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On Harvey Milk Day 2009, would he be proud of us?

Started by Shana A, May 22, 2009, 02:59:51 PM

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May 22, 2009, 02:59:51 PM Last Edit: May 22, 2009, 08:38:55 PM by Zythyra
On Harvey Milk Day 2009, would he be proud of us?
Chuck Wolfe

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/05/would_harvey_milk_be_proud_of_us.php

Shortly before he died in 1978, openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk made some extraordinarily prescient audio recordings.  On one recording, he famously said, "If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door."

Today would have been Harvey's 79th birthday but for Dan White's bullet.

May 22nd, Harvey Milk Day, is a good time to reflect on whether we have heeded his call to live openly and fight hard for true equality.  Would Harvey be proud of where we are in 2009?  The truth is I think he'd be celebrating on Castro Street some days and marching up the National Mall on others:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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