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• US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
• OPENLY GAY HARVEY FIERSTE BOYIEND POST JOURNALIST BOYIEND RELATNSHIP
• HARVEY {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}HARVEY MILK BEME ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OFFICIALS THE UNED STAT 1977 WHEN HE WAS ELECTED TO THE SAN FRANCIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. 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HE WAS TRAGILLY SHOT AND KILLED THE FOLLOWG YEAR, AND NUMERO BOOKS AND FILMS HAVE BEEN MA ABOUT HIS LIFE.EARLY YEARSMILK WAS BORN ON MAY 22, 1930, WOODMERE, NEW YORK. REARED A SMALL MIDDLE-CLASS JEWISH FAY, MILK WAS ONE OF TWO BOYS BORN TO WILLIAM AND MERVA MILK. A WELL-ROUND, WELL-LIKED STUNT, MILK PLAYED FOOTBALL AND SANG THE OPERA AT BAY SHORE HIGH SCHOOL. LIKE HIS BROTHER, ROBERT, HE ALSO WORKED AT THE FAY PARTMENT STORE, MILK'S. AFTER GRADUATG OM THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS 1951, MILK JOED THE U.S. NAVY, ULTIMATELY SERVG AS A DIVG STCTOR AT A BASE SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, DURG THE KOREAN WAR. FOLLOWG HIS DISCHARGE 1955, MILK MOVED TO NEW YORK CY, WHERE HE WORKED A VARIETY OF JOBS, CLUDG PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER, PRODUCTN ASSOCIATE FOR SEVERAL HIGH-PROFILE BROADWAY MILS, STOCK ANALYST AND WALL STREET VTMENT BANKER. HE SOON TIRED OF FANCE, THOUGH, AND BEIEND GAY RADILS WHO EQUENTED GREENWICH VILLAGE.NEW LIFE SAN FRANCISIN LATE 1972, BORED WH HIS LIFE NEW YORK, MILK MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA. THERE, HE OPENED A MERA SHOP LLED CASTRO CAMERA ON CASTRO STREET, PUTTG HIS LIFE AND WORK RIGHT THE HEART OF THE CY'S GAY MUNY. FOR MUCH OF HIS LIFE, MILK HAD STAYED QUIET ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE. HE HAD KNOWN SCE HIGH SCHOOL THAT HE WAS GAY, AND EVEN THE WAKE OF AN EMERGG GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE LIBERATE AND REFUL MILK CHOSE TO REMA ON THE SIL. BUT THGS HAD STARTED TO TURN FOR HIM TOWARD THE END OF HIS TIME NEW YORK, AS HE BEIEND A NUMBER OF GAY RADILS WHO EQUENTED GREENWICH VILLAGE. IN SAN FRANCIS, HIS LIFE AND OUTSPOKEN POLICS EVOLVED EVEN FURTHER. AS CASTRO CAMERA CREASGLY BEME A NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, MILK FOUND HIS VOICE AS A LEAR AND ACTIVIST. IN 1973, HE CLARED HIS NDIDACY FOR A POSN ON THE SAN FRANCIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. A NOVICE POLICIAN WH LTLE MONEY, MILK LOST THE ELECTN, BUT THE EXPERIENCE DID NOT TER HIM OM TRYG AGA. TWO YEARS LATER, HE NARROWLY LOST A SEND ELECTN FOR THE SAME SEAT. BY THEN, MILK HAD BEE A POLIL FORCE—AN OUTSPOKEN LEAR THE GAY MUNY WH POLIL NNECTNS THAT CLUD SAN FRANCIS MAYOR GEE MOSNE, ASSEMBLY SPEAKER AND FUTURE CY MAYOR WILLIE BROWN AND FUTURE UNED STAT SENATOR DIANNE FESTE. IN 1977, MILK, WHO WAS KNOWN AFFECTNATELY AS THE "MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET," FALLY WON A SEAT ON THE SAN FRANCIS CY-COUNTY BOARD. HE WAS GURATED ON JANUARY 9, 1978, BEG THE CY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY OFFICER, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DIVIDUALS TO BE ELECTED TO OFFICE THE UNED STAT. WHILE HIS MPAIGN CERTALY RPORATED GAY RIGHTS TO HIS PLATFORM, MILK ALSO WANTED TO TACKLE A WI VARIETY OF ISSU, OM CHILDRE TO HOG TO A CIVILIAN POLICE REVIEW BOARD.ASSASSATNMILK'S ASCENSN HAD E AT AN IMPORTANT TIME FOR THE GAY MUNY. WHILE MANY PSYCHIATRISTS STILL NSIRED HOMOSEXUALY A MENTAL ILLNS AT THIS TIME, THE LIBERAL MOSNE HAD BEE AN EARLY SUPPORTER OF GAY RIGHTS AND HAD ABOLISHED THE CY'S ANTI-SODOMY LAW. MOSNE HAD ALSO APPOTED SEVERAL GAYS AND LBIANS TO A NUMBER OF HIGH-PROFILE POSNS WH SAN FRANCIS. ON THE OTHER SI OF MOSNE WAS SUPERVISOR DAN WHE, A VIETNAM VETERAN AND FORMER POLICE OFFICER AND FIREMAN, WHO WAS TROUBLED BY WHAT HE PERCEIVED AS A BREAKDOWN TRADNAL VALU AND A GROWG TOLERANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY. ELECTED TO THE SAN FRANCIS CY-COUNTY BOARD 1977, HE EQUENTLY CLASHED WH THE MORE LIBERAL MILK ON POLICY ISSU. A YEAR AFTER HIS ELECTN, 1978, WHE RIGNED OM THE BOARD, CG THAT HIS SALARY OF $9,600 WASN'T ENOUGH TO SUPPORT HIS FAY. BUT WHE WAS PRODD ON BY HIS POLICE SUPPORTERS AND SUBSEQUENTLY CHANGED HIS MD REGARDG HIS RIGNATN AND ASKED MOSNE TO REAPPOT HIM. THE MAYOR REFED, HOWEVER, ENURAGED BY MILK AND OTHERS TO FILL WHE'S SPOT WH A MORE LIBERAL BOARD MEMBER. FOR WHE, WHO WAS NVCED THAT MEN LIKE MOSNE AND MILK WERE DRIVG HIS CY "DOWNHILL," WAS A VASTATG BLOW. ON NOVEMBER 27, 1978, WHE ENTERED CY HALL WH A LOAD .38 REVOLVER. HE AVOID THE METAL TECTORS BY ENTERG THROUGH A BASEMENT WDOW THAT HAD BEEN NEGLIGENTLY LEFT OPEN FOR VENTILATN. HIS FIRST STOP WAS AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, WHERE HE AND MOSNE BEGAN ARGUG, EVENTUALLY MOVG TO A PRIVATE ROOM SO THAT THEY ULD NOT BE HEARD. ONCE THERE, MOSNE AGA REFED TO RE-APPOT WHE, AND WHE SHOT THE MAYOR TWICE THE CHT AND TWICE THE HEAD. WHE THEN WENT DOWN THE RRIDOR AND SHOT MILK, TWICE THE CHT, ONCE THE BACK AND TWICE AGA THE HEAD. SOON AFTER, HE TURNED HIMSELF AT THE POLICE STATN WHERE HE ED TO WORK.DAN WHE'S TRIALWHE'S TRIAL WAS MARKED BY WHAT ME TO BE KNOWN AS THE "TWKIE FENSE," AS HIS LAWYERS CLAIMED THAT THE NORMALLY STABLE WHE HAD GROWN SLOVENLY PRR TO THE SHOOTGS DUE TO ABANDONG HIS UALLY HEALTHY DIET AND STEAD DULGG SUGARY JUNK FOOD SUCH AS COKE, DOUGHNUTS AND TWKI. IN A SURPRISG MOVE, A JURY NVICTED WHE OF VOLUNTARY MANSLGHTER RATHER THAN MURR, AND WHE WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY SERVE JT SIX YEARS PRISON. IN 1985, A YEAR AFTER HIS RELEASE, A DISTRSED WHE MTED SUICI. AS A RULT OF WHE'S DOWNGRAD NVICTN, PEACEFUL MONSTRATNS BY CASTRO'S GAY MUNY OUTSI CY HALL TURNED VLENT. MORE THAN 5,000 POLICEMEN RPOND BY ENTERG NIGHTCLUBS ARMED WH TNCHEONS AND ASSLTG PATRONS. BY THE RT'S END, 124 PEOPLE WERE JURED, CLUDG 59 POLICEMEN. THIS EPISO IS KNOWN HISTORY AS "THE WHE NIGHT RTS."MOVIE IN THE YEARS SCE THE KILLGS, MILK'S LEGACY AS A LEAR AND PNEER HAS ENDURED, WH NUMERO BOOKS AND FILMS MA ABOUT HIS LIFE. IN 2008, {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}SEAN PENN STARRED AS MILK THE ACCLAIMED BPIC MILK. PENN END UP WNG THE 2009 AMY AWARD FOR BT ACTOR FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF THE SLA POLICIAN.U.S. NAVY SHIPIN JULY 2016, THE U.S. NAVY ANNOUNCED WOULD BE NAMG A YET-TO-BE NSTCTED TANKER AFTER MILK HIS HONOR. THE SHIP WOULD BE LLED THE USNS HARVEY MILK. MILK'S NEPHEW PRAISED THE CISN, SAYG WOULD SEND "A GREEN LIGHT TO ALL THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE OUR NATN: THAT HONTY AND THENTICY ARE HELD UP AMONG THE HIGHT IALS OF OF NATN'S ARY".SAN FRANCIS POLICIAN STT WIENER ALSO CELEBRATED THE ANNOUNCEMENT. "WHEN HARVEY MILK SERVED THE ARY, HE ULDN'T TELL ANYONE WHO HE TLY WAS," HE WROTE A STATEMENT. "NOW OUR UNTRY IS TELLG THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE, AND THE ENTIRE WORLD, THAT WE HONOR AND SUPPORT PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE."HOWEVER, SOME CRICS ARGUE THAT MILK WOULD NOT HAVE WANTED SUCH AN HONOR, CG MILK WAS OPPOSED TO THE VIETNAM WAR. {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}NAME: HARVEY MILKBIRTH YEAR: 1930BIRTH DATE: MAY 22, 1930BIRTH STATE: NEW YORKBIRTH CY: WOODMEREBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATGENR: MALEBT KNOWN FOR: HARVEY MILK BEME ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OFFICIALS THE UNED STAT 1977 WHEN HE WAS ELECTED TO THE SAN FRANCIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. TRAGILLY, HE WAS KILLED THE FOLLOWG YEAR.INDTRIU.S. POLICSASTROLOGIL SIGN: GEMISCHOOLSBAY SHORE HIGH SCHOOLNEW YORK STATE COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS ALBANYDEATH YEAR: 1978DEATH DATE: NOVEMBER 27, 1978DEATH STATE: CALIFORNIADEATH CY: SAN FRANCISDEATH COUNTRY: UNED STATFACT CHECK
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US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

Navy vsel to be named for an openly gay person, and at the ship’s christeng Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said, “For far too long, sailors like Litenant Junr Gra Milk were forced to the shadows or, worse yet, forced out of our beloved Navy. Rather than risk gettg kicked out and outed as gay, Harvey rigned om the Navy wh an honorable discharge, although recent archival rearch suggts that Harvey may have fed his honorable discharge orr to be employable after his Navy stt and that his discharge was officially nsired a middle-ground "other than honorable.

His bgraphy The Mayor of Castro Street revealed that Harvey also mpaigned for nservative Republin Barry Goldwater's 1964 printial mpaign while secretly pursug relatnships wh men, cludg Craig Rodwell, whom he met while tryg to rec Rodwell as a Goldwater nvasser spe his activy the gay rights anizatns Harvey then avoid. When a New York judge gave Rodwell three days jail for supposed cent exposure a park, Harvey, years away om his work as an activist and stat as a gay in, was unhappy wh Craig's openns and penchant for attractg police attentn and broke up wh him. His return cid wh the growg gay muny of San Francis reachg a breakg pot and fightg back agast homophobic laws, police persecutn, and rampant entrapment that tricked gay men to gettg arrted public parks, jt like Harvey's ex Craig Rodwell.

OPENLY GAY HARVEY FIERSTE BOYIEND POST JOURNALIST BOYIEND RELATNSHIP

When he won his mayoral race, he thanked Harvey personally for his support, acknowledged his posive fluence his mpaign, and 1976 appoted him to the cy's Board of Perm Appeals, makg Harvey Milk the first openly gay cy missner the Uned Stat. " When Harvey's iend Oliver "Bill" Sipple stopped an assassatn attempt agast then-Print Gerald Ford, Harvey ntacted the San Francis Chronicle, and, acrdg to the Los Angel Tim, lled Sipple a hero and outed him whout permissn an attempt to "show people that not everyone who was gay ns around wh lipstick, high heels and a drs. When gay activists Miami won a civil rights ordance that ma discrimatn based on sexual orientatn illegal, a group of fundamentalist Christians anized a unter-mpaign led by activist Ana Bryant (pictured) lled Save Our Children, leadg to a vote that overturned the ordance.

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HE WAS TRAGILLY SHOT AND KILLED THE FOLLOWG YEAR, AND NUMERO BOOKS AND FILMS HAVE BEEN MA ABOUT HIS LIFE.EARLY YEARSMILK WAS BORN ON MAY 22, 1930, WOODMERE, NEW YORK. REARED A SMALL MIDDLE-CLASS JEWISH FAY, MILK WAS ONE OF TWO BOYS BORN TO WILLIAM AND MERVA MILK. A WELL-ROUND, WELL-LIKED STUNT, MILK PLAYED FOOTBALL AND SANG THE OPERA AT BAY SHORE HIGH SCHOOL. LIKE HIS BROTHER, ROBERT, HE ALSO WORKED AT THE FAY PARTMENT STORE, MILK'S. AFTER GRADUATG OM THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS 1951, MILK JOED THE U.S. NAVY, ULTIMATELY SERVG AS A DIVG STCTOR AT A BASE SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, DURG THE KOREAN WAR. FOLLOWG HIS DISCHARGE 1955, MILK MOVED TO NEW YORK CY, WHERE HE WORKED A VARIETY OF JOBS, CLUDG PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER, PRODUCTN ASSOCIATE FOR SEVERAL HIGH-PROFILE BROADWAY MILS, STOCK ANALYST AND WALL STREET VTMENT BANKER. HE SOON TIRED OF FANCE, THOUGH, AND BEIEND GAY RADILS WHO EQUENTED GREENWICH VILLAGE.NEW LIFE SAN FRANCISIN LATE 1972, BORED WH HIS LIFE NEW YORK, MILK MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA. THERE, HE OPENED A MERA SHOP LLED CASTRO CAMERA ON CASTRO STREET, PUTTG HIS LIFE AND WORK RIGHT THE HEART OF THE CY'S GAY MUNY. FOR MUCH OF HIS LIFE, MILK HAD STAYED QUIET ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE. HE HAD KNOWN SCE HIGH SCHOOL THAT HE WAS GAY, AND EVEN THE WAKE OF AN EMERGG GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE LIBERATE AND REFUL MILK CHOSE TO REMA ON THE SIL. BUT THGS HAD STARTED TO TURN FOR HIM TOWARD THE END OF HIS TIME NEW YORK, AS HE BEIEND A NUMBER OF GAY RADILS WHO EQUENTED GREENWICH VILLAGE. IN SAN FRANCIS, HIS LIFE AND OUTSPOKEN POLICS EVOLVED EVEN FURTHER. AS CASTRO CAMERA CREASGLY BEME A NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, MILK FOUND HIS VOICE AS A LEAR AND ACTIVIST. IN 1973, HE CLARED HIS NDIDACY FOR A POSN ON THE SAN FRANCIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. A NOVICE POLICIAN WH LTLE MONEY, MILK LOST THE ELECTN, BUT THE EXPERIENCE DID NOT TER HIM OM TRYG AGA. TWO YEARS LATER, HE NARROWLY LOST A SEND ELECTN FOR THE SAME SEAT. BY THEN, MILK HAD BEE A POLIL FORCE—AN OUTSPOKEN LEAR THE GAY MUNY WH POLIL NNECTNS THAT CLUD SAN FRANCIS MAYOR GEE MOSNE, ASSEMBLY SPEAKER AND FUTURE CY MAYOR WILLIE BROWN AND FUTURE UNED STAT SENATOR DIANNE FESTE. IN 1977, MILK, WHO WAS KNOWN AFFECTNATELY AS THE "MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET," FALLY WON A SEAT ON THE SAN FRANCIS CY-COUNTY BOARD. HE WAS GURATED ON JANUARY 9, 1978, BEG THE CY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY OFFICER, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DIVIDUALS TO BE ELECTED TO OFFICE THE UNED STAT. WHILE HIS MPAIGN CERTALY RPORATED GAY RIGHTS TO HIS PLATFORM, MILK ALSO WANTED TO TACKLE A WI VARIETY OF ISSU, OM CHILDRE TO HOG TO A CIVILIAN POLICE REVIEW BOARD.ASSASSATNMILK'S ASCENSN HAD E AT AN IMPORTANT TIME FOR THE GAY MUNY. WHILE MANY PSYCHIATRISTS STILL NSIRED HOMOSEXUALY A MENTAL ILLNS AT THIS TIME, THE LIBERAL MOSNE HAD BEE AN EARLY SUPPORTER OF GAY RIGHTS AND HAD ABOLISHED THE CY'S ANTI-SODOMY LAW. MOSNE HAD ALSO APPOTED SEVERAL GAYS AND LBIANS TO A NUMBER OF HIGH-PROFILE POSNS WH SAN FRANCIS. ON THE OTHER SI OF MOSNE WAS SUPERVISOR DAN WHE, A VIETNAM VETERAN AND FORMER POLICE OFFICER AND FIREMAN, WHO WAS TROUBLED BY WHAT HE PERCEIVED AS A BREAKDOWN TRADNAL VALU AND A GROWG TOLERANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY. ELECTED TO THE SAN FRANCIS CY-COUNTY BOARD 1977, HE EQUENTLY CLASHED WH THE MORE LIBERAL MILK ON POLICY ISSU. A YEAR AFTER HIS ELECTN, 1978, WHE RIGNED OM THE BOARD, CG THAT HIS SALARY OF $9,600 WASN'T ENOUGH TO SUPPORT HIS FAY. BUT WHE WAS PRODD ON BY HIS POLICE SUPPORTERS AND SUBSEQUENTLY CHANGED HIS MD REGARDG HIS RIGNATN AND ASKED MOSNE TO REAPPOT HIM. THE MAYOR REFED, HOWEVER, ENURAGED BY MILK AND OTHERS TO FILL WHE'S SPOT WH A MORE LIBERAL BOARD MEMBER. FOR WHE, WHO WAS NVCED THAT MEN LIKE MOSNE AND MILK WERE DRIVG HIS CY "DOWNHILL," WAS A VASTATG BLOW. ON NOVEMBER 27, 1978, WHE ENTERED CY HALL WH A LOAD .38 REVOLVER. HE AVOID THE METAL TECTORS BY ENTERG THROUGH A BASEMENT WDOW THAT HAD BEEN NEGLIGENTLY LEFT OPEN FOR VENTILATN. HIS FIRST STOP WAS AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, WHERE HE AND MOSNE BEGAN ARGUG, EVENTUALLY MOVG TO A PRIVATE ROOM SO THAT THEY ULD NOT BE HEARD. ONCE THERE, MOSNE AGA REFED TO RE-APPOT WHE, AND WHE SHOT THE MAYOR TWICE THE CHT AND TWICE THE HEAD. WHE THEN WENT DOWN THE RRIDOR AND SHOT MILK, TWICE THE CHT, ONCE THE BACK AND TWICE AGA THE HEAD. SOON AFTER, HE TURNED HIMSELF AT THE POLICE STATN WHERE HE ED TO WORK.DAN WHE'S TRIALWHE'S TRIAL WAS MARKED BY WHAT ME TO BE KNOWN AS THE "TWKIE FENSE," AS HIS LAWYERS CLAIMED THAT THE NORMALLY STABLE WHE HAD GROWN SLOVENLY PRR TO THE SHOOTGS DUE TO ABANDONG HIS UALLY HEALTHY DIET AND STEAD DULGG SUGARY JUNK FOOD SUCH AS COKE, DOUGHNUTS AND TWKI. IN A SURPRISG MOVE, A JURY NVICTED WHE OF VOLUNTARY MANSLGHTER RATHER THAN MURR, AND WHE WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY SERVE JT SIX YEARS PRISON. IN 1985, A YEAR AFTER HIS RELEASE, A DISTRSED WHE MTED SUICI. AS A RULT OF WHE'S DOWNGRAD NVICTN, PEACEFUL MONSTRATNS BY CASTRO'S GAY MUNY OUTSI CY HALL TURNED VLENT. MORE THAN 5,000 POLICEMEN RPOND BY ENTERG NIGHTCLUBS ARMED WH TNCHEONS AND ASSLTG PATRONS. BY THE RT'S END, 124 PEOPLE WERE JURED, CLUDG 59 POLICEMEN. THIS EPISO IS KNOWN HISTORY AS "THE WHE NIGHT RTS."MOVIE IN THE YEARS SCE THE KILLGS, MILK'S LEGACY AS A LEAR AND PNEER HAS ENDURED, WH NUMERO BOOKS AND FILMS MA ABOUT HIS LIFE. IN 2008, {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}SEAN PENN STARRED AS MILK THE ACCLAIMED BPIC MILK. 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"NOW OUR UNTRY IS TELLG THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE, AND THE ENTIRE WORLD, THAT WE HONOR AND SUPPORT PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE."HOWEVER, SOME CRICS ARGUE THAT MILK WOULD NOT HAVE WANTED SUCH AN HONOR, CG MILK WAS OPPOSED TO THE VIETNAM WAR. {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}NAME: HARVEY MILKBIRTH YEAR: 1930BIRTH DATE: MAY 22, 1930BIRTH STATE: NEW YORKBIRTH CY: WOODMEREBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATGENR: MALEBT KNOWN FOR: HARVEY MILK BEME ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OFFICIALS THE UNED STAT 1977 WHEN HE WAS ELECTED TO THE SAN FRANCIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. 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Harvey attend every Briggs rally and held bat g statistics and one-lers to fight back agast claims that homosexuals sought to abe and "rec" children, cludg the particularly quotable quip, "If were te that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns nng around! He sends out his words for the next generatn of LGBTQ people sayg that they mt be acquated wh the gay history as well while knowg about the trouble their people faced the Also: Gelila Bekele And Tyler Perry As Parents; Son's Arrival Brgs New JoyThe legalizatn of same-sex marriage by the Supreme urt on all the 50 stat was the signifint change.

Milk was mted to attag public office, and spent years buildg his crentials, foundg the Castro Street Fair and the San Francis Gay Democratic Club, and nng several tim for office throughout the ’70s before his 1977 of Milk’s biggt acplishments happened before he ever took office, back when he was lled the “Mayor of Castro Street. Coors was tryg to stop the hirg of unn drivers to transport their beer, and Milk agreed to try and throw the weight of San Francis’s LGBTQ muny behd the strike, exchange for Baird phg the Teamsters to support the hirg of gay tck drivers.

Milk began his mpaign wh an appeal his regular lumn the Bay Area Reporter, wh the headle “Teamsters Seek Gay Help, ” and ma an argument for solidary across inty l: “If we the gay muny want others to help our fight to end discrimatn, then we mt help others their fights. ”Milk helped nvce gay bar owners to stop sellg Coors solidary wh the Teamsters strike, brgg media along to photograph bar owners dumpg out the beer ran for office four tim San Francis, cludg twice for the Board of Supervisors and also the California State Assembly, and was fally elected 1977 to the Board after his send n.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

“This is perhaps a perd when lbians and gay men were at their most divid, as lbian femists are g to their own and llg gay men out on sexism, and even the term ‘lbian’ me to much greater populary the ’70s as distct om women llg themselv ‘gay women, ’” Ste said.

Ste scribed Milk’s relatnship wh fellow San Francis LGBT in and close iend Sally Gearhart, a lbian activist, as proof of Milk’s effectivens at workg across differenc and buildg and Gearhart’s close relatnship was part of a movement to build nnectns between gay men and lbians that had grown by the late 1970s. QUICK FACTSName: Harvey MilkBirth Year: 1930Birth date: May 22, 1930Birth State: New YorkBirth Cy: WoodmereBirth Country: Uned StatGenr: MaleBt Known For: Harvey Milk beme one of the first openly gay officials the Uned Stat 1977 when he was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors.

GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

The SOMOSGAY Center Paraguay, which ho Montania's origal mural, serv as a public health rource and cultural center for LGBT Paraguayans, acts as a center for grassroots LGBT groups whout tradnal quarters, and works to promote a "supportive, pluralistic, mocratic, equable and clive Paraguayan society which lbian, gay, bisexual and trans live happily wh full equaly their hom, schools and workplac. Durg his sgle year office, Milk formed a rilient, anized rponse to the Briggs Iniative, known as Prop 6 and spearhead by California state reprentative John Briggs, who aimed to legalize the termatn of gay teachers and teachers who supported gay rights.

As a drag performer, a sex worker, and a self-intified transvte, Johnson played a major role the historic Stonewall rts 1969 that jump-started the gay liberatn the rts, Johnson beme a lear the muny and ed the power to open Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari, which helped transgenr youth.

Throughout my life, I had been bullied and beaten — lled a “fag” and a “pervert” — and I wasn’t even out ’s electn me the shadow of the “Save Our Children” mpaign led by Ana Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and Christian evangelist, to repeal an anti-discrimatn ordance Da County, told rapt dienc: "As a mother, I know that homosexuals nnot blogilly reproduce children; therefore, they mt rec our children.

40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA

” Thanks to Bryant’s superheated rhetoric about gays really beg child molters disguise, the ordance — which had prohibed discrimatn hog, employment and public acmodatn on the basis of sexual orientatn — was overwhelmg Milk was a symbol of hope a dark timeWh the year, Bryant’s evangelil fervor had spread to St.

SAN FRANCIS CASTRO GAY BAR AND RTRANT HARVEY'S CLOS AFTER 27 YEARS

"What I am after is to remove those homosexual teachers who through word, thought or ed want to be a public homosexual, to entice young imprsnable children to their liftyle, ” Briggs this firtorm, Milk’s electn as supervisor had as much symbolic as polil value.

TMZ’S HARVEY LEV TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY THE NEWS BS: “I WAS SO TERRIFIED THAT SOMEBODY WOULD FD OUT.”

I had listened to Milk talk about hope on the rad that eveng, shock that a gay man uld be so urageo — so visible — to the months later, I — and the rt of Ameri — learned the price of Milk’s pri when he was assassated by Dan Whe, a former police officer and cy supervisor wh a polil gdge agast him. The two most visible figur behd the legislative manvers were John Briggs, a state Senator California, who sought to remove openly lbian and gay teachers wh Proposn 6 (the phrase “public homosexual” repeats throughout the proposn); and Ana Bryant, whose “Save Our Children” anizatn succsfully helped overturn equal rights ordanc Miami, Florida; Eugene, Oregon; Wicha, Kansas; and St.

BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG

If you do not speak out, if you rema silence, if you do not lift up your voice agast Briggs, then I ll upon lbians and gay men om all over the natn, your natn, to gather Washgton one year om now on that natnal day of eedom, the fourth of July…the fourth of July, 1979…to gather Washgton on that very same spot where over a ago Dr.

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I ll upon all mori and pecially the lns of lbians and gay men to wake up om their dreams…to gather Washgton and tell Jimmy Carter and their natn: “Wake up…wake up, Ameri…no more racism, no more sexism, no more ageism, no more hatred…no more! Gav Newsom followed through on his threats to fe the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD), lnchg his next culture war attack agast nservative board members who rejected state-endorsed curriculum that allegedly mentns gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

"GAVIN NEWSOM CELEBRATES ‘INCREDIBLE’ STORE CLAIMING TO SELL ‘BANNED’ BOOKS WHILE STUMPING FOR BIDEN IN IDAHO A close-up of Amerin polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk (1930-1978) as he mpaigns for a posn on the San Francis Board of Supervisors September 1977. Today the seat Milk held when he was killed is occupied by another openly gay man, Rafael MANDELMAN: As someone who was 5 years old when he was shot, I am ntually grateful, not jt for Harvey but for the folks of that generatn who really did change the But first, Manlman not, Milk changed himself.

Gwen Craig, who me to San Francis the 1970s and worked wh Harvey Milk before he was killed, trac all back to Milk phg people to e out of the CRAIG: I do thk that he sort of started this path that ma possible for the openly gay officials that were elected this last round. Before then, opened 1974 as a gay bar and rtrant lled the Elephant Walk, which Milk praised as “a place where the gay muny uld meet, feel safe and secure while at the same time be visible to the whole world, ” acrdg to the Harvey’s Milk's assassatn and a fire that nearly stroyed the buildg 1988, the owner rebrand and reopened the rtrant Milk's memory.

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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.

” 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.

" pli wh the state's 2011 FAIR Edutn Act that amends the California's tn to clu "fair, accurate, clive and rpectful reference" to ntributns by members of the LGBTQ nservative block of board members, cludg Print Joseph Komrosky, object to the textbook over s cln of supplemental material about gay rights advote Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man elected to office the state and was assassated later on Wednday, Newsom, a Democrat, announced that rponse to the district's failure to adopt the updated social studi curriculum, was vlatn of state law and that California has entered to a ntract to secure the textbooks for s stunts. 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.

The announcement is the latt dispute between state and lol officials after the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the curriculum creatn procs as well as makg ments attackg gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk. “I’m thkg back a long time when I was startg out as a TV reporter at a lol statn LA and I remember at the time – I was probably my late 20s – and I remember this hell-like fear that if anybody that newsroom found out that that I was gay, that would be over, ” he said.

As Baker told the Mm of Morn Art durg a 2015 terview, he had been spired by the celebratns markg Ameri’s bicentennial 1976, notg that the nstant display of stars and strip ma him realize the cultural need for a siar rallyg sign for the gay muny. And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals. At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag.

Prcipal Rossi strs that there is no special gay slant to the teachg, and that a ndn of the school’s expansn is that operate unr Department of Edutn mandat to teach a cy-approved curriculum of math, English, science, and other re subjects. Outsi of the classroom, ’s clear that gayns permeat every aspect of life at Harvey Milk, and not only bee many of the girls proclaim their same-sex orientatn by drsg aggrsively butch hip-hop baggy wear; or that many of the boys e to school genr-bendg wigs, drs, high heels, and makp.

In 1994, while on the Civilian Complat Review Board, he opposed the 25th anniversary celebratn of the Stonewall Rebelln, sayg would have a rptg fluence on youth and that the ftivi would spread aids; and durg Bh’s reelectn mpaign, he rallied relig lears to support a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage. She says that the Liberty Counsel and the lawyers who reprent the cy have been closed-door settlement negotiatns sce last summer, and that many chang have already been agreed to by the Department of Edutn, cludg the removal of language om the Harvey Milk Webse that formerly intified the school as a haven for “LGBTQ” (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng) youth, as well as siar chang the rmatn dispensed to cy guidance unselors who refer children to the school. The Liberty Counsel will not agree to settle until is satisfied that the school nnot rely on a tac unrstandg among the guidance unselors that only gay children should be referred to the school—which, acrdg to her, is the nudge-nudge-wk-wk method by which the school has, so far, managed to circumvent sexual-discrimatn statut.

In dog so, the school has clearly put self an awkward—if not impossible—posn: promotg self as a life-or-ath alternative for the cy’s gay youth, and at the same time sistg that, fact, ’s not a gay high school at all and is open to any child who r to apply and pass the admissns terview wh teachers and staff. Prcipal Rossi even go so far as to suggt that the school—spe s name, s symbtic relatnship wh a gay youth agency wh which is hoed, and s almost exclively gay teachg staff and stunt body—got the rap as a gay high school bee of the prs. Jonathan Turley, a profsor of nstutnal law at Gee Washgton Universy, says that Harvey Milk, by segregatg homosexuals om their straight peers, promot the return to a “separate but equal” tnal system unfortably remiscent of one of the most shameful episos Amerin history, when black stunts were placed separate schools om their whe peers—supposedly for their own good.

” That’s never gog to happen, Turley argu, when you’ve got a school like Harvey Milk that “creat this ia that gay and lbian stunts are somehow different, needg special protectns, some type of sular, special class that n’t stand for their own rights. Jonathan Turley argu that “the great irony” of the Harvey Milk school “is that go agast the teachgs of Harvey Milk, who, throughout his reer, said that the answer to any challenge based upon sexual orientatn was to be open and gay, to e out of the closet, to speak up and stand up for your rights. Betiful Thg Is a Masterpiece of Gay StorytellgThe 1996 Brish film portrayed s workg-class LGBT characters wh remarkable sensivy and Pictur ClassicsWhen Jonathan Harvey’s love story Betiful Thg buted 1993 as a play, he had no ia would eventually be herald as a crown jewel of gay storytellg.

Through the film’s two other central characters, viewers also get an illumatg glimpse of gay love crosshatched wh other forms of opprsn rooted inty—primarily class—as well as a broar, arguably fuller pictn of longg for, well, belongg. Then, as now, the story criqu a culture that herently valu the stori, if not existenc, of “non-normative” Betiful Thg may not have the mastream clout of other films on BFI’s list, such as Todd Hayn’s electrifyg 2015 perd piece Carol, s prence the pantheon of gay cema ntu to expand what dienc might nsir the genre of “great” films, promptg broar awarens of historilly overlooked perspectiv that are nohels worthy of attentn. 2 of 8 | David Campos, left, vice chair of the California Democratic Party, tak a selfie wh Nile Murray-Ramirez, center, an LGBT activist, holdg a photo of Harvey Milk, and Bevan Dufty, right, director of the San Francis Bay area rapid trans district, prr to the lnchg of the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler ship named after the first openly gay elected official, Saturday, Nov.

3 of 8 | USMC Colonel Alison Thompson, left, talks wh Jenn Ono, center, a Whe Hoe Fellow to the Secretary of the Navy and Patrik Gallex, right, of the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundatn prr to the lnchg of the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler ship named after the first openly gay elected official, Saturday, Nov.

2 of 8David Campos, left, vice chair of the California Democratic Party, tak a selfie wh Nile Murray-Ramirez, center, an LGBT activist, holdg a photo of Harvey Milk, and Bevan Dufty, right, director of the San Francis Bay area rapid trans district, prr to the lnchg of the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler ship named after the first openly gay elected official, Saturday, Nov.