Harvey Milk

Originally posted on www.theangrynipple.com in May 2019 Author: Lexie D’Avino As a young Italian man, living in a reality in which not talking about your own sexuality and lack of basic rights has always been seen as preferable, I grew up without knowing that the LGBTQ+ history and culture were…

Queer A.F. has already raised nearly half of its fundraising goal — Harvey Milk’s legacy lives on in physical flashes and winks across San Francisco and elsewhere in the Bay Area. (If by some weird magic you weren’t aware: The San Francisco International Airport has an entire terminal named in honor of the late San Francisco Board of Supervisors member, who served…

Journalist Randy Shilts was born in Iowa in 1951 but grew up in Aurora, Illinois. Shilts was one of the many libertarian-leaning types within Young Americans for Freedom long before he wrote his And the Band Played On, a history of HIV and AIDS in American politics. Andrew Stoner, in…

It’s the beginning of the rainbow (of civic activism) — In a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Ryan Kost opens his essay, Castro community group tries again to redesign Harvey Milk Plaza, by writing the following: The night San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated, many expected a riot; instead, hundreds gathered at the…

In 2019 conservative Garry Wills wrote a column The Libertarian by which he meant Barry Goldwater. I do think Goldwater was more libertarian than most conservatives but that doesn’t mean I thought he didn’t miss the boat in various places. Compared to today’s Trumpian authoritarians he’s practically a radical anarchist. …

A year before his murder, Harvey Milk — the most visible LGBTQ+ politician in the country at the time — delivered his last stump speech as a will and testament, in front of a lawyer and his tape recorder. Like most of his remarks, it started off stilted. Milk would…

"10 LGBTQ Figures You Should Know" To Celebrate this Pride Month 2021 🏳️‍🌈 — (source by. Insider @BusinessInsider) • source article: https://www.insider.com/lgbtq-figures-you-should-know-2020-5?amp&__twitter_impression=true Let’s use this time to raise awareness and celebrate how wonderful and unique we all are. No matter your sexuality or who you identify as, we are all human. We deserve the same rights, and should be treat as equals

The Wonder of Defining Your Own Queerness — Queer and Here The radical hope of Harvey Milk was the insistence that the queer life be not just a life of fighting, but also a life of joy. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. About Harvey and his refusal to hide or be silent, about his unbridled love for queer…

San Francisco’s Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club did not mince words when it came to Fox News host Tucker Carlson who responded to praising Milk’s murderer, according to the Huffington Post. The letter read thusly: “Dear Mr. Carlson: Fuck you.”