you know, as i -- and then, i also do want to congratulate fred lopez. thank you, fred, thank you, carolyn. thank you to the whole board. pride has never been easy, but it is important, so i -- this year is particularly important and seems to be particularly challenging, and i know you will get through it, and i am grateful for what you are doing to get us through what will be an amazing 50-year celebration, so thank you. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: i was trying to think about that 1970 gay-in, the people who participa participated in that. the next 50 years, what did they imagine it would be like? did they imagine that in a few years, a gay man would get elected supervisor in san francisco? and after that, rainbow wave after rainbow wave would come crashing down until the last election when we got a record number of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people elected, even in virginia. they would not have imagined the extraordinary community response that would come to it. tom and i were just over at the airport where the quilt is getting brought from atla

you know, as i -- and then, i also do want to congratulate fred lopez. hank you, carolyn. thank you to the whole board. pride has never been easy, but it is important, so i -- this year is particularly important and seems to be particularly challenging, and i know you will get through it, and i am grateful for what you are doing to get us through what will be an amazing 50-year celebration, so thank you. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: i was trying to think about that 1970 gay-in, the people who participa participated in that. the next 50 years, what did they imagine it would be like? did they imagine that in a few years, a gay man would get elected supervisor in san francisco? and after that, rainbow wave after rainbow wave would come crashing down until the last election when we got a record number of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people elected, even in virginia. they would not have imagined the extraordinary community response that would come to it. tom and i were just over at the airport where the quilt is getting brought from atlanta. it is finally