younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. Raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. It ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. And there are so many different literary circles in San Francisco. I have been programming this reading series for nine years. And i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. The supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. A deep explorationer of a single work. After the talk, she bounces on stage to jumpstart the q a. Less charlie rose and more carson daly. San francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. Multiple Reading Events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. Radar was voted the winner of these San Francisco contest. After two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her fulltime job. I am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. If i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. It is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. I can match that person with that person. It is really fun for me. It is nerve wracking during the actual readings. I hope everyone is good. I hope the audience likes them. I hope everybody shows up. But everything works out. At the end of the reading, everyone is happy. cheering . clappin clapping . Thank you so much clapping . Wow. Welcome to the peoples house of San Francisco. Historic. Historic day today for all of us for the struggles for many, many years i want to thank all of you for sharing this historic moment in San Francisco, california. Wow. Its been a long road. Many years but gosh it feels good to have love triumph overcome ignorance to have equal it triumph over discrimination to have that diagrams end right here in San Francisco. Wonderful, wonderful. Its a great place to be today in this hall where so many marriages have taken place and so many people have loved each other. Were the very first one with phyllis. Thank you phyllis thank you very, very much. And many more weddings to the celebrated in San Francisco many more. I know all of you have had some of those feelings before just maybe over 9 years ago and, of course, in 2008 when i had the prim of sharing that moment. I want to thank all the people behind me its an incredible history. Mayor willie brown is there clapping at the state level back in those years all of our members of the board of supervisors. Thank you. Our elected officials from the treasure to the our state assembly is here. And commissioners and staff and everybody from the city family our City Attorney thank you for your wonderful work. Wonderful work. clapping ladies and gentlemen in those times in those moments when people like phyllis stooped and said were not going to take discrimination were going to do something about it. When stuart and john looked for courage in people and they found one person among in one person who used the power of his office to make history by also to express the love of this city because thats the most important thing you love the city you do whats right no matter what the consequences that thats what gavin newsom has done. Courage respect, love for the city and love for the people clapping lieutenant govern gavin newsom clapping thank you, mayor Human Resources how you all feeling . clapping what a day. A special day. Let me thank you, mayor. I want to thank mayor lee foreour stuartship and support for the cause. And thank you, mayor lee for appointing me to the board i had the privilege of getting involved in the marriage partnerships it seemed strange at the time. But San Francisco has been on the leading and a city open the edge a city of entrepreneurs and its a special place. I think every single one if you understand the core principle of 0 core values we dont there are not diversity we celebrate our diversity each and every day. So thats what were celebrating but ill be brief ive been and i want to connect a quick dot. Ive been with all of you watching not only the procedures of the Supreme Court but whats happening with Nelson Mandela. I say this because of the story of Nelson Mandela condition it is a not expresident by leader. And it begs the question that the mayor was making. Just because you have a position of authority it didnt mean you necessarily lead its foekdz who exercise that moral authority this changes the world. Thats the life of ghandi it wasnt president ghandi or president Martin Luther king. Its people like phillips and i and dell who sped up and had those debates thats why were here. They didnt wait for anyone to tap them on the shoulder. Its people like kate kendall and my extraordinary staff. Its folks like this on stage that stepped up. They didnt need to do it but they did it. It wasnt just interest this was a true commitment to quality. It was chris and sandy i didnt it was the extraordinary leadership of many folks in this room so many of you out there in the audience. So i want to celebrate our wisdom and faith and your devotion to this cause and ill close for participating in this remarkable journey. And like any journey its not linear its complex its a worth journey were on. And its a journey that inspires were not motivated by the cause of quality but its the best of who we are our Human Dignity and selfworth interest all for your extraordinary reasoning and gragz on this special day. Thank you clapping good morning. My name is kate kendall with the National Center for lesbian rights and clapping f you prop 8 clapping we i actually i did a quick scan of the audience to see if there were any children and im really sorry if i didnt see you i will put a dollar into the bad word jar but it will be work out it to be able to say that. Weve lived for too many years under that still maifg piece of crap that eliminated our right to marry and made us feel less than but when prop 8 passed and i know you stepped up and gnarled gal invented in a way that made this possible. Thats why were here. We wouldnt be here today without all the Difficult Conversations you had the money you gave the volunteer hours you spent we also wouldnt be here await incredible leadership and obviously the mayor and gavin is top on that list. But we also wouldnt be here await extraordinary legal representation. And way, way back in the way back machine in 2004 in february 2004 when mayor you newsom had a partner from day one whos been a partner with our community from day one please join me in welcoming our City AttorneyDennis Herrera clapping thank you clapping . Thank you. Thank you very much. You know, i, remember when we were standing on this years ago i just reminded mr. Newsom about that now i can say whether or not you like it. clapping but you know hey listen he got a lot of heat about that but a lot at how things have changed. I have to tell you we wouldnt be here today