our first look out and at buena i must tell you that george moscone was extraordinary. vista park san francisco (applause) heavily forested hill with couples and >> and then george decided he wanted to be the mayor of his doing walkers it's as old as the near neighbor golden gate park city. and believe me, it was a ball and both have a coast live oak forest and fresh in retreat having george as mayor of this from city. mr. mayor, i never had so much fun. [laughter] urban life and meanders under a >> as i did with george, enjoying every aspect, having canopy of oaks yup lipid u.s. been a son of the city, having and chill out in this pleasant and quiet environment and you been raised by a single mother here in this city, and having might see butter nice, and an extended relationship with dandelion and is squirrels the italian community and that hundred dollaring for their next heritage, having an extended meal and buena vista park is 88 relationship with a catholic community, in then probably the most radical person other than >> good afternoon, everyone, john burton in existence in this whole city. almost good evening, and he became the mayor of this welcome to san francisco city hall. town. and he set the stage for i'm supervisor scott wiener. i have the honor of everybody you see before you, representing district 8 every single zoll tear i person including the castro on the

here on this stage is the end board of supervisors. property of what moscone and which district are formerly envisioned and what george represented by harvey milk. moscone did. he partnered up with harvey supervisor olague likes to remind me we share the district milk to continue that process in the halls of this incredible 5 represented by milk. building. and we're here today to * remember supervisor harvey milk their death on the same day and by the same hand was literally and mayor george moscone who the end product of what had were brutally assassinated decades ago. been an incredible team for and we gather every year to achievement purposes in every single solitary category. remember, and not just to and now when i walk around the remember and to mourn, but also city, whether it's in the to remember the positives and embarcadaro, whether it's to remember frankly both of mission bay, whether it's sea these great men and what they cliff, or whether it's the contributed to our community. outer sunset, whether it's you know, with respect to hunters point bayview, whether harvey milk, there will never, it's the mission, whether it's ever be another harvey milk in north beach, whether it's the our community in terms of what marina, i tell you in every he represented for our community in terms of a step single solitary space and forward. place, i see what george

moscone and harvey milk, in we are now elected lgbt peep to office and harvey was such an their existence, inspired in all of us and in the people. incredible trail blazer, not? and, so, when we come in in just getting elected, but in being a great leader and always remembrance, it is, in my holding his head high for our community. and i know when i was first opinion, to celebrate, to sworn into office, one of the celebrate the lives of two things that i always kept in mind was something that i understand harvey to have said, extraordinary people, one whom i knew almost as well as i know * that when you go into city hall, you walk up the central my own brother, and that was staircase. george. you don't walk on one of the and the other whom i worked side staircases because for our with just as if he was my community, it is so important brother in the things that we for us to walk up that central were able to achieve together. staircase and for us to be in and, so, tonight, san the middle of everything and francisco, it's not a time to for everyone to know that we be sad. it is a time to celebrate are here. because you are the and all these years later, we've made a lot of strides in beneficiaries of an incredible productive team that has caused the lgbt community, but we san francisco to be what it is. still have so much work to do around hiv issues, around our when carol migden and the troops stepped up and said, youth, around discrimination, around transinclusion, and all "let's do the whole business of the things that we know that domestic partners," and we did harvey had he been here today it on the steps of the rotunda,

would still be working on and that was george and harvey leading on. and, so, we have to keep doing our work. doing that, not us. that was george and harvey and frankly, we can't take for doing that. (applause) granted that queer people are going to keep getting elected to office if we don't work on >> and when mayor newsome that and focus on that, we'll called the whole world to look quickly slide back. for a second time when he said, so, we're here today to remember and also to look "people should be able to marry forward. so, it is my great honor to anybody whom they love," that turn the mic over to our was moscone and milk. mistress of ceremonies, one of literally being channeled harvey's legislative aides and through mr. newsome to do what now the director of emergency caused san francisco to become management in san francisco and one of my absolute favorite the center piece of all aspects people in city hall, the great of openness, all aspects of ann kronenberg. what this nation should be [cheering and applauding] about. >> i have to move this mic down and i tell you in celebrating, a little bit, supervisor. just on your own, think about welcome. thank you all so much for your experience in san coming and honoring mayor francisco. and i would be willing to moscone and supervisor harvey almost bet that somewhere in milk today. it is absolutely mind boggling that experience you'll find a to me that it's been 34 years.

piece of moscone and a piece of i think 34 years ago tonight, i milk. and i must tell you that for me was standing out here, we all it's on a daily basis. had candles. we did the candle light march before coming here tonight, i and we were in total shock, told the mayor, i walked the embarcadaro. i do that quite often. denial, grief beyond belief. i think we really felt at that i wander around san francisco. point so hopeless because we it's always amazing to me had lost two people who were so because as i wander around san important to us in our francisco i'll see something or community. experience something that has come as a result of the most today, as we leave here and we march up to castro street, we're going in the opposite open, the most directed, and direction because i think there the most people-sensitive is so much hope left. government anywhere in this we're going up the street, and world. and it comes as a result of two that's harvey's whole message, extraordinary people who gave his whole legacy was about hope. so, again, i thank you all so their lives so that we can much for coming today. we have wonderful speakers. enjoy, and enjoy we must. thank you. (applause) our electeds are here, and i thank you all for coming. you'll be hearing from most of them. and i look in the crowd and i just see family and friends, people who were with us that >> thank you, mr. mayor. night 34 years ago. that was wonderful. so, i can't, i can't mention i kind of messed up on the

timing here. i apologize. every single person, but i thank each and every one of you but, so, i'm going to introduce for being here. i am now very happy to assemblyman tom ammiano next introduce our mayor, mayor ed and then we'll have the gay lee, who is also a trail men's chorus and we will go to blazer. and we are so pleased that he's jonathan. so, just before tom gets up, here today to start the tom was one of harvey's festivities. so, thank you very much, mr. mayor. (applause) volunteers for many campaignses. he walked precincts and he was >> thank you, ann, and thank a very brave person being a teacher at the time. you, supervisor wiener. and when no on 6 was an issue thank you, the other supervisors here today as well in our state and they were trying to use the state representing our board. proposition, was trying to out thank you very much, mayor brown, for being here as well, law lesbian and gay teachers in and the moscone family and our schools, tom, a gay teacher himself, spoke out and was the friends, and former members of our board as well. facebook, the picture book of that campaign. so, we aloe tom an incredible welcome, everyone, to this 34th tribute and remembrance of debt, and we thank you so much. mayor moscone and supervisor harvey milk. you know, i will say at the * all owe outset in gathering my thoughts (applause) here and my personal thoughts [cheering and applauding] >> thank you so much. there is a note from willie here, of what they represented.

brown that says, tom, be short. [laughter] as we wait for this wonderful >> i don't know, scott. sound to pass by. every time i see you, i want to take off my clothes. they made it very quiet here. i don't know what that is. [laughter] >> you can read into that hope everyone is okay. whatever you wanted to. i think you should see from the you know, mayor moscone and remarks that preceded me that supervisor milk to me, as i was one strong attribute of both a law student in the bay area these extraordinary men was a sense of humor and a sense of when the assassinations happened, and wanted to be part irony. i've often thought about the of a government that was going differences in their background and how they came together in to be much more open. in fact, i had to sue the government in order to make it that context that juxtaposition more open. in history. and those years where struggle you know, san francisco, as the former mayor and speaker and just representing people mentioned, was very eclectic, who wanted to make the city much more equality bent was electric at the time, women's where i felt. and i feel today that if mayor movement, the lgbt movement, the civil rights movement, and, you know, things were moscone and harvey milk were happening, boys and girls. here, they'd be pretty proud of what we've been able to harvey's election i think made accomplish in those years. people take notice.

i think that george's, george's seeing how mayor brown became proclivities were always in and mayor and my lucky charm of being now the first asian mayor around social justice. i know that he was raised catholic. of the city, understanding -- so was i. thank you. (applause) 16 years of catholic school has made me the man i am today. [laughter] >> understanding now that we have the first african-american as president of the united >> and harvey influenced by states has now been reelected. [cheering and applauding] jewish culture, you know, i don't think it's ever been >> and this is in addition to explored enough. but if you talk to every brit, you know that harvey was a all of the local regional lgbt very, very much impacted by the holocaust. you know, if you remember, it persons that have been elected happened in the '40s. and a pointed to this wonderful it's only 20 years or so since city and the region. * appointed i think they would smile, that he came onto the scene. they would see that their and i think he was able to efforts to make this city much transfer, you know, that tragedy and that oppression more equitable for everybody has been already accomplished. into what was happening with and like supervisor wiener gay people. said, the job isn't done, but he was very scrappy. there's been a lot that has been done. i wanted to acknowledge two and we're proud of it and we people who were very supportive want to keep it going. and just look at the crowd here of harvey milk and george moscone, and both of them have today celebrating this. left us and that's howard you see how diverse the city is

wallace and hank wilson. and continues to be, and that we pledge in our own official (applause) >> what i loved about them was, what i loved about them was capacities, we're going to they knocked back a few and always keep these doors open. really get into it with harvey we're going to always work to about different issues. make our diversity benefit the but the comic was always there. rest of the city for generations and generations to and i think that's the beauty come. of san francisco. this is our commitment. i think that we were able to this is why we have these take that sense of social tributetion to remind ourselves of those years when it wasn't very easy at all. justice and blend it. when the thought of having a and that day, that brutal, gay person in office was a huge brutal day, you know, i can't struggle, that people took their lives in risk to actually imagine what the moscone family take up the responsibilities to went through and is still going do so. through, because this is and now it's become part of our something you don't get over. dna. and, of course, the lgbt it's what we do in san francisco. community in addition. it's how we represent ourselves. you know, we've triumphed, it's how my pride in being the we've said, all right, you mayor, i get to join the other might take away the messengers, but you're not going to take u.s. conference of mar and talk away the message. proudly of our diversity in so, long live harvey milk and long live george moscone and this city, and how it helps me long live san francisco. run this city. [cheering and applauding] * mayors and now for lesbian, gay, and >> thank you very much, transgender individuals to take

up the responsibilities and have the responsibility of other people's lives that they assemblyman ammiano. i am now going to introduce are responsible for in their jonathan moscone, who is the official capacities, this would make mayor moscone and youngest son of mayor moscone supervisor milk very proud of us. who was really just a young and in the week, perhaps less teenager at the time his father than a week, we have another was assassinated. historic opportunity for this jonathan, i've heard you speak before. you're always so inspirational. country as we take up this so, i turn it over to you. opportunity of hopefully, we thank you so much. join together to see that (applause) >> thanks. marriage equality becomes the i apologize, i had to write my law of this land. [cheering and applauding] speech so i was running out of >> we have that opportunity to do so. time and i'm sorry that i directed such a bad production and i think everybody who holds of wizard of oz for you at the office or holds an appointed position in the city is proud turtle creek round in dallas. to see this diversity. maybe you'll forgive me one day. this is what we have worked so listen, on behalf of my family hard, so many struggles. and we still remind ourselves gina and rebecca and jennifer of the night of the and christopher, i want to assassination and what had thank you for inviting us to occurred and how this city was speak today. and although i am the only so divided. i believe now that there is member of the family to speak today, i'm not speaking on such a great unity. their behalf. the truth is i just like to when we talk about diversity in talk. [laughter] the city, how that unity >> in fact, as i am happy to

transforms itself. it really is part of our dna in see so many people here as i everything that we do. do, as the comedian paula said, and, so, it is in this spirit even if you weren't here, i'd that i welcome all of you to still be up here talking. this 34th tribute and this but despite my tendencies remembrance. it is in the spirit that we set towards reliving the admonishment of my fifth grade a foundation continually to go teacher sister grace who chastised me for having forward and be even more diarrhea of the mouth and diverse and continue to invite constipation of ideas, i took a people who have never been a long while for me to say yes when stuart and ann asked me to part of this government, take talk a bit on the day that up it this responsibility with us. help us bring more people into marks the death of george and harvey. the economy, to the wonderful and the reason became clear when i sat down to write my city of san francisco. * make sure that their lives are words. i'm exhausted by talking about respected with dignity and with death. the prosperity this city has to i know that's not the subject offer. thank you for being here in of today's memorial, but it always happens on the day that this wonderful, wonderful city of san francisco. (applause) george and harvey were shot. and i think i'm tired of remembering them on the worst day of their lives. >> thank you, mayor lee. i wonder that if indeed there that was beautiful. it's now my pleasure to is a heaven, and if george and harvey got in, or perhaps they introduce mayor willie brown made it to somewhere a little who is an iconic figure in our more hip, a little more city. and as mayor lee said, the happening. they might be sitting up there first african-american mayor of on november 27th of every year

san francisco. and think, oh, lord, not this it is such an -- and a very again. close friend of mayor moscone. i mean, it's hard for me to so, it's my pleasure to imagine that this would be the introduce mayor brown. (applause) day that george moscone and harvey milk would want to remember each and every year. don't get me wrong. i'm deeply touched that people >> ann, thank you very much. remember my father and i do speak for my family in this mr. mayor, members of the regard. we are always and every day grateful that we live in a city boards of supervisors, that does not forget. but there's just something wrong in this notion that the assemblyman ammiano, [speaker day we remember our lost not understood], moscone leaders is the most violent day family, gay men's course, and of their lives, which in the case of my family was the most all of you who are assembled violent day of ours. it's almost as if we're giving herein, as i look around, i the senselessness of these deaths way too much respect by centering our love and passion absolutely know that i had and memory and yearning on the probably the greatest pleasure, day the beating hearts of these other than the moscone two men, hearts that were so children, of literally living with george moscone for so many brave, so unflinching, so years. immensely loving so full of life that they seemed larger mr. mayor, it was when we were than life, the day those beating hearts stopped forever.

in law school together, we were because, let's get this straight, george and harvey did not die noblely. fellow janitors at hastings there was no opera music. college of law. there was nothing heroic. there was nothing romantic to george moscone was amazing. he was just as aggressive about be found in the loss of my dad's life. it was a senseless act. inclusionary activities. and i think why that is after he was just as focused on all these years of loving to talk at these beautifully sharing. intentioned memorials, i can no and he had an immense pride in longer bear to remember george on the day of his death. the city and county of san so, i think i'm going to start next year and for years to come francisco like no other. to stop remembering november i suspect that much of my love 27th and i'm going to turn back the clock a few days to of the city comes from my exposure to george in those george's birthday which is november 24th. and i'm going to remember that very early years. george went through a and i'm going to celebrate that considerable amount of and i'm going to memorialize evolutionary process that for the rest of my life. politically. he allowed john burton to talk i'm going to ask my mother gina him into running for the state to remember the day that george asked her to marry him. legislature. i'm going to ask my sister rebecca what it was like to an unsuccessful effort for the play tennis with dad, competing state assembly. he went on to become, with him to win game, set and match. obviously, a supervisor in the city and county of san i'll ask jennifer what it was like to go to the opera with him. francisco. or chris how he and dad shared and in those days it was a

a love of talent, love and different city. talent for basketball, making them heroes, if not studs on it was dramatically different. there was no such thing as a and off the courts. i'm going to remember the nights george took me to my so-called progressive, david campos. there was no such thing as first r-rated movie, the somebody in that category. longest yard, the original one. or when he bought an alpha george moscone, philip burton, romeo much to the delight of represented that which we all his children and ire of his wife. our vacations of sea ranch and now richly enjoy. george went on to become a houses with primer color doors, state senator. [speaker not understood] where and in that capacity, scott, it we skinny dip as a family. i'm going to remember the night was george moscone who george when the mayoral shepherded the bill that election and we rode up portola removed criminal penalties and my father extended his arms between consenting adults in out as if he owned this town, this town he loved with the this state that cost people fierce heart of his. their positions as teachers, as or stopping at lorenzo's at the doctors, as nurses, as lawyers end of the columbus day parade in those days. it was a bill that we for a drink. i'm going to start this kind of orchestrated together. memorial next year on george's and george did what has never birthday. and by then, all of the moscone been done since, and that is children will have looked past cause the senate to hookup in a all of george's too brief life

20 to 20 tie in the late dimely and see him as he was, as shakev supervisor aioto-pier's was flown in from colorado to hamlet saw his father, as a man break the tie to give us that taken for all and all. bill. but unlike hamlet, i shall see that set the stage, scott, for the likes of him again. i'll see him everywhere, in all the things that have occurred in this state, and every moment i hear willie ultimately in this nation on the issue. brown speak. that was beautiful, willie, what you said. and the stories that my friend barbara tells of she and husband dick leaving the life of luxury in cleveland to run muni for dad. or of the dmv when a woman behind the counter looks twice at the name of my driver's license and looks up and tells me of the day she met george on the street or worked on george's campaign. or about the time in her life in our city's life when things seemed more touchable, more human, or just tells me that she's honored to meet george moscone's son. or on the first preview of the play that my dear friend tony wrote about george and me, a play called ghost life, and the first public performance up in ashlan, oregon. halfway through the second act,

at long last, george shows up and the fractured city hall backdrop begins to fill with floating lights outlining the golden gate bridge and we hear tony bennett sing his legendary recording of "i left my heart in san francisco." and then the character of george, sometimes mouthing the words, sometimes singing them quietly, moves towards john without looking, for he cannot look at his son. and he touches john's heart and then he moves away towards the city hall of john's memory and john set the stairs in the way that george did, cocky and sexy, cruel as all get out.