Harvey Milk sculpture planned for San Francisco

[Kadie]

Harvey Milk sculpture planned for SF
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SAN FRANCISCO - A bronze bust of the first openly gay man to hold a prominent elected office in the United States is going up in City Hall, more than 28 years after he was assassinated.

Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and shot to death a year later, along with Mayor George Moscone, by fellow supervisor Dan White. White was convicted of manslaughter, and served a little more than three years in prison before committing suicide.

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The Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial Committee, which spent the past six years raising money for the project, said it hopes to install the sculpture on May 22, 2008, which would have been Milk's 78th birthday.

In the years since his death, Milk has become the most recognizable martyr of the gay rights movement.

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[hedgehog]

1. It was only years later that I understood everything that Milk did

for us. He is an American hero, not just a gay hero.

[Parche]

2. Harvey Milk

I watched the Documentary on Harvey when it first came out, fighting back tears
and emotion, he did more good for everyone in the US then a lot of politicians have in their lifetimes.
He will always be missed

[TlalocW]

3. I remember a reading on NPR several years back

I wish I knew who it was, but it basically was a story written by an older Jewish gentleman in San Francisco about his taking a writing class - talking about missing his wife, the Kosher butcher shop he ran, and his learning of gay rights and his coming to support them. There were plenty of funny little tidbits like his finding out that his writing instructor was a lesbian, and his thinking, "Ach, such a shame that one. Such a pretty girl too, making the fellers all crazy for her." Apparently he met and became friends with Harvey Milk before he was killed, and one of the best parts was where he declares, "Harvey Milk... You were a mensch!"

TlalocW

[Lex]

4. I *highly* recommend the DVD "The Times of Harvey Milk."

Every progressive should watch it. It is simply amazing.

It won an Oscar for Best Documentary the year it was released.