>> good evening hello castro welcome, welcome to night two of our celebration we had fun metroing last time and go giants (clapping.) i'm supervisor wiener and i have the honor of representing this district at the board of supervisors it is w with great you honor i present to you our new castro street sidewalks (clapping.) was a few years ago that the

government sat down we we said we need to do something for this amazing street that has seen hiv negative needs to be approved and the situations need to be wider and we pulled and got it done this is what we have today (clapping) and i've had the honor of living in the castro for the last 17 years and i've seen people in this producing crowd for 20 and thirty and 40 and 50 years they've seen the ups and downs and the good thing about the castro street this is such a resilient community that takes a punch through the gay bashing at worse of the aids etch depg and

this community has come through stronger every single time (clapping) and so, now we take our next step with this wonderful streetscaping remembering the fire chief but our history we have the ribbon honor clock and the ribbon clock recognizing the lvbt community and the understanding as we move forward we must remember where we've come from as a community i want to take a minute and thank i want to thank the castro community i want to thank the merchants and the residents for being patient through had process this has not been easy it is never easy to do this kind of work thank you to the residents and mvrnt for percent

vefr so let's hear it for our merchant and residents (clapping) so tonight we're going to celebrate and i want to i'm going to turn it over to an amazing leader in our community a.d. rely of the castro upper market they've been initiate in the project and it's an amazing work let's hear it for andrea. >> thank you all for coming and once again thank you for percent vefr for our merchant and who lost some business i think this

is moving forward this is great track and such an improvement so thank you, thank you, thank you and i want to for the people that say plans never getting get implemented in 2008, we the cd engaged you all in the streetscape in widening. >> san francisco lavishly one and all. >> to the passage of the great bonds initiative and the hard work of '73 to insure that project got funded we're here to celebrate. >> down with supervisor wiener. >> no one knew really knew how great it was going to be i don't think when we know the r.c. had no idea it is as cool as it really is (clapping.)

i want to thank the community benefit board of directors for taking the opportunity to fund the special elements those special elements are going to make this project really cool and contribute those are the ribbon cheese cakes and the castro history walk and the changing color of the l e d celebration lights so actual all. >> i want to bring up our great community leaders the first lady donna (clapping.) hello everything thank you, thank you those people are very important to making things happen there's there's a point when i need to leave the stage who's the heckler this is a celebration tonight just want to echo next

tuesday let's keep the night about the castro and it's residents and bars and can you celebrate with me? >> yeah. >> well, i'm of the mind any celebration is inincomplete complete without a sister of the perpetual indulge you know, i don't go into a church because it might collapse but this is my kind of church for the special indulge and the special sister my joy be with you let's say hey. >> hey. >> let's you guess say hey and hey. >> let's say hey. >> if i had $0.05 for every time i walked through this intersection i call you all here

6 years 5 months three weeks and few days after the idea for this thing got started i call you all here two years 8 months, two weeks a few days after dpw finally met to get this strartd now i call you seven months three weeks and few days since the physical evidence work actually started thank you community members, elected officials and mc, cb y and the community riders that stopped the cops and the construction workers the spell checkers (laughter). >> a yeah. >> and for adding white lines

on the outside of the crosswalk thank you business owners and thank you green again community members it just goes to show when it comes together in collaboration part of my language we can get some shit done let us give thanks for the thousands before us who grandfathered in this intersection in giant protest and agony and sometimes in giant victory. >> yeah. (clapping.) let us be grateful to all those before us who activeism and humankindness and public displays of queerness turned it into the mecca we recognize

today so i've been asked to give a blessing ton this special night but reeldz each think of you in attendance is the blessing thank you for making this history of this intersection matter thank you for coming to this intersection to take care of yours and in times of joy and sorry let's not ever forget the history of that and ask ourselves what we are doing here in this space it promulgate our history so we're going to take a little moment of time and silence in this silence i want you to think back to your times of joy what this intersection means to you and bring joy to the space and at the end of the silence i'm going to ask you as a community

what do we leave for us after us and yell joy so we're going to take 7 seconds one second for each game of the world series even though those games lasted for days so come together and focus on this intersection and focus on new and the future and what we've been here (silence). >> what do we leave here ♪ intersection for those who come in the future >> joy. >> well, the giants one i know you can do better. >> what do we leave in the intersection for all two come. >> joy. >> what do we leave in this intersection now.

>> joy. >> joy be with all of you thank you (clapping) and who's walking off the stage joy. >> i think we're not happy enough i have psychiatristing abilities i feel confusion yes. the sidewalk they have edema view it gets brighter it takes time this took time this took time was it worth it. >> yeah. >> and the castro is worth it in of the money yes. it was our money but b think about the businesses that really, really went through the hard times i feel like we should go up and down the street and spend money we have the opening and let's

support the castro especially tonight everything drink eat and be merry all right. >> few things make me happier then the men's gay chorus i at north of the theatre right the auditorium so that there is at the north auditorium on the 15 and the princess concert oh, what stated as one concert they said more and more so 5 o'clock then 57 and 7 and 9 the castro theatre that's december 24th.

>> (clapping) >> i wish there were here off they're here they're to sing there's one thousand of them they're going to be credible i'm not going to be talking but how many of you have been in the courts for less than 2 years. >> how many people have about in the court for more than 10 years it was fun but didn't do much they're to sing two songs one in you don't like it no two whether or not you like it under the direction of timothy let's hear it for the gay men's of san francisco. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that ♪ ♪

♪ >> if you were gay that would a be okay i mean go hey i like you anyway because you meet - i would feel free that was was gay but i'm not gay if you were queer i would still be here year after year because your dear to me and i know that you would attest too if i told you to hey guess what

i'm gay i'm happy to be with you if were welcome what you do in bed with - if upper straight i shall shout had your ray at you i would get in our way you can count on me to also be beside you ever way to tell you it's okay. you were just born that way and as they say it's your dna you're gay

if you were gay (clapping) ♪ ♪ ♪ in thursday night at the castro i am already if i get to the break of dawn thursday night at the castro i know one night on the floor something - i want more go to the castro i'm going to go to the castro i'm going to go to the castro to the castro that's where i

want to go at the castro i enjoy the castro you're going to go and go i want to go to the castro i want to go to the castro i want to go to the castro clap i want to go to the castro i want to go to the castro in san francisco a gay man in the castro thursday night at the weekend gave me i'm already if i can do it - thursday night at the castro i won't - someplace hey, i have

to confess i want more thursday night thursday night thursday night thursday night thursday night thursday night (clapping.) wow. the san francisco gay man's chorus let's hear it for them they know how to light a fuse their handsome the second song was hard to believe i'm not gay i didn't fool us but i look out here and see the people that love the castro and want to celebrate you're welcome to come starting with the what are we're going to do do it as part of the community and not an invasion already the san francisco giants

something happened this week you look like yourself you've been out the san francisco one the world series (clapping.) i love them it's not because they have to sing the national anthem in 2010 but, yeah they broke all reports i love them for that and it, it's a secure day in san francisco they've done charities for the san franciscans let's hear it for the san francisco giants (clapping) >> plus one person came out of emphasis jacket they said to me well don you're doing a lovely thing it's not on the schedule i'm going to do it anyway urge you to sing with me this is the basic the national anthem but people excuse me.

you know stealing my thunder it is something you have to realize a sink along only when i tell you so i'm going to sing this little versus ahead of time and then i'm going to go and we'll all sing together can you do that what about you, you're not doing that >> hurrying pick a note you have to do that in the national anthem too when all the world is a great big jump and the rain drops tumble all around and then opens the magic lane when all the clouds dark and up the sideways interests a robin rainbow to be fined leading from our windowpane to a point beyond the

sun on the rain somewhere over the rainbow way up high sing out lewis there's a - place up high somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream really do colonel true some day i'll wish upon a stair and wish what clouds are behind me where trouble felt like lemon drops away above the chimney drops

that's where you'll find me somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly if birds fly over the rainbow then why oh, why think can't i if just drop out for a minute if happy this blue birds fly beyond the rainbow why oh, why everybody can't i. >> (repeated.) (clapping) thank you oh, i feel like judy garland with a cold oh, i love seeing you all out there i think i know every face out under what's our first name i'll know

you by the end of the night there's one man we're thanking a lot this man is getting a lot of press he got things rolling and made it finish so let's give him credit and put other things aside can you concentrate here we have this fabulous improved ass electro because supervisor scott wiener (clapping.) thank you, don so let's hear it for don that in a before we bring the next speakers up i want to thank first of all, this buell beautiful rainbow ribbon we're going to cut was a maid by that the ribbon zircon the 4r6b9

community betsycy ross and thank audrey and john wood for putting together this program and for bringing up this to our community i want to thank a project like this doesn't happen we have a major city department and city staff that have worked very, very hard to make this happen including the department of public works and john dennis our project manager so thank you to the dpw team and our planning department, our director of planning director ram and rick that helped to bring this and the mta we had to move the overhead wires but edward reiskin from the mta made that

happen and the contractor we're appreciative for the work that the dba lot brothers did and finally before i bring up the next speaker i want to acknowledge several of my colleagues are here the folks that funded the project but the board of supervisors appropriated the money to make this project happen so two of my colleagues are here the president of the board of supervisors david chiu and my colleague supervisor campos so thank you, colleagues for being here tonight. >> so with that, we're at mayor ed lee will be here support shortly i want to thank when i pass the bond i went into the mayor's office i want our support and he immediately said, yes so i want to thank mayor ed lee for emphasis support he'll