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Life
He streaked at the Oscars & ran for President. The wild story of a 70s gay radical
Robert Opel’s odyssey through 1970s sex, art, and politics included brushes with Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk
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News (USA)
Meet the self-loathing gay man behind Tucker Carlson Tonight
Justin Wells has been with Carlson as his executive producer since the beginning.
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Election 2022
Out Dem. Rafael Mandelman is running to keep the seat Harvey Milk once held
In four years as San Francisco’s District 8 supervisor, Mandelman has a lot to show for his efforts.
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LGBTQ History
New unearthed audio shows Dan White confessing to murdering Harvey Milk
Dan White cried while he complained that Harvey Milk was being “devious and started kind of smirking” before he shot him.
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Bias Watch
Tucker Carlson outed as a fan of gay icon Harvey Milk’s killer
He also fanboyed Jesse Helms, the notoriously racist and anti-gay senator from North Carolina.
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LGBTQ History
Republicans dodge metal detectors & tote guns in the capitol. Harvey Milk’s assassin did the same.
It’s hard not to note the parallels between Milk’s murder and Republicans avoiding metal detectors and pledging to carry guns into the nation’s capitol.
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Life
Jane Fonda supported LGBTQ rights in a powerful 1979 interview
“Culturally, psychologically, economically, politically – gays and lesbians are discriminated against. They don’t need me, but… they like me!”
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LGBTQ History
2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the White Night Riot. “He got away with murder!”
The night the man who murdered Harvey Milk got away with murder, there were 12 incinerated police cars, 150 injuries, and dozens of arrests.
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LGBTQ Pride
The remarkable gay-straight political coalition created by Harvey Milk & George Moscone
It was an unlikely partnership.
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LGBTQ Pride
The White Night Riots happened 40 years ago today, but what has changed since then?
While the Stonewall Riots get all the attention, the White Night Riots were a brutal showdown with police that turned mourners into a mob.
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LGBTQ History
Remembering when a San Francisco street car was dedicated to Harvey Milk
The vintage streetcar appeared in a major film.
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News (USA)
San Francisco airport will name new terminal after Harvey Milk
They hope the name change will help queer visitors arriving in the city see “there’s a place where they belong.”
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News (USA)
‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet shatter every closet door’
On this day, 33 years ago, former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White took a gun to City Hall and shot openly-gay Supervisor Harvey Milk five times — the final two shots had White pressing his gun directly at Milk’s skull, according to the medical examiner.