Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

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 in celebrating them. Pride started as a riot. Knowing the history can only give us hope and remind us of our strength and power for change. Even when the federal administration attempts to strip away our rights, we know that San Francisco will fight back. In San Francisco we will never give up from the streets to city hall. From harvey milk to the trans women of color. Today our community has achieved so much. We have made incredible strides thanks to the generations every assistance before us. This work would not be possible with all of you and without our allies and leadership here in city hall who have joined us on the front lines for lbgt equality. It is my honor to welcome our mayor, mayor london breed. [cheers and applause. ] mayor breed thank you to everyontoeveryone who is joinin. No one celebrated pride like the city and county of San Francisco. Celebrate we must to make sure that our voices are heard and the federal government knows that no matter who you are and who you love, we will not be erased, not in america, not in San Francisco, not today. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge some of the leadership we have in San Francisco, people who are making a difference. Thank you so much to our state senator scott weiner for being here, who you will hear from shortly. As well as our treasure who is with us today. Your fierce supervisor rafael mandelman. Community College Board member alex randolph. And supervisor safai and another member of the community College Board, tom. And thank you supervisor matt haney for joining us as well. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the first lbgt fire chief jeanine nicholson. And thank you supervisor walton for being here as well. And our Police Department, our chief is here, bill scott. I am so excited. Have you guys seen the new flag, new vehicles of the San Francisco Police Department . Amazing. Thank you, chief so much. There is a freedom band that you will be the official band of the city and county of San Francisco, lgbt freed domband. You will hear from them shortly. No one celebrates pride like San Francisco. Thank you for joining us to raise the flag in our city. I know there are challenges throughout the bay area of raising this flag. In San Francisco it is not a question. It is an important part of what makes our city so special. I want to thank all of you every year for coming for the flag raising. I want to acknowledge the man behind making the celebration great, commissioner tom horn, thank you so much for your amazing support for this event. I want to say a special acknowledgment and for the parade which i cannot wait to participate in. It is a lot of hard work. We all have fun and a good time. I know that you and the Committee Work hard to make sure it looks effortless. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause. ] along with celebrating pride this month, it also is a time to reflect on our Lgbt Communitys long history of activism and resilience from the aids which ravaged our city to the war against the transcommunity that is playing out throughout this country. Since San Franciscos first pride parade in 1970, we have overcome so many challenges thanks to the courage of the Amazing Community leaders who stood up. Today San Francisco is a beacon of hope for the Lbgt Community. This years pride parade theme generations every assistance, just as generations have resisted before we in San Francisco will continue to resist. Despite the federal governments continued attacks on the Lbgt Community we will not back down until we achieve full equality. We will stand with our transgender people who continue to bravely serve our country, and in San Francisco our businesses, hour healthcare services, our work force and housing will always be open to all. In San Francisco, we are expanding gender identity options on all city forms and applications that ask for demographic information, and we are including education on our lgbt identities for City Employees as part of harassment prevention and implicit bias training. Last week i was proud to announce a new 3 Million Investment in our budget for transand lbg in San Francisco. It includes 2 million for flexible housing to keep our transcommunity housed. We know that transgender people are 18 times more likely to not be able to have housing and to be homeless in San Francisco. We are going to make the investment to support the lbgt youth by providing them with housing, employment and Case Management services. I want to thank all members of the board of supervisors and others who advocate for this much needed investment. [applause. ] we will be funding training and internship programs for transjob seekers and Community Members exiting the criminal Justice System. We are committed to continuing to backfill the federal h. I. V. As getting to zero in the effort that state senator scott weiner fought for and now supervisor mandelman continues to fight for on the board now. This will help with efforts like the win senator wiener is doing to increase access for everyone in california. Thank you, senator wiener. [applause. ] together we can make sure that no one is left behind, and this city doesnt just celebrate our Lbgt Community, we make investments and put deeds behind those words which is why we are the best city in the world, and what is so amazing so many of you play such a Critical Role in that success. I want to take this opportunity before i acknowledge the work of two incredible individuals here today. I cant move on with this program without acknowledging donna sachet for being here today. [applause. ] she and charlotte shuttl shultze only two that dress better than me. Thank you for all you do to make us look and feel good. I forgot you were there. Vicky, thank you so much. [applause. ] so i have two awards to give. First of all, i want to ask george to come up to accept this on behalf of sf pride. As i said, i know that it looks like it is easy, but it is not easy because we know the stress in getting permits anchorednating with city departments and getting everyone to follow the rules and stay where they are to stay and not lag behind in the parades, festivities, events, programs, the fundraising. I didnt mention the fact they have to fundraise to pay for these incredible activities that make San Francisco look good to the rest of the world. Thousands of people come from all over to celebrate pride in San Francisco. June is a fun and energetic and incredible month for us. Because of sf pride and this committee, the work they do means so much to our city. On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, i would like to declare which day am i declaring . [laughing. ] today june 3rd as sf pride day in the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you so much. [cheers and applause. ] i have one more special award. I also get the honor of presenting the annual teddy worthington award to a legendary film maker and writer. This award recognizes individuals who have contributed a longstanding large body of work in the Lbgt Community. Sharcheryl is a central part ofe queer new way of young film makers. Watermelon woman has won critical acclaim. Her project was one of the top must see film innist films. Today she is continuing the body of work with awardwinning sear rears. Series. She will give me the ending. It is amazing. It is my honor to also declare today as cheryl d un yee day for your amazing contribution and the work you have done to not only advocate for the Lgbt Community but the work you have done to shine a light on people of color who are often times disenfranchised to tell our stories and how we should be represented in film. It is beautiful to watch and see and those people love you out there just as much as we do. Cheryl, come on up. [cheers and applause. ] first of all, congratulations to all of the grand marshalls for this years pride parade. Can you all please stand or wave your hand so we can see you. Thank you. And last but not least, cheryl, do you want to say a few words . Say hello to the folks. Hi everyone i am proud to be the grand marshall awarded with the award. I have been working for so long to bring the margins to the center. I have been working really long to make what is invisible visible. In this day of independent media and television and the browning and blacking of images, i am making the invisible and visible invincible and thank you. Thank you so much. With that, i will turn it back over, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the city, enjoy pride month in the city. Lets have an amazing time. Make sure you dont forget to go to our restaurants and spend all of your money, too. Thank you so much. Thank you, mayor breed. Now it is my honor to introduce you to someone who has done so much work in San Francisco and now leading the way across california. Our state senator scott weiner. [cheers and applause. ] thank you, and i want to thank the mayor for being an extraordinary ally to our community. Thank you, mayor breed, for everything you do. This city is in amazing hands under your leadership. Thank you. This is my 23rd San Francisco pride. My 29th overall pride since i came out as a gay man a long, long time ago. Time flies. I am optimistic for our community in many ways. This community that been through so much in terms of the hate crimes and the worst of the hiv aids crisis and housing crisis and all of the other weighs in which our community that struggled over the years in San Francisco and elsewhere. We are so resilient and the Community Comes back and comes back and gets stronger and stronger. I am so proud to be part of our Lbgt Community, particularly in San Francisco. That doesnt mean we dont center challenges. I think pride is the right time of the year for us to recommit to celebrate and recommit to the fight. Of course, we know what this guy is doing in washington, d. C. In the white house to undermine and harm our community including our children, attacking children. It is something that it is hard to fathom that you have a president of the United States who would attack lbgt children. Apart from what he is doing and we are fighting back hard to make sure california goes in the other direction, we have our own challenges here as an Lbgt Community in San Francisco and california. We are continuing to criminalize the Lbgt Community. We are continuing to see obscene rates of homelessness in our community, particularly our youth and 40 of Homeless Youth are lgbt. We continue to not be supportive enough of our Transgender Community in terms of what our transkids have to experience in terms of what transpeople experience in the criminal Justice System or in the lack of employment or access to healthcare right here in california. We are not doing enough to support our lbgt seniors. Too many are going to the closet when they enter longterm care. We have challenges. The good thing is in San Francisco we are leading the way in confronting those challenges, whether it is the great work in the jails to treat lbgt inmates with the dignity they deserve or the groundbreaking work we have done with seniors and Homeless Youth. We are taking that statewide. This shouldnt depends on where you live. I want to close. In terms of h. I. V. , there is a narrative we have defeated h. I. V. We havent. We have so much more work to do in california. We have dunk am done amazing work to reduce infection rates. We need to end h. I. V. Lets recommit and have an amazing month. This community deserves it. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you so much. Next we have our champion here on the board of supervisors, the only out gay member of the board of supervisors big responsibility, and he is doing it with charm and grace. Please welcome rafael mandelman, our supervisor. [applause. ] thank you, for all of the amazing work that you do. Every time we get the queers and friends together, this is a beautiful and wonderful group. Happy tried 2019 everybody happy pride 2019 ever body. Thank you for bringing us here today, mayor. You have been a champion. Senator wean you wiener it is go have you back and thank you for your leadership. This is a very big pride. Folks know i it is the 49th anniversary of our San Francisco pride parade but 50th anniversary of stone wall. [cheers and applause. ] now in San Francisco we know the modern Civil Rights Movement began in 1966 with the compton cafeteria riots, but i think we can still acknowledge that stone wall is a big deal. Now, madam mayor, we both grew up in San Francisco. You and i both know so many communities are under stress in San Francisco with our overheated Real Estate Market and displacement across the city. On friday you brought us out to the sunnydale Housing Project to focus energy and attention and light on a community that for far too long our city has shamefully ignored. At that event you announced your budget, which is your statement of values. I want to thank you for your commitment around the housing needses all of our communities in the city and particularly the lbgq community. We talked about the extraordinary 3 Million Investment for the first time in transcommunity housing needs. That is a big, big deal. I want to point out and celebrate the 79 new units opening at open house this summer right now. [applause. ] i know many folks in this room worked on that adding to 40 units opened two years ago. It is partially due to the work of this mayor when she was on the board of supervisors that there are queer people going in those units. Thank you for that and all of your work to ensure our generations every assistance will be able to age and remain in San Francisco. I know we are just getting started. Those open house units are the first. I am excited. With that we have such a fantastic group of Community Grand marshalls that i have the honor to introduce to you today. I will start with api equality Northern California. [applause. ] where are you . Very good. Api equality Northern California builds queer and transgender fire to trans form the Community Livelihoods from scarcity to abundance through their Movement Building they envision a world where all queer islanders can be affirmed in bodies and communities as their full authentic selfs. Api equality Northern California. One more round of applause for them. [applause. ] for our extremely queer district two Catherine Stephanie who has joined us. [applause. ] our second Amazing Community grangrand marshall is ms. Billy cooper. She is a 60yearold who has worked for years in h. I. V. Positive community engagement. She has traveled and spoken for both communities. She is a 30 plus year survivor living with h. I. V. Who works with her recovery family because she has been clean and sober for 15 years. Ms. Billy cooper. [applause. ] vince. He is a gay Pacific Islander, aid aids survivor who has dedicated more than 30 years to aids activism and he currently runs the program for longterm survivors at the aids foundation and cochairs the aging work group of the longterm care council. He was executive director of Regional Networks and founded the Senior Adviser<\/a> 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 in celebrating them. Pride started as a riot. Knowing the history can only give us hope and remind us of our strength and power for change. Even when the federal administration attempts to strip away our rights, we know that San Francisco<\/a> will fight back. In San Francisco<\/a> we will never give up from the streets to city hall. From harvey milk to the trans women of color. Today our community has achieved so much. We have made incredible strides thanks to the generations every assistance before us. This work would not be possible with all of you and without our allies and leadership here in city hall who have joined us on the front lines for lbgt equality. It is my honor to welcome our mayor, mayor london breed. [cheers and applause. ] mayor breed thank you to everyontoeveryone who is joinin. No one celebrated pride like the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>. Celebrate we must to make sure that our voices are heard and the federal government knows that no matter who you are and who you love, we will not be erased, not in america, not in San Francisco<\/a>, not today. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge some of the leadership we have in San Francisco<\/a>, people who are making a difference. Thank you so much to our state senator scott weiner for being here, who you will hear from shortly. As well as our treasure who is with us today. Your fierce supervisor rafael mandelman. Community College Board<\/a> member alex randolph. And supervisor safai and another member of the community College Board<\/a>, tom. And thank you supervisor matt haney for joining us as well. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the first lbgt fire chief jeanine nicholson. And thank you supervisor walton for being here as well. And our Police Department<\/a>, our chief is here, bill scott. I am so excited. Have you guys seen the new flag, new vehicles of the San Francisco<\/a> Police Department<\/a> . Amazing. Thank you, chief so much. There is a freedom band that you will be the official band of the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>, lgbt freed domband. You will hear from them shortly. No one celebrates pride like San Francisco<\/a>. Thank you for joining us to raise the flag in our city. I know there are challenges throughout the bay area of raising this flag. In San Francisco<\/a> it is not a question. It is an important part of what makes our city so special. I want to thank all of you every year for coming for the flag raising. I want to acknowledge the man behind making the celebration great, commissioner tom horn, thank you so much for your amazing support for this event. I want to say a special acknowledgment and for the parade which i cannot wait to participate in. It is a lot of hard work. We all have fun and a good time. I know that you and the Committee Work<\/a> hard to make sure it looks effortless. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause. ] along with celebrating pride this month, it also is a time to reflect on our Lgbt Community<\/a>s long history of activism and resilience from the aids which ravaged our city to the war against the transcommunity that is playing out throughout this country. Since San Francisco<\/a>s first pride parade in 1970, we have overcome so many challenges thanks to the courage of the Amazing Community<\/a> leaders who stood up. Today San Francisco<\/a> is a beacon of hope for the Lbgt Community<\/a>. This years pride parade theme generations every assistance, just as generations have resisted before we in San Francisco<\/a> will continue to resist. Despite the federal governments continued attacks on the Lbgt Community<\/a> we will not back down until we achieve full equality. We will stand with our transgender people who continue to bravely serve our country, and in San Francisco<\/a> our businesses, hour healthcare services, our work force and housing will always be open to all. In San Francisco<\/a>, we are expanding gender identity options on all city forms and applications that ask for demographic information, and we are including education on our lgbt identities for City Employees<\/a> as part of harassment prevention and implicit bias training. Last week i was proud to announce a new 3 Million Investment<\/a> in our budget for transand lbg in San Francisco<\/a>. It includes 2 million for flexible housing to keep our transcommunity housed. We know that transgender people are 18 times more likely to not be able to have housing and to be homeless in San Francisco<\/a>. We are going to make the investment to support the lbgt youth by providing them with housing, employment and Case Management<\/a> services. I want to thank all members of the board of supervisors and others who advocate for this much needed investment. [applause. ] we will be funding training and internship programs for transjob seekers and Community Members<\/a> exiting the criminal Justice System<\/a>. We are committed to continuing to backfill the federal h. I. V. As getting to zero in the effort that state senator scott weiner fought for and now supervisor mandelman continues to fight for on the board now. This will help with efforts like the win senator wiener is doing to increase access for everyone in california. Thank you, senator wiener. [applause. ] together we can make sure that no one is left behind, and this city doesnt just celebrate our Lbgt Community<\/a>, we make investments and put deeds behind those words which is why we are the best city in the world, and what is so amazing so many of you play such a Critical Role<\/a> in that success. I want to take this opportunity before i acknowledge the work of two incredible individuals here today. I cant move on with this program without acknowledging donna sachet for being here today. [applause. ] she and charlotte shuttl shultze only two that dress better than me. Thank you for all you do to make us look and feel good. I forgot you were there. Vicky, thank you so much. [applause. ] so i have two awards to give. First of all, i want to ask george to come up to accept this on behalf of sf pride. As i said, i know that it looks like it is easy, but it is not easy because we know the stress in getting permits anchorednating with city departments and getting everyone to follow the rules and stay where they are to stay and not lag behind in the parades, festivities, events, programs, the fundraising. I didnt mention the fact they have to fundraise to pay for these incredible activities that make San Francisco<\/a> look good to the rest of the world. Thousands of people come from all over to celebrate pride in San Francisco<\/a>. June is a fun and energetic and incredible month for us. Because of sf pride and this committee, the work they do means so much to our city. On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>, i would like to declare which day am i declaring . [laughing. ] today june 3rd as sf pride day in the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>. Thank you so much. [cheers and applause. ] i have one more special award. I also get the honor of presenting the annual teddy worthington award to a legendary film maker and writer. This award recognizes individuals who have contributed a longstanding large body of work in the Lbgt Community<\/a>. Sharcheryl is a central part ofe queer new way of young film makers. Watermelon woman has won critical acclaim. Her project was one of the top must see film innist films. Today she is continuing the body of work with awardwinning sear rears. Series. She will give me the ending. It is amazing. It is my honor to also declare today as cheryl d un yee day for your amazing contribution and the work you have done to not only advocate for the Lgbt Community<\/a> but the work you have done to shine a light on people of color who are often times disenfranchised to tell our stories and how we should be represented in film. It is beautiful to watch and see and those people love you out there just as much as we do. Cheryl, come on up. [cheers and applause. ] first of all, congratulations to all of the grand marshalls for this years pride parade. Can you all please stand or wave your hand so we can see you. Thank you. And last but not least, cheryl, do you want to say a few words . Say hello to the folks. Hi everyone i am proud to be the grand marshall awarded with the award. I have been working for so long to bring the margins to the center. I have been working really long to make what is invisible visible. In this day of independent media and television and the browning and blacking of images, i am making the invisible and visible invincible and thank you. Thank you so much. With that, i will turn it back over, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the city, enjoy pride month in the city. Lets have an amazing time. Make sure you dont forget to go to our restaurants and spend all of your money, too. Thank you so much. Thank you, mayor breed. Now it is my honor to introduce you to someone who has done so much work in San Francisco<\/a> and now leading the way across california. Our state senator scott weiner. [cheers and applause. ] thank you, and i want to thank the mayor for being an extraordinary ally to our community. Thank you, mayor breed, for everything you do. This city is in amazing hands under your leadership. Thank you. This is my 23rd San Francisco<\/a> pride. My 29th overall pride since i came out as a gay man a long, long time ago. Time flies. I am optimistic for our community in many ways. This community that been through so much in terms of the hate crimes and the worst of the hiv aids crisis and housing crisis and all of the other weighs in which our community that struggled over the years in San Francisco<\/a> and elsewhere. We are so resilient and the Community Comes<\/a> back and comes back and gets stronger and stronger. I am so proud to be part of our Lbgt Community<\/a>, particularly in San Francisco<\/a>. That doesnt mean we dont center challenges. I think pride is the right time of the year for us to recommit to celebrate and recommit to the fight. Of course, we know what this guy is doing in washington, d. C. In the white house to undermine and harm our community including our children, attacking children. It is something that it is hard to fathom that you have a president of the United States<\/a> who would attack lbgt children. Apart from what he is doing and we are fighting back hard to make sure california goes in the other direction, we have our own challenges here as an Lbgt Community<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a> and california. We are continuing to criminalize the Lbgt Community<\/a>. We are continuing to see obscene rates of homelessness in our community, particularly our youth and 40 of Homeless Youth<\/a> are lgbt. We continue to not be supportive enough of our Transgender Community<\/a> in terms of what our transkids have to experience in terms of what transpeople experience in the criminal Justice System<\/a> or in the lack of employment or access to healthcare right here in california. We are not doing enough to support our lbgt seniors. Too many are going to the closet when they enter longterm care. We have challenges. The good thing is in San Francisco<\/a> we are leading the way in confronting those challenges, whether it is the great work in the jails to treat lbgt inmates with the dignity they deserve or the groundbreaking work we have done with seniors and Homeless Youth<\/a>. We are taking that statewide. This shouldnt depends on where you live. I want to close. In terms of h. I. V. , there is a narrative we have defeated h. I. V. We havent. We have so much more work to do in california. We have dunk am done amazing work to reduce infection rates. We need to end h. I. V. Lets recommit and have an amazing month. This community deserves it. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you so much. Next we have our champion here on the board of supervisors, the only out gay member of the board of supervisors big responsibility, and he is doing it with charm and grace. Please welcome rafael mandelman, our supervisor. [applause. ] thank you, for all of the amazing work that you do. Every time we get the queers and friends together, this is a beautiful and wonderful group. Happy tried 2019 everybody happy pride 2019 ever body. Thank you for bringing us here today, mayor. You have been a champion. Senator wean you wiener it is go have you back and thank you for your leadership. This is a very big pride. Folks know i it is the 49th anniversary of our San Francisco<\/a> pride parade but 50th anniversary of stone wall. [cheers and applause. ] now in San Francisco<\/a> we know the modern Civil Rights Movement<\/a> began in 1966 with the compton cafeteria riots, but i think we can still acknowledge that stone wall is a big deal. Now, madam mayor, we both grew up in San Francisco<\/a>. You and i both know so many communities are under stress in San Francisco<\/a> with our overheated Real Estate Market<\/a> and displacement across the city. On friday you brought us out to the sunnydale Housing Project<\/a> to focus energy and attention and light on a community that for far too long our city has shamefully ignored. At that event you announced your budget, which is your statement of values. I want to thank you for your commitment around the housing needses all of our communities in the city and particularly the lbgq community. We talked about the extraordinary 3 Million Investment<\/a> for the first time in transcommunity housing needs. That is a big, big deal. I want to point out and celebrate the 79 new units opening at open house this summer right now. [applause. ] i know many folks in this room worked on that adding to 40 units opened two years ago. It is partially due to the work of this mayor when she was on the board of supervisors that there are queer people going in those units. Thank you for that and all of your work to ensure our generations every assistance will be able to age and remain in San Francisco<\/a>. I know we are just getting started. Those open house units are the first. I am excited. With that we have such a fantastic group of Community Grand<\/a> marshalls that i have the honor to introduce to you today. I will start with api equality Northern California<\/a>. [applause. ] where are you . Very good. Api equality Northern California<\/a> builds queer and transgender fire to trans form the Community Livelihoods<\/a> from scarcity to abundance through their Movement Building<\/a> they envision a world where all queer islanders can be affirmed in bodies and communities as their full authentic selfs. Api equality Northern California<\/a>. One more round of applause for them. [applause. ] for our extremely queer district two Catherine Stephanie<\/a> who has joined us. [applause. ] our second Amazing Community<\/a> grangrand marshall is ms. Billy cooper. She is a 60yearold who has worked for years in h. I. V. Positive community engagement. She has traveled and spoken for both communities. She is a 30 plus year survivor living with h. I. V. Who works with her recovery family because she has been clean and sober for 15 years. Ms. Billy cooper. [applause. ] vince. He is a gay Pacific Island<\/a>er, aid aids survivor who has dedicated more than 30 years to aids activism and he currently runs the program for longterm survivors at the aids foundation and cochairs the aging work group of the longterm care council. He was executive director of Regional Networks<\/a> and founded the Pacific Island<\/a> aids action group and served as United Nations<\/a> delegate. applause . Is vera here . She is amazing. She has been encouraging people to experiment by attending public events. By creating costumes utilizing Recycled Materials<\/a> they help discover unique visions in free workshops. They have marched in the San Francisco<\/a> pride parade since 1995. Entertaining the ftca and bookmobile. Vera sphere. [applause. ] last, but not least by any means, ms. Donna persona. The open house video with donna is absolutely amazing. Donna is an activist for transgender rights. She served on the boards of transmarch and day of remembrance and on the main streets after the comptons coms cafeteria. She raised the first transgender flag at city hall with mayor breed. The play recreates the transgender history and including sf weeklys best of 2018, donna persona. [cheers and applause. ] this is such a great group of grand marshalls for 2019. I am excited to watch you celebrate this month and be honored. With that happy pride again. [applause. ] thank you so much. You are doing such amazing work. It is my honor to bring up our last speaker. The executive director of sf pride has done amazing work with pride. We are sad that he will be leaving pride this year. He has done so much amazing work. Please join me in welcoming george and thanking him for his incredible service. [applause. ] thank you, clair, mayor breed, supervisor mandelman. I have many of our team joining us. As mayor breed mentioned, there is a lot of work to do to put this event on. These are just some of the people that help make it work. I would introduce you buy name but i only have three minutes to do my talking points. I have more Board Members<\/a>. We have Board Members<\/a> and staff here today. We are excited to be here to kickoff pride month with all of you. We are really grateful for the excellent relationship that we have with the city and many of the agencies that we have to work with to pull this event off. It is true i am leaving after this years event. I will be working with rec and park. I intend to volunteer for pride when i can and do as much work for the city as i can. The Global Pride Movement<\/a> has proven to be an effective and enduring agent for change. It is the modern movement San Francisco<\/a> has been the leader in the space as supervisor mandelman mentioned we had o our own rising. This is part of a trilogy, generations every assistance. Last year was generations of strength. As we were putting together the plan we fixated on the word generations and that that meant and the generations of people whose shoulders we stand on and who came before us to make it what it is today. Next year our theme is generations of hope. You can see how that plays out to the 50th anniversary. Every year we celebrate individuals and organizations, local heroes who have done so much to give back and build the lbgq community. In addition to the grand marshalls that supervisor mandelman pointed out we have award des here. I want to acknowledge them. China silk. Is china here . She is one of our award des, she is a San Francisco<\/a> native and member of the imperial court. She had grand dutches 27 and empress 39. She is a prolific fundraiser and Fierce Community<\/a> advocated. Is Sampson Mccormick<\/a> here . He is an awardwinning entertainer, one of the most celebrated voices in comedy for two decades. He is hilarious. He has headlines such venues as the historic howard theater, kennedy center, San Francisco<\/a> punchline, harvard unit and the first lbgq comic to perform at the smithsonian. I am not sure if there is a representative from lion martin. They set standards for communitybased health service, and the organization is named after phyllis lion and del martin. It was founded in 1979 as a volunteer clinic providing healthcare to women, lesbians and in a safe and compassionate environment. Another award de would be nia collective. They are in the house. They received this years 10 years of service award. For more than 30 years they have been providing a safe space for lesbians of african descent to teach and learn without judgment. They share information through annual gatherings and partnerships with other community organizations. Nia collective. [applause. ] i dont believe he is here today, but our board selected bob haas for the freedom award. He helped to establish levy as a corporate levi by establishing support groups and sponsoring volunteer activities. They have provided 7 70 million to hiv aids nonprofits around the board. They were the first fortune 500 companies to offer benefits to samesex couples. [applause. ] i believe that Ken Henderson<\/a> is here from the aid foundation. They are the recipient of the Pride Community<\/a> award this year. It is an organization dedicated to raising funds for aids, hunger programs and programs for home less youth in the bay area. Through the production of quality entertainment programs. Founded by two mothers who lost their only sons to aids, we honor their sons memories and helps alleviateiate suffering of other sons and daughters living with hiv aids. Finally, crystal veronica. Crystal is another of our award des, a proud queer photographer and recipient of the pride creative award. Her work is stunning and beautiful. Her photography focuses on persons of color and documents folks documenting decisions about love and not compromising values for societal standards. Crystal veronica. [applause. ] i also want to acknowledge teddy witherington, prides First Executive<\/a> director. He is here with us today. Thank you for being here. Having walked in your path and sat in your chair i have immense respect for you. Throughout this movement we are called upon to show strength and resistance and hope. It is an honor to celebrate these individuals and organizations. They have risen to the calls and met the challenges head on. As your march down Market Street<\/a> we will be joined by someone attending the very first pride. How cool is it they get to do that in San Francisco<\/a> . applause . Our city is an emblem of strength and beacon of home for lbgq people around the world. In a couple weeks we will have 280 contingents marching down Market Street<\/a> and hundreds of thousands on civic center, 20 stages planned. People are working tirelessly around the clock to make this event successful and safe. Thanks to the mayor and city for all of the support we get. I am standing up here today with our new board president , jack lane bishop. [applause. ] as well as many Board Members<\/a>. Caroline wisingger is one of our Board Members<\/a>. I would like to introduce her to you. I want to thank everyone for coming out. I wrote some great remarks for this event. Last night i found out a couple of young comrades were victims of hate crimes at the end of the Democratic Convention<\/a> the other day. It reminded me about those two words in our theme. Generations every assistance. I work with high school students. What is the importance of the pride flag . I am one of those folk that go to different municipalities to fight to raise the flag. It reminds me when we fight as municipality we resist policies and institutions. Our young people are learning how to resist. We have to remember the history of our resistance. It is 50 years of stone wall and it will 89th birthday of supervisor milk. We have to continue resisting. Remember those still affected by violence from the community. We have to continue to protect them. Thank you may or breed and the city of San Francisco<\/a> for continuing this tradition. I urge you to go to the communities outside of San Francisco<\/a>. They need your voices so they can have Something Like<\/a> this in their city. Thank you very much. [applause. ] what an you event. Thank you to the pride team and board. Thank you all. As we close, i just want to thank the Bob Ross Foundation<\/a> for the generous support to make this event happen. [applause. ] and i want to thank the amazing team behindthescenes that work tirelessly in protocol, anthony and the team. My team at the office of transinitiatives. Thank you. I would like to take a moment to recognize all of the Department Heads<\/a> and allies who came out today and City Employees<\/a>. If you could raise your hands if you are with us. Thank you. [applause. ] all of the folks who receive support from the city. Those folks here with lbg programs that work tirelessly. Lets recognize them. [applause. ] this work doesnt end here. We know mayor breed and myself and all of the electives up here and all of you will continue to do the work. We have to continue to love each other, support each other, not just in june, 360, every day of the year. It is my honor to introduce San Francisco<\/a> official band the gay and lesbian freedom band. Please enjoy cocktails and have a great day. Thank you. [applause. ] supporters of the eagle plaza. [cheers and applause] this morning, i was honored, my Business Partner<\/a>, mike leon. On this historic day. I want to take the warmest welcome possible to the honorable mayor london breed, supervisor haney, supervisor mandelman. The greatest community, members of the leather and lgbt cultural district and the friends of eagle plaza. Were all here today after a long road. Great accomplishments. Eagle plaza started as an idea. Six years ago my Business Partner<\/a> and i met, built and have a conversation about breaking ground for construct, where we floated idea of the construction of the plaza. Between the San Francisco<\/a> eagle bar and the construction. A plaza unique to the world that will honor the leather and lgbt communities, serve as a focal part for them to have events. And now this idea is about to come true. Its fitting this was elected for the first public plaza dedicated to the Leather Community<\/a>. Its been the home for this community for decades. A special thanks to supervisor haney and mandelman for introducing and pushing forward the legislation to permit the construction of eagle plaza. [cheers and applause] without their efforts, eagle plaza would still remain as an idea. I would like to thank all of those who contributed financially to eagle plaza and to my eagle family for their support. And, of course, the most special thanks to mayor breed, who removed road blocks, constantly moved the project forward to where were here today at the groundbreaking of eagle plaza. I would like you to extend the warmest welcome to our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] mayor breed thank you so much. I am so excited to be here today. Were going to have one of the most beautiful plazas in San Francisco<\/a>. I remember when it first became mayor and i knew that this idea had started over six years ago when state senator scott wiener was on the board of supervisors and i know a lot of the work he did helped to get us to this place. But i was really frustrated over the two years of bureaucracy. We already had the support. We already had the plan. And the city bureaucracy continued to delay this project. So two years delay was just really unacceptable. So when i first became mayor, i made this one of my first directives and we got the approvals done in three months. So im really proud [applause] that we were able to Work Together<\/a> to accomplish that goal. In addition to that, because this was such an Amazing Community<\/a>driven project, 200,000 from the Community College<\/a> grant was made possible to help fund this project. The work from build inc. And i want to thank Lauren Seguin<\/a> for being here, as well as the folks from the Park Alliance<\/a> and the friends of eagle plaza, you all came together to make this incredible project possible. And i also would like to say a special thank you to senator scott wiener who put 100,000 in the state budget so we can have the Additional Support<\/a> that we need. But heres the good news. We know that there is still a 50,000 funding gap and so that we can focus on the work and not on the resources needed to get the work done, i work with supervisor mandelman to come up with the 50,000 that we need to get this project done. [cheers and applause] mayor breed so to the folks of the leather and the Lgbt Community<\/a> and this cultural district that was made possible for the purposes of celebration coming together. And in the spirit of pride month here in San Francisco<\/a> that celebrates inclusiveness and love and all great things we are here in our great city, i would like to say congratulations and thank you all for your hard work. I know when this plaza is completed, its going to be used by so many people, to hang out, drink coffee, read, and celebrate and all the great things we do that make San Francisco<\/a> such a unique and special place for people to visit and live here. Thank you, all, so much. [applause] now id like to present a very special award that the San Francisco<\/a> eagle bar to a very special person. This is called the leather feather. And its given in recognition of someone who not only has supported the Leather Community<\/a> in a special way, but performed Extraordinary Service<\/a> in doing so. So for making eagle plaza a reality, eagle bar is honored to present the leather feather to the San Francisco<\/a> mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you. Thank you so much. Mayor breed thank you. [applause] i want to have you guys now with bob, the chair of the leather and lgbt cultural district. [applause] i am proud to be here for this historic event and the leather district is delighted to have the eagle plaza in our district. And we look forward to its use as a gathering point in the district. I have the honor of introducing rafael mandelman, the District Supervisor<\/a> and native san franciscan. He supported the Leather Community<\/a> even before he ran for supervisor and can be seen in local venues periodically. [laughter] now hes reaching out beyond his districts boundaries to take real action to help make spaces like the eagle plaza come into being. His actions to make spaces for leather communities will keep this neighborhoods historic vibrant which will help perpetuate the city as a city for tolerance and acceptance. With that, i present to you rafael mandelman. [applause] supervisor mandelman good morning, everybody. This is such a wonderful morning and as i look out at this crowd of gorgeous people who are doing Amazing Things<\/a> in our city for so many causes and communities. I see race bannon. Race always deserves a round of applause. [applause] San Francisco<\/a> is a city that does not forget its history. We build on our history. We celebrate our history and make new things happen next to old things and that is part of the magic of the city. And im so pleased that this plaza is as the mayor said, it took a little longer than would have been ideal, but it is now finally happening. I want to say just a few maybe a year ago, or a couple of years ago, we were worried about whether there even would be an eagle, right . More than a few years ago, but the Community Came<\/a> together and city hall responded and now not only is the eagle still here, its still a place to enjoy on sunday afternoons and all the time. And thank you so much, lex and mike, but now we have not only the eagle, but this amazing plaza coming here. So thank you, all, for coming out. Thank you all for coming out. But have a very, very happy pride. [applause] thank you, supervisor mandelman. I now have the proud honor of introducing district 6 supervisor matt haney. I met matt when he reached out to the leather and lgbt district when running for office. He expressed support for our community then and is following through with his action. Its these spaces that form a community and those spaces for the leather and lgbtq communities are under constant threat in this neighborhood. Matt haney is not only talking about preserving the culture here, hes sponsoring legislation to preserve the spaces that make soma a destination for people across the country and around the world. The fact that he is here today showing support for the eagle plaza is one sign of his commitment to the communities. With that, i present to you supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, bob. Well, i want to say this one more time. This is going to be the worlds first public plaza dedicated to the Leather Community<\/a>. Isnt that incredible . World first. And not only is it the worlds first public plaza dedicated to the Leather Community<\/a>, it is in the worlds first cultural district dedicated to the lgbtq community. Give it up for that as well. Bob, tremendous leadership. I want to thank all of you who worked hard to make this happen. Sf parks alliance, mayor breed, supervisor mandelman, senator wiener. This is an extraordinary effort that made this happen. Far too often the things that make this city wonderful, the things that built this culture, created our identity, the institutions, the businesses, are the ones that are constantly under attack. And sadly thats been the case here in western soma as well for the Leather Community<\/a>. And with what were doing today, the city is finally saying, not only are we going to preserve those institutions and that culture, were going to celebrate it, have a permanent home for it in our city and were going to do it in western soma. There is no west soma without the Leather Community<\/a>. Im excited about the future of this plaza for a number of reasons. Also because we need more open space in this part of the city. Soma and west soma has some of the least amount of open space, parks, places for people to relax, to bring their dogs, hang out. And i know this can be an extraordinary open space. I may not have been to many leather events, but i have been here for the beer bust a couple of weeks ago. And this is a community that knows how to come together to have a good time. I want to give a shoutout to a group of people. I want to shout out to the construction workers behind us, who are actually going to build this thing. For all of their hard work, were going to put on hard hats, but they do the work every day. Thank you so much. T thank you all for being here. Well champion the leather district, the eagle and the plaza. Thank you, all, for being here. Good morning, everyone. My name is victor, im the Communications Director<\/a> for senator scott wiener. This is a project he has spent a lot of energy working with lex and mike for the last six years to make this happen. He was very proud to get in the budget 100,000 to help make this a reality. [applause] i want to thank mayor london breed as well for her continued support of the plaza, as well as supervisor mandelman and haney. The Leather Community<\/a> has always played an Important Role<\/a> in the lgbtq community. At the height of the h. I. V. Epidemic, the Community Stepped<\/a> up to raise funds for h. I. V. Care, research and care for the entire community and continues to do that to this day. This plaza will serve to commemorate that and to continue to allow that work to happen. I want to thank you all for being here today and all of you that helped make this happen today. Thank you so much. [applause] id like to bring up lauren from build inc. Thanks. I dont know where to start. I mean, so many aspects of this are important. People think of us as developers, but really were urban placemakers and this exemplifies the work that is important to us, every project we do. The neighborhood makes its place and has influence on what we can do there. So this is amazing. For my partners, on behalf of my partners, our whole build group, the team at the office, this is the work that is meaningful, rewarding and just makes it all worth while. So thanks to mayor breed, to supervisor mandelman, haney, lex and the whole community to help make this happen. It takes a village and this is our village. Thank you. Lets dig dirt and make it happen [applause] we have shovels right here. Lets go dig. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 turn that dirt woo hoo [applause] love that. Thats a great shot. Thank you. 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