harvey milk day 2012

Who is Harvey Milk?

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I didn't know who he was either until the biography was released in  October 28, 2008. A preview of the film appeared and we decided to see it at the theatre and that's when we learned of Milk. I like to address him as Milk Harvey but that's just me. It was basically of his later years in life. You think biography and say how boring but it wasn't that at all. It was quite interesting. He was a gay rights activist and politician, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was loved by so many just for being himself. He never gave up believed in equal rights. He was a person that you could not keep quiet was full of life. He had plans for the future but that future was cut too short. He served in the United States Navy and became a teacher before pursuing in politics.

I haven't heard of another human being fighting for equal gay rights as he did. Maybe it's not as important. You have to think about it this way. It's people like him that have shown us that if we really want to accomplish something being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender should not stop us from moving forward. We as a group have come along way, not as individuals. I might be a disgrace but to myself i am just another human that wants to be equal.

Milk was assassinated November 27, 1978. He was shot five times, twice in the head.  Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed that day. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White. Dan White shot and killed Harvey not for being gay but for being envious of him. White turned himself in. White and Milk were friends. White was even for equal rights. Some say White was antigay and that Milk and Mayor Moscone represented the wrong in this world. Milk was 48 years old. Moscone was 49. Dan White only served a little over seven years for both murders. He is the excuse of the the Twinkie Defense. Milk was cremated half his ashes were scattered in San Francisco Bay by his closets friends. The rest were encapsulated and buried beneath the sidewalk in front of 575 Castro Street. When they went to his apartment to find something for him to wear for the services they realized how the economy took a toll not making enough as a city supervisor. They found clothing he owned coming apart and socks with holes in them.

When I did more research I came to find that he lived in Dallas at least two times. His first stay here was not good. He couldn't find any work. He claimed Dallas wasn't very friendly and social. He came back a second time because work had brought him back to Dallas. Isn't that ironic. His second stay was much better he remembers how Dallas was beginning to change.

We made a bigger change when for the first time in Dallas was to celebrate Harvey Milk Day the year 2012.

GetEQUAL TX will host Big D The event begins at 8:30 p.m. at the Legacy of Love Monument, at Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road it’s first-ever Harvey Milk Day Celebration. When I heard about this I wanted to be there. They were to have a candlelight vigil to remember Harvey Milk and to celebrated his birthday May 22, 2012. He would have been 82 years old. What would it have been for us to see what all this man could have done if  his life would have not been cut short?

There is so much more that I could tell you about Milk but then again the point that I'm trying to make is for you to know who he was. If you ever come along the biography stop to learn of him.

At the end of the celebration we sang Happy Birthday to Harvey Milk and GetEQUAL passed out ballons and let them fly into the sky.

 I ask my gay sisters and brothers to make the commitment to fight. For themselves, for their freedom, for their country ... We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets... We are coming out to fight the lies, the myths, the distortions. We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it. You must come out. Come out to your parents, your relatives -"Harvey Milk"