Mayor Gee Mosne enacted the most sweepg gay rights protectns of any cy the untry. A year later, he and Harvey Milk were shot to ath Cy Hall.
Contents:
- 40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
- GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
- HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
- SAN FRANCIS MAY GET S FIRST GAY MAYOR
- SF MAYOR GAV NEWSOM RISKS CAREER ON GAY MARRIAGE
- ASSASSATED SAN FRANCIS MAYOR’S PAPERS GIVE FASCATG GLIMPSE OF EARLY GAY RIGHTS POLICS
40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. * gay san francisco mayor *
40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. 40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California.
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: Colorado this month elected the untry's first openly gay ernor. This all 40 years after the assassatn of the first openly gay elected official California, Harvey Milk.
In California, a nservative state senator named John Briggs was phg a statewi ballot measure - Prop 6 - to ban gay and lbian teachers. Harvey Milk, an openly gay member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, led the fight agast the proposn, batg Briggs around the state. He thought the murr meant the end of the gay rights movement.
GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to marry. * gay san francisco mayor *
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.
But he worri that as queer people are priced out of gay neighborhoods like the Castro, dilut their polil power. 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.
A prev versn of this story rrectly stated that Gee Mosne was the first openly gay elected official California. In fact, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official California. Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to rights have been fought for over s.
HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
Mark Leno would have been the cy's first gay mayor, but London Breed mak history as s first Ain-Amerin woman mayor. * gay san francisco mayor *
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. Senators, om the Bay area — were opposed to gay marriage.
SAN FRANCIS MAY GET S FIRST GAY MAYOR
San Francis uld make history Tuday by electg s first Ain-Amerin woman, Asian-Amerin woman or openly gay man for mayor. * gay san francisco mayor *
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.
SF MAYOR GAV NEWSOM RISKS CAREER ON GAY MARRIAGE
Gav Newsom, a vol supporter of gay marriage, is bettg his future on the fact that social attus are growg more liberal. * gay san francisco mayor *
In May of 2008, when the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, he growled out a fger-potg, tntg msage to gay marriage opponents. In the narrowg marg was a harbger of astonishg change to the last several years, approval of gay marriage has surged at warp speed.
ASSASSATED SAN FRANCIS MAYOR’S PAPERS GIVE FASCATG GLIMPSE OF EARLY GAY RIGHTS POLICS
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.