i'm very honored today to honor a leader in the trans community, cecilia chung. it's our great pleasure to have her as a long-time resident of district 11 and the excelsior. she moved in '94, and has been calling the city by the bay home ever since. she changes the lives of san francisco residents who have multiple diagnoses and has become the first transgender woman elected of the lgbt pride. after working for housing for homeless and public health, she began to lend other leadership to capacity building and hiv prevention and care as well as a global movement of people living with hiv. as a transgender immigrant living with hiv, cecilia has been tirelessly working for her beloved community. she's one of the original founders of the san francisco transgender empowerment and mentorship. as an advisor of the transgender resources and neighborhood space, trans, before this program moved to san francisco community health center. and the chief architect of the first transgender economic development initiative funded by the city and county of san francisco. in 2004, c

cecilia chung was the one that put the plaque on the corner of chuck and taylor. i honor her for the great work she's done. i spearheaded the event at 100 turk street. i participated in the jane compton riot, naming it jane compton's cafeteria way, but the best thing that ever happened to me is i'm still here, still fighting, not as much as i wanted to, but i'm still fighting. thank you to everybody for all the people that have helped me put the names on the streets of the tenderloin. every year, every august, i try to put the names of all the girls that were there in the '60s. two years ago, the manager -- i'm almost done -- two years ago, the manager of the corner of turk and taylor, i asked him if i could put the names and do a cake outside. he said, no. you can come in. when she told me i could come in to where the riot actually happened, i told her when i can come? she says when can you? i said, i will be there in 10 minutes. i walked into that place, and i saw and remembered what the girls went through that night, what happened that night, and tears fell to