SchoolsPosted by kimknox at 23 Nov 2006 08:09 pm
Monday, Nov. 27-Candlelight Vigil in the Memory of Harvey Milk (edit this)
Please join us to gather in memory of Harvey Milk and all our dead martyrs on the anniversary of Supervisor Milk’s and Mayor Moscone’s assassination on Monday, Nov. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at Castro and Market.
The Candlelight gathering will be followed by short procession to the location of Milk’s camera shop.
November 25th, 2006 at 5:03 am e
It’s hard to believe that 28 years have gone by, pre-AIDS and
truly a great landmark time in gay history.I knew both Harvey and George , Harvey who like many of us that left our hometowns to be ourselves and became pioneers in the many facets that made up the gay community and George a hometown San Franciscan who was able to help in so many ways…
There were no road maps back then, today their vision’s are standards throughOUT America. Havey who helped stamp out the Briggs initiave and George who showed up and took part of so many gay events within the Castro and throughout the city.
I left Chicago in the early 60’s because knowing or being someone gay was considered Taboo, but when I got to S.F. there was laws on the city’s books that if you wanted to dress in drag (not my forte) you had to wear a tag saying BOY, or you could be arrested, even on Halloween. Thanks to some courageous drag queens like Jose Sarria who fought and help change those laws and ran for Supervisor a decade before Harvey and got over 6,000 votes that begat gay politics. The guys who started up the gay Community Softball League, the first gay organized sports league in the country, today there are over 50 cities with gay sports associations. I am back living in Chicago and this past year over 400,000 people took part in the Gay Day Parade, and thousands and thousands were involved in the 2006 Gay Games including Mayor Daley, The Chicago Historical Society has an ongoing OUT at the CHS series that tells of the great contributions gays have made to Chicago and elsewhere, both the Cubs and Sox’s have OUT days at their ballparks and there are openly gay Alderman,Judges and elected officials. Just ths past summer I took in a play at a prep High School and in the playbill one of the student actors listed that he belonged to the Gay/Straight Alliance. All these events would not of taken place if Harvey and George and all those other visionaries did not openly fight for change. For those of us, lucky to have been there and know them and see the great changes but we still have a long way to go to make sure as Harvey use to say that kids in Altoona, Pa.
and small town and rural America do not have to leave their hometowns to be themselves. Thanks Harvey and George for being there…then and NOW!