California Gov. Gav Newsom attacked Temecula Valley school board members for rejectg a state-endorsed textbook that mentns late gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
Contents:
- GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
- CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
- SF MAYOR GAV NEWSOM RISKS CAREER ON GAY MARRIAGE
GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
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But among the polil class, Newsom was the protagonist who almost sglehandly wrenched gay marriage onto California’s radar. As San Francis mayor 2004 he phed the cy to issue marriage licens to gay upl, openg a turbulent 11-year siege of unns celebrated and blocked, anti-marriage mpaigns and urt battl, and public opposn that slowly then swiftly turned to public Friday, a majory of the urt’s jtic announced that they, too, saw gay marriage as a basic right too long nied. Not after the ballot measur all over the untry subsequent years that sought to forbid gay marriage.
12, 2004, ma the first municipaly the natn to issue marriage licens to gay upl. It was a rebell gture: Gay marriage was illegal almost everywhere, cludg the state of California.
CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * gavin newsome gay *
Senators, om the Bay area — were opposed to gay marriage. A Los Angel Tim poll taken two months after Newsom’s actn showed that only 31% of Californians supported gay marriage, while 40% nsired morally ’s actn was ultimately quashed by the urts but he remaed an tegral player, the worst way. In May of 2008, when the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, he growled out a fger-potg, tntg msage to gay marriage opponents.
SF MAYOR GAV NEWSOM RISKS CAREER ON GAY MARRIAGE
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In the narrowg marg was a harbger of astonishg change to the last several years, approval of gay marriage has surged at warp speed.
A USC Dornsife/Los Angel Tim poll May of 2013 found that 58% of Californians approved of gay marriage, almost double the percentage om ne years earlier. In that poll, more than a quarter of nservativ and 35% of Republins supported gay marriage. And is voters who have led the policians: Not until late sprg of 2012, after he was publicly prodd by Vice Print Joe Bin, did Print Obama pronounce his support for gay marriage, a move that Newsom lled “a profound moment” bee of the petive reelectn race the print faced.
Dianne Feste did say 2004 that gay marriage surfaced “too much, too fast, too soon. ’”More needs to be done on the gay rights ont, he said, as dited by recent battl Indiana and elsewhere over whether bs owners n refe to serve gays. “This cisn today is not gog to end homophobia, ’s not gog to end bigotry agast the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muni, ” he said.
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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. ”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.