Because it is petty bone. It has that weird look because it was framed. It had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. We had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. It wasnt a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. We have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. That i could donate myself. From theyre, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well . The historic moments in San Francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [ ] it brought all of the punks on the web west coast to San Francisco to see this show. The sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to San Francisco. They skipped l. A. And they skipped most of the media centres. San francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. Their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. We were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. And the nuns were also asked to open the show. It was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. It was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l. A. , obviously. To San Francisco to see this show. There are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. It was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. It was also, the pistols last show. In a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. The city of San Francisco didnt necessarily support punk rock. [ ] last, but certainly not least is a jello be opera. They are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. If we are blaming anybody in San Francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. There you go. We had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought that he thought was obscene that had been put up. The city of San Francisco has come around to embrace its musicians. When they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. That was, at in a way, and appreciation from the city of San Francisco for the musical legends. I feel like a lot of people in San Francisco dont realize what resources there are at the library. We had a film series, the s. F. Punk film series that i put together. It was nearly sold out every single night. People were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. It is free. Everything in the library is free. It it is also a Film Producer who has a film coming out. Maybe in 2018 about crime. What is the title of it . It is called San Francisco first and only rock n roll movie. Crime, 1978. [laughter] when i first went to the Art Institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. I did not know i would turn into a punk singer. I got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. One of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. I was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. I did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. They are in the San Francisco history centres s. F. Police department records. There are so many Different Things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i dont have a library card. Ive never been there. They need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. The people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. And it started with this man right here today. [applause] today we reclaim our space here in the tender loin and raise the rainbow flag. And my deepest appreciation to Deborah Walker. Without her support and leadership, this would have never happened. [applause] and finally, our next speaker for lending her support for this project, for championing the needs of h. I. V. Positive, the transgender, lesbian, gay bisexual communities, please help us welcome the one true queen of San Francisco, our mayor, london breed. [applause] thank you so much, brian. And what an amazing story. Its great to hear. When i think about, you know, sadly some of the discriminatory practices that existed in our country for so many years, i definitely relate to those challenges and we all know the history of this country and how so many people, the African American community and the discrimination in housing, the Lgbt Community and discrimination as it relates to housing and that just shows us that we have work to do. Because when we come together, when we come together for a common purpose, we can accomplish anything. And it also tells us that names make a difference. I mean, the rainbow flag apartments and the iconic rainbow flag and what it has meant to our Lgbt Community. When you come to San Francisco, and you see this iconic flag that Gilbert Baker created in 1978, you know you can be safe. You know there is a place for you. And im just so proud of San Francisco. In fact, last week when we raised the rainbow flag at city hall, it was my first raising of the rainbow flag for lgbt pride month in San Francisco as mayor and i have been to those flag raisings many years before. Itself was so special. Because there were so many people who had pride in the city and so many people who were there who were not lgbt. So many folks from various communities celebrating what we know is important in our city. Is to bring people together. To provide opportunities and to make sure in the process, as we deal with many of the city challenges, we dont leave anyone behind. I want to thank bill jones for being here today and thank you so much for, you know, just creating a safe space for people. What you did, you may have thought im providing an opportunity. Your opportunity has led to not only thousands of people being housed, but other organizations that have changed and shaped the lives of so many people in the Lgbt Community and it will for generations to come. You started a movement with the rainbow flag apartments and now today the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments. How amazing is that to do that in San Francisco . And now that were just talking about housing and Housing Affordability and opportunities, im really proud that in this past budget, one of the first things we were able to do in listening to the blgts community and people who came to my office to meet with me, to talk about many of the disparities that existed around housing with our Lgbt Community, we were able to add to our budget an additional 3 million to help with subsidies and support. 2 million [applause] 2 million specifically for trans people in San Francisco because we know that they are 18 more likely to experience homelessness, more than anyone else in the homeless population. [sirens] we have to be deliberate in how we invest our resources and how we continue to provide opportunities for people to come together. [sirens] because that is whats [sirens] having an emergency is all about. [laughter] but the fact is, when we think about pride, yes we can think about our incredible Lgbt Community. We can think about inclusiveness. But having pride in our city so critical to the success of our city. Its about bringing people from all walks of life together, to celebrate, celebrate an opportunity to make us feel like we belong and we hear and you will hear us and we will be loud and we will be proud. Thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] and with that, im going to do what mayors do best. Im going to declare it somebodys day. [laughter] we know that just a few years ago, unfortunately, we lost Gilbert Baker and we also know that his legacy and the work that he has done in creating this incredible symbol will not only live on in San Francisco, it lives on throughout the world. It will live on in the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments and it will also live on in his estate, established in his memory to do the kinds of Amazing Things that will continue to advance the rites and love and support of the Lgbt Community. So with that, id like to present this proclamation oh, to you. Come on up. [laughter] hi. Thank you so much. Introduce yourself. Im charlie beal, the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. And so on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, today we are going to declare it Gilbert Baker estate day in San Francisco. [applause] thank you for your work to continue his legacy. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much for being here today. Congratulationss to the residents who were so fortunate enough to be here and a little secret a couple of years probably about 15 years ago, during the pride celebration, i had a really great time during a party on the rooftop. [laughter] and i remember going back the next year and there was no party uhhuh. Reporter i dont know what happened, but i hope what this means is a chance to celebrate pride, San Franciscostyle at the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments in the heart of San Francisco have a wonderful time, everyone. Thank you. [applause] thank you, mayor. Thank you so much, brian. Thank you everybody coming here today. Again, my name is charlie beal. Im the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. I really am just one of his best friends who, when he died unexpectedly a little over two years ago, we tried to pick up the pieces and had no idea in a way what we were getting ourselves in for. But we found out a lot of things about gilbert. We found out that he had a memoir hidden away on his hard drive. Its now published. And available just this past week. In that book, he writes a lot about San Francisco. And i learned so much about him from San Francisco. I came here with him many times. I came here i was here, the art director in the movie milk and we were looking at research and all thesen n banners from the old pictures in the 1970s and i sent pictures to gilbert and i said do you know anything about those and he said, girlfriend, i made those banners. Well, come out here and make them again because we have to make them again for the movie. My husband vincent here is also very active in the estate. We came out and made the flag for when we rise and ive held the end of the banner in more marches for Gilbert Baker than i can count don my than i can count on my fingers and toes. The heart of the rainbow flag is here. Im from new york and new york, you know, stonewall is our heartbeat of the gay movement there, but here it is the rainbow flag. The one thing he wrote about in the book that always gets me choked up because he talks about that time he was out walking with cleave and artie and harvey milk was saying we need a new symbol and he was walking in this area over here and he looked up at the American Flag and he thought about the power of the American Flags and what he had seen in the bicentennial two years before. And then a while after that, after thinking we need a flag to begin with, he and cleave were out dancing and looked at the diversity of the crowd and he describes in the book about how, in San Francisco, you just have everybody of every race, creed, color, type, sexuality, gender and he saw that and the swirling colored lights and he just saw a rainbow and that is how that experience that is the genesis of that symbol that we see around the world. And at that moment, he writes very passionately that the drag queens and the young transpeople at stonewall would finally have a symbol of their own. So, he felt like he had fulfilled a purpose and a cause in doing that. It still lives on. Were lucky here in San Francisco. We see rainbow flags up and down the street. I just came from new york. Stonewall 50. They cant stop putting rainbows up in new york. Theyre everywhere. My god. It is pretty incredible. We can never forget that if you tried to unfurl a rainbow flag in the middle of red square right now, youd get arrested. Im happy that in taiwan, you can get married. But there are so many countries around the world where you cant even love another person openly. And when they do try to proclaim their visibility the way they do it is by hoisting one of these. And when you are in a country and visiting overseas and not quite sure if you really belong and suddenly you see a cafe with the rainbow flag, you know youve found a safe space. Brian, i thank you so much for doing this, for creating safe spaces for people with h. I. V. , for dedicating to this to gilbert. It means so much to me and so much to the estate. Id like to thank you and San Francisco. Thank you so much. [applause] our next speaker embodies what it means to be an ally. Im more of a coconspirator. Im like somebody whos down there fighting hard next to you. And learning how to be an ally takes poo em who embody it and show you the way. And our next speaker i think that is really who he is as a person. And so were really lucky to have him as our supervisor. In distribution six. Please welcome matt haney. [applause] thank you, brian. Thank you, mayor breed. Isnt this a wonderful day . This is an extraordinary thing to be celebrating the Gilbert Baker rainbow apartments here on larkin street in the tender loin. I want to give a special thank you to you, brian. I can tell you that during the budget process, there was nobody who works harder than Brian Basinger and the q foundation to make sure that everybody who is lgbt have a safe and secure place to call home. Thank you, brian. Give it up for brian and he leadership. Im also very excited that we have this flag here in the tender loin. The tender loin is among, along with lower pope, the oldest lgbt neighborhood, not just here in San Francisco, but across the country. It is a neighborhood where comptons cafeteria riots, the first ever documented collective uprising of lgbt people in the country took place in 1966 and it is a neighborhood where the comptons transgender cultural district, the nations firsts officially recognized cultural transgender neighborhood is here today. Its a place that, for so many years, during some of the worst times in San Francisco when the socalled public decency laws prevented them from being themselves. But tenderloin was an area they were provided respite from prosecution and harassment. The raising of this flag and the rededication of these apartments for Gilbert Baker, the man responsible for creating this beautiful symbol, reaffirms the importance and contributions ofpt community, to the tenderloin, to the city of San Francisco and to the world. The Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments is one of the most important gateways to the tender loin. And from city hall to the comptons district, we envision a place where transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, h. I. V. Positive and every stripe of the rainbow lives in a liberated life, free from oppression, free from fear of violence and secure in knowing theyre receiving equitable access to shelter, housing, jobs and services that we know that they deserve. One of most shameful things i recently saw is that the Trump Administration is now saying that this flag cannot be displayed on embassies around the world and when they pushed back, when they resort to the worst of it. When they try to deny peoples identity and humanity, that is when we have to celebrate this flag and what it represents, even more. [applause] thank you all for being here. Thank you veritas. Thank you to mayor breed. To the q foundation. And thank you to everyone who made this possible. There is a small group of us who are survivors who have been through it all, from the depths of the aids epidemic, homelessness, all kinds of struggles. And i was thinking about it a couple of week ago. I said, you know, how many people have really risen from that experience and gone on to do wonderful things and to make meaningful contributions to society. Really i was looking at who are my peers in that experience. And one of them is up next for us who is a longtime friend and ally of ours from the office of congresswoman nancy pelosi, please welcome gary mccoy. [applause] thank you, brian. This is very exciting for m