Newsom nam first openly gay jtice to state Supreme Court - The San Diego Unn-Tribune

Contents:

• GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
• CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
• GAV NEWSOM THREATENS 'RADILIZED ZEALOTS' ON LOL SCHOOL BOARD WHO REJECTED BOOKS TEACHG ABOUT GAY ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
• NEWSOM NAM FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
• CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM CALLS FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ‘STATE-SPONSORED INTIMIDATN OF LGBTQ CHILDREN’
• SF MAYOR GAV NEWSOM RISKS CAREER ON GAY MARRIAGE

GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE

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.

CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT

” 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. 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. 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.

GAV NEWSOM THREATENS 'RADILIZED ZEALOTS' ON LOL SCHOOL BOARD WHO REJECTED BOOKS TEACHG ABOUT GAY ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

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. 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.

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. 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.

NEWSOM NAM FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT

In that poll, more than a quarter of nservativ and 35% of Republins supported gay marriage. And is voters who have led the policians: Not until late sprg of 2012, after he was publicly prodd by Vice Print Joe Bin, did Print Obama pronounce his support for gay marriage, a move that Newsom lled “a profound moment” bee of the petive reelectn race the print faced. Dianne Feste did say 2004 that gay marriage surfaced “too much, too fast, too soon.

’”More needs to be done on the gay rights ont, he said, as dited by recent battl Indiana and elsewhere over whether bs owners n refe to serve gays. “This cisn today is not gog to end homophobia, ’s not gog to end bigotry agast the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muni, ” he said.

This headle was set to give me a d anrysm, as well as a boner, until I realized wasn’t tend to read as the “Homosexual Lover (of) Gav Newsom” — simply that he is a fenr of ‘mos. The Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) voted agast implementg a textbook that mentns late gay rights activist Harvey Milk, cg ncerns over his alleged sexual relatnship wh mors. "Milk was the first gay man to w an electn San Francis.

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM CALLS FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ‘STATE-SPONSORED INTIMIDATN OF LGBTQ CHILDREN’

" 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. A Milk bgraphy chronicled the relatnship but gay rights activists have said suggtns that Milk was a pedophile are famatory.

Shilts was not jt gay but an activist journalist who ed his wrg to advance homosexual . ” It ignor that the rmatn upon which the board print based his asssment exclively om gay men who knew Milk. The sourc relied upon for my book Cult Cy: Jim Jon, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francis, which portrayed Milk as a predator seekg very vulnerable and very young paramours, were gay.

SF MAYOR GAV NEWSOM RISKS CAREER ON GAY MARRIAGE

One well-known member of San Francis’s gay muny, who wished to rema unknown for obv reasons Cult Cy, reunted a 1970s night on the town wh a group that spl up when Milk’s teenaged date uld not ga entry to bars.

Early the next morng, this proment gay man disvered the youngster beat up, balled up, and bawlg Milk’s doorway. Milk told li about Jon bee Jon supported gay rights.

Last month, the board for the Temecula Valley Unified School District, which has several far-right members, voted 3-2 agast approvg elementary school social studi materials that briefly mentned gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Newsom was San Francis’s youngt mayor a century when jt three months to his term he jumped to the gay marriage was creded wh advancg the civil rights of gays and lbians more than a before the U.

Gav Newsom promised to e the power of the state to overturn a cisn by a lol school board to reject a social studi book that tght about a gay polil activist. Temecula Valley Unified District erng board members said they did not object to Milk beg clud as part of the curriculum bee he was gay but bee he had admted to havg a relatnship wh a 16-year-old when he was his 30s.

Defenrs of the gay rights activist argue that at the time, 16 years was the age of nsent many stat. As per the Los Angel Tim, when Newsom began issug licens permtg gay upl to wed 2004, he was said to have mted "polil suici.