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GENERAL MEMBER MEETING December 9, 2020 Being Produced Remotely
A G E N D A A. Standing Items (25 mins) a. Welcome & Check In i. Called to Order at: ii. Welcome: iii. In Attendance:
b. Appointment of Timekeeper, Vibe Watcher & Stack Monitor i. Timekeeper: ii. Vibe Watcher: iii. Stack Monitor:
c. Read Mission Statement & Financial Protocol i. Mission Statement read by: ii. Financial Protocol read by:
d. Committee Reports
B. Formal Business (45 mins)
a. Special Presentation (30 mins) — Presentation from former SF Pride Board member Amy
Sueyoshi on her work co-curating “Labor of Love: The Birth of San Francisco Pride, 1970-80”
at the GLBT Historical Society. Amy has graciously offered to give us an understanding of what
she discovered about our organization’s first decade and, following the exhibition’s own narrative,
how SF Pride in its earliest phase “deployed both frivolity and protest to promote a positive
cultural shift in how society views LGBTQ people.”
b. Open Discussion (15 mins)
C. Public Comment (10 mins, limit to 1 comment per person, 5 comments total)
D. In Memoriam (5 mins)
E. Adjournment
Estimated Time: 55 minutes
Next Meeting: January 13th, 2021, Member Meeting
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Mission Statement
The mission of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration Committee
is to educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and liberate our people.
Financial Protocol No expenditure can be incurred without going through the Executive Director in advance. This includes reimbursement of expenses outside of the set guidelines. If you expect to have an expenditure, prior approval must be sought from the Executive Director as soon as possible. Procedures exist and checks and balances are in place to ensure that all expenditures go through a proper approval process with the Board. All expenditures are accounted for during the annual budgeting and audit process.
Public Comment
The public comment portion of the meeting is an opportunity for those with no say in the formulation
of the agenda (i.e. those who are not members) to speak during the meeting. Public comment is offered in a spirit of open
communication and the organization being receptive to new ideas and constructive suggestions. The Chair of the meeting
may adopt a flexible approach in allowing public comment but
will not tolerate personal attacks and/or indecorous behavior.
Meeting Behavior Policy
Applying to anyone and everyone who attends meetings of the Corporation, this policy is designed to give guidance to those attendi
meetings of the Corporation as to what standards of behavior are required and
what is unacceptable.
In order to conduct its business in a mature and respectful manner it is essential that those attending meetings of the Corporation adhere to the process and do not engage in disruption of the meeting. Behavior should show respect for
If a person or group of persons disrupt a meeting and ignores two warnings given them by the Chair at that meeting, they will be removed by the sergeant-at-arms, for the purpose of being given an opportunity to calm down. Such person or persons may rejoin the meeting later, but if they continue to be disruptive, then upon being given a third warning by the Chair, they will be removed by the sergeant-at-arms from the meeting; not allowed to rejoin the meeting; and have their membership of the Corporation (in the event that they are members) suspended, pending a hearing by the Community Affairs Committee; and possible expulsion as a member.
Anyone present at any meeting shall have the power to call for a three second silence to help calm a
tense situation.
A Sergeant-at-Arms shall be appointed at every meeting, and in default, shall be the Vice President
of the organization.
Amy Sueyoshi is the Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies with
a joint faculty appointment at the rank of Professor in Race and
Resistance Studies and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State
University. They hold a Ph.D. in history from University of California,
Los Angeles and a B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia
University. Amy’s research interests lie primarily at the
intersection of Asian American and queer studies. They have
authored two books, Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation,
and Sexuality in the Intimate Life of Yone Noguchi and
Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the
American “Oriental.” They additionally wrote the section
on API queer history titled “Breathing Fire” for the National
Parks Foundation’s landmark LGBTQ theme study, which
won the Paul E. Buchanan Award from the Vernacular
Architecture Forum. Amy served as a founding co-curator
of the GLBT History Museum, the first queer history museum
in the United States, and also seeded the Dragon Fruit Project,
a community oral history project for API Equality Northern
California, a queer Asian Pacific Islander advocacy group in
San Francisco Chinatown. They have won numerous
community recognitions including the Clio Award
for their work in queer history and the Phoenix
Award for their contribution to the Asian
Pacific Islander queer women and
transgender community. In 2017,
San Francisco Pride honored
Amy as a Community
Grand Marshal.
Spotlight Speaker Series – Amy Sueyoshi, Past SF Board Member
Labor of Love: The Birth of San Francisco Pride, 1970-80
“Labor of Love” showcases how San Francisco in the 1970s forged the internationally renowned
annual celebration that would come to be known as the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Pride Parade.