Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech: Annotated - JSTOR Daily

Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• GAY RIGHTS SPEECHPHIL SNIRON LGBT RIGHTS 1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGAY RIGHTS SPEECH LYRICSSEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY9. COUNCIL BILL 2012-226AUGT 13, 2012[REV. DR. PHIL SNIR]GOOD EVENG, MY NAME IS THE REV. DR. PHIL SNIR. I WAS BORN AND RAISED SPRGFIELD, MISSOURI AND I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENG SUPPORT OF THIS ORDANCE. I WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR CY; ANY ACCURATE READG OF THE BIBLE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT GAY RIGHTS GO AGAST THE PLA TTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, AS ONE PREACHER WARNS MAN, AND OVERSTEPPG THE BOUNDARY L GOD HAS DRAWN BY MAKG SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LBIANS HAS TAKEN ANOTHER STEP THE DIRECTN OF VG THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD UPON OUR LAND. THIS STEP OF GAY RIGHTS IS BUT ANOTHER STEPPG STONE TOWARD THE IMMORALY AND LAWLSNS THAT WOULD BE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LAST DAYS.THIS ORDANCE REPRENTS A NIAL OF ALL THAT WE BELIEVE AND NO ONE SHOULD FORCE ON . IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T RE ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ’S OUR RIGHTS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY. AND UN-CHRISTIAN VIEWS WILL BE FORCED ON AND OUR CHILDREN FOR WE WILL BE FORCED TO GO AGAST OUR PERSONAL MORALS.OUTSI ERNMENT AGENTS ARE ENAVORG TO DISTURB GOD’S TABLISHED ORR THAT IS NOT LE WH THE BIBLE. DO NOT LET PEOPLE LEAD YOU ASTRAY.WHEN YOU N TO NFLICT WH GOD’S TABLISHED ORR YOU HAVE TROUBLE. YOU DO NOT PRODUCE HARMONY. YOU PRODUCE STCTN AND TROUBLE AND OUR CY IS THE GREATT DANGER THAN HAS EVER BEEN S HISTORY.THE REASON IS THAT WE’VE GOTTEN AWAY OM THE BIBLE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. YOU SEE THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN – I’M SORRY – HOLD ON!THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN IS CLEARLY TABLISHED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTUR BOTH BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.(ONE MUTE.)I’M SORRY, I’VE BROUGHT THE WRONG NOT WH ME THIS EVENG. I’VE BORROWED MY ARGUMENT OM THE WRONG CENTURY. IT TURNS OUT WHAT I HAVE BEEN READG TO YOU THIS WHOLE TIME IS DIRECT QUOT OM WHE PREACHERS OM THE 1950′S AND THE 1960′S, ALL SUPPORT OF RACIAL SEGREGATN.ALL I HAVE DONE IS SIMPLY TAKE OUT THE PHRASE "RACIAL SEGREGATN" AND SUBSTUTED WH THE PHRASE "GAY RIGHTS." I GUS THE ARGUMENTS I’VE BEEN HEARG AROUND SPRGFIELD LATELY SOUND SO SIAR TO THE THAT I GOT THEM NFED. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. I HOPE YOU WILL STAND ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. THANK YOU.(ARE THERE ANY QUTNS?)THANK YOU.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌LGBT RIGHTS (2013)LGBT RIGHTS1. THE HOPE SPEECHBRIEF OF AMICI CURAE CHRIS KLUWE AND BRENDON AYANBAJO SUPPORT OF RPONNTSDEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)ROLUTN FOR MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN 2013BRIEF FOR THE UNED STAT AS AMIC CURIAE SUPPORTG RPONNTSPROPOSN 8 (CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE PROTECTN ACT)LAWRENCE V. TEXAS (DISSENT)OPEN LETTER TO EMMETT C. BURNS, JR.MARRIAGE EQUALY/COMG OUT SPEECHHRC AMERINS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALYGAY RIGHTS SPEECHCREDSTAGSNON-MICNEWS EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?
• HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
• GAY RIGHTS SPEECH
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

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More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Are Qutng a Seemgly Fake Document a Recent Gay Rights Case. I want to thank the Human Rights Campaign for vg me to speak and for the work you do every day pursu of equaly on behalf of the lns of people this untry who work hard their jobs and re eply about their fai and who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr. That’s the story of the movement for fairns and equaly, and not jt for those who are gay, but for all those our history who’ve been nied the rights and rponsibili of cizenship.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

It’s the story of an epimic that cimated a muny and the gay men and women who me to support one another and save one another, who ntue to fight this surge, who have monstrated before the world that different kds of fai n show the same passn a time of need.

Ever sce he had felt wh him a new sense of purpose, so when the officer told Jeanne that her son had been arrted, which was happeng often to gay prottors, she was not entirely ught off guard.

Durg a typil “raid, ” police tried to arrt people for their mere prence at a gay bar, but the patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back – and the gay rights movement was lnched. It also clus the rights to form social and polil anizatns, to socialize bars and rtrants, to march or prott peacefully, to produce art wh gay them and to speak out publicly about LGBT issu. This means protectg stunts om vlence, guaranteeg their right to anize events and clubs like other stunts, and makg sure that gay teachers who might serve as healthy role mols are not themselv victimized by discrimatn.

GAY RIGHTS SPEECHPHIL SNIRON LGBT RIGHTS 1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGAY RIGHTS SPEECH LYRICSSEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY9. COUNCIL BILL 2012-226AUGT 13, 2012[REV. DR. PHIL SNIR]GOOD EVENG, MY NAME IS THE REV. DR. PHIL SNIR. I WAS BORN AND RAISED SPRGFIELD, MISSOURI AND I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENG SUPPORT OF THIS ORDANCE. I WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR CY; ANY ACCURATE READG OF THE BIBLE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT GAY RIGHTS GO AGAST THE PLA TTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, AS ONE PREACHER WARNS MAN, AND OVERSTEPPG THE BOUNDARY L GOD HAS DRAWN BY MAKG SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LBIANS HAS TAKEN ANOTHER STEP THE DIRECTN OF VG THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD UPON OUR LAND. THIS STEP OF GAY RIGHTS IS BUT ANOTHER STEPPG STONE TOWARD THE IMMORALY AND LAWLSNS THAT WOULD BE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LAST DAYS.THIS ORDANCE REPRENTS A NIAL OF ALL THAT WE BELIEVE AND NO ONE SHOULD FORCE ON . IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T RE ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ’S OUR RIGHTS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY. AND UN-CHRISTIAN VIEWS WILL BE FORCED ON AND OUR CHILDREN FOR WE WILL BE FORCED TO GO AGAST OUR PERSONAL MORALS.OUTSI ERNMENT AGENTS ARE ENAVORG TO DISTURB GOD’S TABLISHED ORR THAT IS NOT LE WH THE BIBLE. DO NOT LET PEOPLE LEAD YOU ASTRAY.WHEN YOU N TO NFLICT WH GOD’S TABLISHED ORR YOU HAVE TROUBLE. YOU DO NOT PRODUCE HARMONY. YOU PRODUCE STCTN AND TROUBLE AND OUR CY IS THE GREATT DANGER THAN HAS EVER BEEN S HISTORY.THE REASON IS THAT WE’VE GOTTEN AWAY OM THE BIBLE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. YOU SEE THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN – I’M SORRY – HOLD ON!THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN IS CLEARLY TABLISHED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTUR BOTH BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.(ONE MUTE.)I’M SORRY, I’VE BROUGHT THE WRONG NOT WH ME THIS EVENG. I’VE BORROWED MY ARGUMENT OM THE WRONG CENTURY. IT TURNS OUT WHAT I HAVE BEEN READG TO YOU THIS WHOLE TIME IS DIRECT QUOT OM WHE PREACHERS OM THE 1950′S AND THE 1960′S, ALL SUPPORT OF RACIAL SEGREGATN.ALL I HAVE DONE IS SIMPLY TAKE OUT THE PHRASE "RACIAL SEGREGATN" AND SUBSTUTED WH THE PHRASE "GAY RIGHTS." I GUS THE ARGUMENTS I’VE BEEN HEARG AROUND SPRGFIELD LATELY SOUND SO SIAR TO THE THAT I GOT THEM NFED. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. I HOPE YOU WILL STAND ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. THANK YOU.(ARE THERE ANY QUTNS?)THANK YOU.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌LGBT RIGHTS (2013)LGBT RIGHTS1. THE HOPE SPEECHBRIEF OF AMICI CURAE CHRIS KLUWE AND BRENDON AYANBAJO SUPPORT OF RPONNTSDEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)ROLUTN FOR MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN 2013BRIEF FOR THE UNED STAT AS AMIC CURIAE SUPPORTG RPONNTSPROPOSN 8 (CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE PROTECTN ACT)LAWRENCE V. TEXAS (DISSENT)OPEN LETTER TO EMMETT C. BURNS, JR.MARRIAGE EQUALY/COMG OUT SPEECHHRC AMERINS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALYGAY RIGHTS SPEECHCREDSTAGSNON-MICNEWS EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

The ACLU has fought harassment of stunts California, Nevada, Oh and Washgton, fend gay teachers California, Idaho and Utah, and advoted for gay stunt groups Alabama, Indiana, Mnota, Utah and Wisns. As a remr of what is supposed to be the sence of child-welfare policy, the ACLU’s Lbian and Gay Rights Project 1998 published a report entled In the Child’s Bt Intert: Defendg Fair and Sensible Adoptn Polici. Y, twelve stat (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Rho Island, Vermont and Wisns), the District of Columbia, many municipali, and hundreds of bs and universi have enacted laws that protect gay, lbian and bisexual people om employment discrimatn.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Perhaps as important, the polici give some small acknowledgement to the timate, mted relatnships central to the liv of so many lbians and gay men, which society otherwise ignor. Sce they n not marry, the partners of lbians and gay men are not next of k tim of crisis; they are not nsulted on ccial medil cisns; they are not given leave to re for each other; they are not each other’s legal heirs, if, like most Amerins, they do not have wills.

AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?

From the social clubs and civil rights societi of the 1950s and 1960s to the lbian and gay rights groups of the 1970s, people have e together to raise awarens of gay and lbian issu.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

Then on the hot night of Friday, June 27, 1969 New York Cy, a spark l the powr keg when police attempted to raid a gay bar, enforcg state or cy laws that rtricted most behavr and drs for lbians and homosexuals.

The event clud a long list of speakers, cludg Audre Lor, Allen Gsburg, Congrsman Ted Weiss, the District of Columbia, and anizatns such as Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG). I worry about the future of our cy; any accurate readg of the Bible should make clear that gay rights go agast the pla tth of the word of God, as one preacher warns man, and oversteppg the boundary l God has drawn by makg special rights for gays and lbians has taken another step the directn of vg the judgement of God upon our land.

GAY RIGHTS SPEECH

This step of gay rights is but another steppg stone toward the immoraly and lawlsns that would be characteristic of the last ordance reprents a nial of all that we believe and no one should force on . It turns out what I have been readg to you this whole time is direct quot om whe preachers om the 1950′s and the 1960′s, all support of racial I have done is simply take out the phrase "racial segregatn" and substuted wh the phrase "gay rights. Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis.

His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods. A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L.