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• GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• COLUMN: ‘SO EXHSTED.’ SHE HELPED W AN EARLY GAY RIGHTS FIGHT BUT NOW SE THE UNTRY MOVG BACKWARD
• 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-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} 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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GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

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.

” 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. 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.

COLUMN: ‘SO EXHSTED.’ SHE HELPED W AN EARLY GAY RIGHTS FIGHT BUT NOW SE THE UNTRY MOVG BACKWARD

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. 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.

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-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} 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

Opponents of the textbook argue that sex and homosexualy should not be tght materials for elementary school stunts, an argument emergg school districts across the natn as many ntue to clu LGBTQ+ ntent si the classroom. Milk, the person ntentn, was the first gay man to w an electn San Francis.

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.

The curriculum – for gras one through five – ntas supplemental rource material for teachers that clus a short bgraphy of Milk, who is believed to be the first openly gay polician elected to public office California 1977. The materials scribe his liftyle and his work for gay rights California until his assassatn 1978. Komrosky said June that his statements about Milk “were not based upon him beg a homosexual, but rather based upon him beg an adult havg a sexual relatnship wh a mor.

IS LRENCE HARVEY GAY?

File Photo by Eric Thayer/UPIJuly 19 (UPI) -- 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.

" 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.

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But she par their closens to Oprah Wey, 65, and her bt iend, Gayle Kg, as they have also been falsely lked.

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1948 Montgomery Clift Gay Never.

1948 Clifton Webb Gay Never. 1951 Montgomery Clift Gay Never.

1953 Montgomery Clift Gay Never. 1956 Rock Hudson Gay/Bisexual Never.

1959 Lrence Harvey Gay Never. 1972 Pl Wfield Gay Never.