. >> jodi swarts, and tom penprano, river beck, alex berakron lorenzo harris, and pipe long and luis magera. good morning supervisors, thank you for allowing me to address you on this very important issue, we have been around to 25 years and we provide dreblgt services to the lgbtq and the youth as well as do the policy advocacy and technical assistance work and i just want to... my primary we have two other things that access with the two other organizations around the lgbtq conclusion and we did a project and spiral and another two year project with the department of public health, around lgbtq youth access and inclusion for clinicians and grantees. this is actually seen as a strong provider in working with the youth to look at the access to the city's one stop system and then most recently we launched our school-based initiative with the san francisco unified school district which we have supported completely with private funding that has been happening for two and a half years and then i would just say, to give you a sense of the very large number of requests that we get into lyr

>> hi, my name is lorenzo harris and i am also a youth here in san francisco and i actually just arrived here four weeks ago away from washington state because things were not going well there. and i came here because i thought things would be better and i have used a lot of the services here and i mean, so far, everything has been... i just feel like why is this even an issue? you know? you know what i mean? like, yeah. i feel there should not be an issue and i feel like we should not have to have a whole thing about this simple respect for lgbtq people, yeah. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> and anyone else who would like to speak, if you could just line up over by the wall or collect at the podium after this speaker. >> i want to say the same (inaudible) youth for showing up today and actually we have leaders tomorrow and today and it is a change that you can actually do today and an update. and you can do it for a while now. >> and so my name is mckera and i actually work for a high five as well. but more than at high five worker, i have been a youth immigrant in the city. an