about equality under the law it's important we want everyone to have the same legal rights but that's in th equality that harvey milk was talking about this equality was when it comes to the social and connective conditions under which people live in this city my country (clapping) and by - by that when it comes to social economic equality we have a ways to go. we in san francisco have accomplished be a lot yet i stand here before you living in a city that has the fastest growing equality we're second behind atlanta being the second unequal cities and soon, we'll

overtake atlanta we need to redecade ourselves inform closing the inequality gap it's not consistent with the quality that harry died for there's a big diverse within the have and have not's so the lgbt community its not enough to have equal rights we have to stop the gap 40 percent of homeless youth in san francisco are be lgbt 29 percent of homeless people in san francisco are lgbt and many of the people are being evicted from the community we want a society that is fully an equal but equality goes beyond the law if he wanted to give them hope let's redecade

this so it works for everyone not just san francisco (clapping) >> when san francisco gay men's courthouse was 4 weeks old they made they're first porn's on the city hall for the candlelight for george moscone and as that moment to include sex all orientation it's encouraging going on to fight the fight for equality and freedom. please welcome the san francisco gay men's chorus under the direction of this gentleman.

>> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in tell me where to go tell me what to do. i - someplace where i can become every law. conflict that lets me be me. just me.

san francisco i am calling. i am hoping. san francisco. i am - i'm hoping and i'm hoping you'll help me. san francisco. i am hoping that you will

(inaudible). san francisco. set me free. and i'm wondering - . let me hear you say.

san francisco. i am hoping i'm hoping you'll hold me. san francisco. i am hoping i'm hoping you'll help me. i'm hoping you'll help.

san francisco. i am hoping that you welcome the promise. san francisco.

(clapping.) >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ got to have hope for today. just to stay alive. just to stay alive. you've got to give us hope you've got to give us hope. you've got to give us hope. you've got to give us hope. you've got to give us hope that we believe if you've got to give them hope give them give them

give them hope. you've good neighbor policy got to give them hope you've got to give them hope they can see. you've got to give them hope. you've got to give them hope they can feel they can building in you've got to give them hope they can come give them give them give them hope give them give them hope firefighter give them hope (clapping) give them hope (clapping) you've got to give them hope. you've got to give them hope (clapping) you've got to give them hope (clapping) you've got to give them hope. (clapping.) you've got to give them hope

>> hope. give them hope. hope. (clapping.) >> i love the gay mention chorus thank you so much this was awesome. it's my pleasure to introduce stewart i know you know stewart is harvey's envelope he was a teenager when harry was assassinated he has taken on harry's mammal tell he travels around the world spreading harry's hope thank you global

level to working tirelessly to inspire hope in others who wouldn't have it otherwise. stewart (clapping) i'm not sure this everyone got to hear the loudspeaker announcement when the chorus was introduced let me tell you again they're first public performance was at the amazing seaman's candlelight vigil to this day is humanities eloquently voice so, please join me in giving them another routinely they put this together in a week's notice (clapping) it's such an honor to be here in san francisco city hall with the

type of diverse carl served with my usage on the board of supervisors is here my usage did a lot of causes that people thought were losing causes he ran a couple of times and lost but in the 11 months he challenged a lot of existing fierce of what could be and dreams of what we can co- create so when a man a fellow brown naming gordon decided to run for president of the board of supervisors my usage made a point of joining carol silver and ella in supporting gordon even though they knew they were going to louis lose and why he

said i want san franciscans to dream there will be an asian president board of supervisors and maybe a asian mayor of the san francisco that's harry's dream i saw what we have in this great mayor, i get often asked am i sad that my usage didn't see the day when we have 9/11 drafts and xhaem shows we're i don't know people in treasure island that will be having difficult table conversations having conversations and standing up for who they are in school yards and not only lgbt people but men anyone who skins

skin is different or religion or non-risen is different those were dreams he did get to see them he got to see today when this wonderful city of san francisco would be this beaming light we have a decision that the not only a-year-old people think it's old hat that the sprusht knocked down a ruling a federal discretionary law dolled the dorm don't remember a woman named edit was not going to take this she didn't have a law she

said i'm not going to take this (clapping) he dreamed of the overcame people that would rise that to injustice if their own lives and dreamed as a society would come together and support minority like in a red state like arizona we had a discretionary law and for the fritter we've seen a rise up led by corporations and different faith organizations and people of different colors who said we won't tolerate this no way and we got a governor to veto that legislation. historic (clapping) but as much as we are in the

best of times in the united states i spend a lot of time abroad we're in the worse ways time abroad with one stroke of a pen over a billion people went background with india recriminals the people because of who they love and who having they a afghan followed suit. let me share with you one of the reasons i have global right in my experience when i was 20th century i got to go to a conference if north america rob with the decade on women there was a short black woman who got up and a room of people who looked like me at conference of women in north america rob age of he said if you come here

because you want to help me go home. we have nothing to talk about. if you have come here because you want to help me and people like me go home we have nothing to talk about you could hear a pin drop but if you come here because i understand your liberation is down with mine then let us work together that's the answer to the global equality issue your liberation is down with people in eastern upper and people in and africa we have a self-interest it can't be ultimate lyric we have a self-interest to make sure that no one is a sclas citizen that's

the dream of harvey milk (clapping) ann and i are going to close this beautiful ceremony by asking a couple of people that we have noticed that deserve recognition in addition to the co-sponsors and in addition to all our esteemed speakers we're going to ask some people to come up is that okay >> i think we should rather than do that i think that everyone who knew and loved harry because if i start saying names. >> i'll list some. >> we've said steve have an and carol. >> all the staff people. >> the staff people you started the entire thing thank you very much. >> and, of course, the court

system come on up. (clapping.) i think we should bring the court system donna. and cal silver (clapping) ross and everyone who knew harry that was please come up we'll have a great photo opportunity and everyone from the harvey milk foundation and equality in the house come on up are your future the folks being trained not only in revocations but diversity come on up jose cisneros come on up. post office folks by the way, we've got the post office general we've got those cards i promised i'd mention the names.

james wid he will come on up. i'm going to need our help. ross post master for san francisco. affidavit stou please come on up folks from the milk club everyone who has felt something from harvey and his legacy this is a photo opening for the angles come on up danny. this is the representatives by the way, san francisco a mayor a board of supervisors, and a community of people who have in their heart the belief that we got to give them hope.

the yeses as my usage said you can't live on hope alone but without hope life is not living thank you harry and thank you san francisco (clapping) (clapping) >> i was just driving around minding my own business... when it came out of nowhere. suddenly, there were lights all around me.

i'm like, "they're coming for me!" yeah, it was crazy. i just never thought they'd find me. not out here. it doesn't matter where you drive. if you don't buckle up, you will get caught. cops are cracking down all across the country. click it or ticket. >> welcome to the fifth in our series of working family forum

(clapping) we're very honored you can join us today and thank you to senator leno's to his staff and to be in this lovely building and for the executive board for the retirement i'm pleased the mayor and commissioner hur is here and we have several members of congress london bremember cor englander and thank you. we have other lady that's the could owner of the nicholas company recognized by president obama on their workplace flexibility thank you nicole for being here.

(clapping.) many of you know that the women bureau was created in congress shortly after the women got their rights to vote our vision is to incur all women and our priority secures is hire minimum wage for women and over the past few months we've been engaging groups if a don't even dooeven to chicago to boston and here in san francisco to identify initiative that benefit the america's working families and the economy we're bringing together high ranking officials and researches and business leaders and federal and local elected officials to have a conversation been business practices that benefit working families. the conversation and story as

those regional forums will be encoder on june 23rd at the white house we want to list up the key issues that american families are facing and you encourage everyone to add our voice to the national discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the ash tag followup. please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. we also have a story sharing wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how families need to be supported. i'm honored to introduce mayor ed lee he's the 403 reading

mayor and the first asian-american mayor i was elected in 2011 and has a long record of public city he began working in the city and county of san francisco as an investigator for the first whistle blower ordinance and the director of city purchasing and the director of public works and the city administrator he's worked are hard to keep us on introducing track to create jobs and champion everyone that supports parks and transit and quality of life in our neighborhoods and pedestrian safety. we're very fortunate to have him with us please welcome mayor ed lee >> kelly thank you very much and thank you for your work for the people as well. >> hello, everyone welcome to san francisco.

i was tickled when leader councilmember englander said you're looking thinner i said that's what a lot of contracts and other things pelosi thank you and welcome back and establishing san francisco we're honored to host one of the forums across the country to be chosen to be a location for a discussion on working families and also just want to take an opportunity to thank all the chronicle representatives we have a national agenda we can do everything locally and hello, again to melanie she's been a wonderful contact welcome back

to the recreational office. ellis you know your economy that red hot we're a thooifl economy and we got another great enhancement we're at a record low in unemployment of 4 percent there are challenges. and while our economy maybe the envy of other places around the world i'm hard at work to make sure our residents are getting the full-time work they need and that's sustainable. we know there's no greater income gap between that person who has a job and that personal who doesn't we will be relentless to grow jobs in our city crossing across all sectors not only technology it's fast growing by not the big driver

biotech and international trade and film and video production and construction and health care are on a having having good foundation all growing ail parts of the diverse economy and creating good paying jobs for everyone. we're making sure that we do everything we can to make sure the workforce policies are friendly to families. that's why i've joined up with supervisor david chiu on his family friendly workplace we're going to be funding a bit of that this year. he's been asking for that extra funding to make sure it's not just a good sounding ordinance but we reduce the barriers for working families. we need to make sure our priority is that you're working

families can afford to call it home one of the many ways in which we'll be addressing affordability is through housing. we've got an aggressive agenda got to create thirty thousand new housing pardon mely affordable to locate and moderate income families and we're making good progress we're opening up more homes for cities families in the first 5 months of this year there than the entire year of mifl. we know your city is an expensive place so we should bring an increase to all minimum wage yet still (clapping) yeah. but we've got to keep pace and this is what payinat