Residents here. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the tours earlier of the unit. Today we, of course, through the tours saw the challenging conditions that people are living right in this neighborhood, just a few miles from our thriving downtown, and yet a world apart. As someone who grew up in Public Housing, i have lived these conditions. I know these conditions. I dont expect everyone to understand the challenges of Public Housing the way that i do or the way the residents of sunny dale do, but i do expect everyone to put in the time to understand. I wanted department heading and elected officials to come see for yourselves the hard work that we have to do. Thank you to everyone who joined me today, especially the members of the board of supervisors and we have the president with us, norman yee, thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you for being with us. Supervissupervisor per visor gor and earlier we had supervisor safai, and he had to take off. Why arent you in your seat . You know, today is not just about the investments we are making in our up coming budget, it is about the commitment behind those investments. Commitments to communities like s un nydale for those who have been left behind. San francisco is a city with a heart but we also have to be a city with a memory. A memory not only for the commitments we have kept but also the ones we have failed to keep. For too long our Public Housing communities were one of those failed commitments. We are changing that with our programs where we have rehabilitated over 2500 Public Housing units. [applause. ] and through hope sf, which is revitalizing and france forming communities in hunters view and right here in sunny dale and with the reconstruction of the long overdue transformation of the San Francisco Housing Authority. We are building and rehabbing housing, creating stronger and healthier communities and investing in the people who live there. We owe it to them to keep our commitment and make a difference for this community and those across the city. With every decision we make, i want to make sure that equity and accountability are at the forefront of our minds. We have to be focused on people in all neighborhoods, like the people who live here, who for too long have been living with broken pipes, mold, infestations, dilapidated conditions. People like breanna, a Third Generation resident. She and her Three Sisters have lived through the conditions you saw today. Despite these challenges, breanna is a leader in her community, and she is fighting for the next generation. She has not given up on this community and we will not give up on you. We have to be accountable to the thousands of residents across the city living in Public Housing and our low income communities. Our budget would be accountable to them both by continuing our work to improve the conditions here and our continued commitment to provide funding to keep thousands of Housing Authority residents secure in their homes. Yes, Joyce Armstrong and happy birthday. Also by recognizing that we need to do more to keep people in these neighborhoods safe and supported. For too long this was not a safe community. Families were torn apart by violence, gunfire, crime, tragedy, frustration. This community has lived with that. That is why i wanted to come here to acknowledge the past, yes, but also to make a commitment to a better and brighter future. To make communities like this safer. It is not just about enforcing the laws to make sure we have more officers on the streets. It is about giving people opportunities and investing in changing peoples lives. [applause. ] it is about interrupting the cycle of violence and despair. That starts with doing more for our young people and so that the next generation can transform their futures. Offering stipends to teachers who commit to teach in Public Schools facing those challenges. And fully funding Free City College so that everyone has a path to higher education. [applause. ] we are expanding Public Health recreation and nutrition programs for kids, including Mental Health services to provide support for kids experiencing trauma so that he can build up their lives and thrive. All of our young people, no matter where they live should have access to the amazing opportunities that this city has to offer. applause . And as we work to support the next generation, we also must do more to help those who sadly are living on our streets. In this budget, we are following through on our commitment to add 1,000 new shelter beds by 2020. We are also using our funding to create 820 new units of permanently supported housing over the next two years. However, reducing homelessness means more than just creating places for people to go. We need to do more to prevent homelessness and keep people housed. That is why we are adding 5 million to increase Homelessness Prevention and diversion efforts. We are fully funding our tenants right to counsel so they have a right to Legal Defense when they are threatened with eviction. We are providing housing for transgender who are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population. We are creating a new five Year Pilot Program to provide rental subsidies subsidies for seniors to keep them secure in housing so that rising rents dont force them out of their home in the first place. With these commitments, we can keep people stable, keep them housed and prevent homeless necessary for ever becoming a part of their live. We are helping those with Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder by adding 10 new behavioral 100 new Behavioral Health beds including 50 at San Francisco general for homeless residents with Mental Health challenges and 50 beds for those suffering both Mental Health and Substance Use disorder. [applause. ] combined with the 100 beds we announced earlier this year, that means we are committing to 200 new beds for our most vulnerable residents. There is the most significant expansion of Behavioral Health beds in a generation. And, chief nicholson, we are expanding the emx Emergency Response crew helping those on the streets suffering Mental Health and substance disorder issues. This will provide coverage 24 7 so the city can help people every day of every minute. These are some of the investments we are making to help our residents today. We have to be accountable to the next generation. We have to have vision and not lose sight of what is going to happen to San Francisco 10 and 20 years down the line. We know the crisis on the street is not just about a place for indoors or Mental Healthcare. It is about housing. The costs of housing are too high. We know these challenges did not develop overnight. It wont be fixed overnight. It is going to take fundamental change. Lets start increasing funding for Affordable Housing. I am proud to be working with so many members of the board of supervisors to place a 6 million Affordable Housing bond on this years 600 million Affordable Housing. Thank you, president yee, for working with me on this. It will be on this years ballot. This is the largest Affordable Housing bond in the citys history without raising property taxes. [applause. ] we are providing support not just for low income households and seniors but also for middle income residents. We are increasing investments in the budget to add over 140 million for the production and preservation of Affordable Housing so we can buy moreland, fully fund more projects and preserve our much greater rent control housing stock. [applause. ] all land through this bond our current budget, our previous spending and other efforts over the first year since i have been in office, we have identified 1 billion in new funding to build, preserve and support Affordable Housing. [applause. ] thank you for your help in building housing. This builds on top of the over 900 million that we already have committed to build and support Affordable Housing throughout our city. However, our support for housing cant just be about funding. If we are ever going to make a difference on housing, we have to make changes to how we build housing. We cant fear solutions that make it easier and faster to build housing. If we say we support Affordable Housing, our actions have to follow our values. We have to cut the red tape to barriers not just for some Affordable Housing and not just for some homeless shelters but for all housing for everyone. [applause. ] and was we build we must expandr transportation and infrastructure to support outer neighborhood goes like here in the southwest. Every neighborhood in our city needs better and more reliable access to public transit, and they need better and safer streets. This budget adds 30 million to fund transit operations, including speeding up the purchase of new light rail trains and modernizing the train control system so we see fewer delays in the subways and so that we know that we can get to where we need to more faster and more reliable. applause . We have also added 2. 5 million for vision zero improvement projects to make our streets safer. We have seen too many traffic related deaths on the streets. This funding will help double the pace of the protected bike lane and make the streets safe are for pedestrians on the most dangerous corridors through the capital plan we will spend 130 million over the next two years to improve our roads. This will get you excited. That means fewer potholes. [applause. ] and smoother rides for buses and bicycles and drivers. You are the one who have given us the potholes. We will invest in strengthening the support for cultural centers, libraries, health centers, Public Safety facilities and improving parks and open space. We will also continue to support improvements to making neighborhoods cleaner, safer and more vibrant. We are adding 12 million to our existing cleaning budget to expand our street cleaning in the tenderloin and soma and chinatown. We are fund being 80 more big belly trash cans and adding new pit stops including expanding the hours so people can use the bathroom with dignity. This is on top of 74 million that we spend every year to keep our streets clean and not only are we going to invest money in keeping San Francisco clean, we are all going to make sure people know we wont tolerate dirtying up our streets. We are supporting our plan to hire more Police Officers to get more officers out walking the beats in the neighborhoods and we are going to continue the work to reduce violent crime, property crime and auto breakins in the city. We are committed to 9 million to support Small Businesses and commercial corridors which builds on the work to streamline the bureaucracy that gets in the way of growing businesses. Our Small Business owners should focus on serving customers not navigating the bureaucracy of city hall. These are just some of the priorities we are funding in this budget. I am proud of the investments we are making and proud of the city we are working to build. I really want to thank everyone who put time into helping with this budget including the budget team and budget option director kelly. Thank you for your hard work and thank you to ben from the Controllers Office and your work. Thank you to harvey rose and the budget afternoon r analyst analyst team who is not going to touch the money i am proposing in the budget. You know, so many people have been working tirelessly day in and day out to get the budget done, and i am so excited about this. I want to end by talking about a young man named wallace pullet. We are so proud of wallace. You know, life hasnt been easy for him. He grew up with the violence i talked about earlier. He faced challenging times, including his own challenges with the law. Unlike so many others, we lost to violence or the criminal justice system, wallace worked through all of those challenges. He is now focusing on doing what is right including raising his daughter right here in sunnyda sunnydale. Now, just down the hill from here is a construction site. It is the first new building being constructed here at sunnydale as part of hope sf. It is a bright sign for the future of this incredible community. Wallace is a member of this construction team. He is building up this Beautiful New Community with his hands and with his heart. He is being accountable to himself, his daughter and his community. He is being accountability to the next generation so they have a sunnydale to grow, live and thrive and building a better San Francisco. I am committed to this community. I am committed to this community because people likua like wallae committed. Let us remember our job is to be accountable to everyone in the city, not just those who have time to show up and advocate at city hall. We have to be there for those who have hope, those who need hope, this budget is part of the commitment and represents is very best of our values in this city. By keeping those commitments, we can and we will build a stronger, more resilient San Francisco, a city not just for some, but for all of those in San Francisco. Thank you all so much for being here today. 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 me personally to be out here today. I also have friends that lived here that were their housing was alsos subsidized and h. I. V. Positive and really meant the life to them. On behalf of the congresswoman and speaker of the house nancy pelosi, have a letter id like the read from her. Friends, we proudly gather today with city officials, Community Leaders and the q found diagnosis dedicate this Historic Building as the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments. Referencing the importance to San Francisco and the lgbt communities. It is my regret that i could not be with you today. Just a few blocks from here, Gilbert Baker created the now iconic rainbow flag by hand and it was outside of this building where the flag proudly flew. It is my privilege to represent San Francisco with its large Lgbt Community. Were a city that thrives because of its diversity and take great pride in the innumerable contributions that the Lgbtq Community make to our great city and country. By hanging the rainbow flag once again, we affirm our connection to the acceptance of the Lgbtq Community. We honor gilberts memory and legacy by dedicating this building in his name. When gilbert created the rainbow flag, he generously chose not to trademark it because he recognized its symbolism and knew it should be accessible to everyone to show their pry. This month, millions of lgbtq americans march through the streets with pride, celebrating the beautiful diversity and vibrancy of the Lgbtq Community, rallying around gilberts contribution. Last month, House Democrats and i proudly passed this act to fully end legal discrimination against lgbtq americans. This month, we celebrate this momentum establishment and the generations of leaders, activists and allies such as gilbert who made it happen. As we reflex on this buildings history and gilberts place in it, it brings me great pleasure to say that 324 larkin street is once again a symbol of the love that we have for all people. Best regards, nancy pelosi. [applause] our next speaker is a person of considerable distinction. In 1969, he was the first single adult in america to adopt a child. The fact that he did that as a gay man is really profound. He was also or tainted by mayor Gavin Newsome and has the distinction of marrying the most number of couples during the summer of love at city hall. He is the original owner of the rainbow flag apartments. He was the one who put up the name rainbow flag, who put up the flag itself and also as i said before, he was the one that gave us a chance. He said yes whenever other land lord that we approached in six monthses said no. He then said thats a security come of 3900. [laughter] i did not rob a 7eleven, but i got really creative. And that single act of generosity, that single act of saying yes changed our lives. And hopefully [applause] that we have dedicated the last 15 years to paying that back. [voice breaking] phil jones. [cheering] [honking] its nice to be home again. [laughter] i know you guys are so hot. Can you get in the shade, at least . I feel so sorry for you. Yeah. I got i would like the give you a little history of it. This whole block was owned by hastings law school. And they wanted to tear down the buildings and build an extension of the law school. The city said no, we need the housing. So, they sold this apartment to me and two others on mcallister side to somebody else. I know how you feel. [laughter] it is an emotional thing. So the first thing i did, i painted the building and put in new carpets and everything and the tenants were worried sick that i was going to raise their rent. And then i did something absolutely horrible. [rustling noise] [applause] i did this. [cheering] [applause] and so then the tenants wrote in this little neighborhood paper. Perhaps the greatest indication of the change overtaking the west block in the wake of the change of landlords is that the Apartment Building at 324 street is now called the rainbow flag apartments. Its a pretty silly name for a building with lousy wiring [laughter] i love that. The flag that you see here didnt always just fly from the fire escape. I erected a 50foot flagpole for one reason. That building wasnt built yet. City hall were putting roller skates under it so in case of an earthquake it could roll back and forth. The museum was the library it was a library, right. And so they were changing that and they were building a new library. So i was in this construction and was bound and determined that that flag would fly higher than anything else. And we got it up. Four stories and 50 feet and i knew it would be photographed and i wanted us to be a part of what was happening at the civic center. So, thats how that happened. [applause] just one more thing. The flag didnt have an ending when i took it down. Oh, i sold the building to an arab. The first thing he did, took off the letters. And i took down the flag. So i gave the flag to the university of pacific. They had a gaylesbian alliance there. And the flag disappeared. They found it later in a latrine covered with urine. Well that just when that word got out, hundreds and hundreds of students in pacific had a rally and thousands of people in stockton came down to protest what had happened to that flag. So it now hangs in the Rainbow Resource and study room. Which i donated to university pacific. I copied the one that is in the library here. So, anyway, i feel vindicated. I feel absolutely wonderful about this. Thank you so much. [applause] next up is one of my personal heroes. One of the National Leaders for lesbiangaytransgender and one of the architects of marriage equality, kate kendall. Good afternoon. Im going to stay the obvious. Is this not the best of San Francisco right here . [applause] i mean when i came to San Francisco in 1994 from utah, i fell like i had arrived in oz. And to see to hear different languages spoken on muni, to walk down the street and see a diversity of the beautiful humanity of this city just meant so much to me and i know weve had some challenges recently in recent years. People have given a knock to San Francisco. Its not the same place it used to be. The mayor talked about the challenges. But you know what . This is who San Francisco is. This is who San Francisco is. And i want to really do a shoutout to Brian Basinger. So brian [applause] brian, at huge personal sacrifice, that very few of us and i mean us would have ever made has made the leaves and the futures of thousands of people richer with dignity and depth in a way they could have never imagined. I adore you. I love you. Thank you for everything youve done. [applause] and then finally, i just want us to move forward as i see ken will be up here in a second and Deborah Walker and so many people that i know here. Were in a perilous moment. We all get that. We were in a toxic moment. Were in a dangerous moment. Were in a moment where so many communities are terrified. But you know what . This is an example of the muscle memory we have of how we get through a moment like this. San francisco has been through this before many, many times. We know how to traverse this and the way we traverse this is by locking arms and saying no way, mother [beep] youre not getting through them without coming through us. And that whew that is what this moment demands and what typifies brians leadership. Im so happy youre all here. Happy to look arms with you. Thank you so much. [applause] so, the history of the closet did not let any light in. There was no light to illuminate our history. So much of it went unwritten. Unrecorded, unacknowledged and unknown. Our elders are our historians. Theyre the ones that keep the flame alive, that tell us how it was back in the day and teach us how to navigate the world with grace, dignity and a little bit of fearness. Fierceness. We are so lucky to have one of our own to come and tell the tales and my Dear Colleague and friend, ken jones. [applause] thank you so much for inviting me here this afternoon to talk about the rainbow flag and to let you know that your dues are due. All protest movements rely on symbols, boycotts, strikes, sitins and flags. This is an everyday complacency and forces us to think. Today that flag embraces us and covers us. It keeps our Fragile Coalition together and moving forward and you know what . As a movement, were old enough, mature enough and wise enough to know that that rainbow flag is our symbol, our hope and our future that speaks volumes. It says that Fragile Coalitions are possible. That we can Stay Together and work together. That we can make this a better place not only for those who are witnessed now, but for all those who will walk these paths in the future. That rainbow flag represents our membership and belonging in the community of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender, intersex queer, questioning, two spirited and our allies. So look at your neighbor and tell em your dues are due. One of the more importantless important lessons ive learned on this journey is legislation, proclamations and executive orders, they cannot and they do not change peoples hearts. We change peoples hearts not through any herculean interventions, no we change peoples hearts
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