Harvey Milk be the first openly gay person elected to public office California

Contents:

• US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
• HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
• BRGG PEOPLE HOPE: HARVEY MILK AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AMERI
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

“I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, be the target or potential target for a person who is secure, terrified, aaid, or very disturbg, ” Milk said the tape. ”Born on Long Island 1930 and raised a tight-kn Jewish muny, Milk knew om a young age that he was gay, but spent much of his adult life figurg out how out of the closet to be.

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.

HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA

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. Not only was the morally right thg to do, but workers and racial mori were ‘’s wh gays, he said, bee they all had mon enemi—the ‘them’s who wanted to keep the powerls their place.

BRGG PEOPLE HOPE: HARVEY MILK AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AMERI

”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.

” Ste noted that electoral reprentatn has been a key path to power for the LGBTQ his brief time office, Milk was a stnch advote for gay rights at a moment when the polil climate was eply hostile towards LGBTQ people. ” “This one has teeth; a person n go to urt if his rights are vlated once this is passed, ” Milk told the Tim of the Milk at the Gay Pri Para rryg a si readg, “I'm om Woodmere, New York”. “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. “Before Harvey, I thk that most groups that were gay or lbian, homosexual groups, or homophile groups, as they lled themselv at one pot, uld not have dreamt of havg rourc for teenagers. Harvey Milk, was a visnary civil and human rights lear who beme one of the first openly gay elected officials the Uned Stat when he won a seat on the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Milk’s unprecented loud and unapologetic proclamatn of his thenticy as an openly gay ndidate for public office, and his subsequent electn gave never before experienced hope to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) people everywhere at a time when the muny was enunterg wispread hostily and discrimatn.

After some area merchants tried to prevent two gay men om openg a store, Milk and a few other bs owners found the Castro Village Associatn, a first the natn anizg of predomantly LGBT bs, wh Milk as print. His amb reform agenda clud protectg gay rights—he sponsored an important anti-discrimatn bill—as well as tablishg day re centers for workg mothers, the nversn of ary facili the cy to low-st hog, reform of the tax to attract dtry to serted wareho and factori, and other issu. He pneered the buildg of alns between diverse groups-women, asians, hispanics, the disabled-and even brought together the teamsters and gay bar owners— return for a pledge om the teamsters to hire more gay drivers, Milk asked bar owners to stop sellg beer om certa distributors while drivers were strikg.

In the years sce Milk’s assassatn, public opn has shifted on gay marriage, gays the ary, and other issu, and there have been hundreds of openly LGBT public officials Ameri, yet the work ntu.

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.