California Gov. Gav Newsom followed through on threats to fe a school district for refg to adopt state-approved curriculum that featured gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
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- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS? ‘MILK’
- STT MILLS B, NET WORTH, PARTNER, AGE, CAREER, FACTS, SHOWS, GAY
- GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS? ‘MILK’
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * is milks gay *
In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays?
In 2015, the wake of this summer’s Supreme Court lg that legalized same-sex marriage, ’s hard to image a time when homosexualy was crimalized.
That’s why San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office California and who was assassated ls than eleven months to his first term, remas a qutsential Amerin hero who fought and died not jt for his own rights but for the rights of others. This reflects the work he did the Castro neighborhood as a private cizen years before, anizg the growg gay muny to boytt lol bs that weren’t gay iendly. ” It’s through the foc on visibily and polil actn that Milk tablished himself a lear the muny, later a martyr for the gay rights e, and ultimately an important historil figure who was posthumoly honored wh the Printial Medal of Freedom 2009.
STT MILLS B, NET WORTH, PARTNER, AGE, CAREER, FACTS, SHOWS, GAY
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I feel bad that I don’t like more; I feel like, as a gay man, I am supposed to nsir a major artistic achievement but, on the ntrary, the film feels so clil and by-the-book.
Van Sant peppers the film wh documentary footage, wh the openg cred sequence highlightg vlent moments the ’50s and ’60s when gay men were arrted bars or clashed wh police.
GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
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. * is milks gay *
It also briefly touch on what ultimately won him his seat: redistrictg, a mon polil tactic that ensur to serve polilly homogeno muni.
That a few handsome straight dus had to nvce an dience of straight people that beg gay was OK. That my fellow gay guys lapped right up and cried along when we see Harvey Milk shot executn style (while starg poetilly at a poster for Pucci’s Tos he had seen the night before). That we need another movie to pict our sufferg — and the ath of a gay protagonist — orr for an dience to regnize our humany.
US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
Harvey Milk advoted for g out as an effective polil act, one that a thirty-somethg gay man probably tak for granted. In a pair of scen, an anonymo gay kid om Mnota ntacts Milk. In the first, he tells him over the phone that he wants to kill himself bee his parents are planng to send him to be cured of his homosexualy; he laments his abily to n away om home bee he is wheelchair-bound.
) In the send, on the night that Milk’s efforts to block the Ana Bryant-backed Briggs Iniative (which would have fired any homosexual teachers California, as well as any teacher who exprsed support for their homosexual -workers), the same kid lls aga to exprs his gratu and and to tell Milk that he succsfully fled to Los Angel.
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