1.0 link 145288 <![CDATA[What Harvey Milk Tells Us About Proposition 8]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-epstein/what-harvey-milk-tells-us_b_145288.html Thirty years ago on election night Harvey Milk gave an electrifying speech at the "No on Proposition 6" headquarters in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco. The results were in: Proposition 6 was going down to defeat.

In 1978, Proposition 6 ( "the Briggs Initiative") was the California ballot measure aimed at preventing gay people and supporters from working as teachers in public schools. Harvey Milk was a San Francisco city council member who had been in office for a...

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