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 . Y
Present, when we are authentic and when we are transparent and those are your dues to be present, authentic and transparent. You see, im getting old and im getting tired and im getting weary. Of trusting the system for the change that is not happening. The change that is not coming. The change that is not on the way. No doubt about it, your dues are due until our 8 and 10yearolds stop taking their lives because they cant deal with the bullying. Our dues are due. Until our transgender people of color can walk up and down any streets in this nation, unharmed. Your dues are due. Until all lgbtq folks are no longer attacked on the streets of San Francisco, your dues are due. [applause] your dues are due until we cross that finish line. Arm in arm together under our rainbow flag. Your dues are due. Thank you. [applause] so, our event today happens to coincide with the big meeting at the board of supervisors. So, rafael mandelman, has anyone seen him . He is not here. Ok. There is a good cha
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
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
Spanish as a native language. So this is an amazing chance for us to feel honored and we appreciate very much the work that everyone here does. Thank you very much to the commissioners for this award and also for the work you do on behalf of immigrants. [applause] honorees. When you come on the stage after you speak, you will receive your award and certificate from our wonderful commissioners and then you can exit stage right. Is that right . Stage right. Ok. Next award is our Industry Leader and this is going to leo sosa. He is an immigrant from guantanamo and he launched throw Youth Technology programs before starting his own nonprofit dove mission, which aims to train young adults age 1624 for careers in tech. He has also worked in many neighborhoods throughout the city helping to connect low income families to broadband, distributing computers and building computer labs in Affordable Housing communities. Please welcome leo sosa. Hello. I like the sound of that. Now were ready. I wo