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this is a tidal wave we'll get housing protection and beat the hiv epidemic once again and take care of seniors and youth and going to win have a great pride weekend (clapping.) >> and because we have an abundance of richness on the board of supervisors this is provides leadership supervisor campos. >> (clapping.) thank you, everyone thank you to the elected family and great to see justin stewart and others i--i don't know if you those of you my age i was watching this morning with my husband as the opinion was being issued i didn't think in my lifetime i'd like see that
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before i say anything else i want you to give a brief moment of silence for harvey milk and all the people we know fought for this struggle that couldn't be here to see this day we're seeing today that have (silence). >> thank you i know harvey is watching but i know i don't median to spoil the party there's a lot to celebrate the harvey milk's of this world remember as a important our legal equality is the fact we still a great definitely inequality but in this city we have a faster growing equality in the united states we have
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brothers and sisters in the lgbtq community i see teresa sparks and think about our turned around community where unemployment is more than 50 percent 40 percent of our population is queer we need to take this victory the only way to honor and properly celebrate to make sure that we continue to fight for social justice and it is not just legal equality by social economic equality for every member of our community (clapping.) and we should not rest until we see the fact my good friend beven duffey we proudly opened an lgbt community shelter for
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lgbt adults this is a a that's a good they know our work is not done until we address the fact we're people that are homeless are front yard to be in the shelter they're encroaching abuse and discriminated our work shouldn't end until we have no more homeless in san francisco and every single member of our community can achieve they're encroaching potential until the american dream is real for all of us thank you. >> thank you, david we're not done. (clapping.) >> providing tremendous leadership on the board of supervisors and tremendous leadership to the city please welcome the do president supervisor president breed (clapping.) okay. well on behalf of the london breed i accept this
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award. >> thank you very much for recognizing what i've done for the city (laughter) >> one of my favorite city leaders i love what he's contributed and the support of our entire community our treasurer jose cisneros. >> good morning. >> i join you in being proud i'm proud to tell you over 10 years i'm a gay open gay latino here in san francisco. (clapping.) >> and i am proud of what we've done to make this possible i want to share one thing i'm permanently proud of the last year i was in a legal marriage with my partner mark like so many of you we've been able to make our relationships just as
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responsible and legal and important as just the same as everyone else in the country thank you fewer proud of the u.s. supreme court and have a great weekend (clapping.) >> we're going to wrap up i think but we'll see with representative the city college of san francisco city college is right in my neighborhood such an important institution for the city and county of san francisco and with this leadership that will continue to provide the tremendous service please welcome board member alex randolph (clapping.) >> hello, everybody welcome to our pails at city hall as one of the newest opening gay elected officials in san francisco i can't tell you how
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excited i share the space with our openly gay raphael who couldn't be here unfortunately fortunately i share the stage with our pioneers that previously served at the college board leslie and others and the first openly gay who lead the cause and, of course i was excited to support and yesterday we voted to appoint susan our person at city college for the first lesbian chancellor at city college despite what you read in the news media i have no doubt city college will be there for the next decades to provide education to our community i want to relocate recognize that
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city college was one of the first colleges to provide an lgbt class both educating our community and history and i can't wait until the day that kate and some of you teach about this day and movement and the history we've made thank you so much for supporting continental and being here and happy pride (clapping.) >> so i want to finish up with another acknowledgment and have a poll he was not he's not here but standing side by side with senator leno and helping us what the lawsuit jeff and equality for california is the reason we're here (clapping.) and now a short poll i wanted to know in this auditor who got
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married in 2004 raise our awesome in 2008 who is going to get married this weekend (laughter) (clapping). >> so the good news the good news you don't have to because we can (laughter) but - you're telling us lives and future so many better because we can let's celebrate and know we're not done it's going to be an amazing pride weekend thank you for everything (clapping.) to you folks oh, there i go before you leave can i have you
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cocky promise you're going to want to see this promise you're going to want to see this promise you're going to want to see this. (clapping.) >> so you would think you would think with an interesting entrance like that he's gay look this guy this guy - this guy took a huge political risk for this community he did that for the right principled reasons he knew justice needed to come and he decided to give it a little push our former mayor lieutenant governor the fabulous one of the men he most admire on the planet gavin newsom (clapping.)
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>> hey everything i'm sorry i'm late i know you've got a lot to side and celebrate and is more importantly a lot to be proud of today i heard words wednesday night that obama made me reflect and think about this moment president said he said encourage comes in many different forms encourage comes in a time of war encourage comes from quiet pioneers, encourage comes from mandel and others and the courage of many of you that encourage to be who you are courage to stand up and make that remarkable statement to a
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friend or loved one i'm gay this is who i am and who i love the courage that so many of you had when i walked down the hall and said mom i've got something to tell you that's the courage we're celebrating here today and had it not been for all of you and the millions and millions of conversations that were held in the millions and millions of conversation that were won there would be no supreme court digestion like the one day thank you to all of you for you're telling us quiet courage and our pioneers for your belief in each other and you're telling us belief in this month foundational principle that love is what it is all
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about marriage matters families matter and that's what we're firmly today a day of administration a celebration of everything that makes i think this country is special place and how appropriate and i'll close how appropriate that right behind us mayor ed lee and others are going to walk in and celebrate the founding of the united nations that happened 70 years ago how appropriate the spirit of the united nations is the spirit of this moment about pluralism and a recognize that we're all better off when we're better than off and celebrate our interesting derivatives but at the end of the day what makes this country not good but great is when we reconcile those differences and celebrate the things that bind us that
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maturity that dr. king talked about we practice pluralism we celebrate we don't 0 tolerate your diversity this is the great difference of our state and nation i'm grateful to be back i'm grateful to be invited back to city hall mayor ed lee thank you i'm grateful to kate kendall to joyce 92 stat and my chief of staff never going to leave in the city steve to mayor ed lee to the extraordinary assembly linkage of elected office official is from harvey milk to the attraction of tom mormon and
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sxhaent and many, many others i've forgotten but no maples negligent we stand open our shoulder and grateful for your leadership and grateful for the extraordinary work to get us to this moment and let me close with that you know for me, i have 3 kids and it was an interesting thing you know you you'll new to this here's what happened with i think about you're telling us kids i have a 5 and 4 and one-year-old the phone rang this morning and like 703 and the first picture came up is my 5-year-old daughter and all i thought about was her and how proud i am that she's going to grow up in a country that recognizes what you've always
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known that recognizes the jowls of every single one of us and recognized this fundamental ideal that we're all human beings that care deeply about making that work making our lives work and getting through the day living out our lives but do it with 12kib9 and with respect and what an extraordinarily world she gets to live in and in closing a reminder of this today is the antidote to skoichl to any kind of despair you may have you're telling us frustration you're telling us sense of powerlessness this show do away with that every single individuals has extraordinarily
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power we have to stand on principle and step up and in and if you do it extraordinary things can happen don't ever despair or give up or building a challenge is too big are the hill too tall to climb today is an fifshgs of all of us in our unique capacity to do the best is yet to come in this country thank you all very much for being here@ppx
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>> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store.
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