thank you sfrfrz wiener and to madam president and members of the board, thank you very much for this honor. i'm going to keep this very short cause i'm sure there's matters in the castro that i need to attend to. but this is something that's very important to me because i think on this particular day and for this particular honor for the black history month, i probably represent a different face than what you may have been used to seeing standing here receiving such an honor. and i think that goes to the city of san francisco as a whole, the diversity that's here in the city. and moving here to years ago i was a different person. the city allowed me to walk in my truth so to speak and for me to be the me i've become. and it's this person that i've become that has been able to give back to the community and hopefully an spoonerity circuit to the community as a whole. this is totally unexpected. i believe i do what i do because it needs to be done. it's plain and simple. and somebody has to do it and therefore, i'm going to do that. and you never expect to be honored for something that