rattle where they came from and we are here. such an honor to be part of this legacy of togetherness and those opportunities have painting a mural such as this but teaching different skwashgs and learning more about my culture i thought i already knew but so much more to this is beautiful we have so much to give each other and we're also willing to work

i'm - >> good morning ink isn't this exciting (yelling). >> (clapping) i'm really here to thank a bunch of people i'm going to do a lot of thanking and begin by thanksgiving the lgbtq historical society and (clapping.) i don't know if you may have noticed treats out front. >> okay. >> we have a lot of dictators i'm not going to get it right i'll do my best we have our senator scott wiener will be addressing as and mayor london breed addressing us and have our longest gay mrektd official

treasurer jose cisneros (clapping.) we have our board president president peskin and we have my extremely gay colleague matt dorsey (clapping.) and with a couple of my extremely arely gay precious we introduced one of them but 7 currently on the board formally you district supervisor and before that placed a key roll in making many flag happen and we have jeff somewhere here (clapping.) we have so many we've got gay school board commissioner appointed phil

(clapping.) leaning police commissioners deborah walker (clapping.) advisory committee member my appointee thank you for being here. >> gay, gay, gay transportation director jeff sum land (clapping.) um, we have the forever first lady of district 8 (yelling) (clapping.) imperial linda summers is here somewhere waving that. >> and the empress of the civic joy club thank you for being here. and there is a

fricking to of queer directors tlaentsd in this room roberto from the historical society (clapping.) susan from sf pride. >> (clapping) bryan spring from the harvey milk plaza and matt from the aids panel (clapping.) billy lemon where is billy lemon in the pastor country club and patrick from the triangle. >> (clapping) i mean it is as mayor said a who i've left people off the community benefit district

(clapping.) jeering acetone president of the castro merchants (clapping.) and adam can i stop all right. tell me the people i left off had you think of them that is so amazing to be here today it has been quite is journey years in the marking it was jeff she hey started this in 2017 thank you, jeff she hey and been persistent in making sure we do this right. and so thank you, jeff for that. >> um, (clapping.) as everyone in the room well knows gilbert baker flag is politic artwork an act of defiance and gay utilization of pride for both residents in san

francisco and visitors from around the world. gilbert created the first ribbon pride flag as the request of his friend harvey milk in the 1578 parade in san francisco. on november 8, 1997, with 20 years as see board of supervisors gilbert baker ribbon flag was raised at the anniversary of the board committee hearing jeff told the story of willie brown how at a castro street fair gilbert respect up to billy michelle city call the embarcadero you're all aware and pitched him on adding to his vision of specific art around

the city for the ribbon flag and had gaze around including the director of the mayor's office and the first i guessed only gay public utilities commission director mark and dean some if you may know is retired a former chair, i activist and those a gaze and that mayor gilbert and others made it happen. after having - yes. you can clap (clapping.) and after having felon for more than a quarter of us century gilbert baker flag will be a lark thank you, president peskin thank you, supervisor dorsey and all the board of supervisors and

thank you, madam mayor for doing what you're about to do to sign i want to acknowledge the supervisor dhamd this landmarking by charley and the gilbert family and jerry a merchant and ralph for cvd and jones you get in trouble you don't name everyone but i want to ignore - ignore the rest of you i'll acknowledge the castro culture district thank you for being here. and thank you to the culture district for your support and, of course, all of the politicians get to do things like this because of city staff makes that happen and

(clapping.) and rich from planning. i don't know we have the city attorney's but andrew can we and adam in my office adam (clapping.) and victor victor for organizing at mayors teams for your work on organizing this and a note a giant thank you to two giants that are gone and in the sky but thank you for bringing this picture of an taylor but tom taylor and others did so much for this community. >> take care of that flag and make sure that every june ribbon flags will be up and down the streets and oh my god, that is, i haven't figured out before is

this a gay city to it to them and i think those are all the thank you's my only purpose to thank people but i'm going to see a great project for the foundation charles thank you, thank you new mexico and mayor london breed and the entire board of supervisors and elected officials i'd like to thank some early sport like jeff and moses and people like jones and ken jones and monica and david and danny and andrea i love to thank everyone they castro association for, you know, their mr. lubelski worth support and a approximately special to tom

taylor, you know, he (clapping.) i think tom and andrea is she here angela thank you for coming and representing and happy you made it. i received an e-mail this welcome back from a gentleman lived in pennsylvania. and his school voted to abandon the ribbon flag since we've been tracking the 406b8 laws he reached out thanking for giving him legal guidance and storm drains to help the great citizens of burr wick to fight back and says charles thank you for protecting our kids and

teachers. this city for san francisco has chosen to protest means so much too, so many people around the world. as foundation that bears gilbert's name we're grateful and halgdz to know this gift that gilbert gave to the world will be flying everyday and night year after year. he moved the world's people. and the teachers and students in burr wick pennsylvania even though the narrow minded people saying they can't fly the flag the people of san francisco are telling them yes. you can. >> (clapping)

>> thank you charley now people know me as long as as soon as something else tears up i'll tear up we can't let that happen thank you, again. i'd like to next bring up our city chief gay who is um, my predecessor in district would but also explain on to sacramento to fight for queer people in the state and in so doing has earned the - hatred frankly of so many people inundate them with hate mail and threats and continue to fight own for the community we love you for that scott wiener say a

few words (clapping.) thank you, new mexico and thank you for doing this and for seeing it there and the amazing work you do in the great - i noticed when i walk down the street people say hi supervisor once you a supervisor you are always a supervisor and particularly in the community being in this limb starting with harvey milk and through supervisor mandelman this is just that is an amazing role and doing an amazing job so thank you and charley thank you for stewarding the legacy and the flag it is incredibly important work this flag will become to controversial because of the big

gets around the world so thank you for bing here or thank you for everything you do. and this is so meaningful for many reasons but for the specific cause of last year in the country when i moved to san francisco um, in 1997, i never thought that we would be back where we are now. i thought that would be long over. um, and the fact we now have just a level of not just hate among individual but hate that frankly is empowered by elected officials elected officials have decided they're going to make they're political careers on the backs of queers. the most vulnerable people in the existence and i can't imagine what kind of mentality will climb up the

where you know by these kids have people that decided it is okay to say that all lgbtq are pedophiles that was like the stuff from 50 or 60 or one hundred years ago not 2024 the fact that anything that represents our community where it is book innovates library or whether is a ribbon flag or in a school or on the government building is somehow geometry and just wrong and somehow harmful for kids it is city of big bear lake the opposite i helping to save the lives of kids that's what the flag represents for everyone and i'm just thrilled started out as a a combifl better with a beautiful flag has

bloementd into a positive force had i cat in 1990 but triangle which is powerful but a remainder of a horrific thing that happened overwhelming that and reminding people the ribbon flag to come out they were also in addition to remembering the pain and what is horror that happened in the holocaust by that is what the flag is about and also this particular flag god bless those a number of times when anything kind of a ribbon flag they would deliver 3 that flag is a capstone for what this neighborhood needs as all the kids are around the country suffering and parents suffering

and tran people criminalized suffering in silence all over the country they know if there is hope in part because of what we are in the castro and that's why is important for this neighborhood when we work hard as a community to widen the street sidewalks and put the ribbon on the sidewalks and the history flag when we were going to at a mayor create a itch larger and amazing lgbtq history museum in the neighborhood where going to - (clapping.) when when we when we put the ribbon crosswalk in the castro we had freaking amazing harvey milk plaza we're going to have to. thank you, again. for your

work to make that happen (clapping.) and then on top up the ribbon flag and we're going to send the most powerful natural to the entire worlds big gets will that never win so celebrate and thank you to everyone that made this possible (yelling) (clapping) thank you. >> senator wiener we're now coming to the point where we have to ask the mayor to say a few words and sign the legislation. i'm i will say a few words about our mayor 2 has been our terms are over los angeles police department her term and mayor and any term as supervisor, you know, i don't support her, she didn't support me (laughter) i'll say um, that she's been phenomenal partner around so

many issues. with the queer community unprecedented seniors and our youth and a commitment to the transcommunity has been muttered through initiatives and unprecedented. >> i you know, i named some did gay, gay, gay folks in the city government to have there, there are many queer people in important positions in government because mayor london breed appointed them and finally just on the sort of day to day business as being a supervisor dealing with whatever things maybe public policy in the castro that may need to be addressed um, mayor london breed often brings the issues before i do in the neighborhood and she's

routine really has been, you know, exceed partners in improving conditions i'm grateful for that as well so sometime mayor talk about the ribbon flag. >> (clapping) epic you're not supposed to have a favorite (laughter). >> you're not supposed to have a favorite, um, let me just say how proud i am to be here. with this strollers resilient community and how proud i am to be here with so many of our great leaders of positions that have gotten us to this place. because it didn't happen because someone wants it to happen it happens because people work

together in order to make the right things happen. and the opportunities to look at what this flag represents is everything san francisco. and when i say everything for this city has been through very challenging times over the decades. and this flag continues to fly high it is a symbol of how even through the darkest days. what i appreciate the most about being here in the castro community is that we work together to a supervisor to make those unprecedented investments in the things to address the disparities that we know has existed in san francisco we talk about our values by when we put

policy and dollars both those values we deem our strength and as a city and the commitment to showing the rest of the world how it should be done. when i became mayor not a question as to what we're going to do together the feed for us the museum that recommendation this community, in a way that highlights all of the challenges that have existed have el elevated those for prufshg who those challenging laws and prosecution and even big disowned by their own families we need to make sure that that san francisco is a blast to get to see that when you come to the

castro and land in a harvey milk plaza you need to see that history (clapping.) not just her hair the name but see it and learn about that and when you walk off the plazas that is redesigned and brilliant and not the simple hope but a community of people you'll be able to go to did museum and walk through and really take it all in and understand that flag will be in the center of it all right in the center of it all. knowing that you can take a bit of pride in the fact that here you don't have to hide. who you are. or who you love. that is what this represents. and i wanted to appreciate the work that hearing officer is talking about and predator how you are

putting it both perspective because here we take it for granted because we're san francisco. but san francisco has to be 3 place that send people out into the world to watch those laws and help get other elected officials in office in power to make sure they're standing up against hate to protect our lgbtq leaders liar scott wiener who was has on a regular basis as he walks on a plane. it is horrible. but we're never gouge to let that defer us from the work we know we have to do because of we have political derivatives we can all agree that uplifting and supporting and recognizing and investing in our lgbtq community will always

be at the fire alarm of our values here in san francisco (clapping.) so i'm proud to be here today and to sign this legislation and to share and tag every anti lgbtq elected leader in the world. and tell them to bring it (clapping.) because this is san francisco and (clapping.) because it is san francisco and we'll never back down.

>> (clapping). >> what we're going to do any (laughter) our mayor is going to sign the legislation with the folks you have to come forward standing behind her so if um, do that and after that we'll take the flag that has been provided and going to go outside and walk up and sherri will lead the flag

ceremony. >> done (yelling) (clapping.) wow. >> wow. (background noise.) >> going, going (yelling). >> and

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