Gay rights groups in NY suburbs honor Harvey Milk
By MARCUS FRANKLIN – 7 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRmpzFjY0mNRKKtPv5Ywh9oSbFcAD97KBELG0NEW YORK (AP) — When Harvey Milk attended high school in suburban Long Island in the 1940s, and later taught math and history and coached basketball there, he kept his sexuality a well-guarded secret.
"Like most men of his generation," biographer Randy Shilts wrote in "The Mayor of Castro Street," "Milk assiduously stuck to the double life he had carefully followed since his high school days."
More than half a century later, the Long Island Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Services Network will honor the slain gay-rights activist posthumously to draw attention to gays and lesbians with small-town roots. Milk's nephew, Stuart Milk, will accept the award for his uncle on Saturday.
