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mill cultural arts and they have funding through the san francisco school district for these access programs. so it's our first time dabbing into that budget. >> i'm glad that you brought it up and this is the last -- the final -- but i'm glad that you brought up the seniors' disabilities, i am blind and hard-of-hearing so i'd be interested in how that really develops to be sure. i went for the longest time and thought that -- well, you get to a point where you do become a senior and so just keep us informed. >> definitely, thank you for your questions. >> co-chair sehaux: thank you, council members for your questions and comments and input. over to staff for questions and i know that our director can add a little information about this information item as well. >> director nicole bohn: thank you very much for being here and i want to thank you both for being willing to field questions that were out of scope for what you were prepared to talk about today. [laughter] thank you for being good sports. is i want to encourage the council to consider putting this item back on the agenda w

i am laura shepard, director of events and i'm pleased to welcome you to our program on harvey mills day for the book launch with author lillian who will be in conversation with activists and author cleve jones. we would like to acknowledge our cosponsor for this event, the gl bt historical society and museum, and i would like to welcome gerard here who is the indication stricter who will say a few words about the historical society. >> thank you so much. the historical society was for founded 33, almost 34 years ago in san francisco. where an archives, a museum, research center, a public history center and were very honored to be one of the places that holds a tremendous collection of material related to harvey's estate and when it was finally settled. a few years ago we received all of the personal belongings that his friends had kept for all those years. if you come to our museum, we have a permanent display on his life and death, perhaps the most profoundly moving object is the suit that he was wearing when he was killed. it makes that act of violence very real. in our archives w