more women, at least on the left, you know, whatever you think of her politics, susan sarandon, laurie david, i suppose, in an indirect. >> well, yes, and the point well-taken and i list a whole bunch as you know of people on the left and right that deserve studies. but i was also interested in not just getting five left, five right but to get people who did different kind of political activism because we think that, you know, being politically active is poach you either run for office or you talk about an issue and those are the two most common forms, electoral politics and issue-oriented politics but i also wanted to talk about visual politics of people like charlie chaplain who didn't like joining groups, who didn't want to be part of any organization, but because he was his own producer, writer, director, star and later distributor, he had no studio head to tell him what he could or couldn't do and so he preferred to put his politics directly on the screen. and i also found you had a number of stars i write about who did the same thing. once you had the end of the studio system in 1948,

more women, at least on the left, you know, whatever you think of the politics, susan serandon, laurie david and maybe in an indirect, and probably -- >> yes, point well taken, and i list a bunch, as you know, people on the left and right that deserve studies, but i was also interested in not just getting five left, five right, but to get people who did different kinds of political activism because we think that, you know, being politically active is, either you run for office or you talk about an issue, and those are the two most common forms, elector politics and issue oriented politics, but i wanted to talk about visual politics, people like charlie chaplain who didn't write join in groups or didn't want to be a part of any organization, but because he was his own producer, writer, director, star, and later distributer, he had no studio head to tell him what he could and couldn't do. he put his politics directly on the screen, and i also found that you had a number of stars i write about who did the same thing. once you have the end of the studio system in 1948, and a movie stars opening

there are more women at least on the left whatever you think of the politics, susan sarandon, laurie davidi suppose in an indirect and probably -- >> yes and the point well taken. as you know people on the left and right desert studies but i was also interested in not just getting fife left, right but get people who did different kinds of political activism because we think that being politically active is either you run for office or talk about an issue and those are the two most common forms, electoral politics and would issue politics plan also want to talk about the issue of politics with people like charlie chaplin who didn't like joining groups, who didn't want to be part of any organization, but because he was the only producer, writer, director, star and leader distributor he had no studio had to tell him what he could or couldn't do so he decided to put his public ecstatically on the screen. and i also found that you had a number of stores i write about who did the same thing once you have the end of the studio system in 1948 and movie stars opening up their own production compani

laurie geidis. stu maddow, larry brikennken, lauren meissner, rebecca, and david gonzales. just come on up. >> that afternoon, supervisors. thank you so much for calling this hearing. i am the co-chair of the democratic club, lgbt. we fully support, we talked at our board meeting last monday, fully supports the purpose of this meeting. and any and all efforts we can make to create a model approach to serving the lgbt seniors in san francisco, the alice b. toklas club would live to handle that -- help with that. we fully support your recommendations. i had the unique opportunity of cochairing the hearing by the human rights commission and the commission on aging in 2002 and the report, everyone has reviewed. it had no less than 67 recommendations. to move forward and i think while we since 2003 have moved forward on a lot of those, there is plenty of those that need to be done. i hope that you'll start with that and continue to push those recommendations. i think since that time, we have had an increase in marriage rights which has made us feel a little more confident about