i see donna who is another institution in the lgbt community.pplauding] >> so, in closing, i want to say that the way that i remember george moscone, the way that i remember harvey milk is to simply be true to who i am and to not be afraid to be who i am, even if it means doing and being something that is unpopular at times. thank you. (applause) >> thank you so much, supervisor. i wanted to acknowledge our co-sponsors today, the san francisco -- san francisco. the harvey milk foundation which was started by stuart milk and myself, worked to put this on in partnership with the san francisco harvey milk gay democratic club, gay and lesbian democratic club, the harvey milk civil rights academy and of course the gay men's chorus who are performing here tonight. so, on that note i'm going to turn this over to my dear friend stuart who is harvey's nephew and someone himself who has been speaking out all around the world for civil rights and equality for all. stuart? [cheering and applauding] >> thank you. it's very interesting thanksgiving this week.

that in the lgbt community whether or not the airport should be named after one individual and that was something that is important to me as the author of the original proposal by itself bus it's important for the mayor to recognize harvey milk. and the fact we have a number of terminals and other facilitates at the arrangement leaves room to name others. it leaves room for us to make sure there is some recognition given to harvey admissible. and i think the terminal that should be named after him doesn't mean the committee work is not important we haven't made a decision of which terminal and that will be appropriate for some discussion to make a recommendation to the board >> and part of you know what i'm wondering would be this is not necessarily language in the resolution but part of teaching is communicating what the history is what the story is and i was wondering would the task force be tasked for whatever location is chosen how would they be tasked with educating the public through, you know, some level of inhabits or a permanent exhibit is that going to be in is some way not on

i know that every member of the board who's supportive of the lgbt community wants to know more from target. a was there any action taken when we conducted connected you to those groups. so unless there's any eye contact comment we can take that out objection >> to me item 4 is to consider the license to steven lee for a lounge located on gary boulevard in district 1. great thank you very much as usual can we begin with the applicant. mr. lee is here >> hi supervisors. thank you for having this hearing for the lounge. it is a lounge it is a karaoke lounge. it's one of the few entertainment places for people to gather in the city especially in the richmond district we do meet there given an alternative going into a bar. the lounge offers entertainment and we offer karaoke, has many different languages and many selections of songs where young professionals we'll be targeting where we get together & for meetings and birthdays and company parties. i've been in the business for awhile. i've run the bars before and have previous experience. i'm all for the neighborhood and i've done a walk

. >> stoli, owned by beverage company spi group insists the company stands with the lgbt community in russia and around the world. here's the website. go to the stoli website. it's got a little bit of a rainbow effect in the coloring. part of the statement stoli stands strong and proud with the global lgbt community against the attitude and actions of the russian government. here's my next question, bob. it's one thing to pour out vodka. but i'm sure some people are asking, what really is that going to accomplish when it comes to all of this happening over in russia? >> again, we do not expect the russian government to collapse and change the laws. we know. we're not naive about that. what we're trying to do is we're asking people like stoli to move the conversation forward. the conversation with stoli has been their denial of being a

so there's many of our lgbt partners are watching with a - their day to day life in 37 states is not going to change so our commitment has to be look what we're doing here and we're going to help you where you live. we're not going to leave anyone behind. have a great day. have a great weekend

we have youth to share about the importance of lgbt programming in our schools. thank you. >> hello. my name is rexy preferred pronoun -- gender neutral. i am 16 years old and in coming junior at mission high school and lyric initiative [inaudible] and lyric. i am here to ask -- i am here today to ask to you please make sure that lyric school initiative does not leave our schools. before the lyric seminar my schoolee climate was very home phobic. anti-gay slurs were common. i was bullied and judged and gay events were not included in class subjects. i wasn't happy with being gay because raised in a catholic latino community i was taught it was abomination and a sickness and a sin. in my eighth grade year lyric showed up and taught assembly and workshops that taught students how to be an ally and sensitive to lgbt people. since the environment of the school changed it went from being gay [inaudible] to gay utopia. it afs awesome to see and i felt safe enough to come out at school during the pride assembly. the students and the school became very friendly place tow

so there's many of our lgbt partners are watching with a - their day to day life in 37 states is not going to change so our commitment has to be look what we're doing here and we're going to help you where you live. we're not going to leave anyone behind. have a great day. have a great weekend >> good morning. thank you. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the regular meeting other government oversight and audit committee. i am malia cohen. to my left is supervisor katy tang to my left is david campos. i would like to thank the people of sfgtv, i don't have the names in front of me. thank you for broadcasting this meeting. and clark are there any announcements? >> clerk calonsag: yes. please be sure all devices are turned off. and documents are turned into. >> i found the names, jennifer low and jesse larson. item number one. >> clerk calonsag: (reading agenda) >> are you from the department of human resources? >> i am. >> wonderful. >> this amendment simply changes one wordor to and. requiring the nurses outside of per diem achieve the prerequisite hours, in order to move up

and, of course, the lgbt community in addition. you know, we've triumphed, we've said, all right, you might take away the messengers, but you're not going to take away the message. so, long live harvey milk and long live george moscone and long live san francisco. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you very much, assemblyman ammiano. i am now going to introduce jonathan moscone, who is the youngest son of mayor moscone who was really just a young teenager at the time his father was assassinated. jonathan, i've heard you speak before. you're always so inspirational. so, i turn it over to you. thank you so much. (applause) >> thanks. i apologize, i had to write my speech so i was running out of time and i'm sorry that i directed such a bad production of wizard of oz for you at the turtle creek round in dallas. maybe you'll forgive me one day. listen, on behalf of my family gina and rebecca and jennifer and christopher, i want to thank you for inviting us to speak today. and although i am the only member of the family to speak today,

supreme court has struck that allowing law down (clapping) >> today, the supreme court has said our lgbt brothers and sisters have a right to the pursuit of marriage equality. so goes san francisco and so goes california so goes the country. thank you for being here (clapping) i agree with president chiu but since i'm here i don't want any more people from hate coming. i really want to give a warm welcome to supervisor david campos who has led on some many issues. supervisor david campos (clapping) >> thank you, you know, it's a very emotional moment for us from the lgbt community. thank you, mayor lee and all it's so many people who have made it possible for us to be here. we heard about harvey milk who gave his life in this building. i'm glad it was recognized. the reality is the first time the highest court in the land is recognizing our rights. that's something that's never happened in the whole history of mississippi my country. me and my partner says we are people that have dignity and respected that's a what this means (clapping) and i know that mayor newsom or governer likes the

the lgbt community have this negative history with police officers all over the country. there are people k0u78 u coming up to me because i got to ride with the san francisco police officers contingent in the parade and praised the work we've done in many areas. our pride alliance officers the lgbt officers that are part of this department are really respected in our community and certainly there are things we need to work on and we can improve but we've made some leaps and bounds in certain areas of the community. it couldn't have been more highlighted when i walked in the festival and a woman cape to me and said i didn't trust the police but i feel much satisfactory and i can approach them now. this really went a long ways with me. i want to thank you and the officers who are really i think working hard to connect with our community and be the socialu you're talking about. and really improve on our relationship with the community so, please pass that on for everyone >> and for the record julian had his own car in the pride he was the bell of the ball. >> commissioner kh

she also worked at the san francisco tennis union and she was vice chair of the lgbt community. in addition to her tireless action around the senior support she was an actual member of our pedestrian safety work group. she's a former resident on our apartment building on sixth street. she pushed for a sixth street project. in fact, many of the members of the community said they came for her and i see them here today. she was recognized by assemblyman tom at the lesbian gay trarnd caucus. she was burn no memphis tennessee and she was an inspiration important. er work on the lgbt meeting she personally knocked the doors and told folks that about the challenges they faced. she served on the board of supervisors trans mark at the site of the former cafe where in august of 1966 trarnd community members responded to hateful protests. she was a performance an charles lounge with her music. she hit the streets for the outreach from the western community plan, which we passed this spring to access to medical marijuana. she was partiality fiery and honest. she fought for you for her last

and we have done, we have been able to do a lot more work in the lgbt context. ruslyn is correct, if you look under title 9 you won't see the words sexual orientation or gender identity but you will see sexual discrimination. there is a pretty robust body of case law that states that gender nonconformity, in other words, you're acting gay, you're a boy, you need to dress like a boy, that harassment is a form of sex harassment that if it happened in the workplace you could file a case under sexual discrimination. we've been able to use those tools to make a lot of progress. the seth walsh case in tehachipe is an example of that. so those are the tools we have. we have a lot of discussion, senator franken and others have introduced bills in the united states senate to address precisely the questions that you are asking, governor, and we have supported them and we continue to look forward -- as a prosecutor i always want more tools. you know, i see a problem out there and i want to have the tools to fix it. we passed a hate crimes law in 2009 that enables us to wor