After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year.
Contents:
- GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- DE 'MILK' A 'PHILALPHIA': LA LUCHA L MOVIMIENTO GAY EN EL CE
- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS? ‘MILK’
- MILK, THE MOVIE, GIV HISTORIL SIGHT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS BATTLE, MAN BEHD MOVEMENT
GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * milk movimiento gay *
5 ln fe agast the Temecula Valley Unified School District ls than a day after nservative board members voted to reject a state-endorsed curriculum that clus a short bgraphy of gay rights lear Harvey Milk.
Komrosky, the board print, has lled Milk a "pedophile, " while dozens of atten, many om outsi the school district, livered impassned speech agast teachg anythg that refers to sex or homosexualy to elementary school-age stunts.
DE 'MILK' A 'PHILALPHIA': LA LUCHA L MOVIMIENTO GAY EN EL CE
California Gov. Gav Newsom followed through on threats to fe a school district for refg to adopt state-approved curriculum that featured gay rights activist Harvey Milk. * milk movimiento gay *
Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.
”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS? ‘MILK’
A Southern California school board has bee the latt proxy for culture wars brewg across the untry after a nservative bloc voted to formally reject state-endorsed curriculum that would have mentned gay rights figure Harvey Milk. * milk movimiento gay *
” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. "Milk, " a bpic about gay rights activist Harvey Milk, opened theaters 2008 to cril acclaim.
The movie tells the te story of the man who ma history by beg Ameri's first openly gay polician, solidifyg his legacy as an in for the LGBTQ+ muny.
MILK, THE MOVIE, GIV HISTORIL SIGHT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS BATTLE, MAN BEHD MOVEMENT
For those who were around to wns the tragic Cy Hall killgs of San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne and the natn’s first openly gay polician, cy supervisor Harvey Milk unfold, you know how the events of Nov. 27, 1978 rocked the Bay Area’s foundatn. * milk movimiento gay *
The film suggts that Dan Whe may have been a closeted gay man, whose tormented mental state and nfn over his sexual inty, along wh his fancial and polil troubl, played a role his sudn homicidal behavr when he assassated Milk 1978.
A Southern California school district that failed to adopt a state-endorsed social studi curriculum over mentn of gay rights lear Harvey Milk has been fed $1.5 ln by Gov. Gav Newsom. * milk movimiento gay *
This portrayal of Dan Whe heavily rembl Colonel Frank Fts the 1999 movie "Amerin Bety, " a character whose homophobia is fueled by his own reprsed homosexualy, eventually drivg him to m murr.
Although 's possible that Whe had sexual securi or was secretly gay, there isn't any real-life evince or suggtn to support this speculatn, nor the ia that Whe murred Milk as a rult of his reprsed homosexualy. In the film, Harvey realiz that orr to beat Proposn 6 (the ballot iative aimed at banng gay men and lbian women om workg California's public schools), he'd need to challenge the proposn's sponsor John Briggs to a public bate. Dan Whe's disfort wh homosexualy and gay men like Harvey Milk is equently picted the movie, wh his polil and public rhetoric labelg gay people as "splter groups of social radils, social viants and rrigibl.
" From Whe's pot of view, this seems necsary orr to appease District 8 voters, the majory of whom are whe, nservative, middle-class fai who are opposed to San Francis's expandg gay muny.