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On this Harvey Milk Day 2022 as we find our rights, our very live still being attached by the GOP/Right Wing. NOW more than ever we need to remember these words.

HARVEY MILK DAY – Harvey Milk’s HOPE Speech, (Full Transcript + Audio)

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On this Harvey Milk Day 2023 as we find our rights, our very lives still being attacked by the GOP/”Christian” Right Wing. NOW more than ever we need to remember these words.

 “My name is Harvey Milk, and I’m here to recruit you. I’ve been saying this one for years. It’s a political joke. I can’t help it. I’ve got to tell it. I’ve never been able to talk to this many political people before, so if I tell you nothing else, you may be able to go home laughing a bit.

This ocean liner was going across the ocean, and it sank. And there was one little piece of wood floating. And three people swam to it. And they realized only one person could hold onto it. So they had a little debate about which was the person.

It so happened that the three people were the Pope, the President and Mayor Daley. The Pope said he was the titular head of one of the greatest religions of the world, and he was spiritual adviser to many, many millions. And he went on and pontificated. And they thought it was a good argument.

Then the President said he was the leader of the largest and most powerful nation of the world. What takes place in this country affects the whole world. And they thought that was a good argument.

And Mayor Daley said he was the mayor of the backbone of the United States. And what took place in Chicago affected the world. And what took place in the Archdiocese of Chicago affected Catholicism. And they thought that was a good argument. So they did it the democratic way and voted. And Daley won seven to two.

About six months ago, Anita Bryant, in her speaking to God, said that the drought in California was because of the gay people. On November 9, the day after I got elected, it started to rain. On the day I got sworn in, we walked to City Hall. And it was kind of nice. And as soon as I said the word “I do,” it started to rain again. It’s been raining since then. And the people of San Francisco figure the only way to stop it is to do a recall petition. That’s the local joke.

So much for that. Why are we here? Why are gay people here? And what’s happening? What’s happening to me is the antithesis of what you read about in the papers and what you hear about on the radio. You hear about and read about this movement to the right, that we must band together and fight back this movement to the right. And I’m here to go ahead and say that what you hear and read is what they want you to think.

Because it’s not happening. The major media in this country has talked about the movement to the right, so the legislators think that there is indeed a movement to the right and that the Congress and the legislators and the City Council will start to move to the right and the way the major media want them. So they keep on talking about this move to the right.

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San Francisco International Airport Set To Name Terminal In Honor of Harvey Milk

Gay History – May 22: Harvey Milk Day – “You have to give people hope.”

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“Without knowing, understanding, and embracing our past. We can not move forward in the future….”

Harvey Bernard Milk  (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and served 11 months in office.

The “Hope Speech” became Harvey Milk’s stump speech. He gave a skeletal version when he declared his candidacy in 1977 and an expanded version in 1978 for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade, later known as the Gay Pride Parade. For that parade, Milk commissioned his friend Gilbert Baker to come up with a logo; Baker created the gay pride Rainbow Flag, which was first waved at that parade. Chicago native and science fiction writer Frank Robinson, also Milk’s speechwriter and a close adviser, helped pen the “Hope Speech.”

In the speech, Milk references adversaries Anita Bryant and California legislator John Briggs, who campaigned nationally against gay rights. Addressing gay youths across the United States afraid to come out, Milk cites his election as a gay politician in San Francisco as a testament of hope. For those youths contemplating suicide or staying in the closet, there were two new options, Milk said: “Go to California, or stay … and fight.”

On November 27, 1978, Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White,  (full confession) another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back.  White was unstable and highly homophobic. Milk’s election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics. The assassinations and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city.

In August 2009, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his contribution to the gay rights movement stating “he fought discrimination with visionary courage and conviction”. Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk accepted his uncle.  Not long after that, Stuart co-founded the Harvey Milk Foundation.

Harvey Milk became an icon and a martyr for the gay community and is “the most famous and most significantly open gay official ever elected in the United States”.  Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: “What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us

In 2009 then California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger designated May 22 as “Harvey Milk Day”, and inducted Milk in the California Hall of Fame. The Harvey Milk Foundation began coordinating global recognition and celebration of Harvey Milk Day.

Harry Britt summarized Milk’s impact the evening Milk was shot in 1978:

“No matter what the world has taught us about ourselves, we can be beautiful and we can get our thing together … Harvey was a prophet … he lived by a vision … Something very special is going to happen in this city and it will have Harvey Milk’s name on it.”

 

 

Tomorrow May 22nd. is Harvey Milk Day - WATCH: "The Times of Harvey Milk" Documentary (1984)

Tomorrow May 22nd. is Harvey Milk Day – WATCH: “The Times of Harvey Milk” Documentary. (1984)

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The Oscar-winning documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk” follows Milk’s rise from a neighborhood activist to a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination in November 1978 at San Francisco’s city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath.

Directed by Rob Epstein. The documentary combines archival footage, interviews with friends, colleagues, and activists who knew Milk, and narration by actor Harvey Fierstein. It provides a comprehensive and intimate portrait of Milk’s personal life, his political achievements, and the social and political climate of San Francisco during the 1970s.

“The Times of Harvey Milk” delves into Milk’s activism and his fight for gay rights, showcasing his grassroots organizing, charismatic speeches, and efforts to build alliances. The film highlights Milk’s role in the defeat of the Briggs Initiative, a proposition that sought to ban gay teachers in California. It also explores the challenges he faced as an openly gay politician and the increasing hostility he encountered.

The documentary combines archival footage, interviews with friends, colleagues, and activists who knew Milk, and narration by actor Harvey Fierstein.

Presented in English w/Spanish subtitles.

*Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the copyright act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, scholarship, and research

CA Hate Group Uses Lies and Propaganda and Lies To Tarnish Harvey Milk Day

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Save California Harvey Milk Hate

This Wednesday May 22nd, is Harvey Milk Day in California; a day which is intended to honor and celebrate the most important gay rights activist in history. So of course one anti-gay organization, SaveCalifornia.com, is once again trying to tarnish the memory of Harvey Milk and tarnish the day using propaganda lie filled radio ads airing in Sacramento and Los Angeles to urge parents to keep their kids home from school that day as not to learn about Harvey’s civil rights achievements for the LGBT community.

Randy Thomasson, the president of the group and an anti-gay activists who’s so extreme that most on his own side are embarrassed to be seen with him explains his reasoning behind the illogical boycott:

 “This is harmful to children…This is not academic, it’s brainwashing. Children belong to the parents, not to the state, and to force a sexual agenda and a political agenda upon children, that’s highly inappropriate.”

Let me tell you what is highly inappropriate it’s the all of the information as well as a video posted on the group’s website (whose link I will not post as to not push traffic their way but you can GOOGLE Save California if you wish) which is full of nothing but hateful lies and anti-gay propaganda. The alarmist image above is from the group’s website.

Watch the CBS13 news segment about the groups ( which they describe as a “conservative group”) hateful and intollerant anti-gay campaign against Harvey.

 

May 22nd is Harvey Milk Day – Watch the Full Length Documentary "The Times of Harvey Milk "

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By now, especially after the Oscar winning movie “Milk” everyone should have at least some idea who Harvey Milk was.

But fot those of you who stumbled here and are without a clue heres a great chance to learn something about a true LGBT hero.

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and served 11 months in office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back. Milk’s election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics. The assassinations and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city.

In August 2009, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his contribution to the gay rights movement stating “he fought discrimination with visionary courage and conviction”. Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk accepted for his uncle.  Not long after that, Stuart co-founded the Harvey Milk Foundation with Anne Kronenberg with the support of Desmond Tutu, co-recipient of 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom and now a member of the Foundation’s Advisory Board.  

In late 2009 then California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger designated May 22 as “Harvey Milk Day”, and inducted Milk in the California Hall of Fame.

Staring this year (2011), The Harvey Milk Foundation began coordinating global recognition and celebration of Harvey Milk Day.

Harry Britt summarized Milk’s impact the evening Milk was shot in 1978: “No matter what the world has taught us about ourselves, we can be beautiful and we can get our thing together … Harvey was a prophet … he lived by a vision … Something very special is going to happen in this city and it will have Harvey Milk’s name on it.”

Watch the Oscar-winning documentary film about the career and assassination of San Francisco’s first openly gay man to be elected to office.

Directed by Rob Epstein. and Narrated by Harvey Fierstein

Happy Harvey Milk Day! – Watch: MILK (2008) DVD-RIP In Streaming DiVX Here! (Video)

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After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city’s mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White’s attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.
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Students At The Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, in San Francisco Wish Harvey Milk A Happy Birthday! (Video)

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Students, teachers, faculty, and parents at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, in San Francisco, wish Harvey Milk a happy birthday for the very first official Harvey Milk Day (May 22, 2010).   It’s a really cute video. (Expect it to be featured widely on anti-gay sites this week with the words “homosexual indoctrination” )

Homo Say What? (Part Duex) – Hatemonger Randy Thomasson of Save California: “Teachers, principals, and schools that push Harvey Milk’s values are responsible for the degradation of children as human beings.”

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Hatemongering homophobe Randy Thomasson of Save California is calling for parents to keep their children home from school during any Harvey Milk Day observations. Because kids will be instructed on cross-dressing! And Harvey Milk endorsed pedophilia!

And any mention in schools of Cesar Chavez’s birthday will magically turn our children into organized labor activists, any mention of Martin Luther King, Jr., will turn them into civil rights activists and I suppose (hopefully) any mention of St. Patrick will give children the ability to lead all the snakes like Randy Thomasson out of our country..

Here’s a report about Thomasson thinks about Harvey Milk Day:

Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com reports that May 17-28 may include exercises in celebration of Milk, as students will participate in commemorative activities honoring him without parental notification or consent. The exercises could consist of anything teachers or school board members deem appropriate, including in-class reading and writing activities about the politician, or watching the film Milk. Assemblies teaching homosexuality and alternate lifestyles, cross-dressing contests, or mock “gay” parades and weddings could also take place.

Thomasson is alerting parents to contact their child’s school and ascertain the specific days and activities that will honor the late homosexual politician. If any celebration is scheduled to commemorate Milk, the pro-family activist urges parents to keep their children home. “It is a moral crime for virtually all the Democrats in the California legislature to force this upon the six-million children in California schools,” Thomason argues. He adds that Milk was one of the worst examples as a role model for children. “Milk believed in adult-child sex; he believed in lying to get ahead. He is one of the worst role models that children could have,” the SaveCalifornia.com president contends. “Teachers, principals, and schools that push Harvey Milk’s values are responsible for the degradation of children as human beings.”

Harvey Milk and cross-dressing? Thomasson is obviously confusing Harvey with Rudi Giuliani.

Okay now everbody,  repeat after me.

Thommason is caught with a naked male prostitute and his pants around his ankles in 5…4…3…2………