After Harvey Milk became one of the first out gay people elected in 1977, he put up a sign in his store window that just said, "Thank You." Thirty-five years later, an out lesbian named Tammy Baldwin would be elected to the US Senate. Remembering Harvey Milk, killed on this day in 1978.
I heard that he had been shot when I was still at work. My friends and I left work and joined the candlelight parade going down Market Steet. It was a sorrowful, powerful moment of mourning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk
http://www.afterelton.com/2012/11/harvey-milk-quotes-animated-gif-journey
2 comments:
Buzz was in the City Hall building just shortly before the shooting...
WOW - that must have been scary! I worked at Davies Medical Center & I remember the rumors running through the staff before the murders were confirmed. The march that night was peaceful but later marches (the White Night riots) turned into expensive mayhem. I know because I would be asked to stay to help process people coming into the hospital after being clubbed or beaten.
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