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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 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 f ....
Staff every time i want to reach them for something. It seems like a huge waste of resources. They could just respond and that would make life easier. I want to talk about the access of holly park, which is an important park to me. It has five entrances for ablebodied people and one for wheelchair users. That one requires me, once i get to the park, i have to go four city blocks around the park to get to the Wheelchair Accessible entrance. Then i have a go up a huge hill and another couple blocks just to get to the bathroom. So i could be at the park with the bathroom in sight, 100 feet away from me and i still have to go four blocks across the hill to get to the bathroom. That is crazy. I would love to get to this park and access it like able bodied people, without having a travel eight blocks to and from the nonaccessible entrance i live near. Also that park in 2013, my local monastery was killed by a park and rec worker ....
[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 ti ....
And it started with this man right here today. [applause] today we reclaim our space here in the tender loin and raise the rainbow flag. And my deepest appreciation to Deborah Walker. Without her support and leadership, this would have never happened. [applause] and finally, our next speaker for lending her support for this project, for championing the needs of h. I. V. Positive, the transgender, lesbian, gay bisexual communities, please help us welcome the one true queen of San Francisco, our mayor, london breed. [applause] thank you so much, brian. And what an amazing story. Its great to hear. When i think about, you know, sadly some of the discriminatory practices that existed in our country for so many years, i definitely relate to those challenges and we all know the history of this country and how so many people, the ....