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"rawSrt": "1\r\n00:00:15,315 --> 00:00:16,517\r\n-All right.\r\nGood morning, everybody.\r\n\r\n2\r\n00:00:16,517 --> 00:00:20,387\r\nThank you for being here\r\non what will be\r\n\r\n3\r\n00:00:20,387 --> 00:00:24,057\r\nand is a very exciting\r\nannouncement and celebration.\r\n\r\n4\r\n00:00:24,057 --> 00:00:27,261\r\nI'm only going to introduce --\r\n\r\n5\r\n00:00:27,261 --> 00:00:29,963\r\nwe have several stars\r\nthat are going to speak,\r\n\r\n6\r\n00:00:29,963 --> 00:00:31,698\r\nand I'm not referring to myself.\r\n\r\n7\r\n00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:35,169\r\nThe first star will be\r\nNakita Venus,\r\n\r\n8\r\n00:00:35,169 --> 00:00:38,405\r\nthe executive director\r\nof Seattle's LGBTQ Center.\r\n\r\n9\r\n00:00:38,405 --> 00:00:41,975\r\nThank you for welcoming us\r\nto your home\r\n\r\n10\r\n00:00:41,975 --> 00:00:45,078\r\nwhere all the action happens\r\nfor our advocacy.\r\n\r\n11\r\n00:00:45,078 --> 00:00:47,347\r\nMany of you know\r\nNakita has extensive experience\r\n\r\n12\r\n00:00:47,347 --> 00:00:49,249\r\nin community advocacy\r\n\r\n13\r\n00:00:49,249 --> 00:00:51,785\r\nand organizational leadership\r\nand community engagement\r\n\r\n14\r\n00:00:51,785 --> 00:00:54,588\r\nand is truly committed\r\nto this fight\r\n\r\n15\r\n00:00:54,588 --> 00:00:56,290\r\nthat we're all in together.\r\n\r\n16\r\n00:00:56,290 --> 00:00:58,292\r\nAnd so I'll take it\r\nover after Nakita.\r\n\r\n17\r\n00:00:58,292 --> 00:01:01,495\r\nBut, Nakita, welcome us --\r\nwelcome us to your house.\r\n\r\n18\r\n00:01:12,973 --> 00:01:15,209\r\n-First off, thank you so much,\r\nMayor Harrell,\r\n\r\n19\r\n00:01:15,209 --> 00:01:16,743\r\nfor that introduction,\r\n\r\n20\r\n00:01:16,743 --> 00:01:18,645\r\nand thank you to everyone here\r\n\r\n21\r\n00:01:18,645 --> 00:01:23,584\r\ntoday for joining us\r\nat Seattle's LGBTQ+ Center.\r\n\r\n22\r\n00:01:23,584 --> 00:01:27,688\r\nAnd I am honored\r\nto welcome you all here today\r\n\r\n23\r\n00:01:27,688 --> 00:01:31,758\r\nand joining us in our space and\r\nthe place we like to call home.\r\n\r\n24\r\n00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:37,097\r\nThe Center has been supporting\r\nlocal 2SLGBTQIA+ community\r\n\r\n25\r\n00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:39,633\r\nfor 30 years now.\r\n\r\n26\r\n00:01:39,633 --> 00:01:43,070\r\nWe are lucky to be located\r\nin Capitol Hill\r\n\r\n27\r\n00:01:43,070 --> 00:01:45,539\r\nwith a lush legacy\r\nof queer and trans\r\n\r\n28\r\n00:01:45,539 --> 00:01:48,342\r\nactivists who made\r\nthe city what it is\r\n\r\n29\r\n00:01:48,342 --> 00:01:53,981\r\nand continue to be a place\r\nof belonging for so many of us.\r\n\r\n30\r\n00:01:53,981 --> 00:01:56,416\r\nThe Center started\r\nwith individuals providing\r\n\r\n31\r\n00:01:56,416 --> 00:01:59,419\r\nHIV testing at the height\r\nof the AIDS epidemic\r\n\r\n32\r\n00:01:59,419 --> 00:02:02,155\r\nwhen our government would not.\r\n\r\n33\r\n00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:06,927\r\nWe expanded our services\r\nand reach to what you see today,\r\n\r\n34\r\n00:02:06,927 --> 00:02:10,697\r\na community center and clinic\r\n\r\n35\r\n00:02:10,697 --> 00:02:14,601\r\nwith over 12 programs\r\ndedicated to centering the needs\r\n\r\n36\r\n00:02:14,601 --> 00:02:16,637\r\nof our most marginalized,\r\nnamely,\r\n\r\n37\r\n00:02:16,637 --> 00:02:19,773\r\ntrans Black and Brown\r\nadults and youth.\r\n\r\n38\r\n00:02:19,773 --> 00:02:21,408\r\nAnd, over the next 30 years,\r\n\r\n39\r\n00:02:21,408 --> 00:02:24,244\r\nwe will continue to grow\r\nin our services,\r\n\r\n40\r\n00:02:24,244 --> 00:02:26,613\r\nmeeting the needs\r\nof more unhoused folks,\r\n\r\n41\r\n00:02:26,613 --> 00:02:29,683\r\nmore sex workers,\r\nmore trans people.\r\n\r\n42\r\n00:02:34,655 --> 00:02:39,426\r\nThis ordinance signifies\r\nthat our work\r\n\r\n43\r\n00:02:39,426 --> 00:02:41,762\r\nand the work of so many others\r\nis supported\r\n\r\n44\r\n00:02:41,762 --> 00:02:45,199\r\nand to be protected\r\nby our local government.\r\n\r\n45\r\n00:02:45,199 --> 00:02:48,001\r\nWhile I am not surprised\r\nby the continued\r\n\r\n46\r\n00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:51,939\r\nwidespread political attacks on\r\nour queer and trans community,\r\n\r\n47\r\n00:02:51,939 --> 00:02:55,576\r\nI am anxious, angry, and tired.\r\n\r\n48\r\n00:02:55,576 --> 00:02:58,879\r\nI am tired that our community\r\nhas to be this resilient,\r\n\r\n49\r\n00:02:58,879 --> 00:03:03,450\r\nthis consistently for this long.\r\nBut we are,\r\n\r\n50\r\n00:03:03,450 --> 00:03:06,687\r\nand we will continue to make it\r\nthrough all this next set\r\n\r\n51\r\n00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:09,456\r\nof challenges the way\r\nwe always have,\r\n\r\n52\r\n00:03:09,456 --> 00:03:13,493\r\nby being in community\r\nwith one another.\r\n\r\n53\r\n00:03:13,493 --> 00:03:15,729\r\nWe know our queerness\r\nand our transness\r\n\r\n54\r\n00:03:15,729 --> 00:03:18,198\r\ndeserves to be honored\r\nand celebrated.\r\n\r\n55\r\n00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:20,567\r\nWe know our joy is beautiful.\r\n\r\n56\r\n00:03:20,567 --> 00:03:23,537\r\nAnd we know our rights are\r\nworth defending.\r\n\r\n57\r\n00:03:29,142 --> 00:03:30,878\r\nIn contrast,\r\n\r\n58\r\n00:03:30,878 --> 00:03:33,113\r\nI am surprised\r\nby the local institutions\r\n\r\n59\r\n00:03:33,113 --> 00:03:35,382\r\nthat have stepped back\r\nin their commitments\r\n\r\n60\r\n00:03:35,382 --> 00:03:37,484\r\nto protecting\r\nand serving our communities out\r\n\r\n61\r\n00:03:37,484 --> 00:03:40,153\r\nof fear of repercussions.\r\n\r\n62\r\n00:03:40,153 --> 00:03:42,523\r\nThe reality is\r\nthat we need people to fight\r\n\r\n63\r\n00:03:42,523 --> 00:03:44,324\r\nfor this healthcare.\r\n\r\n64\r\n00:03:44,324 --> 00:03:46,827\r\nI hope that those\r\nwho claim to be our allies\r\n\r\n65\r\n00:03:46,827 --> 00:03:49,763\r\ntake this moment\r\nas an opportunity to be loud\r\n\r\n66\r\n00:03:49,763 --> 00:03:51,832\r\nin their support\r\nfor queer and trans people\r\n\r\n67\r\n00:03:51,832 --> 00:03:55,235\r\nand be courageous\r\nin their actions to fight\r\n\r\n68\r\n00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:57,237\r\nfor this life-saving,\r\n\r\n69\r\n00:03:57,237 --> 00:04:01,341\r\ngender-affirming healthcare\r\nand reproductive healthcare,\r\n\r\n70\r\n00:04:01,341 --> 00:04:04,178\r\nsignaling to not only\r\nthose who live here\r\n\r\n71\r\n00:04:04,178 --> 00:04:06,346\r\nbut those who are in need\r\nof a safer place\r\n\r\n72\r\n00:04:06,346 --> 00:04:09,449\r\nto call home or services\r\n\r\n73\r\n00:04:09,449 --> 00:04:11,585\r\nthat this city,\r\n\r\n74\r\n00:04:11,585 --> 00:04:15,055\r\nthat Seattle has\r\na robust community ready\r\n\r\n75\r\n00:04:15,055 --> 00:04:16,890\r\nand waiting to serve them.\r\n\r\n76\r\n00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:23,230\r\nFor this reason, I am\r\nthankful to the City of Seattle,\r\n\r\n77\r\n00:04:23,230 --> 00:04:25,232\r\nto the mayor's office,\r\n\r\n78\r\n00:04:25,232 --> 00:04:28,936\r\nand to everyone who have fought\r\nso hard to pass this ordinance.\r\n\r\n79\r\n00:04:28,936 --> 00:04:32,973\r\nThis ordinance takes the first\r\nstep in protecting our rights\r\n\r\n80\r\n00:04:32,973 --> 00:04:34,875\r\nand protecting\r\nthe healthcare providers\r\n\r\n81\r\n00:04:34,875 --> 00:04:36,944\r\nwho worked tirelessly to ensure\r\n\r\n82\r\n00:04:36,944 --> 00:04:39,646\r\nthat everyone has access\r\nto reproductive services\r\n\r\n83\r\n00:04:39,646 --> 00:04:42,149\r\nand gender-affirming care.\r\n\r\n84\r\n00:04:42,149 --> 00:04:45,953\r\nSo thank you again all so much\r\nfor being here in our space\r\n\r\n85\r\n00:04:45,953 --> 00:04:48,188\r\nand in our home\r\n\r\n86\r\n00:04:48,188 --> 00:04:53,126\r\nand for showing your\r\nsupport time and time again.\r\n\r\n87\r\n00:04:53,126 --> 00:04:58,031\r\nAnd I am excited to hand\r\nit back off to Mayor Harrell.\r\n\r\n88\r\n00:04:58,031 --> 00:04:59,333\r\nSo thank you all.\r\n\r\n89\r\n00:05:01,668 --> 00:05:05,038\r\n-Thank you, Jessica.\r\n\r\n90\r\n00:05:05,038 --> 00:05:08,575\r\nI told Jessica to pass the bowl\r\naround for donations after.\r\n\r\n91\r\n00:05:08,575 --> 00:05:13,046\r\nWe always try and raise money.\r\nThank you, Jessica, very much.\r\n\r\n92\r\n00:05:13,046 --> 00:05:15,249\r\nA few thank yous\r\nbefore I get into the substance\r\n\r\n93\r\n00:05:15,249 --> 00:05:17,317\r\nof what I'd like to say,\r\n\r\n94\r\n00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:19,386\r\nI want to thank -- she doesn't\r\n-- Jessica doesn't know this,\r\n\r\n95\r\n00:05:19,386 --> 00:05:20,821\r\nbut Jessica McHegg\r\nis standing with us.\r\n\r\n96\r\n00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:22,823\r\nShe's an employee\r\n\r\n97\r\n00:05:22,823 --> 00:05:24,725\r\nat the Seattle Department\r\nof Construction and Inspection\r\n\r\n98\r\n00:05:24,725 --> 00:05:28,128\r\nwho wrote my office\r\nabout the dehumanizing impact\r\n\r\n99\r\n00:05:28,128 --> 00:05:33,367\r\nof federal action\r\nas a transgender woman that --\r\n\r\n100\r\n00:05:33,367 --> 00:05:39,239\r\nthat, quite honestly,\r\nNakita spoke eloquently about.\r\n\r\n101\r\n00:05:39,239 --> 00:05:42,743\r\nAnd she's here with her wife,\r\nKaren.\r\n\r\n102\r\n00:05:42,743 --> 00:05:44,678\r\nAnd I sometimes say,\r\n\r\n103\r\n00:05:44,678 --> 00:05:46,446\r\nwhere do you find inspiration\r\nto do whatever you do?\r\n\r\n104\r\n00:05:46,446 --> 00:05:48,348\r\nWhere do you find it?\r\n\r\n105\r\n00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:50,951\r\nSometimes it could be a song,\r\na poem, a speech.\r\n\r\n106\r\n00:05:50,951 --> 00:05:53,086\r\nAnd it was your email\r\nto our office\r\n\r\n107\r\n00:05:53,086 --> 00:05:55,589\r\nthat inspired many of us to,\r\n\r\n108\r\n00:05:55,589 --> 00:06:00,961\r\nas you say, the theme for this\r\nyear's pride parade is loud.\r\n\r\n109\r\n00:06:00,961 --> 00:06:04,565\r\nBe loud. Be loud.\r\nBe loud. Be committed.\r\n\r\n110\r\n00:06:04,565 --> 00:06:06,433\r\nSo I want to also thank\r\n\r\n111\r\n00:06:06,433 --> 00:06:08,602\r\nthat we have council\r\npresident Sarah Nelson here\r\n\r\n112\r\n00:06:08,602 --> 00:06:14,508\r\nand council members Solomon and\r\n-- why are you standing behind?\r\n\r\n113\r\n00:06:14,508 --> 00:06:16,276\r\nJoe, you -- politicians,\r\n\r\n114\r\n00:06:16,276 --> 00:06:17,544\r\nyou've got to be\r\nwhere everyone could see you.\r\n\r\n115\r\n00:06:17,544 --> 00:06:19,112\r\nHollingsworth here.\r\n\r\n116\r\n00:06:19,112 --> 00:06:20,881\r\nYou've got to be --\r\nused to be right here.\r\n\r\n117\r\n00:06:20,881 --> 00:06:26,687\r\nAnd we have one-third\r\nof the Council here,\r\n\r\n118\r\n00:06:26,687 --> 00:06:30,457\r\nso I don't think we're breaking\r\nthe OPMA quite, quite yet.\r\n\r\n119\r\n00:06:30,457 --> 00:06:32,192\r\nI want to thank in addition\r\n\r\n120\r\n00:06:32,192 --> 00:06:34,761\r\nto Jessica\r\nthe Seattle LGBTQ Commission,\r\n\r\n121\r\n00:06:34,761 --> 00:06:36,797\r\nwhose members collaborated\r\nwith our office\r\n\r\n122\r\n00:06:36,797 --> 00:06:38,765\r\nclearly on this bill\r\n\r\n123\r\n00:06:38,765 --> 00:06:41,235\r\nand for their tireless advocacy\r\nfor a more inclusive city.\r\n\r\n124\r\n00:06:41,235 --> 00:06:46,707\r\nThey are doing above and\r\nbeyond what they get paid to do.\r\n\r\n125\r\n00:06:46,707 --> 00:06:48,342\r\nThey don't get paid anything\r\nas commissioner,\r\n\r\n126\r\n00:06:48,342 --> 00:06:51,912\r\nbut we're going to double that.\r\nWe're going to double that.\r\n\r\n127\r\n00:06:51,912 --> 00:06:53,680\r\n-I'm holding you to that.\r\n\r\n128\r\n00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,449\r\n-But, in all seriousness,\r\n\r\n129\r\n00:06:55,449 --> 00:06:56,583\r\nthey do this because it's a --\r\nit's a passion.\r\n\r\n130\r\n00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,418\r\nIt's a love.\r\n\r\n131\r\n00:06:58,418 --> 00:06:59,720\r\nIt's the -- it demonstrates\r\ntheir commitment.\r\n\r\n132\r\n00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:01,488\r\nAnd, of course,\r\n\r\n133\r\n00:07:01,488 --> 00:07:03,690\r\nI want to thank again\r\neveryone associated\r\n\r\n134\r\n00:07:03,690 --> 00:07:06,727\r\nwith the LGBTQ Center,\r\nformerly known as Gay City,\r\n\r\n135\r\n00:07:06,727 --> 00:07:11,298\r\nfor hosting us today and\r\nfor building joy and resilience\r\n\r\n136\r\n00:07:11,298 --> 00:07:16,537\r\nin Seattle's LGBTQ community\r\nfor I believe over 30 years now.\r\n\r\n137\r\n00:07:16,537 --> 00:07:19,106\r\nI want to ground us in a quote.\r\n\r\n138\r\n00:07:19,106 --> 00:07:22,142\r\nIt is not our differences\r\nthat divide us.\r\n\r\n139\r\n00:07:22,142 --> 00:07:25,145\r\nIt is our inability\r\nto recognize, accept,\r\n\r\n140\r\n00:07:25,145 --> 00:07:28,348\r\nand celebrate those differences.\r\n\r\n141\r\n00:07:28,348 --> 00:07:31,018\r\nIt's Audrey Lord,\r\nan American author and activist\r\n\r\n142\r\n00:07:31,018 --> 00:07:32,719\r\nwho was self-described\r\n\r\n143\r\n00:07:32,719 --> 00:07:37,357\r\nas a Black lesbian\r\nmother warrior and poet.\r\n\r\n144\r\n00:07:37,357 --> 00:07:40,727\r\nSo we're very proud\r\nto be here on the Trans Day,\r\n\r\n145\r\n00:07:40,727 --> 00:07:42,729\r\nTransgender Day of Visibility\r\n\r\n146\r\n00:07:42,729 --> 00:07:47,201\r\nto sign this important piece\r\nof legislation.\r\n\r\n147\r\n00:07:47,201 --> 00:07:50,304\r\nAgain, as Nakita stated,\r\nthis is a city\r\n\r\n148\r\n00:07:50,304 --> 00:07:53,340\r\nwhere diversity is celebrated\r\nand not just accepted\r\n\r\n149\r\n00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:55,042\r\nbut embraced and protected.\r\n\r\n150\r\n00:07:55,042 --> 00:08:00,647\r\nAnd I will address\r\nwhy this is so critical.\r\n\r\n151\r\n00:08:00,647 --> 00:08:04,618\r\nWe all know what we saw last\r\nweek in the University district,\r\n\r\n152\r\n00:08:04,618 --> 00:08:06,587\r\na heinous,\r\n\r\n153\r\n00:08:06,587 --> 00:08:13,026\r\nextremely disturbing crime\r\nagainst a transgender human\r\n\r\n154\r\n00:08:13,026 --> 00:08:17,331\r\nbeing that, to some extent,\r\n\r\n155\r\n00:08:17,331 --> 00:08:19,967\r\nis a sign of what\r\nwe're dealing with right now.\r\n\r\n156\r\n00:08:19,967 --> 00:08:23,003\r\nI'm glad that our police\r\ndepartment made a quick arrest,\r\n\r\n157\r\n00:08:23,003 --> 00:08:26,106\r\nand we're still looking for\r\nmore people capable\r\n\r\n158\r\n00:08:26,106 --> 00:08:30,077\r\nof inflicting such pain and joy\r\nand pain and -- pain and hurt.\r\n\r\n159\r\n00:08:30,077 --> 00:08:33,847\r\nBut I have to say this, that\r\nthat's a physical altercation.\r\n\r\n160\r\n00:08:33,847 --> 00:08:36,583\r\nThat's -- that's violence.\r\n\r\n161\r\n00:08:36,583 --> 00:08:39,586\r\nAnd sometimes the pain\r\ninflicted on individuals\r\n\r\n162\r\n00:08:39,586 --> 00:08:41,588\r\nis not seen with a scar.\r\n\r\n163\r\n00:08:41,588 --> 00:08:46,093\r\nIt's seen with the emotional\r\nwear and tear on a human being.\r\n\r\n164\r\n00:08:46,093 --> 00:08:52,633\r\nAnd so,\r\nwhen we talk about accepting\r\n\r\n165\r\n00:08:52,633 --> 00:08:55,502\r\nand embracing members\r\nof a community,\r\n\r\n166\r\n00:08:55,502 --> 00:08:58,071\r\nwe have to talk\r\nabout protecting, as well.\r\n\r\n167\r\n00:08:58,071 --> 00:08:59,940\r\n-That's right.\r\n\r\n168\r\n00:08:59,940 --> 00:09:02,142\r\n-And that's what\r\nthis codifying the Shield Law\r\n\r\n169\r\n00:09:02,142 --> 00:09:05,345\r\ninto our municipal code\r\nis intended to do.\r\n\r\n170\r\n00:09:05,345 --> 00:09:07,214\r\nWe will make it clear\r\n\r\n171\r\n00:09:07,214 --> 00:09:09,149\r\nthat we will protect\r\npeople seeking gender-affirming\r\n\r\n172\r\n00:09:09,149 --> 00:09:11,151\r\nand reproductive care\r\nin our city\r\n\r\n173\r\n00:09:11,151 --> 00:09:13,220\r\nfrom prosecution and arrest.\r\n\r\n174\r\n00:09:13,220 --> 00:09:16,623\r\nWe do not hide the fact --\r\n\r\n175\r\n00:09:20,627 --> 00:09:26,166\r\nWe do not hide the fact that\r\nwe love our LGBTQ community.\r\n\r\n176\r\n00:09:26,166 --> 00:09:30,003\r\nNot just embrace. We love.\r\nThat is part of our DNA here.\r\n\r\n177\r\n00:09:30,003 --> 00:09:32,005\r\n-Thank you.\r\n\r\n178\r\n00:09:32,005 --> 00:09:33,740\r\n-The egregious attempts\r\nfrom the Trump administration\r\n\r\n179\r\n00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:37,578\r\nto target\r\nand dehumanize LGBTQ+ people,\r\n\r\n180\r\n00:09:37,578 --> 00:09:40,047\r\nparticularly transgender people,\r\n\r\n181\r\n00:09:40,047 --> 00:09:44,184\r\nthere seem to almost be proud\r\nof this hate.\r\n\r\n182\r\n00:09:44,184 --> 00:09:47,855\r\nAnd I think Nakita said --\r\n\r\n183\r\n00:09:47,855 --> 00:09:49,690\r\nusing a lot of your speech\r\nin my speech, by the way.\r\n\r\n184\r\n00:09:49,690 --> 00:09:51,892\r\nIt wasn't in my notes.\r\n\r\n185\r\n00:09:51,892 --> 00:09:54,895\r\nShe's --\r\nNakita said they're surprised\r\n\r\n186\r\n00:09:54,895 --> 00:10:01,001\r\nwhen some corporations take suit\r\nand act based on this fear.\r\n\r\n187\r\n00:10:01,001 --> 00:10:02,870\r\nWell, I'm surprised too.\r\n\r\n188\r\n00:10:02,870 --> 00:10:08,542\r\nAnd I'm angered.\r\nWe will be loud.\r\n\r\n189\r\n00:10:08,542 --> 00:10:10,410\r\nThis is our opportunity.\r\n\r\n190\r\n00:10:10,410 --> 00:10:14,848\r\nAnd so I just want to be\r\ncrystal clear that LGBTQ+ people\r\n\r\n191\r\n00:10:14,848 --> 00:10:16,550\r\nand anyone seeking --\r\n\r\n192\r\n00:10:16,550 --> 00:10:19,920\r\nseeking protected\r\nhealthcare services\r\n\r\n193\r\n00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:24,291\r\ndeserve to be treated\r\nsafely with dignity and respect.\r\n\r\n194\r\n00:10:24,291 --> 00:10:26,093\r\nAnd here in Seattle,\r\n\r\n195\r\n00:10:26,093 --> 00:10:28,462\r\nat least, we will\r\nnot accept anything less.\r\n\r\n196\r\n00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:29,730\r\n-That's right.\r\n-Speaker 2: Absolutely.\r\n\r\n197\r\n00:10:39,673 --> 00:10:43,177\r\n-I'm sort of seasoned in\r\nthis young group of people here,\r\n\r\n198\r\n00:10:43,177 --> 00:10:45,612\r\nolder. I call it seasoned.\r\n\r\n199\r\n00:10:45,612 --> 00:10:50,417\r\nBut I'll tell you\r\nthat some of what we see now,\r\n\r\n200\r\n00:10:50,417 --> 00:10:52,486\r\nI don't know what\r\nto compare it to.\r\n\r\n201\r\n00:10:52,486 --> 00:10:57,524\r\nAnd what I have to tell people\r\nin many demographics is this.\r\n\r\n202\r\n00:10:57,524 --> 00:11:00,827\r\n2025 has to be our year.\r\nWe have to look at this\r\n\r\n203\r\n00:11:00,827 --> 00:11:04,932\r\nas an opportunity\r\nto sometimes articulate\r\n\r\n204\r\n00:11:04,932 --> 00:11:06,700\r\nthat which we believe in,\r\n\r\n205\r\n00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:12,005\r\nin almost an unprecedented level\r\nof intensity.\r\n\r\n206\r\n00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:14,474\r\nMaybe we have been asleep\r\nat the wheel a little bit.\r\n\r\n207\r\n00:11:14,474 --> 00:11:16,610\r\nMaybe we have taken\r\ncertain rights and\r\n\r\n208\r\n00:11:16,610 --> 00:11:19,279\r\nprotections for granted.\r\n\r\n209\r\n00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:20,814\r\nNot this year.\r\n-That's right.\r\n\r\n210\r\n00:11:20,814 --> 00:11:22,783\r\n-So this legislation --\r\n\r\n211\r\n00:11:22,783 --> 00:11:25,519\r\nand I again stand proudly\r\nwith at least three members\r\n\r\n212\r\n00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:27,020\r\nof the Council,\r\n\r\n213\r\n00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:28,288\r\nbut I know they represent\r\nall nine members\r\n\r\n214\r\n00:11:28,288 --> 00:11:29,990\r\nwhen they come here.\r\n\r\n215\r\n00:11:29,990 --> 00:11:31,592\r\nAnd got the President\r\nhere was nodding her head.\r\n\r\n216\r\n00:11:31,592 --> 00:11:36,196\r\nSo together\r\nwe are going to be loud.\r\n\r\n217\r\n00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:38,365\r\nAnd during our\r\ngreat pride parade --\r\n\r\n218\r\n00:11:38,365 --> 00:11:40,267\r\nand you're going to hear\r\nfrom Patti;\r\n\r\n219\r\n00:11:40,267 --> 00:11:43,770\r\nthink it's our last speaker --\r\nwe're going to be loud,\r\n\r\n220\r\n00:11:43,770 --> 00:11:46,340\r\nand we're going to show\r\nthis country\r\n\r\n221\r\n00:11:46,340 --> 00:11:49,142\r\nhow we get down here in Seattle.\r\n\r\n222\r\n00:11:49,142 --> 00:11:50,911\r\nAll right. All right.\r\n\r\n223\r\n00:11:54,615 --> 00:11:56,750\r\nNext, you're going to hear\r\nfrom Kody Allen,\r\n\r\n224\r\n00:11:56,750 --> 00:11:59,419\r\nthe cochair\r\nof the Seattle LGBTQ commission,\r\n\r\n225\r\n00:11:59,419 --> 00:12:02,389\r\nwho makes a grand salary\r\nin this position of zero\r\n\r\n226\r\n00:12:02,389 --> 00:12:04,391\r\nwith this leadership,\r\n\r\n227\r\n00:12:04,391 --> 00:12:07,561\r\nwhich means Kody does it because\r\nit's the right thing to do.\r\n\r\n228\r\n00:12:07,561 --> 00:12:09,296\r\nKody is a social worker\r\nfor YouthCare,\r\n\r\n229\r\n00:12:09,296 --> 00:12:10,531\r\nwhich celebrate --\r\n\r\n230\r\n00:12:10,531 --> 00:12:12,399\r\njust celebrated\r\nthe ground breaking in\r\n\r\n231\r\n00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:14,635\r\nthe Constellation Center\r\nlast week here in Capitol Hill.\r\n\r\n232\r\n00:12:14,635 --> 00:12:16,570\r\nAnd I was so proud\r\nto be a part of that.\r\n\r\n233\r\n00:12:16,570 --> 00:12:19,473\r\nKody's passionate about making\r\na positive difference,\r\n\r\n234\r\n00:12:19,473 --> 00:12:22,809\r\ndifference in the lives of LGBTQ\r\nyouth and marginalized groups\r\n\r\n235\r\n00:12:22,809 --> 00:12:25,412\r\nand very grateful to have\r\nKody's service to our city.\r\n\r\n236\r\n00:12:25,412 --> 00:12:32,753\r\nKody Allen.\r\n-Thank you, Mayor.\r\n\r\n237\r\n00:12:32,753 --> 00:12:35,022\r\nAnd good morning, everyone.\r\n\r\n238\r\n00:12:35,022 --> 00:12:36,757\r\nI'm honored to be here\r\nthis morning as one\r\n\r\n239\r\n00:12:36,757 --> 00:12:39,726\r\nof the cochairs\r\nof the Seattle LGBTQ Commission\r\n\r\n240\r\n00:12:39,726 --> 00:12:41,628\r\nand as someone who's had\r\nthe privilege of working\r\n\r\n241\r\n00:12:41,628 --> 00:12:44,064\r\nalongside so many\r\nin our community\r\n\r\n242\r\n00:12:44,064 --> 00:12:46,700\r\nwho are fighting every day\r\nto survive,\r\n\r\n243\r\n00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:49,336\r\nto be seen, and to be safe.\r\n\r\n244\r\n00:12:49,336 --> 00:12:51,905\r\nI'm also speaking from the space\r\nof being a program manager\r\n\r\n245\r\n00:12:51,905 --> 00:12:56,243\r\nfor a young adult LGBTQ shelter\r\nhere in Seattle at YouthCare.\r\n\r\n246\r\n00:12:56,243 --> 00:13:01,248\r\nIt's called Isis, I-S-I-S,\r\ntransitional living facility.\r\n\r\n247\r\n00:13:01,248 --> 00:13:04,051\r\nIt's a place\r\nthat should be a haven, a space\r\n\r\n248\r\n00:13:04,051 --> 00:13:06,653\r\nwhere our people can catch\r\ntheir breath.\r\n\r\n249\r\n00:13:06,653 --> 00:13:08,355\r\nBut lately what I've been seeing\r\n\r\n250\r\n00:13:08,355 --> 00:13:11,425\r\nand hearing from our clients\r\nis fear.\r\n\r\n251\r\n00:13:11,425 --> 00:13:13,193\r\nIt is panic.\r\n\r\n252\r\n00:13:13,193 --> 00:13:15,362\r\nIt is a growing sense\r\nthat their future,\r\n\r\n253\r\n00:13:15,362 --> 00:13:19,733\r\nour future is being stripped\r\naway piece by piece.\r\n\r\n254\r\n00:13:19,733 --> 00:13:22,769\r\nYoung people come to us\r\nterrified about their safety,\r\n\r\n255\r\n00:13:22,769 --> 00:13:24,805\r\nabout access to healthcare,\r\n\r\n256\r\n00:13:24,805 --> 00:13:28,475\r\nabout simply existing\r\nas themselves in public safely.\r\n\r\n257\r\n00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:31,645\r\nEvery day they ask me,\r\nIs it getting worse?\r\n\r\n258\r\n00:13:31,645 --> 00:13:34,515\r\nAnd a lot of days\r\nthe answer feels like yes.\r\n\r\n259\r\n00:13:34,515 --> 00:13:36,383\r\nBut today, here,\r\n\r\n260\r\n00:13:36,383 --> 00:13:39,086\r\nthe answer feels\r\na little bit more like hope.\r\n\r\n261\r\n00:13:39,086 --> 00:13:41,221\r\nThis ordinance passed\r\nby the Seattle City Council\r\n\r\n262\r\n00:13:41,221 --> 00:13:43,323\r\nprotects access\r\nto gender-affirming\r\n\r\n263\r\n00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:45,325\r\nand reproductive care,\r\n\r\n264\r\n00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:48,195\r\nensuring that we are a welcoming\r\ncity in more than just name.\r\n\r\n265\r\n00:13:48,195 --> 00:13:51,999\r\nThis is not just policy.\r\nThis is life-saving.\r\n\r\n266\r\n00:13:51,999 --> 00:13:53,734\r\nThis is dignity.\r\n\r\n267\r\n00:13:53,734 --> 00:13:55,435\r\nThis is giving power back\r\nto the people\r\n\r\n268\r\n00:13:55,435 --> 00:13:58,505\r\nwho have felt powerless\r\nfor far too long.\r\n\r\n269\r\n00:13:58,505 --> 00:14:01,608\r\nThis tells our community\r\nthat you belong here.\r\n\r\n270\r\n00:14:01,608 --> 00:14:05,412\r\nWe will fight for you,\r\nand you are not alone.\r\n\r\n271\r\n00:14:05,412 --> 00:14:07,347\r\nToday, Seattle is taking\r\na stand,\r\n\r\n272\r\n00:14:07,347 --> 00:14:09,149\r\nnot just for the queer people\r\nin the city\r\n\r\n273\r\n00:14:09,149 --> 00:14:11,952\r\nbut for everyone\r\nwhose rights and identities\r\n\r\n274\r\n00:14:11,952 --> 00:14:14,388\r\nare under attack\r\nacross this country.\r\n\r\n275\r\n00:14:14,388 --> 00:14:17,958\r\nAnd we are doing it together,\r\nand that matters.\r\n\r\n276\r\n00:14:17,958 --> 00:14:20,627\r\nI want to take a moment to talk\r\nabout the commission itself.\r\n\r\n277\r\n00:14:20,627 --> 00:14:24,498\r\nFor the first time in\r\na long time, we're nearly full.\r\n\r\n278\r\n00:14:24,498 --> 00:14:26,767\r\nOur seats are filling\r\nwith passionate,\r\n\r\n279\r\n00:14:26,767 --> 00:14:29,136\r\nbrilliant queer folks\r\nand allies,\r\n\r\n280\r\n00:14:29,136 --> 00:14:32,039\r\npeople who are stepping up,\r\nready to serve,\r\n\r\n281\r\n00:14:32,039 --> 00:14:34,842\r\nready to organize,\r\nready to fight.\r\n\r\n282\r\n00:14:34,842 --> 00:14:36,610\r\nThat tells me something.\r\n\r\n283\r\n00:14:36,610 --> 00:14:38,979\r\nThat tells me\r\nthat our community is ready.\r\n\r\n284\r\n00:14:38,979 --> 00:14:40,981\r\nWe're done sitting down\r\non the sidelines\r\n\r\n285\r\n00:14:40,981 --> 00:14:42,816\r\nwhile our rights are debated.\r\n\r\n286\r\n00:14:42,816 --> 00:14:46,320\r\nWe are showing up,\r\nand we are not backing down.\r\n\r\n287\r\n00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,656\r\nKnowing that the City\r\nof Seattle, our council members,\r\n\r\n288\r\n00:14:49,656 --> 00:14:52,259\r\nour mayor is willing\r\nto stand beside us\r\n\r\n289\r\n00:14:52,259 --> 00:14:55,128\r\nin that fight has reinvigorated\r\nthe Commission in a way\r\n\r\n290\r\n00:14:55,128 --> 00:14:56,897\r\nthat I haven't seen before.\r\n\r\n291\r\n00:14:56,897 --> 00:15:00,000\r\nThere's energy again.\r\nThere's momentum.\r\n\r\n292\r\n00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,803\r\nAnd, most importantly,\r\nthere's partnership.\r\n\r\n293\r\n00:15:02,803 --> 00:15:05,339\r\nI want to recognize council\r\nmember Rinck in particular\r\n\r\n294\r\n00:15:05,339 --> 00:15:07,875\r\nfor meeting with the Commission,\r\nfor listening,\r\n\r\n295\r\n00:15:07,875 --> 00:15:09,810\r\nfor engaging with us\r\n\r\n296\r\n00:15:09,810 --> 00:15:12,212\r\nin meaningful conversation\r\nabout what this bill means\r\n\r\n297\r\n00:15:12,212 --> 00:15:14,314\r\nand what it makes possible.\r\n\r\n298\r\n00:15:14,314 --> 00:15:17,484\r\nThe Commission is proud\r\nto stand in this moment,\r\n\r\n299\r\n00:15:17,484 --> 00:15:21,388\r\nnot just as witnesses to this\r\nprogress but as collaborators.\r\n\r\n300\r\n00:15:21,388 --> 00:15:24,124\r\nAnd I can promise you that\r\nwe are just getting started.\r\n\r\n301\r\n00:15:24,124 --> 00:15:26,560\r\nThis ordinance is a huge step\r\nin the right direction,\r\n\r\n302\r\n00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,297\r\nbut it is not the final step.\r\n\r\n303\r\n00:15:30,297 --> 00:15:34,268\r\nOur hope is that this is the\r\nbeginning of something bigger,\r\n\r\n304\r\n00:15:34,268 --> 00:15:37,471\r\nthat this is the start\r\nof a new era of collaboration\r\n\r\n305\r\n00:15:37,471 --> 00:15:41,175\r\nwhere the city and the community\r\nstand side by side against hate,\r\n\r\n306\r\n00:15:41,175 --> 00:15:44,778\r\ntransphobia, homophobia,\r\nand all forms of oppression;\r\n\r\n307\r\n00:15:44,778 --> 00:15:46,647\r\nthat it reminds us\r\n\r\n308\r\n00:15:46,647 --> 00:15:48,515\r\nthat there is still\r\na future worth fighting for\r\n\r\n309\r\n00:15:48,515 --> 00:15:52,052\r\nbecause I work with the future\r\nevery single day.\r\n\r\n310\r\n00:15:52,052 --> 00:15:53,820\r\nAnd let me tell you.\r\n\r\n311\r\n00:15:53,820 --> 00:15:57,925\r\nIt is bright,\r\nit is powerful, and it is queer.\r\n\r\n312\r\n00:15:57,925 --> 00:15:59,726\r\nWe are not going anywhere.\r\n\r\n313\r\n00:15:59,726 --> 00:16:02,196\r\nWe are valid. We matter.\r\n\r\n314\r\n00:16:02,196 --> 00:16:06,733\r\nAnd we deserve to live,\r\nto thrive, and to be free.\r\n\r\n315\r\n00:16:06,733 --> 00:16:09,503\r\nAnd so I want to say again thank\r\nyou to Mayor and City Council\r\n\r\n316\r\n00:16:09,503 --> 00:16:12,773\r\nfor this vital step forward.\r\n\r\n317\r\n00:16:12,773 --> 00:16:15,509\r\nI know that the Commission\r\nstands behind you,\r\n\r\n318\r\n00:16:15,509 --> 00:16:19,012\r\nand this step\r\nhas really reinvigorated us\r\n\r\n319\r\n00:16:19,012 --> 00:16:20,647\r\nto continue moving forward.\r\n\r\n320\r\n00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:26,486\r\nSo thank you.\r\n-Thank you, Kody.\r\n\r\n321\r\n00:16:26,486 --> 00:16:28,088\r\nThank you very much.\r\n\r\n322\r\n00:16:28,088 --> 00:16:30,057\r\nOur next speaker will be\r\nPatti Hearn.\r\n\r\n323\r\n00:16:30,057 --> 00:16:32,059\r\nJust by way of background,\r\nmany of you know, of course,\r\n\r\n324\r\n00:16:32,059 --> 00:16:36,496\r\nPatti is the executive director\r\nof Seattle Pride since 2023.\r\n\r\n325\r\n00:16:36,496 --> 00:16:38,765\r\nShe's lived here in Seattle\r\nfor over 30 years\r\n\r\n326\r\n00:16:38,765 --> 00:16:43,637\r\nand indeed a leader\r\nin the LGTBQ community,\r\n\r\n327\r\n00:16:43,637 --> 00:16:45,005\r\npassionate about education,\r\n\r\n328\r\n00:16:45,005 --> 00:16:46,573\r\nformerly the founding head\r\n\r\n329\r\n00:16:46,573 --> 00:16:48,509\r\nof Lake Washington\r\nGirls Middle School --\r\n\r\n330\r\n00:16:48,509 --> 00:16:51,144\r\nI shared a little information\r\nabout that earlier --\r\n\r\n331\r\n00:16:51,144 --> 00:16:53,413\r\nself-welcoming environment\r\nfor girls and gender\r\n\r\n332\r\n00:16:53,413 --> 00:16:55,883\r\nnonconforming youth in our city.\r\n\r\n333\r\n00:16:55,883 --> 00:16:57,651\r\nWelcome, Patti Hearn.\r\n\r\n334\r\n00:17:02,489 --> 00:17:04,825\r\n-Thanks, everybody.\r\nThank you, Mayor Harrell.\r\n\r\n335\r\n00:17:04,825 --> 00:17:06,560\r\nMy name is Patti Hearn,\r\nshe/her pronouns.\r\n\r\n336\r\n00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,362\r\nAnd I have the honor now\r\nof serving\r\n\r\n337\r\n00:17:08,362 --> 00:17:11,131\r\nas the executive director\r\nof Seattle Pride.\r\n\r\n338\r\n00:17:11,131 --> 00:17:13,767\r\nToday, I'm really excited to be\r\nhere in community with you all\r\n\r\n339\r\n00:17:13,767 --> 00:17:16,703\r\nas we take this important step\r\nforward together.\r\n\r\n340\r\n00:17:16,703 --> 00:17:18,572\r\nAnd, you know,\r\nI think this ordinance speaks\r\n\r\n341\r\n00:17:18,572 --> 00:17:21,475\r\nto so many of us\r\nbecause whether you grew up here\r\n\r\n342\r\n00:17:21,475 --> 00:17:23,810\r\nor you lived here\r\nfor a long time, fled here,\r\n\r\n343\r\n00:17:23,810 --> 00:17:26,280\r\nas I did, over 30 years ago,\r\n\r\n344\r\n00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,984\r\nSeattle is a haven for\r\nso many queer and trans people.\r\n\r\n345\r\n00:17:30,984 --> 00:17:34,021\r\nThe sad reality is\r\nwe shouldn't need a haven.\r\n\r\n346\r\n00:17:34,021 --> 00:17:36,156\r\nWe shouldn't need a shield.\r\n\r\n347\r\n00:17:36,156 --> 00:17:40,260\r\nBut the reality is that\r\nour rights are under attack,\r\n\r\n348\r\n00:17:40,260 --> 00:17:43,363\r\ncoordinated attack\r\nacross the country.\r\n\r\n349\r\n00:17:43,363 --> 00:17:44,932\r\nAnd we must defend those rights,\r\n\r\n350\r\n00:17:44,932 --> 00:17:47,467\r\nand we must defend\r\nour communities.\r\n\r\n351\r\n00:17:47,467 --> 00:17:51,238\r\nIt's particularly notable as\r\nwe honor Trans Day of Visibility\r\n\r\n352\r\n00:17:51,238 --> 00:17:54,174\r\nand we honor all\r\nof the leaders who paved the way\r\n\r\n353\r\n00:17:54,174 --> 00:17:57,411\r\nfor us to be here, made\r\nit possible for us to be here,\r\n\r\n354\r\n00:17:57,411 --> 00:17:59,246\r\nwho continue to lead today\r\n\r\n355\r\n00:17:59,246 --> 00:18:04,051\r\nand who are facing attacks\r\non their very existence.\r\n\r\n356\r\n00:18:04,051 --> 00:18:06,286\r\nAnd, you know,\r\nthey need dignity,\r\n\r\n357\r\n00:18:06,286 --> 00:18:08,655\r\nand everyone needs dignity\r\nwithout condition\r\n\r\n358\r\n00:18:08,655 --> 00:18:10,557\r\nand without question.\r\n\r\n359\r\n00:18:10,557 --> 00:18:12,659\r\nAnd that's what\r\nthis ordinance is about.\r\n\r\n360\r\n00:18:12,659 --> 00:18:14,027\r\nVisibility matters.\r\n\r\n361\r\n00:18:14,027 --> 00:18:15,929\r\nBut, more than visibility,\r\n\r\n362\r\n00:18:15,929 --> 00:18:19,199\r\nwe need protection, affirmation,\r\naction, and advocacy.\r\n\r\n363\r\n00:18:19,199 --> 00:18:21,101\r\nThose must follow.\r\n\r\n364\r\n00:18:21,101 --> 00:18:22,970\r\nAnd, as you heard the theme\r\nfor Seattle Pride\r\n\r\n365\r\n00:18:22,970 --> 00:18:26,206\r\nfor 2025 is louder,\r\nwe mean a lot of things by that.\r\n\r\n366\r\n00:18:26,206 --> 00:18:29,176\r\nOne of the things we mean\r\nis that we cannot afford\r\n\r\n367\r\n00:18:29,176 --> 00:18:32,479\r\nto be quiet, and\r\nwe cannot afford to stand by.\r\n\r\n368\r\n00:18:32,479 --> 00:18:35,415\r\nWe cannot afford to wait\r\nand see.\r\n\r\n369\r\n00:18:35,415 --> 00:18:37,784\r\nWe will not be silenced.\r\nWe will stand up.\r\n\r\n370\r\n00:18:37,784 --> 00:18:39,853\r\nWe will speak up,\r\nand we will fight back.\r\n\r\n371\r\n00:18:39,853 --> 00:18:42,956\r\nAnd we will do it\r\nwith love and joy and community\r\n\r\n372\r\n00:18:42,956 --> 00:18:44,758\r\nand solidarity,\r\n\r\n373\r\n00:18:44,758 --> 00:18:46,360\r\nas you have heard\r\nfrom everyone here today.\r\n\r\n374\r\n00:18:51,632 --> 00:18:53,734\r\nAnd so I'm looking\r\nforward to getting loud with you\r\n\r\n375\r\n00:18:53,734 --> 00:18:56,904\r\nall this year in 2025,\r\nas Mayor Harrell said.\r\n\r\n376\r\n00:18:56,904 --> 00:19:00,174\r\nAnd I'm grateful to all of you\r\nwho made this day possible.\r\n\r\n377\r\n00:19:00,174 --> 00:19:01,408\r\nThanks.\r\n-Go, Patti.\r\n\r\n378\r\n00:19:08,682 --> 00:19:11,118\r\n-Thank you very much, Patti.\r\n\r\n379\r\n00:19:11,118 --> 00:19:13,720\r\nSo, in closing -- and we're\r\ngoing to sign some legislation,\r\n\r\n380\r\n00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,156\r\npass out some pens --\r\n\r\n381\r\n00:19:16,156 --> 00:19:18,425\r\nI was recently asked\r\na few weeks ago\r\n\r\n382\r\n00:19:18,425 --> 00:19:22,029\r\nabout being a welcoming city.\r\n\r\n383\r\n00:19:22,029 --> 00:19:25,299\r\nAnd many of you might have seen\r\nthe mayors Johnston and Johnson\r\n\r\n384\r\n00:19:25,299 --> 00:19:29,303\r\nand Adams and Wu speak in DC.\r\n\r\n385\r\n00:19:29,303 --> 00:19:35,609\r\nThey were summoned into DC to\r\ndefend their status of Denver,\r\n\r\n386\r\n00:19:35,609 --> 00:19:40,013\r\nBoston, New York --\r\nand what am I missing?\r\n\r\n387\r\n00:19:40,013 --> 00:19:43,517\r\nChicago --\r\nbeing a welcoming city.\r\n\r\n388\r\n00:19:43,517 --> 00:19:46,987\r\nClearly we are on that list.\r\n\r\n389\r\n00:19:46,987 --> 00:19:49,523\r\nBut I, in talking to folks,\r\n\r\n390\r\n00:19:49,523 --> 00:19:54,528\r\nsaid it's important to mean\r\nwhat you mean by that welcoming.\r\n\r\n391\r\n00:19:54,528 --> 00:19:56,897\r\nAnd, when we looked at the LG --\r\nyou know,\r\n\r\n392\r\n00:19:56,897 --> 00:19:58,932\r\nI haven't had a day\r\noff in 21 days.\r\n\r\n393\r\n00:19:58,932 --> 00:20:01,068\r\nSo sorry I'm a little -- I'm\r\nnot on my A game this morning.\r\n\r\n394\r\n00:20:01,068 --> 00:20:03,237\r\nIt's Monday. Okay.\r\nThanks, Jessica.\r\n\r\n395\r\n00:20:03,237 --> 00:20:06,340\r\nI'll take it, I'll take it.\r\n\r\n396\r\n00:20:06,340 --> 00:20:11,011\r\nWhen I said in reference\r\nto this legislation\r\n\r\n397\r\n00:20:11,011 --> 00:20:16,083\r\nof course we welcome everyone,\r\nour LGTBQIA+ --\r\n\r\n398\r\n00:20:16,083 --> 00:20:21,121\r\nsee, I could go all the way\r\nif I want because we're proud.\r\n\r\n399\r\n00:20:21,121 --> 00:20:23,657\r\nIt goes beyond just welcoming.\r\n\r\n400\r\n00:20:23,657 --> 00:20:27,194\r\nThis is who we are.\r\nSo we're not going to back down.\r\n\r\n401\r\n00:20:27,194 --> 00:20:29,763\r\nWe will be louder, Patti,\r\nbecause, again,\r\n\r\n402\r\n00:20:29,763 --> 00:20:33,901\r\nthis country is starving\r\nfor leadership on this issue.\r\n\r\n403\r\n00:20:33,901 --> 00:20:36,637\r\nIt's incredible what\r\nwe're seeing right now.\r\n\r\n404\r\n00:20:36,637 --> 00:20:39,239\r\nWe will fight together.\r\nWe will be louder.\r\n\r\n405\r\n00:20:39,239 --> 00:20:43,177\r\nWe will keep this.\r\nWe are playing the long game.\r\n\r\n406\r\n00:20:43,177 --> 00:20:44,912\r\nAnd, when we see this hate\r\n\r\n407\r\n00:20:44,912 --> 00:20:46,914\r\nthat we saw\r\nin the University district,\r\n\r\n408\r\n00:20:46,914 --> 00:20:49,983\r\nthat reminds us that it's\r\nnot just hugging one another;\r\n\r\n409\r\n00:20:49,983 --> 00:20:51,685\r\nit's protecting as well.\r\n\r\n410\r\n00:20:51,685 --> 00:20:53,654\r\nSo with the City Council's\r\nleadership;\r\n\r\n411\r\n00:20:53,654 --> 00:20:55,689\r\nwith my administration;\r\n\r\n412\r\n00:20:55,689 --> 00:21:00,160\r\nbut, most importantly, with this\r\ncommunity we are following --\r\n\r\n413\r\n00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,397\r\nas politicians,\r\nwe follow your lead.\r\n\r\n414\r\n00:21:03,397 --> 00:21:05,199\r\nMake no mistake about that.\r\n\r\n415\r\n00:21:05,199 --> 00:21:08,802\r\nYou are leading the way.\r\n\r\n416\r\n00:21:08,802 --> 00:21:13,173\r\nWe have to be humble\r\nenough to accept that.\r\n\r\n417\r\n00:21:13,173 --> 00:21:14,942\r\nOkay.\r\nI'm getting too serious now.\r\n\r\n418\r\n00:21:14,942 --> 00:21:19,680\r\nSo, having said that,\r\nthe fight continues.\r\n\r\n419\r\n00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,615\r\nI'm going to sign\r\nthis legislation.\r\n\r\n420\r\n00:21:21,615 --> 00:21:24,418\r\nI'm going to give it --\r\nhow many pins do I have?\r\n\r\n421\r\n00:21:24,418 --> 00:21:26,253\r\nUh-oh.\r\n\r\n422\r\n00:21:26,253 --> 00:21:29,223\r\nI'm going to give it\r\nto the four closest people\r\n\r\n423\r\n00:21:29,223 --> 00:21:32,125\r\nstanding next to me\r\nwhen they get it.\r\n\r\n424\r\n00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:33,827\r\nAnd we are on our way, Seattle.\r\n\r\n425\r\n00:21:33,827 --> 00:21:35,963\r\nWe are on our way.\r\nThank you very much.\r\n\r\n426\r\n00:21:35,963 --> 00:21:37,564\r\nWe'll do some questions after.\r\n\r\n427\r\n00:22:03,223 --> 00:22:04,825\r\n-I didn't know you had\r\nsuch pretty handwriting.\r\n\r\n428\r\n00:22:04,825 --> 00:22:07,728\r\n-Yeah.\r\nYou're still not getting a pen.\r\n\r\n429\r\n00:22:07,728 --> 00:22:11,832\r\nGive one to Patti, our speakers.\r\n\r\n430\r\n00:22:14,968 --> 00:22:17,037\r\nTony\r\n-You got a pen.\r\n\r\n431\r\n00:22:17,037 --> 00:22:19,406\r\n-Can I give this one\r\nto a non-speaker?\r\n\r\n432\r\n00:22:19,406 --> 00:22:21,441\r\n-I'm a speaker. Yeah.\r\n-Well, no, Nakita.\r\n\r\n433\r\n00:22:24,311 --> 00:22:27,314\r\nI gave it to you, though.\r\nI did give it to you.\r\n\r\n434\r\n00:22:27,314 --> 00:22:29,183\r\n-Thank you.\r\n-I'll get it back.\r\n\r\n435\r\n00:22:29,183 --> 00:22:39,193\r\nI'll see if there\r\nany questions from the press.\r\n\r\n436\r\n00:22:39,927 --> 00:22:41,061\r\nAll right.\r\n\r\n437\r\n00:22:43,130 --> 00:22:46,400\r\nAre there any questions before\r\nwe take some more pictures?\r\n\r\n438\r\n00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,402\r\nYes.\r\n\r\n439\r\n00:22:48,402 --> 00:22:50,671\r\n-From a young person who lives\r\nin the University district.\r\n\r\n440\r\n00:22:50,671 --> 00:22:52,406\r\n-Yes.\r\n\r\n441\r\n00:22:52,406 --> 00:22:54,007\r\n-A reporter\r\nfor the Seattle Gay News.\r\n\r\n442\r\n00:22:54,007 --> 00:22:55,709\r\nDo you have any recommendations\r\nfor\r\n\r\n443\r\n00:22:55,709 --> 00:22:58,679\r\nhow we can make an impact\r\nonline?\r\n\r\n444\r\n00:22:58,679 --> 00:23:01,748\r\nAnd it's busy every single day,\r\nright?\r\n\r\n445\r\n00:23:01,748 --> 00:23:02,983\r\nWe all have busy lives.\r\n\r\n446\r\n00:23:02,983 --> 00:23:04,751\r\nBut what can we do\r\n\r\n447\r\n00:23:04,751 --> 00:23:06,386\r\nthat you would do just\r\nmaybe a little bit every day,\r\n\r\n448\r\n00:23:06,386 --> 00:23:07,754\r\neven just something\r\nto think about\r\n\r\n449\r\n00:23:07,754 --> 00:23:09,623\r\nto really make a difference\r\n\r\n450\r\n00:23:09,623 --> 00:23:11,992\r\nand try to make Seattle\r\nmore welcoming in the every day?\r\n\r\n451\r\n00:23:11,992 --> 00:23:13,627\r\n-Yeah.\r\n\r\n452\r\n00:23:13,627 --> 00:23:15,295\r\nAnd I really appreciate\r\nthat question\r\n\r\n453\r\n00:23:15,295 --> 00:23:17,564\r\nbecause we have to remind\r\nourselves\r\n\r\n454\r\n00:23:17,564 --> 00:23:20,868\r\nthat some of the greatest\r\npolitical movements\r\n\r\n455\r\n00:23:20,868 --> 00:23:24,104\r\nin this country\r\nwere done by the youth.\r\n\r\n456\r\n00:23:24,104 --> 00:23:27,207\r\nYou look at them.\r\nThey weren't old like me.\r\n\r\n457\r\n00:23:27,207 --> 00:23:30,277\r\nThey were in their 20s,\r\nsometimes their teens.\r\n\r\n458\r\n00:23:30,277 --> 00:23:33,814\r\nSo organizing, being part\r\nof this community here,\r\n\r\n459\r\n00:23:33,814 --> 00:23:35,816\r\nbeing loud,\r\ngiving us information.\r\n\r\n460\r\n00:23:35,816 --> 00:23:37,518\r\nSometimes the street talk\r\n\r\n461\r\n00:23:37,518 --> 00:23:39,386\r\nwhen we're trying\r\nto go after bad actors,\r\n\r\n462\r\n00:23:39,386 --> 00:23:42,256\r\njust being part of what\r\nwe're trying to do politically.\r\n\r\n463\r\n00:23:42,256 --> 00:23:43,524\r\nAnd, again,\r\n\r\n464\r\n00:23:43,524 --> 00:23:45,359\r\nas I said here\r\nin this particular community\r\n\r\n465\r\n00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,594\r\nup on Capitol Hill,\r\nthis is your community as well.\r\n\r\n466\r\n00:23:47,594 --> 00:23:49,396\r\nAnd even though\r\nat the University district\r\n\r\n467\r\n00:23:49,396 --> 00:23:52,299\r\nyou're geographically\r\nsomewhat further away,\r\n\r\n468\r\n00:23:52,299 --> 00:23:53,567\r\nthis is your community as well.\r\n\r\n469\r\n00:23:53,567 --> 00:23:55,068\r\nSo coming together.\r\n\r\n470\r\n00:23:55,068 --> 00:23:56,870\r\nWork with --\r\nwe have some great -- we have,\r\n\r\n471\r\n00:23:56,870 --> 00:23:59,606\r\nI think -- I don't\r\nsometimes brag about this.\r\n\r\n472\r\n00:23:59,606 --> 00:24:01,508\r\nBut we have, I think,\r\n\r\n473\r\n00:24:01,508 --> 00:24:03,710\r\none of the strongest\r\ncommunity based organizations\r\n\r\n474\r\n00:24:03,710 --> 00:24:06,079\r\nin the country\r\nright here in Capitol Hill.\r\n\r\n475\r\n00:24:06,079 --> 00:24:08,448\r\nSo being part of that\r\nwould be phenomenal as well.\r\n\r\n476\r\n00:24:08,448 --> 00:24:11,919\r\nAnd our LGBTQ Commission is,\r\nbar none, one of the best.\r\n\r\n477\r\n00:24:11,919 --> 00:24:13,787\r\nAnd I talk to mayors\r\nall the time about that.\r\n\r\n478\r\n00:24:13,787 --> 00:24:16,190\r\nSo we have an infrastructure\r\nfor you to join in and,\r\n\r\n479\r\n00:24:16,190 --> 00:24:17,391\r\nagain, be louder.\r\n\r\n480\r\n00:24:17,391 --> 00:24:18,492\r\nThank you for the question.\r\n\r\n481\r\n00:24:18,492 --> 00:24:19,860\r\nYes, sir.\r\n\r\n482\r\n00:24:19,860 --> 00:24:21,361\r\n-Do you think this puts\r\na target on Seattle's\r\n\r\n483\r\n00:24:21,361 --> 00:24:23,197\r\nback from the Trump\r\nadministration?\r\n\r\n484\r\n00:24:23,197 --> 00:24:24,965\r\n-I don't know.\r\n\r\n485\r\n00:24:24,965 --> 00:24:32,840\r\nIs there something --\r\nwith this community,\r\n\r\n486\r\n00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:42,082\r\nwe are prepared to fight\r\nin an unprecedented way.\r\n\r\n487\r\n00:24:42,082 --> 00:24:44,484\r\nWe are already a target.\r\n\r\n488\r\n00:24:44,484 --> 00:24:48,222\r\nPeople here, they've been\r\ntargets their whole life.\r\n\r\n489\r\n00:24:48,222 --> 00:24:51,091\r\nWe're not afraid to be a target.\r\n\r\n490\r\n00:24:51,091 --> 00:24:53,594\r\nBut I don't like\r\nthe term being a target\r\n\r\n491\r\n00:24:53,594 --> 00:24:56,029\r\nbecause that assumes\r\nsomeone's pointing at you,\r\n\r\n492\r\n00:24:56,029 --> 00:25:00,467\r\nand you're losing the ability\r\nto proactively do\r\n\r\n493\r\n00:25:00,467 --> 00:25:04,571\r\nsomething instead of running.\r\nWe're not going to run.\r\n\r\n494\r\n00:25:04,571 --> 00:25:06,039\r\nWe're not going to stand\r\nstill like a target.\r\n\r\n495\r\n00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:08,942\r\nWe're going to fight.\r\nSo I'm not worried about that\r\n\r\n496\r\n00:25:08,942 --> 00:25:10,811\r\nbecause I have this community\r\n\r\n497\r\n00:25:10,811 --> 00:25:13,814\r\nand this greater Seattle\r\ncommunity behind this 100%.\r\n\r\n498\r\n00:25:13,814 --> 00:25:16,717\r\nYes, ma'am.\r\n-Hi. Jillian from KIRO Radio.\r\n\r\n499\r\n00:25:16,717 --> 00:25:18,285\r\nI've heard get loud.\r\n\r\n500\r\n00:25:18,285 --> 00:25:19,853\r\nI've heard lots of calls\r\nto action.\r\n\r\n501\r\n00:25:19,853 --> 00:25:21,722\r\nAnd this may be a question\r\nfrom Mr. Mayor\r\n\r\n502\r\n00:25:21,722 --> 00:25:25,459\r\nor maybe some people\r\nwith a center or YouthCare.\r\n\r\n503\r\n00:25:25,459 --> 00:25:26,593\r\nWhat do you want people to do?\r\n\r\n504\r\n00:25:26,593 --> 00:25:28,095\r\nWhat are you --\r\n\r\n505\r\n00:25:28,095 --> 00:25:29,496\r\nwhat calls to action\r\nare you asking people\r\n\r\n506\r\n00:25:29,496 --> 00:25:30,964\r\nto take in their everyday lives?\r\n\r\n507\r\n00:25:30,964 --> 00:25:32,799\r\nAnd for the people\r\n\r\n508\r\n00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:34,801\r\nwho have addressed\r\ninstitutions and businesses\r\n\r\n509\r\n00:25:34,801 --> 00:25:37,938\r\nthat maybe have backpedaled\r\non things like DEI\r\n\r\n510\r\n00:25:37,938 --> 00:25:40,107\r\nand other protections,\r\nwhat do you want them to do?\r\n\r\n511\r\n00:25:40,107 --> 00:25:41,475\r\nThat was a broad question.\r\n\r\n512\r\n00:25:41,475 --> 00:25:42,643\r\nInterpret it as you will.\r\n\r\n513\r\n00:25:42,643 --> 00:25:43,844\r\n-Great question.\r\n\r\n514\r\n00:25:43,844 --> 00:25:45,579\r\nI would take\r\na little prerogative here\r\n\r\n515\r\n00:25:45,579 --> 00:25:47,614\r\nto say maybe Patti\r\nyou could talk about I think\r\n\r\n516\r\n00:25:47,614 --> 00:25:49,416\r\nwhy this particular pride\r\nparade is going to be\r\n\r\n517\r\n00:25:49,416 --> 00:25:51,318\r\nso special in terms\r\nof what you're doing.\r\n\r\n518\r\n00:25:51,318 --> 00:25:54,855\r\nMaybe Nakita could hum\r\na few bars about the information\r\n\r\n519\r\n00:25:54,855 --> 00:25:56,223\r\nyou're getting,\r\nwhat you want to do with it.\r\n\r\n520\r\n00:25:56,223 --> 00:25:57,658\r\nSo I'd like to relinquish,\r\n\r\n521\r\n00:25:57,658 --> 00:25:58,959\r\nif I may,\r\nup to Patti and Nakita.\r\n\r\n522\r\n00:25:58,959 --> 00:26:00,260\r\nIs that a possibility?\r\n\r\n523\r\n00:26:00,260 --> 00:26:01,395\r\n-Yeah.\r\n\r\n524\r\n00:26:05,699 --> 00:26:08,302\r\nVery appreciative\r\nfor that question.\r\n\r\n525\r\n00:26:08,302 --> 00:26:10,170\r\nThe first thing\r\nthat people can do\r\n\r\n526\r\n00:26:10,170 --> 00:26:12,539\r\nis start speaking up\r\nin their like, communities,\r\n\r\n527\r\n00:26:12,539 --> 00:26:14,575\r\nin their neighborhoods,\r\nto their neighbors,\r\n\r\n528\r\n00:26:14,575 --> 00:26:18,545\r\nto the person across the street\r\nor at the other dinner table.\r\n\r\n529\r\n00:26:18,545 --> 00:26:20,147\r\nWhen you hear bigotry,\r\n\r\n530\r\n00:26:20,147 --> 00:26:22,850\r\nwhen you hear hate,\r\nto interrupt it,\r\n\r\n531\r\n00:26:22,850 --> 00:26:25,652\r\nto let the people around\r\nyou know that you are a person\r\n\r\n532\r\n00:26:25,652 --> 00:26:27,354\r\nthat they can come to,\r\n\r\n533\r\n00:26:27,354 --> 00:26:29,990\r\nthat you are a safe person\r\nand safe place,\r\n\r\n534\r\n00:26:29,990 --> 00:26:32,526\r\nto be more involved\r\nin your local organizations.\r\n\r\n535\r\n00:26:32,526 --> 00:26:35,629\r\nThis is only a handful\r\nof the resources\r\n\r\n536\r\n00:26:35,629 --> 00:26:38,599\r\nand the people\r\nthat are here really willing\r\n\r\n537\r\n00:26:38,599 --> 00:26:40,601\r\nand ready to fight\r\nfor our community.\r\n\r\n538\r\n00:26:40,601 --> 00:26:43,437\r\nSo find where we are.\r\nFind those people.\r\n\r\n539\r\n00:26:43,437 --> 00:26:45,439\r\nProvide those resources.\r\n\r\n540\r\n00:26:45,439 --> 00:26:48,809\r\nIf you have the money, money is\r\nreally important right now.\r\n\r\n541\r\n00:26:48,809 --> 00:26:50,511\r\nOur funds are being taken\r\naway from us.\r\n\r\n542\r\n00:26:50,511 --> 00:26:52,279\r\nThey're being threatened.\r\n\r\n543\r\n00:26:52,279 --> 00:26:53,981\r\nSo any amount\r\nthat we are able to provide\r\n\r\n544\r\n00:26:53,981 --> 00:26:58,552\r\nor give is so much appreciated.\r\n\r\n545\r\n00:26:58,552 --> 00:27:02,523\r\nThere is so much\r\nthat individuals can do,\r\n\r\n546\r\n00:27:02,523 --> 00:27:05,292\r\nespecially when it comes to all\r\nof the different organizations\r\n\r\n547\r\n00:27:05,292 --> 00:27:07,027\r\nthat are pulling back\r\ntheir resources\r\n\r\n548\r\n00:27:07,027 --> 00:27:08,929\r\nand their DEI initiatives.\r\n\r\n549\r\n00:27:08,929 --> 00:27:10,998\r\nShow them what\r\nthe consequences of that are.\r\n\r\n550\r\n00:27:10,998 --> 00:27:14,434\r\nRefuse to work with them.\r\nRefuse to speak on their behalf.\r\n\r\n551\r\n00:27:14,434 --> 00:27:16,670\r\nFind other organizations,\r\nother places\r\n\r\n552\r\n00:27:16,670 --> 00:27:19,806\r\nto give your resources\r\nand your time and support to.\r\n\r\n553\r\n00:27:19,806 --> 00:27:21,375\r\nLet them know\r\nthat that's not something\r\n\r\n554\r\n00:27:21,375 --> 00:27:23,277\r\nthat you will stand with.\r\n\r\n555\r\n00:27:23,277 --> 00:27:26,647\r\nBe the annoying person\r\non the phone calling every day.\r\n\r\n556\r\n00:27:26,647 --> 00:27:28,815\r\nThese are things that are easy\r\n\r\n557\r\n00:27:28,815 --> 00:27:31,585\r\nthat we can do\r\nin our day-to-day lives.\r\n\r\n558\r\n00:27:31,585 --> 00:27:33,520\r\nSo thank you.\r\n-Thanks, Nakita.\r\n\r\n559\r\n00:27:36,857 --> 00:27:38,725\r\n-Nakita said so many things\r\nI would say.\r\n\r\n560\r\n00:27:38,725 --> 00:27:40,661\r\nBut, as you heard, I was\r\nan educator for a long time.\r\n\r\n561\r\n00:27:40,661 --> 00:27:43,697\r\nAnd in those spaces\r\nwe talk about bullying, right,\r\n\r\n562\r\n00:27:43,697 --> 00:27:45,566\r\nand that how important it is\r\nto interrupt\r\n\r\n563\r\n00:27:45,566 --> 00:27:49,036\r\nthat bullying immediately\r\nat the personal level\r\n\r\n564\r\n00:27:49,036 --> 00:27:50,604\r\nwith love and care and support\r\n\r\n565\r\n00:27:50,604 --> 00:27:52,272\r\nso that people can stop\r\ndoing it.\r\n\r\n566\r\n00:27:52,272 --> 00:27:53,807\r\nAnd that's\r\nhow we deal with children.\r\n\r\n567\r\n00:27:53,807 --> 00:27:55,609\r\nAnd the things that we're seeing\r\n\r\n568\r\n00:27:55,609 --> 00:27:56,977\r\nare just like that bullying,\r\nright?\r\n\r\n569\r\n00:27:56,977 --> 00:27:58,378\r\nSo I think that same thing\r\n\r\n570\r\n00:27:58,378 --> 00:28:00,047\r\nthat Nakita was saying\r\nabout interrupting it\r\n\r\n571\r\n00:28:00,047 --> 00:28:02,449\r\nimmediately is\r\nabsolutely necessary,\r\n\r\n572\r\n00:28:02,449 --> 00:28:05,319\r\nand every single person is\r\nable to do that.\r\n\r\n573\r\n00:28:05,319 --> 00:28:07,221\r\nI think the other things\r\nthat I would echo\r\n\r\n574\r\n00:28:07,221 --> 00:28:10,157\r\nare absolutely your --\r\nyou vote with your dollars.\r\n\r\n575\r\n00:28:10,157 --> 00:28:12,326\r\nIt's the biggest power\r\nso many of us have.\r\n\r\n576\r\n00:28:12,326 --> 00:28:14,628\r\nSo think about where\r\nyou're spending that money.\r\n\r\n577\r\n00:28:14,628 --> 00:28:16,196\r\nThink about where\r\nyou're donating that money.\r\n\r\n578\r\n00:28:16,196 --> 00:28:17,865\r\nGive it to the causes\r\nthat need it\r\n\r\n579\r\n00:28:17,865 --> 00:28:20,367\r\nand that are doing\r\ngood work with it.\r\n\r\n580\r\n00:28:20,367 --> 00:28:22,669\r\nI think make the phone calls,\r\ndo all the things,\r\n\r\n581\r\n00:28:22,669 --> 00:28:24,371\r\nshow up\r\nwhere you need to show up.\r\n\r\n582\r\n00:28:24,371 --> 00:28:25,739\r\nBut most of the time\r\nwe're showing up,\r\n\r\n583\r\n00:28:25,739 --> 00:28:27,374\r\nand we're having the\r\nbiggest effect at the people --\r\n\r\n584\r\n00:28:27,374 --> 00:28:29,510\r\nwith the people\r\nwho are closest to us.\r\n\r\n585\r\n00:28:29,510 --> 00:28:31,845\r\nSo just think about how you're\r\nshowing up with those folks.\r\n\r\n586\r\n00:28:31,845 --> 00:28:33,113\r\nThat's what I've got.\r\n\r\n587\r\n00:28:33,113 --> 00:28:35,148\r\nAnd then, of course,\r\n\r\n588\r\n00:28:35,148 --> 00:28:38,485\r\nlike, the big visible support is\r\nthe -- is June and the parade.\r\n\r\n589\r\n00:28:38,485 --> 00:28:41,088\r\nAnd absolutely come\r\nand cheer and rainbow\r\n\r\n590\r\n00:28:41,088 --> 00:28:42,723\r\nexplosion all the way.\r\n\r\n591\r\n00:28:42,723 --> 00:28:44,992\r\nWe're in for that. Thanks.\r\nYeah.\r\n\r\n592\r\n00:28:48,161 --> 00:28:50,130\r\n-Thank you, Patti.\r\nThank you, Nakita.\r\n\r\n593\r\n00:28:50,130 --> 00:28:52,933\r\nThank you, community,\r\nfor standing up once again.\r\n\r\n594\r\n00:28:52,933 --> 00:28:56,303\r\nWe're going to be standing\r\ntogether a lot this year.\r\n\r\n595\r\n00:28:56,303 --> 00:28:58,605\r\nAs I said,\r\nwe're going to show this country\r\n\r\n596\r\n00:28:58,605 --> 00:29:00,073\r\nhow we get down here in Seattle.\r\n\r\n597\r\n00:29:00,073 --> 00:29:02,609\r\nThank you very, very much.\r\nEveryone make it a great Monday.\r\n\r\n598\r\n00:29:02,609 --> 00:29:03,744\r\nThank you.",
"text": "-All right. Good morning, everybody.\nThank you for being here on what will be\nand is a very exciting announcement and celebration.\nI'm only going to introduce --\nwe have several stars that are going to speak,\nand I'm not referring to myself.\nThe first star will be Nakita Venus,\nthe executive director of Seattle's LGBTQ Center.\nThank you for welcoming us to your home\nwhere all the action happens for our advocacy.\nMany of you know Nakita has extensive experience\nin community advocacy\nand organizational leadership and community engagement\nand is truly committed to this fight\nthat we're all in together.\nAnd so I'll take it over after Nakita.\nBut, Nakita, welcome us -- welcome us to your house.\n-First off, thank you so much, Mayor Harrell,\nfor that introduction,\nand thank you to everyone here\ntoday for joining us at Seattle's LGBTQ+ Center.\nAnd I am honored to welcome you all here today\nand joining us in our space and the place we like to call home.\nThe Center has been supporting local 2SLGBTQIA+ community\nfor 30 years now.\nWe are lucky to be located in Capitol Hill\nwith a lush legacy of queer and trans\nactivists who made the city what it is\nand continue to be a place of belonging for so many of us.\nThe Center started with individuals providing\nHIV testing at the height of the AIDS epidemic\nwhen our government would not.\nWe expanded our services and reach to what you see today,\na community center and clinic\nwith over 12 programs dedicated to centering the needs\nof our most marginalized, namely,\ntrans Black and Brown adults and youth.\nAnd, over the next 30 years,\nwe will continue to grow in our services,\nmeeting the needs of more unhoused folks,\nmore sex workers, more trans people.\nThis ordinance signifies that our work\nand the work of so many others is supported\nand to be protected by our local government.\nWhile I am not surprised by the continued\nwidespread political attacks on our queer and trans community,\nI am anxious, angry, and tired.\nI am tired that our community has to be this resilient,\nthis consistently for this long. But we are,\nand we will continue to make it through all this next set\nof challenges the way we always have,\nby being in community with one another.\nWe know our queerness and our transness\ndeserves to be honored and celebrated.\nWe know our joy is beautiful.\nAnd we know our rights are worth defending.\nIn contrast,\nI am surprised by the local institutions\nthat have stepped back in their commitments\nto protecting and serving our communities out\nof fear of repercussions.\nThe reality is that we need people to fight\nfor this healthcare.\nI hope that those who claim to be our allies\ntake this moment as an opportunity to be loud\nin their support for queer and trans people\nand be courageous in their actions to fight\nfor this life-saving,\ngender-affirming healthcare and reproductive healthcare,\nsignaling to not only those who live here\nbut those who are in need of a safer place\nto call home or services\nthat this city,\nthat Seattle has a robust community ready\nand waiting to serve them.\nFor this reason, I am thankful to the City of Seattle,\nto the mayor's office,\nand to everyone who have fought so hard to pass this ordinance.\nThis ordinance takes the first step in protecting our rights\nand protecting the healthcare providers\nwho worked tirelessly to ensure\nthat everyone has access to reproductive services\nand gender-affirming care.\nSo thank you again all so much for being here in our space\nand in our home\nand for showing your support time and time again.\nAnd I am excited to hand it back off to Mayor Harrell.\nSo thank you all.\n-Thank you, Jessica.\nI told Jessica to pass the bowl around for donations after.\nWe always try and raise money. Thank you, Jessica, very much.\nA few thank yous before I get into the substance\nof what I'd like to say,\nI want to thank -- she doesn't -- Jessica doesn't know this,\nbut Jessica McHegg is standing with us.\nShe's an employee\nat the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspection\nwho wrote my office about the dehumanizing impact\nof federal action as a transgender woman that --\nthat, quite honestly, Nakita spoke eloquently about.\nAnd she's here with her wife, Karen.\nAnd I sometimes say,\nwhere do you find inspiration to do whatever you do?\nWhere do you find it?\nSometimes it could be a song, a poem, a speech.\nAnd it was your email to our office\nthat inspired many of us to,\nas you say, the theme for this year's pride parade is loud.\nBe loud. Be loud. Be loud. Be committed.\nSo I want to also thank\nthat we have council president Sarah Nelson here\nand council members Solomon and -- why are you standing behind?\nJoe, you -- politicians,\nyou've got to be where everyone could see you.\nHollingsworth here.\nYou've got to be -- used to be right here.\nAnd we have one-third of the Council here,\nso I don't think we're breaking the OPMA quite, quite yet.\nI want to thank in addition\nto Jessica the Seattle LGBTQ Commission,\nwhose members collaborated with our office\nclearly on this bill\nand for their tireless advocacy for a more inclusive city.\nThey are doing above and beyond what they get paid to do.\nThey don't get paid anything as commissioner,\nbut we're going to double that. We're going to double that.\n-I'm holding you to that.\n-But, in all seriousness,\nthey do this because it's a -- it's a passion.\nIt's a love.\nIt's the -- it demonstrates their commitment.\nAnd, of course,\nI want to thank again everyone associated\nwith the LGBTQ Center, formerly known as Gay City,\nfor hosting us today and for building joy and resilience\nin Seattle's LGBTQ community for I believe over 30 years now.\nI want to ground us in a quote.\nIt is not our differences that divide us.\nIt is our inability to recognize, accept,\nand celebrate those differences.\nIt's Audrey Lord, an American author and activist\nwho was self-described\nas a Black lesbian mother warrior and poet.\nSo we're very proud to be here on the Trans Day,\nTransgender Day of Visibility\nto sign this important piece of legislation.\nAgain, as Nakita stated, this is a city\nwhere diversity is celebrated and not just accepted\nbut embraced and protected.\nAnd I will address why this is so critical.\nWe all know what we saw last week in the University district,\na heinous,\nextremely disturbing crime against a transgender human\nbeing that, to some extent,\nis a sign of what we're dealing with right now.\nI'm glad that our police department made a quick arrest,\nand we're still looking for more people capable\nof inflicting such pain and joy and pain and -- pain and hurt.\nBut I have to say this, that that's a physical altercation.\nThat's -- that's violence.\nAnd sometimes the pain inflicted on individuals\nis not seen with a scar.\nIt's seen with the emotional wear and tear on a human being.\nAnd so, when we talk about accepting\nand embracing members of a community,\nwe have to talk about protecting, as well.\n-That's right.\n-And that's what this codifying the Shield Law\ninto our municipal code is intended to do.\nWe will make it clear\nthat we will protect people seeking gender-affirming\nand reproductive care in our city\nfrom prosecution and arrest.\nWe do not hide the fact --\nWe do not hide the fact that we love our LGBTQ community.\nNot just embrace. We love. That is part of our DNA here.\n-Thank you.\n-The egregious attempts from the Trump administration\nto target and dehumanize LGBTQ+ people,\nparticularly transgender people,\nthere seem to almost be proud of this hate.\nAnd I think Nakita said --\nusing a lot of your speech in my speech, by the way.\nIt wasn't in my notes.\nShe's -- Nakita said they're surprised\nwhen some corporations take suit and act based on this fear.\nWell, I'm surprised too.\nAnd I'm angered. We will be loud.\nThis is our opportunity.\nAnd so I just want to be crystal clear that LGBTQ+ people\nand anyone seeking --\nseeking protected healthcare services\ndeserve to be treated safely with dignity and respect.\nAnd here in Seattle,\nat least, we will not accept anything less.\n-That's right. -Speaker 2: Absolutely.\n-I'm sort of seasoned in this young group of people here,\nolder. I call it seasoned.\nBut I'll tell you that some of what we see now,\nI don't know what to compare it to.\nAnd what I have to tell people in many demographics is this.\n2025 has to be our year. We have to look at this\nas an opportunity to sometimes articulate\nthat which we believe in,\nin almost an unprecedented level of intensity.\nMaybe we have been asleep at the wheel a little bit.\nMaybe we have taken certain rights and\nprotections for granted.\nNot this year. -That's right.\n-So this legislation --\nand I again stand proudly with at least three members\nof the Council,\nbut I know they represent all nine members\nwhen they come here.\nAnd got the President here was nodding her head.\nSo together we are going to be loud.\nAnd during our great pride parade --\nand you're going to hear from Patti;\nthink it's our last speaker -- we're going to be loud,\nand we're going to show this country\nhow we get down here in Seattle.\nAll right. All right.\nNext, you're going to hear from Kody Allen,\nthe cochair of the Seattle LGBTQ commission,\nwho makes a grand salary in this position of zero\nwith this leadership,\nwhich means Kody does it because it's the right thing to do.\nKody is a social worker for YouthCare,\nwhich celebrate --\njust celebrated the ground breaking in\nthe Constellation Center last week here in Capitol Hill.\nAnd I was so proud to be a part of that.\nKody's passionate about making a positive difference,\ndifference in the lives of LGBTQ youth and marginalized groups\nand very grateful to have Kody's service to our city.\nKody Allen. -Thank you, Mayor.\nAnd good morning, everyone.\nI'm honored to be here this morning as one\nof the cochairs of the Seattle LGBTQ Commission\nand as someone who's had the privilege of working\nalongside so many in our community\nwho are fighting every day to survive,\nto be seen, and to be safe.\nI'm also speaking from the space of being a program manager\nfor a young adult LGBTQ shelter here in Seattle at YouthCare.\nIt's called Isis, I-S-I-S, transitional living facility.\nIt's a place that should be a haven, a space\nwhere our people can catch their breath.\nBut lately what I've been seeing\nand hearing from our clients is fear.\nIt is panic.\nIt is a growing sense that their future,\nour future is being stripped away piece by piece.\nYoung people come to us terrified about their safety,\nabout access to healthcare,\nabout simply existing as themselves in public safely.\nEvery day they ask me, Is it getting worse?\nAnd a lot of days the answer feels like yes.\nBut today, here,\nthe answer feels a little bit more like hope.\nThis ordinance passed by the Seattle City Council\nprotects access to gender-affirming\nand reproductive care,\nensuring that we are a welcoming city in more than just name.\nThis is not just policy. This is life-saving.\nThis is dignity.\nThis is giving power back to the people\nwho have felt powerless for far too long.\nThis tells our community that you belong here.\nWe will fight for you, and you are not alone.\nToday, Seattle is taking a stand,\nnot just for the queer people in the city\nbut for everyone whose rights and identities\nare under attack across this country.\nAnd we are doing it together, and that matters.\nI want to take a moment to talk about the commission itself.\nFor the first time in a long time, we're nearly full.\nOur seats are filling with passionate,\nbrilliant queer folks and allies,\npeople who are stepping up, ready to serve,\nready to organize, ready to fight.\nThat tells me something.\nThat tells me that our community is ready.\nWe're done sitting down on the sidelines\nwhile our rights are debated.\nWe are showing up, and we are not backing down.\nKnowing that the City of Seattle, our council members,\nour mayor is willing to stand beside us\nin that fight has reinvigorated the Commission in a way\nthat I haven't seen before.\nThere's energy again. There's momentum.\nAnd, most importantly, there's partnership.\nI want to recognize council member Rinck in particular\nfor meeting with the Commission, for listening,\nfor engaging with us\nin meaningful conversation about what this bill means\nand what it makes possible.\nThe Commission is proud to stand in this moment,\nnot just as witnesses to this progress but as collaborators.\nAnd I can promise you that we are just getting started.\nThis ordinance is a huge step in the right direction,\nbut it is not the final step.\nOur hope is that this is the beginning of something bigger,\nthat this is the start of a new era of collaboration\nwhere the city and the community stand side by side against hate,\ntransphobia, homophobia, and all forms of oppression;\nthat it reminds us\nthat there is still a future worth fighting for\nbecause I work with the future every single day.\nAnd let me tell you.\nIt is bright, it is powerful, and it is queer.\nWe are not going anywhere.\nWe are valid. We matter.\nAnd we deserve to live, to thrive, and to be free.\nAnd so I want to say again thank you to Mayor and City Council\nfor this vital step forward.\nI know that the Commission stands behind you,\nand this step has really reinvigorated us\nto continue moving forward.\nSo thank you. -Thank you, Kody.\nThank you very much.\nOur next speaker will be Patti Hearn.\nJust by way of background, many of you know, of course,\nPatti is the executive director of Seattle Pride since 2023.\nShe's lived here in Seattle for over 30 years\nand indeed a leader in the LGTBQ community,\npassionate about education,\nformerly the founding head\nof Lake Washington Girls Middle School --\nI shared a little information about that earlier --\nself-welcoming environment for girls and gender\nnonconforming youth in our city.\nWelcome, Patti Hearn.\n-Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Mayor Harrell.\nMy name is Patti Hearn, she/her pronouns.\nAnd I have the honor now of serving\nas the executive director of Seattle Pride.\nToday, I'm really excited to be here in community with you all\nas we take this important step forward together.\nAnd, you know, I think this ordinance speaks\nto so many of us because whether you grew up here\nor you lived here for a long time, fled here,\nas I did, over 30 years ago,\nSeattle is a haven for so many queer and trans people.\nThe sad reality is we shouldn't need a haven.\nWe shouldn't need a shield.\nBut the reality is that our rights are under attack,\ncoordinated attack across the country.\nAnd we must defend those rights,\nand we must defend our communities.\nIt's particularly notable as we honor Trans Day of Visibility\nand we honor all of the leaders who paved the way\nfor us to be here, made it possible for us to be here,\nwho continue to lead today\nand who are facing attacks on their very existence.\nAnd, you know, they need dignity,\nand everyone needs dignity without condition\nand without question.\nAnd that's what this ordinance is about.\nVisibility matters.\nBut, more than visibility,\nwe need protection, affirmation, action, and advocacy.\nThose must follow.\nAnd, as you heard the theme for Seattle Pride\nfor 2025 is louder, we mean a lot of things by that.\nOne of the things we mean is that we cannot afford\nto be quiet, and we cannot afford to stand by.\nWe cannot afford to wait and see.\nWe will not be silenced. We will stand up.\nWe will speak up, and we will fight back.\nAnd we will do it with love and joy and community\nand solidarity,\nas you have heard from everyone here today.\nAnd so I'm looking forward to getting loud with you\nall this year in 2025, as Mayor Harrell said.\nAnd I'm grateful to all of you who made this day possible.\nThanks. -Go, Patti.\n-Thank you very much, Patti.\nSo, in closing -- and we're going to sign some legislation,\npass out some pens --\nI was recently asked a few weeks ago\nabout being a welcoming city.\nAnd many of you might have seen the mayors Johnston and Johnson\nand Adams and Wu speak in DC.\nThey were summoned into DC to defend their status of Denver,\nBoston, New York -- and what am I missing?\nChicago -- being a welcoming city.\nClearly we are on that list.\nBut I, in talking to folks,\nsaid it's important to mean what you mean by that welcoming.\nAnd, when we looked at the LG -- you know,\nI haven't had a day off in 21 days.\nSo sorry I'm a little -- I'm not on my A game this morning.\nIt's Monday. Okay. Thanks, Jessica.\nI'll take it, I'll take it.\nWhen I said in reference to this legislation\nof course we welcome everyone, our LGTBQIA+ --\nsee, I could go all the way if I want because we're proud.\nIt goes beyond just welcoming.\nThis is who we are. So we're not going to back down.\nWe will be louder, Patti, because, again,\nthis country is starving for leadership on this issue.\nIt's incredible what we're seeing right now.\nWe will fight together. We will be louder.\nWe will keep this. We are playing the long game.\nAnd, when we see this hate\nthat we saw in the University district,\nthat reminds us that it's not just hugging one another;\nit's protecting as well.\nSo with the City Council's leadership;\nwith my administration;\nbut, most importantly, with this community we are following --\nas politicians, we follow your lead.\nMake no mistake about that.\nYou are leading the way.\nWe have to be humble enough to accept that.\nOkay. I'm getting too serious now.\nSo, having said that, the fight continues.\nI'm going to sign this legislation.\nI'm going to give it -- how many pins do I have?\nUh-oh.\nI'm going to give it to the four closest people\nstanding next to me when they get it.\nAnd we are on our way, Seattle.\nWe are on our way. Thank you very much.\nWe'll do some questions after.\n-I didn't know you had such pretty handwriting.\n-Yeah. You're still not getting a pen.\nGive one to Patti, our speakers.\nTony -You got a pen.\n-Can I give this one to a non-speaker?\n-I'm a speaker. Yeah. -Well, no, Nakita.\nI gave it to you, though. I did give it to you.\n-Thank you. -I'll get it back.\nI'll see if there any questions from the press.\nAll right.\nAre there any questions before we take some more pictures?\nYes.\n-From a young person who lives in the University district.\n-Yes.\n-A reporter for the Seattle Gay News.\nDo you have any recommendations for\nhow we can make an impact online?\nAnd it's busy every single day, right?\nWe all have busy lives.\nBut what can we do\nthat you would do just maybe a little bit every day,\neven just something to think about\nto really make a difference\nand try to make Seattle more welcoming in the every day?\n-Yeah.\nAnd I really appreciate that question\nbecause we have to remind ourselves\nthat some of the greatest political movements\nin this country were done by the youth.\nYou look at them. They weren't old like me.\nThey were in their 20s, sometimes their teens.\nSo organizing, being part of this community here,\nbeing loud, giving us information.\nSometimes the street talk\nwhen we're trying to go after bad actors,\njust being part of what we're trying to do politically.\nAnd, again,\nas I said here in this particular community\nup on Capitol Hill, this is your community as well.\nAnd even though at the University district\nyou're geographically somewhat further away,\nthis is your community as well.\nSo coming together.\nWork with -- we have some great -- we have,\nI think -- I don't sometimes brag about this.\nBut we have, I think,\none of the strongest community based organizations\nin the country right here in Capitol Hill.\nSo being part of that would be phenomenal as well.\nAnd our LGBTQ Commission is, bar none, one of the best.\nAnd I talk to mayors all the time about that.\nSo we have an infrastructure for you to join in and,\nagain, be louder.\nThank you for the question.\nYes, sir.\n-Do you think this puts a target on Seattle's\nback from the Trump administration?\n-I don't know.\nIs there something -- with this community,\nwe are prepared to fight in an unprecedented way.\nWe are already a target.\nPeople here, they've been targets their whole life.\nWe're not afraid to be a target.\nBut I don't like the term being a target\nbecause that assumes someone's pointing at you,\nand you're losing the ability to proactively do\nsomething instead of running. We're not going to run.\nWe're not going to stand still like a target.\nWe're going to fight. So I'm not worried about that\nbecause I have this community\nand this greater Seattle community behind this 100%.\nYes, ma'am. -Hi. Jillian from KIRO Radio.\nI've heard get loud.\nI've heard lots of calls to action.\nAnd this may be a question from Mr. Mayor\nor maybe some people with a center or YouthCare.\nWhat do you want people to do?\nWhat are you --\nwhat calls to action are you asking people\nto take in their everyday lives?\nAnd for the people\nwho have addressed institutions and businesses\nthat maybe have backpedaled on things like DEI\nand other protections, what do you want them to do?\nThat was a broad question.\nInterpret it as you will.\n-Great question.\nI would take a little prerogative here\nto say maybe Patti you could talk about I think\nwhy this particular pride parade is going to be\nso special in terms of what you're doing.\nMaybe Nakita could hum a few bars about the information\nyou're getting, what you want to do with it.\nSo I'd like to relinquish,\nif I may, up to Patti and Nakita.\nIs that a possibility?\n-Yeah.\nVery appreciative for that question.\nThe first thing that people can do\nis start speaking up in their like, communities,\nin their neighborhoods, to their neighbors,\nto the person across the street or at the other dinner table.\nWhen you hear bigotry,\nwhen you hear hate, to interrupt it,\nto let the people around you know that you are a person\nthat they can come to,\nthat you are a safe person and safe place,\nto be more involved in your local organizations.\nThis is only a handful of the resources\nand the people that are here really willing\nand ready to fight for our community.\nSo find where we are. Find those people.\nProvide those resources.\nIf you have the money, money is really important right now.\nOur funds are being taken away from us.\nThey're being threatened.\nSo any amount that we are able to provide\nor give is so much appreciated.\nThere is so much that individuals can do,\nespecially when it comes to all of the different organizations\nthat are pulling back their resources\nand their DEI initiatives.\nShow them what the consequences of that are.\nRefuse to work with them. Refuse to speak on their behalf.\nFind other organizations, other places\nto give your resources and your time and support to.\nLet them know that that's not something\nthat you will stand with.\nBe the annoying person on the phone calling every day.\nThese are things that are easy\nthat we can do in our day-to-day lives.\nSo thank you. -Thanks, Nakita.\n-Nakita said so many things I would say.\nBut, as you heard, I was an educator for a long time.\nAnd in those spaces we talk about bullying, right,\nand that how important it is to interrupt\nthat bullying immediately at the personal level\nwith love and care and support\nso that people can stop doing it.\nAnd that's how we deal with children.\nAnd the things that we're seeing\nare just like that bullying, right?\nSo I think that same thing\nthat Nakita was saying about interrupting it\nimmediately is absolutely necessary,\nand every single person is able to do that.\nI think the other things that I would echo\nare absolutely your -- you vote with your dollars.\nIt's the biggest power so many of us have.\nSo think about where you're spending that money.\nThink about where you're donating that money.\nGive it to the causes that need it\nand that are doing good work with it.\nI think make the phone calls, do all the things,\nshow up where you need to show up.\nBut most of the time we're showing up,\nand we're having the biggest effect at the people --\nwith the people who are closest to us.\nSo just think about how you're showing up with those folks.\nThat's what I've got.\nAnd then, of course,\nlike, the big visible support is the -- is June and the parade.\nAnd absolutely come and cheer and rainbow\nexplosion all the way.\nWe're in for that. Thanks. Yeah.\n-Thank you, Patti. Thank you, Nakita.\nThank you, community, for standing up once again.\nWe're going to be standing together a lot this year.\nAs I said, we're going to show this country\nhow we get down here in Seattle.\nThank you very, very much. Everyone make it a great Monday.\nThank you.",
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"text": "take this moment as an opportunity to be loud",
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"text": "and to everyone who have fought so hard to pass this ordinance.",
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"text": "This ordinance takes the first step in protecting our rights",
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"text": "So thank you again all so much for being here in our space",
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"text": "and for showing your support time and time again.",
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"text": "And I am excited to hand it back off to Mayor Harrell.",
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"text": "So thank you all.",
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"text": "-Thank you, Jessica.",
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"text": "I told Jessica to pass the bowl around for donations after.",
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"text": "We always try and raise money. Thank you, Jessica, very much.",
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"text": "A few thank yous before I get into the substance",
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"text": "of what I'd like to say,",
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"text": "I want to thank -- she doesn't -- Jessica doesn't know this,",
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"text": "but Jessica McHegg is standing with us.",
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"text": "She's an employee",
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"text": "at the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspection",
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"text": "who wrote my office about the dehumanizing impact",
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"text": "that, quite honestly, Nakita spoke eloquently about.",
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"text": "And she's here with her wife, Karen.",
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"text": "And I sometimes say,",
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"text": "where do you find inspiration to do whatever you do?",
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"text": "Where do you find it?",
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"text": "Sometimes it could be a song, a poem, a speech.",
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"text": "And it was your email to our office",
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"text": "that inspired many of us to,",
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"text": "as you say, the theme for this year's pride parade is loud.",
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"text": "Be loud. Be loud. Be loud. Be committed.",
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"text": "So I want to also thank",
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"text": "that we have council president Sarah Nelson here",
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"text": "and council members Solomon and -- why are you standing behind?",
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"text": "Joe, you -- politicians,",
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"text": "you've got to be where everyone could see you.",
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"text": "Hollingsworth here.",
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"text": "You've got to be -- used to be right here.",
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"text": "I want to thank in addition",
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"text": "to Jessica the Seattle LGBTQ Commission,",
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"text": "and for their tireless advocacy for a more inclusive city.",
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"text": "They are doing above and beyond what they get paid to do.",
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"text": "They don't get paid anything as commissioner,",
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"text": "but we're going to double that. We're going to double that.",
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"text": "-I'm holding you to that.",
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"text": "they do this because it's a -- it's a passion.",
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"text": "I want to ground us in a quote.",
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"text": "It is not our differences that divide us.",
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"text": "It's Audrey Lord, an American author and activist",
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"text": "as a Black lesbian mother warrior and poet.",
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"text": "Transgender Day of Visibility",
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"text": "to sign this important piece of legislation.",
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"text": "Again, as Nakita stated, this is a city",
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"text": "And I will address why this is so critical.",
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"text": "We all know what we saw last week in the University district,",
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"text": "a heinous,",
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"text": "extremely disturbing crime against a transgender human",
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"text": "being that, to some extent,",
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"text": "is a sign of what we're dealing with right now.",
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"text": "I'm glad that our police department made a quick arrest,",
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"text": "and we're still looking for more people capable",
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"text": "But I have to say this, that that's a physical altercation.",
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"index": 167,
"text": "-That's right.",
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"text": "-And that's what this codifying the Shield Law",
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"text": "into our municipal code is intended to do.",
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"text": "Not just embrace. We love. That is part of our DNA here.",
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"index": 177,
"text": "-Thank you.",
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"text": "-The egregious attempts from the Trump administration",
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"text": "to target and dehumanize LGBTQ+ people,",
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"text": "using a lot of your speech in my speech, by the way.",
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"text": "Well, I'm surprised too.",
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"text": "-That's right. -Speaker 2: Absolutely.",
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"text": "that which we believe in,",
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"text": "in almost an unprecedented level of intensity.",
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"text": "Maybe we have been asleep at the wheel a little bit.",
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"text": "Not this year. -That's right.",
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"text": "when they come here.",
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"text": "And got the President here was nodding her head.",
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"text": "So together we are going to be loud.",
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"text": "And during our great pride parade --",
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"text": "and you're going to hear from Patti;",
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"text": "think it's our last speaker -- we're going to be loud,",
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"text": "and we're going to show this country",
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"text": "how we get down here in Seattle.",
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"text": "All right. All right.",
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"text": "Next, you're going to hear from Kody Allen,",
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"text": "the cochair of the Seattle LGBTQ commission,",
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"text": "who makes a grand salary in this position of zero",
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"text": "with this leadership,",
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"text": "which means Kody does it because it's the right thing to do.",
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"text": "Kody is a social worker for YouthCare,",
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"text": "which celebrate --",
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"text": "just celebrated the ground breaking in",
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"text": "the Constellation Center last week here in Capitol Hill.",
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"text": "And I was so proud to be a part of that.",
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"text": "Kody's passionate about making a positive difference,",
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"text": "difference in the lives of LGBTQ youth and marginalized groups",
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"text": "and very grateful to have Kody's service to our city.",
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"text": "Kody Allen. -Thank you, Mayor.",
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"text": "And good morning, everyone.",
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"text": "who are fighting every day to survive,",
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"text": "to be seen, and to be safe.",
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"text": "I'm also speaking from the space of being a program manager",
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"text": "It's called Isis, I-S-I-S, transitional living facility.",
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"text": "But lately what I've been seeing",
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"text": "about simply existing as themselves in public safely.",
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"text": "Every day they ask me, Is it getting worse?",
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"text": "the answer feels a little bit more like hope.",
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"text": "This ordinance passed by the Seattle City Council",
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"text": "ensuring that we are a welcoming city in more than just name.",
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"text": "This is not just policy. This is life-saving.",
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"text": "are under attack across this country.",
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"text": "For the first time in a long time, we're nearly full.",
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"text": "That tells me something.",
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"text": "We are showing up, and we are not backing down.",
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"text": "Knowing that the City of Seattle, our council members,",
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"text": "in that fight has reinvigorated the Commission in a way",
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"text": "And I can promise you that we are just getting started.",
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"text": "but it is not the final step.",
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"text": "because I work with the future every single day.",
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"text": "And so I want to say again thank you to Mayor and City Council",
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"text": "I know that the Commission stands behind you,",
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"text": "and this step has really reinvigorated us",
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"text": "to continue moving forward.",
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"text": "So thank you. -Thank you, Kody.",
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"text": "Thank you very much.",
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"text": "Our next speaker will be Patti Hearn.",
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"text": "of Lake Washington Girls Middle School --",
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"text": "I shared a little information about that earlier --",
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"text": "nonconforming youth in our city.",
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"text": "Welcome, Patti Hearn.",
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"index": 334,
"text": "-Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Mayor Harrell.",
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"text": "My name is Patti Hearn, she/her pronouns.",
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"text": "And I have the honor now of serving",
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"text": "as the executive director of Seattle Pride.",
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"text": "Today, I'm really excited to be here in community with you all",
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"text": "as we take this important step forward together.",
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"text": "And, you know, I think this ordinance speaks",
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"text": "to so many of us because whether you grew up here",
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"text": "The sad reality is we shouldn't need a haven.",
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"text": "for 2025 is louder, we mean a lot of things by that.",
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"text": "as you have heard from everyone here today.",
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"text": "all this year in 2025, as Mayor Harrell said.",
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"index": 378,
"text": "-Thank you very much, Patti.",
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"index": 380,
"text": "pass out some pens --",
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"text": "Boston, New York -- and what am I missing?",
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"text": "Chicago -- being a welcoming city.",
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"text": "Clearly we are on that list.",
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"text": "So sorry I'm a little -- I'm not on my A game this morning.",
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"index": 394,
"text": "It's Monday. Okay. Thanks, Jessica.",
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"text": "see, I could go all the way if I want because we're proud.",
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"text": "as politicians, we follow your lead.",
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"text": "We have to be humble enough to accept that.",
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"text": "Okay. I'm getting too serious now.",
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"text": "So, having said that, the fight continues.",
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"text": "I'm going to give it -- how many pins do I have?",
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"text": "We are on our way. Thank you very much.",
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"index": 426,
"text": "We'll do some questions after.",
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"text": "-I didn't know you had such pretty handwriting.",
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"index": 428,
"text": "-Yeah. You're still not getting a pen.",
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"text": "Give one to Patti, our speakers.",
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"text": "Tony -You got a pen.",
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"index": 431,
"text": "-Can I give this one to a non-speaker?",
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"text": "-I'm a speaker. Yeah. -Well, no, Nakita.",
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"text": "-Thank you. -I'll get it back.",
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"text": "again, be louder.",
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Good morning, everybody.\nThank you for being here on what will be\nand is a very exciting announcement and celebration.\nI'm only going to introduce --\nwe have several stars that are going to speak,\nand I'm not referring to myself.\nThe first star will be Nakita Venus,\nthe executive director of Seattle's LGBTQ Center.\nThank you for welcoming us to your home\nwhere all the action happens for our advocacy.\nMany of you know Nakita has extensive experience\nin community advocacy\nand organizational leadership and community engagement\nand is truly committed to this fight\nthat we're all in together.\nAnd so I'll take it over after Nakita.\nBut, Nakita, welcome us -- welcome us to your house.\n-First off, thank you so much, Mayor Harrell,\nfor that introduction,\nand thank you to everyone here\ntoday for joining us at Seattle's LGBTQ+ Center.\nAnd I am honored to welcome you all here today\nand joining us in our space and the place we like to call home.\nThe Center has been supporting local 2SLGBTQIA+ community\nfor 30 years now.\nWe are lucky to be located in Capitol Hill\nwith a lush legacy of queer and trans\nactivists who made the city what it is\nand continue to be a place of belonging for so many of us.\nThe Center started with individuals providing\nHIV testing at the height of the AIDS epidemic\nwhen our government would not.\nWe expanded our services and reach to what you see today,\na community center and clinic\nwith over 12 programs dedicated to centering the needs\nof our most marginalized, namely,\ntrans Black and Brown adults and youth.\nAnd, over the next 30 years,\nwe will continue to grow in our services,\nmeeting the needs of more unhoused folks,\nmore sex workers, more trans people.\nThis ordinance signifies that our work\nand the work of so many others is supported\nand to be protected by our local government.\nWhile I am not surprised by the continued\nwidespread political attacks on our queer and trans community,\nI am anxious, angry, and tired.\nI am tired that our community has to be this resilient,\nthis consistently for this long. But we are,\nand we will continue to make it through all this next set\nof challenges the way we always have,\nby being in community with one another.\nWe know our queerness and our transness\ndeserves to be honored and celebrated.\nWe know our joy is beautiful.\nAnd we know our rights are worth defending.\nIn contrast,\nI am surprised by the local institutions\nthat have stepped back in their commitments\nto protecting and serving our communities out\nof fear of repercussions.\nThe reality is that we need people to fight\nfor this healthcare.\nI hope that those who claim to be our allies\ntake this moment as an opportunity to be loud\nin their support for queer and trans people\nand be courageous in their actions to fight\nfor this life-saving,\ngender-affirming healthcare and reproductive healthcare,\nsignaling to not only those who live here\nbut those who are in need of a safer place\nto call home or services\nthat this city,\nthat Seattle has a robust community ready\nand waiting to serve them.\nFor this reason, I am thankful to the City of Seattle,\nto the mayor's office,\nand to everyone who have fought so hard to pass this ordinance.\nThis ordinance takes the first step in protecting our rights\nand protecting the healthcare providers\nwho worked tirelessly to ensure\nthat everyone has access to reproductive services\nand gender-affirming care.\nSo thank you again all so much for being here in our space\nand in our home\nand for showing your support time and time again.\nAnd I am excited to hand it back off to Mayor Harrell.\nSo thank you all.\n-Thank you, Jessica.\nI told Jessica to pass the bowl around for donations after.\nWe always try and raise money. Thank you, Jessica, very much.\nA few thank yous before I get into the substance\nof what I'd like to say,\nI want to thank -- she doesn't -- Jessica doesn't know this,\nbut Jessica McHegg is standing with us.\nShe's an employee\nat the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspection\nwho wrote my office about the dehumanizing impact\nof federal action as a transgender woman that --\nthat, quite honestly, Nakita spoke eloquently about.\nAnd she's here with her wife, Karen.\nAnd I sometimes say,\nwhere do you find inspiration to do whatever you do?\nWhere do you find it?\nSometimes it could be a song, a poem, a speech.\nAnd it was your email to our office\nthat inspired many of us to,\nas you say, the theme for this year's pride parade is loud.\nBe loud. Be loud. Be loud. Be committed.\nSo I want to also thank\nthat we have council president Sarah Nelson here\nand council members Solomon and -- why are you standing behind?\nJoe, you -- politicians,\nyou've got to be where everyone could see you.\nHollingsworth here.\nYou've got to be -- used to be right here.\nAnd we have one-third of the Council here,\nso I don't think we're breaking the OPMA quite, quite yet.\nI want to thank in addition\nto Jessica the Seattle LGBTQ Commission,\nwhose members collaborated with our office\nclearly on this bill\nand for their tireless advocacy for a more inclusive city.\nThey are doing above and beyond what they get paid to do.\nThey don't get paid anything as commissioner,\nbut we're going to double that. We're going to double that.\n-I'm holding you to that.\n-But, in all seriousness,\nthey do this because it's a -- it's a passion.\nIt's a love.\nIt's the -- it demonstrates their commitment.\nAnd, of course,\nI want to thank again everyone associated\nwith the LGBTQ Center, formerly known as Gay City,\nfor hosting us today and for building joy and resilience\nin Seattle's LGBTQ community for I believe over 30 years now.\nI want to ground us in a quote.\nIt is not our differences that divide us.\nIt is our inability to recognize, accept,\nand celebrate those differences.\nIt's Audrey Lord, an American author and activist\nwho was self-described\nas a Black lesbian mother warrior and poet.\nSo we're very proud to be here on the Trans Day,\nTransgender Day of Visibility\nto sign this important piece of legislation.\nAgain, as Nakita stated, this is a city\nwhere diversity is celebrated and not just accepted\nbut embraced and protected.\nAnd I will address why this is so critical.\nWe all know what we saw last week in the University district,\na heinous,\nextremely disturbing crime against a transgender human\nbeing that, to some extent,\nis a sign of what we're dealing with right now.\nI'm glad that our police department made a quick arrest,\nand we're still looking for more people capable\nof inflicting such pain and joy and pain and -- pain and hurt.\nBut I have to say this, that that's a physical altercation.\nThat's -- that's violence.\nAnd sometimes the pain inflicted on individuals\nis not seen with a scar.\nIt's seen with the emotional wear and tear on a human being.\nAnd so, when we talk about accepting\nand embracing members of a community,\nwe have to talk about protecting, as well.\n-That's right.\n-And that's what this codifying the Shield Law\ninto our municipal code is intended to do.\nWe will make it clear\nthat we will protect people seeking gender-affirming\nand reproductive care in our city\nfrom prosecution and arrest.\nWe do not hide the fact --\nWe do not hide the fact that we love our LGBTQ community.\nNot just embrace. We love. That is part of our DNA here.\n-Thank you.\n-The egregious attempts from the Trump administration\nto target and dehumanize LGBTQ+ people,\nparticularly transgender people,\nthere seem to almost be proud of this hate.\nAnd I think Nakita said --\nusing a lot of your speech in my speech, by the way.\nIt wasn't in my notes.\nShe's -- Nakita said they're surprised\nwhen some corporations take suit and act based on this fear.\nWell, I'm surprised too.\nAnd I'm angered. We will be loud.\nThis is our opportunity.\nAnd so I just want to be crystal clear that LGBTQ+ people\nand anyone seeking --\nseeking protected healthcare services\ndeserve to be treated safely with dignity and respect.\nAnd here in Seattle,\nat least, we will not accept anything less.\n-That's right. -Speaker 2: Absolutely.\n-I'm sort of seasoned in this young group of people here,\nolder. I call it seasoned.\nBut I'll tell you that some of what we see now,\nI don't know what to compare it to.\nAnd what I have to tell people in many demographics is this.\n2025 has to be our year. We have to look at this\nas an opportunity to sometimes articulate\nthat which we believe in,\nin almost an unprecedented level of intensity.\nMaybe we have been asleep at the wheel a little bit.\nMaybe we have taken certain rights and\nprotections for granted.\nNot this year. -That's right.\n-So this legislation --\nand I again stand proudly with at least three members\nof the Council,\nbut I know they represent all nine members\nwhen they come here.\nAnd got the President here was nodding her head.\nSo together we are going to be loud.\nAnd during our great pride parade --\nand you're going to hear from Patti;\nthink it's our last speaker -- we're going to be loud,\nand we're going to show this country\nhow we get down here in Seattle.\nAll right. All right.\nNext, you're going to hear from Kody Allen,\nthe cochair of the Seattle LGBTQ commission,\nwho makes a grand salary in this position of zero\nwith this leadership,\nwhich means Kody does it because it's the right thing to do.\nKody is a social worker for YouthCare,\nwhich celebrate --\njust celebrated the ground breaking in\nthe Constellation Center last week here in Capitol Hill.\nAnd I was so proud to be a part of that.\nKody's passionate about making a positive difference,\ndifference in the lives of LGBTQ youth and marginalized groups\nand very grateful to have Kody's service to our city.\nKody Allen. -Thank you, Mayor.\nAnd good morning, everyone.\nI'm honored to be here this morning as one\nof the cochairs of the Seattle LGBTQ Commission\nand as someone who's had the privilege of working\nalongside so many in our community\nwho are fighting every day to survive,\nto be seen, and to be safe.\nI'm also speaking from the space of being a program manager\nfor a young adult LGBTQ shelter here in Seattle at YouthCare.\nIt's called Isis, I-S-I-S, transitional living facility.\nIt's a place that should be a haven, a space\nwhere our people can catch their breath.\nBut lately what I've been seeing\nand hearing from our clients is fear.\nIt is panic.\nIt is a growing sense that their future,\nour future is being stripped away piece by piece.\nYoung people come to us terrified about their safety,\nabout access to healthcare,\nabout simply existing as themselves in public safely.\nEvery day they ask me, Is it getting worse?\nAnd a lot of days the answer feels like yes.\nBut today, here,\nthe answer feels a little bit more like hope.\nThis ordinance passed by the Seattle City Council\nprotects access to gender-affirming\nand reproductive care,\nensuring that we are a welcoming city in more than just name.\nThis is not just policy. This is life-saving.\nThis is dignity.\nThis is giving power back to the people\nwho have felt powerless for far too long.\nThis tells our community that you belong here.\nWe will fight for you, and you are not alone.\nToday, Seattle is taking a stand,\nnot just for the queer people in the city\nbut for everyone whose rights and identities\nare under attack across this country.\nAnd we are doing it together, and that matters.\nI want to take a moment to talk about the commission itself.\nFor the first time in a long time, we're nearly full.\nOur seats are filling with passionate,\nbrilliant queer folks and allies,\npeople who are stepping up, ready to serve,\nready to organize, ready to fight.\nThat tells me something.\nThat tells me that our community is ready.\nWe're done sitting down on the sidelines\nwhile our rights are debated.\nWe are showing up, and we are not backing down.\nKnowing that the City of Seattle, our council members,\nour mayor is willing to stand beside us\nin that fight has reinvigorated the Commission in a way\nthat I haven't seen before.\nThere's energy again. There's momentum.\nAnd, most importantly, there's partnership.\nI want to recognize council member Rinck in particular\nfor meeting with the Commission, for listening,\nfor engaging with us\nin meaningful conversation about what this bill means\nand what it makes possible.\nThe Commission is proud to stand in this moment,\nnot just as witnesses to this progress but as collaborators.\nAnd I can promise you that we are just getting started.\nThis ordinance is a huge step in the right direction,\nbut it is not the final step.\nOur hope is that this is the beginning of something bigger,\nthat this is the start of a new era of collaboration\nwhere the city and the community stand side by side against hate,\ntransphobia, homophobia, and all forms of oppression;\nthat it reminds us\nthat there is still a future worth fighting for\nbecause I work with the future every single day.\nAnd let me tell you.\nIt is bright, it is powerful, and it is queer.\nWe are not going anywhere.\nWe are valid. We matter.\nAnd we deserve to live, to thrive, and to be free.\nAnd so I want to say again thank you to Mayor and City Council\nfor this vital step forward.\nI know that the Commission stands behind you,\nand this step has really reinvigorated us\nto continue moving forward.\nSo thank you. -Thank you, Kody.\nThank you very much.\nOur next speaker will be Patti Hearn.\nJust by way of background, many of you know, of course,\nPatti is the executive director of Seattle Pride since 2023.\nShe's lived here in Seattle for over 30 years\nand indeed a leader in the LGTBQ community,\npassionate about education,\nformerly the founding head\nof Lake Washington Girls Middle School --\nI shared a little information about that earlier --\nself-welcoming environment for girls and gender\nnonconforming youth in our city.\nWelcome, Patti Hearn.\n-Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Mayor Harrell.\nMy name is Patti Hearn, she/her pronouns.\nAnd I have the honor now of serving\nas the executive director of Seattle Pride.\nToday, I'm really excited to be here in community with you all\nas we take this important step forward together.\nAnd, you know, I think this ordinance speaks\nto so many of us because whether you grew up here\nor you lived here for a long time, fled here,\nas I did, over 30 years ago,\nSeattle is a haven for so many queer and trans people.\nThe sad reality is we shouldn't need a haven.\nWe shouldn't need a shield.\nBut the reality is that our rights are under attack,\ncoordinated attack across the country.\nAnd we must defend those rights,\nand we must defend our communities.\nIt's particularly notable as we honor Trans Day of Visibility\nand we honor all of the leaders who paved the way\nfor us to be here, made it possible for us to be here,\nwho continue to lead today\nand who are facing attacks on their very existence.\nAnd, you know, they need dignity,\nand everyone needs dignity without condition\nand without question.\nAnd that's what this ordinance is about.\nVisibility matters.\nBut, more than visibility,\nwe need protection, affirmation, action, and advocacy.\nThose must follow.\nAnd, as you heard the theme for Seattle Pride\nfor 2025 is louder, we mean a lot of things by that.\nOne of the things we mean is that we cannot afford\nto be quiet, and we cannot afford to stand by.\nWe cannot afford to wait and see.\nWe will not be silenced. We will stand up.\nWe will speak up, and we will fight back.\nAnd we will do it with love and joy and community\nand solidarity,\nas you have heard from everyone here today.\nAnd so I'm looking forward to getting loud with you\nall this year in 2025, as Mayor Harrell said.\nAnd I'm grateful to all of you who made this day possible.\nThanks. -Go, Patti.\n-Thank you very much, Patti.\nSo, in closing -- and we're going to sign some legislation,\npass out some pens --\nI was recently asked a few weeks ago\nabout being a welcoming city.\nAnd many of you might have seen the mayors Johnston and Johnson\nand Adams and Wu speak in DC.\nThey were summoned into DC to defend their status of Denver,\nBoston, New York -- and what am I missing?\nChicago -- being a welcoming city.\nClearly we are on that list.\nBut I, in talking to folks,\nsaid it's important to mean what you mean by that welcoming.\nAnd, when we looked at the LG -- you know,\nI haven't had a day off in 21 days.\nSo sorry I'm a little -- I'm not on my A game this morning.\nIt's Monday. Okay. Thanks, Jessica.\nI'll take it, I'll take it.\nWhen I said in reference to this legislation\nof course we welcome everyone, our LGTBQIA+ --\nsee, I could go all the way if I want because we're proud.\nIt goes beyond just welcoming.\nThis is who we are. So we're not going to back down.\nWe will be louder, Patti, because, again,\nthis country is starving for leadership on this issue.\nIt's incredible what we're seeing right now.\nWe will fight together. We will be louder.\nWe will keep this. We are playing the long game.\nAnd, when we see this hate\nthat we saw in the University district,\nthat reminds us that it's not just hugging one another;\nit's protecting as well.\nSo with the City Council's leadership;\nwith my administration;\nbut, most importantly, with this community we are following --\nas politicians, we follow your lead.\nMake no mistake about that.\nYou are leading the way.\nWe have to be humble enough to accept that.\nOkay. I'm getting too serious now.\nSo, having said that, the fight continues.\nI'm going to sign this legislation.\nI'm going to give it -- how many pins do I have?\nUh-oh.\nI'm going to give it to the four closest people\nstanding next to me when they get it.\nAnd we are on our way, Seattle.\nWe are on our way. Thank you very much.\nWe'll do some questions after.\n-I didn't know you had such pretty handwriting.\n-Yeah. You're still not getting a pen.\nGive one to Patti, our speakers.\nTony -You got a pen.\n-Can I give this one to a non-speaker?\n-I'm a speaker. Yeah. -Well, no, Nakita.\nI gave it to you, though. I did give it to you.\n-Thank you. -I'll get it back.\nI'll see if there any questions from the press.\nAll right.\nAre there any questions before we take some more pictures?\nYes.\n-From a young person who lives in the University district.\n-Yes.\n-A reporter for the Seattle Gay News.\nDo you have any recommendations for\nhow we can make an impact online?\nAnd it's busy every single day, right?\nWe all have busy lives.\nBut what can we do\nthat you would do just maybe a little bit every day,\neven just something to think about\nto really make a difference\nand try to make Seattle more welcoming in the every day?\n-Yeah.\nAnd I really appreciate that question\nbecause we have to remind ourselves\nthat some of the greatest political movements\nin this country were done by the youth.\nYou look at them. They weren't old like me.\nThey were in their 20s, sometimes their teens.\nSo organizing, being part of this community here,\nbeing loud, giving us information.\nSometimes the street talk\nwhen we're trying to go after bad actors,\njust being part of what we're trying to do politically.\nAnd, again,\nas I said here in this particular community\nup on Capitol Hill, this is your community as well.\nAnd even though at the University district\nyou're geographically somewhat further away,\nthis is your community as well.\nSo coming together.\nWork with -- we have some great -- we have,\nI think -- I don't sometimes brag about this.\nBut we have, I think,\none of the strongest community based organizations\nin the country right here in Capitol Hill.\nSo being part of that would be phenomenal as well.\nAnd our LGBTQ Commission is, bar none, one of the best.\nAnd I talk to mayors all the time about that.\nSo we have an infrastructure for you to join in and,\nagain, be louder.\nThank you for the question.\nYes, sir.\n-Do you think this puts a target on Seattle's\nback from the Trump administration?\n-I don't know.\nIs there something -- with this community,\nwe are prepared to fight in an unprecedented way.\nWe are already a target.\nPeople here, they've been targets their whole life.\nWe're not afraid to be a target.\nBut I don't like the term being a target\nbecause that assumes someone's pointing at you,\nand you're losing the ability to proactively do\nsomething instead of running. We're not going to run.\nWe're not going to stand still like a target.\nWe're going to fight. So I'm not worried about that\nbecause I have this community\nand this greater Seattle community behind this 100%.\nYes, ma'am. -Hi. Jillian from KIRO Radio.\nI've heard get loud.\nI've heard lots of calls to action.\nAnd this may be a question from Mr. Mayor\nor maybe some people with a center or YouthCare.\nWhat do you want people to do?\nWhat are you --\nwhat calls to action are you asking people\nto take in their everyday lives?\nAnd for the people\nwho have addressed institutions and businesses\nthat maybe have backpedaled on things like DEI\nand other protections, what do you want them to do?\nThat was a broad question.\nInterpret it as you will.\n-Great question.\nI would take a little prerogative here\nto say maybe Patti you could talk about I think\nwhy this particular pride parade is going to be\nso special in terms of what you're doing.\nMaybe Nakita could hum a few bars about the information\nyou're getting, what you want to do with it.\nSo I'd like to relinquish,\nif I may, up to Patti and Nakita.\nIs that a possibility?\n-Yeah.\nVery appreciative for that question.\nThe first thing that people can do\nis start speaking up in their like, communities,\nin their neighborhoods, to their neighbors,\nto the person across the street or at the other dinner table.\nWhen you hear bigotry,\nwhen you hear hate, to interrupt it,\nto let the people around you know that you are a person\nthat they can come to,\nthat you are a safe person and safe place,\nto be more involved in your local organizations.\nThis is only a handful of the resources\nand the people that are here really willing\nand ready to fight for our community.\nSo find where we are. Find those people.\nProvide those resources.\nIf you have the money, money is really important right now.\nOur funds are being taken away from us.\nThey're being threatened.\nSo any amount that we are able to provide\nor give is so much appreciated.\nThere is so much that individuals can do,\nespecially when it comes to all of the different organizations\nthat are pulling back their resources\nand their DEI initiatives.\nShow them what the consequences of that are.\nRefuse to work with them. Refuse to speak on their behalf.\nFind other organizations, other places\nto give your resources and your time and support to.\nLet them know that that's not something\nthat you will stand with.\nBe the annoying person on the phone calling every day.\nThese are things that are easy\nthat we can do in our day-to-day lives.\nSo thank you. -Thanks, Nakita.\n-Nakita said so many things I would say.\nBut, as you heard, I was an educator for a long time.\nAnd in those spaces we talk about bullying, right,\nand that how important it is to interrupt\nthat bullying immediately at the personal level\nwith love and care and support\nso that people can stop doing it.\nAnd that's how we deal with children.\nAnd the things that we're seeing\nare just like that bullying, right?\nSo I think that same thing\nthat Nakita was saying about interrupting it\nimmediately is absolutely necessary,\nand every single person is able to do that.\nI think the other things that I would echo\nare absolutely your -- you vote with your dollars.\nIt's the biggest power so many of us have.\nSo think about where you're spending that money.\nThink about where you're donating that money.\nGive it to the causes that need it\nand that are doing good work with it.\nI think make the phone calls, do all the things,\nshow up where you need to show up.\nBut most of the time we're showing up,\nand we're having the biggest effect at the people --\nwith the people who are closest to us.\nSo just think about how you're showing up with those folks.\nThat's what I've got.\nAnd then, of course,\nlike, the big visible support is the -- is June and the parade.\nAnd absolutely come and cheer and rainbow\nexplosion all the way.\nWe're in for that. Thanks. Yeah.\n-Thank you, Patti. Thank you, Nakita.\nThank you, community, for standing up once again.\nWe're going to be standing together a lot this year.\nAs I said, we're going to show this country\nhow we get down here in Seattle.\nThank you very, very much. Everyone make it a great Monday.\nThank you."
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