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Harvey Milk Day [message #62433]

Thu, 20 May 2010 04:53

ray2x

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Location: USA
Registered: April 2009
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This Saturday May 22nd is Harvey Milk Day, the first openly gay elected San Francisco council man. Governor Terminator signed the bill and California now has the opportunity to honor Milk. It's a rather new celebration. Not sure how many will celebrate his life. But he's a hero for sure.

Raymundo

Re: Harvey Milk Day [message #62471 is a reply to message #62433]

Sun, 23 May 2010 11:07

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

Interested to know what transpired, where, and what the reaction was to it.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: Harvey Milk Day [message #62472 is a reply to message #62471]

Sun, 23 May 2010 12:19

Brody Levesque

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Registered: September 2009
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Brody's Notes... Dustin Lance Black Delivers Speech On Milk Legacy

By Brody Levesque (Bethesda, Maryland) May 23 | In a short six minute informal speech delivered to a gathering sponsored by Equality California yesterday, Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, honoured the observance of California's inaugural Harvey Milk Day , in celebration of what would have been the slain LGBT Equality Rights activist's 80th birthday.
Speaking to the group of volunteers who spent the day canvassing for marriage equality in East Los Angeles neighborhoods, Black told the volunteers, that during his testimony last year in front of the California State Senate committee hearing on creation of the holiday to honour Milk, he had explained to the Senators that the number one lesson he had learned as he grew up attending a Salinas, California High School, was that being Gay meant being "less than," and as he looked upon the faces of the conservative Republicans on that committee, he emphasized that learning about Milk took a turn of luck to realise that there was a 'forefather' who'd inspire him that it was okay to be Gay. Black noted that the legacy now would be told to countless LGBT California students because of the creation of the day to honour Milk and that it would have a profound impact on those future generations of LGBT youth.

Dustin Lance Black Photo By Getty Images

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Re: Harvey Milk Day [message #62499 is a reply to message #62472]

Thu, 27 May 2010 05:41

ray2x

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Location: USA
Registered: April 2009
Messages: 430

LAUSD principals asked instructors to talk about the Harvey Milk Day, however brief. I read Wikipedia about Milk and then made a 10 minute presentation to my class. They knew of Milk due to the movie of the same name. They were most interested in the reasons of his death. In retrospect, 10 minutes was not nearly enough to discuss more in depth about Milk.

Raymundo

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