Five months before his assassatn 1978, Harvey Milk lled on the print of the Uned Stat to fend the rights of gay and lbian Amerins.
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AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?
No one anticipated , but Print Barack Obama ed the ocsn of his send Ingural Addrs to give what was perhaps the most important gay-rights … * famous gay speeches *
No one anticipated , but Print Barack Obama ed the ocsn of his send Ingural Addrs to give what was perhaps the most important gay-rights speech Amerin history.
Print Obama ed the ocsn to make the first direct reference to gay-rights an Ingural Addrs, and he did so wh a power and forthrightns we have not heard before, even om two-thirds of the way to the speech, Obama referred to Stonewall, a gay bar where, 1969, a police raid provoked a rt, the same sentence as Sene Falls and Selma—th parg the women’s and Ain-Amerin civil-rights movements to the gay-rights stggle. Had he stopped there, would have been historic—particularly g om the first Ain-Amerin Print—but, keepg wh the tradn of policians who refer to gay-rights obliquely or wh words, stoppg short of the Print ntued:Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law—for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as only was this a ll to end discrimatn, but an unambiguo argument for the regnn of same-sex marriage across the untry. Print Obama’s send Ingural was evince of that, but more strikgly was evince of a newfound willgns to lead the untry more dramatilly to the future on gay equaly.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Mister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered the words durg a speech at a 2014 Pri ftival. Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee livg Canada exile, has ma his missn to help LGBTQ people livg Iran: a natn where acts of homosexualy are punishable by floggg or even ath. When Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California, he beme the face of the ph to put more LGBTQ people posns of power.
HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
“The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be. “If a transvte don’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte for them. “We want gays to reprent gays, ” Milk told the San Francis Examer 1977, and his posn as an LGBTQ public official helped brg the muny’s issu to promence.
While servg as a cy supervisor, he troduced legislatn to protect the gay muny, cludg a gay rights ordance 1978 to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ hog or employment. 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.