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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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Life
San Francisco to hold massive display of AIDS Memorial Quilt to honor its 35th anniversary
“The Quilt is an important reminder that the HIV/AIDS crisis is still not over and there is much work to be done.”
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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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News (USA)
The Navy reports the ship named after Harvey Milk is more than halfway done
A welcomed development from the Navy — that once discharged the civil rights leader — just in time for today’s observation of #HarveyMilkDay.
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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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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 Pride
Not into documentaries? Here are 5 films based on LGBTQ history that will grab your attention.
Interested in adding a little LGBTQ history to your movie watchlist, but don’t feel up to a hardcore documentary? We got you.
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LGBTQ History
Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones was bisexual & friends with Harvey Milk
The mass murder-suicide was the largest casualty of American citizens before 9/11.
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LGBTQ History
Assassinated San Francisco mayor’s papers give fascinating glimpse of early gay rights politics
Mayor George Moscone enacted the most sweeping gay rights protections of any city in the country. A year later, he and Harvey Milk were shot to death in City Hall.
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LGBTQ History
Pride in Pictures 2012: Police & Pride
It’s been a precarious relationship. But love blossoms.
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LGBTQ Pride
Portland honors Harvey Milk by renaming major street in LGBTQ district
The vote was unanimous.
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LGBTQ Pride
Pride in Pictures 1987: The AIDS Memorial Quilt goes on display
The power of Pride resonates through the Quilt.
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LGBTQ Pride
Pride in Pictures 1978: Harvey Milk makes coming out an international battle cry
The Mayor of Castro marches in SF and LA.
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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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Commentary
The Legacy of ‘Seeing’ Harvey Milk
Thirty-five years ago today, our country lost a man who symbolized the breakdown of barriers for LGBT elected officials everywhere. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office in California, had held his office for less than a year before he was assassinated. But even in that short time, Milk helped erase some of the invisible boundaries defining who in our country can be elected officials. Following Marian Wright Edelman’s famous words that “you can’t be what you can’t see,” Harvey Milk gave generations to come a successful LGBT elected official to “see.”
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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.