and opportunities, the greatest. also, we have great and unanswered racial and economic inequities. as we invest in these wonderful programs, minimum wage and investment in education and training and wenvist in the folks left out of the prosperity of this golden state, we have to simultaneously route out and end these unjust practices and policies that drain financial resources from these exact communities. if we don't, we are trying to build a house on quicksand. we neat to stop and look how equity plays into the work we do not just in building community but making a solid foundation. this is about economic and racial just tuesday. this is about civil rights and liberties, removing burdens that hold people back from jobs and

education and from fully participating in the community. this is about moving closer to the dream of the beloved community. it is about smart on criminal justice. it is about bold leadership, and it is about time so thank you, mayor breed. thank you again everyone for being here. this is just bringing us one step closer to dealing with what we know are a number of inequitable things that exist in san francisco that we need to address. i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge cheryl davis. director of human rights commission, who has already started work and research on how we can make sure that even be in the city and county of san francisco within our various departments that ther there is equitable access to job

opportunities in our city. we know there is work to be done. today we celebrate an amazing accomplishment, thanks to so many incredible people who believe in the work we are doing and because of this work we are going to positively impact thousands in san francisco and hopefully change their lives and our city for the better. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause.] ♪ ♪

>> ok. good afternoon. and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission regular hearing for wednesday, may 1, 2019. i would like to remind members

of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind and to please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings and when speaking before the commission, if you care to state your name for the record. [roll call] first on your agenda, commissioners, is general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, except agenda items. with respect to agenda ems your opportunity to address the matter will ber afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. >> good afternoon. my name is ger r*i scott. -- geri scott. i live on gilbert street, which is a possible renaming issue

under consideration by our district six supervisor matt haney who wants to change the name of this street to jeff idochi way. and in oakland, we have an historical commission within the planning department that says you have to get approval for that and this approval has never happened with this street name. edward gilbert was in the hall of fame. he was the man whose name was the reason why our street was named gilbert street. so, it is a very old and historic neighborhood where we live and work. it has residential buildings in front of the hall of justice and it was named after edward gilbert who was a pioneer in the hall of fame and one of the original congressmen in san francisco. voted by a total majority

except for six votes. he was a democrat who fought for immigration, marginalized and the disenfranchised and his legacy dates all the way back to the gold rush. we want to keep his name on the street. many of the original photographs of san francisco were published in this newspaper. i've lived on gilbert street for 43 years and witnessed numerous tour groups and sight seers taking photos of our community. now matt haney is recommending replacement of edward gilbert's legacy in favor of the recently deceased jeff hidachi who died last month at 59 years old of a drug overdose reported by the coroner's office as a cocaine overdose. while matt haneys recommends renaming our street, no one else who lives or works on gilbert street is in favor of the name change. we want to maintain the name of our street as gilbert street and signed four pages of petitions to the board of supervisors, maintaining our

current street name in favor of keeping edward gilbert's legacy and we hope that there is some person here who can direct us to the proper historical person who could challenge matt haney's recommendation because i was given the name timothy frye by richard jones. so far no one in the current administration has given us any reason for the proposed name change and to our knowledge, no one has contacted the historical society. and the really strange thing is that additionally, while gilbert street 1.5 blocks for a long time front of the hall of justice, there was no posting in the neighborhood meeting for the 52 units on the south side of gilbert street but only on the north -- on the north side of gilbert street was posted. [please stand by] [please stand by]

>> second is at the planning commission's april 25 hearing, the commission heard the proposal to convert the hearst building from an office use to a hotel use. as you know, you issued a major permit to alter for this project a number of months ago. overall, the commission was very supportive of the proposed project. there were speakers both in favor of the project and against. most of the concerns revolved around several small businesses that were still negotiating their relocation agreements with the developer from the hearst building site to another location while construction commences. the commission voted 6-1 to

approve the project. koppell voted against, and he was suggesting a two-week continuance because it sounded like the agreements were imminent. the council did decide to go forward and it resulted in a positive vote. i will keep you posted on any other aspects as it moves through the process. that concludes my report and i'm available for any questions or comments if you have any. thank you. >> clerk: seeing no comments, we can move onto item three, announcements. >> yeah, i'd like to continue on announcement we're having on citywide survey. commissioner black was gracious to step in before me on rules. it went before rules last monday, and she did a great job, and we're getting some

great support and feedback from supervisors. supervisor mandelman showed up and spoke in favor of a shortened schedule and in favor of finding the funding to support that, so we're going to continue on with the conversations to try to make sure that we can get it into the current budgeting conversation. >> clerk: very good. >> president hyland: commissioner johnck? i'm sorry. >> commissioner johnck: the budget, we did -- there is a budget item. this is budgeted. >> yes. >> commissioner johnck: the survey is budgeted, but are we asking for more money? >> yes, so currently, the it'll take about seven years to complete, so we asked staff who it would take to shorten that,

and with an additional three head counts, we can get it done in three years, so that's what the ask is. >> commissioner johnck: okay. >> and the real push is we don't -- we have a lot of properties that are categorized as b in our system. we're trying to get our head around which ones are c and which ones are a. those that are c have to go through the entire evaluation. if we get the project done in three years, then staff would not have to do that. >> clerk: item 4, consideration of adoption draft minutes for the regular hearing of april 17, 2019. >> president hyland: we open this up for public comment. any member of the public wish to speak on our minutes from the april 17 meeting?

close public comment. >> i move to adopt the minutes. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on that motion to adopt the minutes for april 17, 2019 -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 7-0. item 5, commission comments and questions. >> president hyland: commissioner johns? >> commissioner johns: the lady, i believe her name was emma scott, came today because she raised something which i have been concerned about for sometime, and that is the renaming of streets. i've used street names as cultural assets, or at least potentially cultural assets in many, many cases, and this street name, and there may be

others in which they really are not. but as far as i know, there are really no criteria for naming or renaming the street, and i think that's something we should investigate since i do believe potentially they are a cultural asset. so i would appreciate it if we could -- if you could look into this and put the subject on the agenda for sometime in the future. and i think that not only should we have a discussion about whether they are cultural assets, potentially some of them, and how we could work with other departments and probably the board of supervisors to make sure that if a street is under consideration for being renamed, that the people who

are going to make that decision are fully informed about what they are renaming. so that's my request. >> president hyland: okay. commissioner johnck? >> commissioner johnck: i have the same concern, interest, request. i would be interested in how this petition that we had during time for public comment would be handled specifically. that would be a question to you, tim. and then, my other question would be can you advise the schedule for any joint meetings in may or june? i saw something in the advanced calendar i thought maybe for may 20, but i hadn't seen an e-mail. >> clerk: yes, commissioners, i wanted to remind you that you were going to have a joint hearing that is not on your normal day. it's going to be in the civil design committee of the arts

commission in the war memorial building on may 20, in the afternoon. so if you're not able to attend that, if you would advise me sooner rather than later. >> i'm not available. >> so i cannot, either. >> president hyland: can you just let us know what room? >> clerk: yes. that agenda will be released this friday. because it's an off-site location, it had to be published 15 days in advance. >> president hyland: do you want to just take a poll on who can or cannot be here? >> clerk: sure. i think i sent out an e-mail. >> president hyland: i can. >> i already have it in my schedule, so -- >> president hyland: okay. >> clerk: so two are not able. very good. >> also, there was another very

good potential discussion, why am i thinking about june 27? >> right. the social equity. >> clerk: so the equity training does present somewhat of an issue if we have it on one day where both commissions attend because essentially that would establish a quorum for both commissions, and the training would have to be held like a public hearing which may not be so bad, but we would have to open it up for general public comment, and members of the public would have to be allowed to attend although they may not be able -- although they wouldn't participate in the training. we are working that out in compliance with the brown act and meeting attendance. if we can make it happen, we'll try to keep that date, but we're still waiting to hear back from the county attorney's office -- >> but we should keep that --

>> clerk: you should tentatively keep that date. >> what date is that again? >> june 27. >> and i think i said i would not be available. >> and is that all day? >> clerk: it would be an all-day training. >> okay. thank you. >> president hyland: onto the next item. >> clerk: very good, commissioners. that'll place us onto our regular calendar. [agenda item 6 read] >> this will require the mayor's office of housing and community development to submit written reports and

recommendations to the board of supervisors and the mayor describing the cultural attributes of the district and proposing strategies to acknowledge and preserve the cultural legacy of the district. i'm going to provide a brief overview of the ordinance and the issues that we discussed in the staff report which i explain our recommendations for support, and then, i'll introduce the legislative aide to supervisor mandelman, tom temprano to give another overview of the legislation. and then, we have a member of the community working group that will also be giving a brief presentation as part of the city's family presentation. so i wanted to dive into our recommendation and our -- the supporting arguments that we have listed in your draft resolution. we are recommending approval without any modification, and some of the findings that we made were that the -- first of all, the citywide historic cobb

text statement for lgbtq history in -- context statement for lgbtq history in san francisco outlines the historical significance of the castro and the many items of cultural significance that are housed there. i find that this proposal to recognize the castro as a cultural district is in line with this and sent to our commission. secondly, we have been working on an lgbtq heritage cultural strategy for the last 2.5 years. it will be made public in june, so just a few more weeks. and as a preview, and you actually have seen some of the draft recommenditiations last november, there are 14 recommendations as part of the

cultural heritage strategy to support the lgbtq community and one of them is to support lgbtq related cultural districts. that calls for additional funding and resources for the districts and calls for collaboration between the lgbtq associated cultural districts. we currently do have the leather and lgbtq cultural district, so this would be a third associated lgbtq district. the third issue that we wanted to highlight was the draft ordinance proposes a feasible timeline and development for the cultural history economic sustainability strategy report. i think i hit all the letters there. and that by setting a deadline of june 30, 2021, we find that is adequate to prepare the

technical reports and existing reports and recommendations that we expect the planning department would be doing. last, we wanted to comment that we found it appropriate that the ordinance calls for the recognition of a community-based organization that would partner with mohcd on preparation of the c.h.s. and act as an advisor to the project. so with that, we do recommend full support of the resolution. i'm going to turn it over to tom temprano to give some more insight into the process. >> thank you, shelley, and hello, commissioners. it's an honor to be here with you today to speak about commissioner mandelman's ordinance to recognize the

lgbtq cultural district. we hope that with your support, we will soon be adding the castro lgbtq district to the list. this is the result of a neighborhood process that began in 2017 when members of the community expressed to former supervisor jeff sheehy an intent that one of the country's most important lgbtq community. the castro is a living, breathing geographic and cultural area with rich political, social, economic, and historical significance to the lgbtq community. the neighborhood has been recognized worldwide for half a century as a symbol of lgbtq libberation and an enclave for

lgbtq to find safety. it became a point of political culture. history inspires our efforts to keep the neighborhood's heritage alive and keep the district the center of the lgbtq community. this wou throughout this process, what was initially a very large map was honed in a bit after extensive conversations with neighborhood organizations and groups who did and did not want to be a part of the cultural district boundaries. the proposed district boundaries have the support of

the eureka community and other community cultural districts. we feel that the timing of this ordinance and the creation of the castro lgbtq cultural district could not be better as it aligns perfectly with the city's lgbtq + heritage strategy and the potential strategy of the lgbtq + historic cultural advisory group. we see the lgbtq + cultural district as being a part of the city's effort as outlined in the strategy to honor the legacy and support the continued presence and success of our lgbtq community.

many people have been involved in the extensive community process to bring this forward to you today, lots of whom are here and who you'll hear from shortly. our office would like to acknowledge and thank the members of the lgbtq cultural district and working group who have organized lots of events to hear back from the neighborhood about what they would like to see the cultural district to achieve. we would like to thank the staff at the glbt historical society and finally, we would like to thank brian and julie from mohcd and planning for their support for this effort. we would also like to thank -- supervisor mandelman likes to thank people who does the work. so we would also like to thank our supervisors for this

ordinance, supervisors ronen and brown. we are proud to bring this ordinance before you today along with the castro lgbtq community who you will soon hear from. we are looking forward to continuing to work with this community as well as the commission in following the passage of the ordinance to ensure it is successful, and i am here to answer any questions you have either now or following the community presentation. >> president hyland: thank you. okay. >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you, commissioners for hearing from both the supervisor's office and our committee. my name is sean haynes, and i am a long time resident of san francisco. i've lived and worked and played in the castro for very many years, and i'm speaking to you today on behalf of the castro lgbt work group. we have many members here

today. as a native of san francisco, i remember the first time i went to the castro. i was 19 years old, and my parents had thrown me out of my house like a lot of young lgbt people. we didn't have an lgbt center in those days, and he with didn't have an lgbt museum, and we did not have strut. in the castro, i found a place that i felt a lot safer and at home than anyplace else. my entry into the community involved sneaking into the cafe. you know, it was quite easy in those days. it was a place where i got my first drink, but by the time i had exited the bar, i came out onto the where there were thousands of people, and it was really glorious. at that moment, i knew that i had found my queer home, and i think that that was my first pink saturday, an unofficial street fair celebration that

took place right before pride. so why create a castro lgbt cultural district? well, sadly, pink saturday no longer exists. halloween in the castro no longer exists. the rules that will guide us in keeping the castro safe and exclusive for all, as you know, safeties for women, our seniors and queers don't exist. legacy institutions in the castro spring up, and our resilience is lgbt people have been in decline. we must act now because we have a lot of great plans for on you future in the castro. our community is in -- under the same pressure as the rest of the city. you know, amidthe bright colors, we're seeing and feeling the erasure of our very unique culture and community,

but with our support -- your support, we plan to turn that around. we plan to highlight the importance of the lgbt in the castro, and to highlight its future. we see the designation of a cultural district that it has vital resources that will hep to unify our community and help us to identify the problems that lgbt people have in our communities as we face them in the castro. the resources of a cultural district will help us to establish a better collaboration with each other and with city hall to create effective solutions to address our biggest problems. so how did our cultural district come into being? back in 2017 where 25 of us came together to ask the question, do we need a cultural district for the castro, and emphatically, the answer to that question was yes. we came together to protect, to preserve and better our community, so it's very important that we have a cultural district to help us accomplish that. and with the mission of

preserving, sustaining, promoting queer history, culture, and uplifting underrepresented demographics, a work group formed to begin the task of carrying out this very important task four our community to ensure the establishment of an official cultural district for the lgbt community of the castro. so we have set the stage for an official advisory board for the castro lgbt community district and continue to prepare for success. we are composed of various community leaders who lead our committees who have been meeting regularly and share our updates with the castro community. our original work group began with 30 years and is sustained by our current working group,

five members, and we stand prepared to take this cultural district to the next phase. together, we have conducted over two dozen community meetings with members of the community, different leaders, local businesses, organizations, and our cochairs. you know, and as the news of our work to establish this cultural district has spread, we have attended a lot of community events, including castro street fair, our town, atmos-queer, and to date, we have reached over 25,000 people, so this is incredibly important to our community. our progress has been followed by over 1,000 people and we have the support of our local news, press, and other nonprofits who continue to help us reach thousands more. included in the presentation package today is some of the feedback that we've collected, over 44 support letters.

some of our most powerful supporters include our friends at eureka neighborhood association, cruise in the castro, the castro c.b.d., the castro merchants, and castro street fair, as well. we have collected hundreds of responses to our survey and anticipate hundreds more as we move forward to official designation of supervisor mandelman's ordinance. as a district, we represent the community, and we have given the community its leadership in identifying the leadership and plans of vision for our consult value district. my name is sean haynes. so speaking on behalf of my committee, we value and support having your support in ensuring that our lgbt community here in

san francisco castro district become officially designated as a cultural district, and that we can provide the resources necessary to help us restore and preserve the culture and uplift the community to its greatest potential, and we very much thank you for your support and listening to us to us. >> thank you. >> president hyland: great. thank you. questions? commissioner matsuda? >> vice president matsuda: i have a question, probably a procedural question for staff. so i don't think any of us are against the cultural district, but the citywide historic context statement for lgbtq history, that is almost final, right? and there were a number of recommendations for implementation in there, and i just want to make sure that they -- am i just -- i guess to confirm that these measures will be implemented into the cultural district work program

or how does that work? can you explain that to me? >> sure, yeah, i can talk a little bit about the relationship between the lgbtq cultural heritage strategy in the districts. the cultural heritage strategy is meant to be a document shared by the lgbt community anywhere in the city. therefore, many of the programs and resources and tools that are recommended are meant to be accessed by anybody regardless of their geography. so the -- so the scope of those tools is relatively broad. the intents is that each cultural district has the au autonomy to decide what goes into their report, so we're hoping it provides a foundation

for each of the lgbt cultural districts, but we don't expect it to supplement in any way the need for specific geography specific plans for each of the districts. does that answer your question? >> yeah. like a tool chest that they can choose from. there are a lot of things mentioned in that report that i think that can help the cultural district because i think it's important for us to look at buildings and intangible assets that represent the community and i just want to make sure that that's included. and then, in your report, it talked under community based organization, mohcd will select a community based organization, but that's just generally speaking, right, because it seems like there has been a great effort to make sure that this cultural district has created their own list of volunteers who will actively participate in this cultural district. >> i think i would rather let

tom temprano or the representatives of the working group clarify the role of that -- of the community organization. i didn't focus staff's analysis on that since h.p.c. and planning department don't play a direct role in that relationship. >> vice president matsuda: i just wanted to make sure it was community based rather than the other way around. >> president hyland: can i add onto that? are we talking about a single organization or is it a representation of several organizations? >> sure. well, thank you for that question. that's a great question. our understanding, absolutely. i think that the intention of the cultural district going forward is to empower the community leadership that has been leading this process thus far. our understanding in working with mohcd is that alternate of the cultural districts do have to have a formal nonprofit to

act at least as a fiscal sponsor for any funding that goes into the cultural district? i think that requirement is becoming even harder and faster following the passage of prop f and now real, dedicated funds for existing cultural districts that are being built into the budget every year. so this -- that particular requirement came at the request of mohcd, but their intent and our intent as the authors of the legislation are to have the community voices who have been engaged thus far continue to be empowered in the cultural district process moving forward. >> president hyland: why don't we continue -- go ahead. >> vice president matsuda: no, i had one more question kind of along the same lines. the assistance from the community based organizations, it said mohcd shall issue a

successive representation. >> i believe it is a requirement that any public funds go out for a competitive bidding process, so that language was created by the city attorney to make sure that ordinance was in compliance with the responsibility for mohcd or any city agency to have a solicitation process, though my understanding is there will be a lot of city leadership and community involvement in that process. >> any cultural district, a defined cultural district would be able to apply for it? >> i believe any nonprofit agency would be able to apply but i would imagine that, you know, in the mohcd has, i believe, just last month, issued their first r.f.p. for

prop f funding for the cultural district, and so there's a road map that they've created that i think certainly tailors the qualification of the nonprofits who would be eligible to apply for those funds, to those organizations, that it would make sense. that it would have the community support and knowledge and expertise to actually oversee a cultural district. so i would doubt that there would be, you know, random nonprofits throwing their hat in the ring. >> no, i was just asking out of curiosity because if any of those funds would be available for any of the historic reports that we would need to help with landmark designations in their cultural districts would be good. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> president hyland: thank you. should we go to public comment? okay. i have three speaker cards. we'll start with those.

we have kathy amendola and andrew schafer. and yuki. >> good afternoon, everybody. i'm kathy amendola. you did call me up first, didn't you? i own crews in the castro walking tours for the past 13 years. my company's been owned and operated 30 years, lesbian owned and operated. this year, we'll get our historic designation, and we've excited. keep in mind that every culture has a community. so we mentioned many communities in our city. i'm going to talk about a culture that's considered invisible. my job as a tour guide has gone to a civil rights activist.

we can get married in our country in every state on sunday, but if we go home to our city on monday, we can be evicted from our rental property in every gray state. if we get married on sunday, but we can only be protected from our jobs if we're sexually and gender diverse in 21 states. let's talk about public accommodations. my partner and i can be turned away from a movie theater, restaurant, library, and shop in every single gray state because we're lesbians. the importance of our community is tremendous. san francisco's community has set a worldwide standard in history. my tour, is i talk about the gold rush and i talk about how the gold miner set the hanky test on how we code ourselves.

so much history has started in san francisco, and i'm going from world war ii all the way up to now. we cannot be invisible right now. this is how every american should have rights. this is why our cultural district is beyond a district. we are making an impact in the world that we refuse to be invisible anymore. i can tell you all the things that started in san francisco. the birth of the rainbow flag is the most recognized cultural heritage symbol in the world. started with gill baker in our neighborhoods. the pink triangle park and memorial. all of us in this room have made major contributions in our lives to be equal. our district is an outstanding example of how we can have pride in progress. i had two men on my tour from

london yesterday. they were together many years. they refused to walk hand in hand in london. they were afraid. they noted yesterday how wonderful they were to hold hands in the castro. you do realize it is a human necessity. we refuse to be invisible, and with your help, we will have one of the largest lgbtq cultures in the world. we are 45 blocks. we have no straight bars. everybody's fighting for our culture, and everybody's welcome. >> thank you very much. andrew shafer. >> hello. my name is andrew shafer, and i'm a castro resident. i want to thank the members of the committee for the opportunity to speak. before i ever set foot in the castro, the neighborhood already felt like home. growing up in a family and an

environment where queer people were ever the butt of jokes or the image of scorn, now as a resident of the castro, i can see more clearly the problems and the promise of the castro. we are faced with absurdly high rents, a glut of empty storefronts, people forced to live on the streets, and neighborhood gentrification. but we aren't like other neighborhoods. the castro is a symbol of hope. there is a place we can belong. designation of a cultural district won't fix everything that's wrong in the castro, but we can preserve what's working and to fix what isn't. i ask that the committee support this initiative and low that you stand behind this neighborhood and what makes the

neighborhood special. thank you. >> thank you. yuki? >> thank you for this opportunity. my name is yuki togawa. i am from japan originally. just lost a supreme court case to try to fight our transgender rights and lost the case. sterilization is enforced. i don't have right to keep my ovaries. i cannot have the right to reproduce if i keep my transgendered identity, and i'm not allowed to live in a house with my grandchildren. the first time i came here, i was very young, and i saw all

these wonderful people with cultural background. and then, i saw a lesbian couple and a gay couple kiss openly in the castro, and i fell on my knees, and i was just crying. i thought wow. only if we could do that back home. so now, i am with the castro lgbt culture district, volunteering when i can if i can, as well as the pride office and also our bay area american indian two spirit. we have a huge powwow. so i do what i can to learn, including the mental health. so this is a sanctuary, definitely, for me, for many from other countries, even just

visiting, to hold a grip on hope, and i think it's very important to know that a place like this exists somewhere in the world for many, many people, so thank you very much for this opportunity. i will do everything in my power with what i can to make sure that this culture district thrives. thank you very much. >> president hyland: great. thank you. sherry bestwick, and allen. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is terry bestwick, and i am the chairman of the lgbt historical committee in san francisco. we were founded on -- in our founder, willie walker's living room in the castro.

we're currently located over in the midmarket area in a basement. we don't have much light, much windows, but they let me out occasionally to speak at a commission hearing. but we have a location in the castro which is visited by thousands of people around the world every month. i'm also a member of the citywide lgbtq cultural heritage strategy, and one of the cochairs of that. the historical society was a sponsor of the lgbtq historic context statement that you raised earlier. so we are a resource of material on the history of the castro. but really, what i wanted to speak about today was as a resident of the castro for many years, and you know, i'm a barrier native, and i moved to san francisco proper in 1981, which was the year that the --

willie began in june of that year. and since then -- so i grew up in the castro, i grew up in san francisco, and i've experienced all the changes and loss and also the victories that our community has experienced, and i'm very proud to be a part of this effort to create the castro lgbtq cultural district. i think we're going to call it the queer cultural district for short. i'm not sure. it's interesting how the names change over time, and i just want to thank everybody that participated in the process. it really has been really rewarding, and i think the product of what we're going to do is really in some ways about the process itself and how we do the report and information and how it's already been completed and have some intention about what we want to create. the other point that i just want to raise and this was raised elsewhere by others, as well. the castro doesn't exist in isolation. we're existing within the

larger city and we're experiencing many of the same socioeconomic pressures as many countries and cities around the world. but the queer community is particularly special in some ways because we've -- this is our home. in many cases, we've lost our connections to our family and communit

about about the lgbtq community and people of color. i think about the past and the importance of that, but i also think about the present and how i go to work every day and pass by things like when pulse night club happened and all the material that went out, how that influenced my work. the products and services that i make in corporate -- in the corporate world in the bay area. so it really influences what we're producing and what's going out into the world? not to push our ideals out into the world but to show a responsible model of what good

might look like. so some of the things that i've contributed to the castro, i volunteered for ten years at my tree, the sweetheart organization, and i think about how it's really shaped me and others in the community and the importance of youth coming up. i don't think it's always being the same. i think of it evolving and incorporating the youth, the transcommunity, people of color, and lesbians that haven't always been welcomed as much as gay men in the community. so i think a lot about how responsible this group it and -- is and the good moving forward. thank