Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk.
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After months of back-and-forth wh California Gov. Gav Newsom, Temecula Valley Unified School District board members have fally voted to adopt a new state-endorsed social studi curriculum that they had prevly rejected twice for s mentn of gay rights activist Harvey Milk. * evita gay los angeles *
” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.
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