Community, serving on many committees. In 2015, she began to volunteer as a hotline operator with trans lifetime. She launched and sold a dating site called honey jar. Kenya, you are driven and talented, and you will go far in life. Thank you for invaluable contributions and engaging inspiring black trans women. Kenya, we see you, and we stand with you. Im just going to tell you a little bit about felicia flames. Come to the podium, felicia. [ cheering ] [ applause ] now, felicia and i lived in the same neighborhood for over 20 years. I met her when i was knocking doors. When i said how come i dont know you . She says, how come i dont know you . She started talking to me and telling me her stories. Of course, i didnt knock on any more doors because i was completely enthralled with her stories. She won me as one of her biggest fans. Its one of the reasons i wanted to honor her today. I have to say let me tell you a little bit about felicia. In 1966, felicia was a significant figure in t
For sharing your story with us and having the courage to be your authentic self in the workplace and inspiring others. Thank you, leo. Would you like to say a few words . [ applause ] thank you, supervisor stephanie, and all the other supervisors. I want to take my two minutes, actually, to bring awareness to my transgender sisters who every day you look and theyre being killed, murdered all over. I have it easy. I mean, my biggest concern is losing a couple of pounds to get in my suit. Their biggest concern is leaving their front door and being assaulted or murdered, killed. I cant even put my head around that. I cant even fathom that. We need to protect those people. Those are the people we need to bring awareness to. Thank you, everybody. Thats all i have to say. [ applause ] next up is supervisor from district 11. Thank you, mr. President. Sorry. I have a lot of paperwork here. Im very honored today to honor a leader in the Trans Community, cecilia chung. Its our great pleasure to
Community, serving on many committees. In 2015, she began to volunteer as a hotline operator with trans lifetime. She launched and sold a dating site called honey jar. Kenya, you are driven and talented, and you will go far in life. Thank you for invaluable contributions and engaging inspiring black trans women. Kenya, we see you, and we stand with you. Im just going to tell you a little bit about felicia flames. Come to the podium, felicia. [ cheering ] [ applause ] now, felicia and i lived in the same neighborhood for over 20 years. I met her when i was knocking doors. When i said how come i dont know you . She says, how come i dont know you . She started talking to me and telling me her stories. Of course, i didnt knock on any more doors because i was completely enthralled with her stories. She won me as one of her biggest fans. Its one of the reasons i wanted to honor her today. I have to say let me tell you a little bit about felicia. In 1966, felicia was a significant figure in t
[ applause ] [ applause ] next up is our supervisor from district 2, katherine stephanie. Thank you, president yi. I want to start by being thankful for creating this amazing event so long overdue. Thank you to honey mahogany as well. I was so happy when we started thinking about who we would honor, i didnt know we would end up with an italian. I was very excited that we have leo patroni. Are you here today . Leo is a native san franciscan, born at Saint Marys Hospital and lives in pacific heights. Hes the child of an immigrant father. He spent former years working in his fathers restaurant, north beach restaurant. One of my favorites. Hes had a thriving career in real estate. Hes been making waves in the San Francisco real estate market. He started his career at a brokerage firm. In a Business Times article about leo entitled pioneers on the frontier of gender identity in the workplace, leo called his move to the climb part of the puzzle that was missing. Hes a trailblazer as historic
It comes to the lgbtq populations but we still have dealing with a lot of violents and discrimination in our own city. So we want to continue to lift up the voices of not just those folks who are here and surviving and being open and proud of being lgbtq but also folks that we have lost and we have lost a lot of community and we track a lot of death and a lot of violence again lgbtq of colour, and as you know by being on social media now, a lot of black trans women continue to be murdered and we want to lift those voices up and thank you for lifting our voice and celebrating the 40 years weve contributed to the change that is possible. And i want to also take this moment to just thank our staff and i dont know if anyone else wants to say anything but i want to continue to thank the folks that i work with and the tremendous hero work that they do and to our board and to our volunteers and to our supporters and to our donors, i want to say thank you very much and thank you, supervisor ro