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Harvey Milk

No Harvey Milk Airport, But There's A Silver Lining...

AP | Posted 05.08.2013 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco International Airport is not going to be renamed after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, after all. Supervisor...

Jane Fonda Recalls Friendship With 'Wonderful, Lovable' Harvey Milk

Posted 05.01.2013 | Gay Voices

Hollywood icon Jane Fonda opened up about her friendship with Harvey Milk in a new interview with drag legend Miss Coco Peru. "He was the most won...

Celebrate Neighborday on April 27

Ben Goldhirsh | Posted 04.27.2013 | Impact
Ben Goldhirsh

I'm a member of GOOD, the worldwide community of people who give a damn. We are pragmatic idealists working towards individual and collective progress. And today, I am excited to share the first holiday of the GOOD community: on April 27, we celebrate Neighborday all around the world.

Harvey Milk Gets A Huge Honor

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.01.2013 | San Francisco

NEW YORK — A new concert piece about Harvey Milk by Tony Award-nominee Andrew Lippa will have its world premiere in June in San Francisco to mar...

Coming Out Is Speaking Out

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics
Roy Speckhardt

Senator Portman's son Will's decision to come out to his father was a brave one, especially considering his father's public opposition to gay marriage. His bravery is exactly what we all must emulate if we are to defeat those who would see our society divided upon sexual, religious, or other lines.

When My 8-Year-Old Gay Son Taught His Class About Harvey Milk

Amelia | Posted 05.05.2013 | Gay Voices
Amelia

On this day in a second-grade classroom in the Midwest, Harvey Milk was on the same stage as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as an 8-year-old gay boy who has never seen the need for a closet told Milk's story.

Hannah Bricker

PHOTOS: Harvey Milk's 'Marriage License' Found?

HuffingtonPost.com | Hannah Bricker | Posted 02.20.2013 | San Francisco

With mere weeks until the California Supreme Court reviews the constitutionality of the state's same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, a new document c...

To Move Or Not To Move?

Amelia | Posted 04.21.2013 | Gay Voices
Amelia

As our children grow, we look around and wonder, "Is this the right place for us to be? Is this where we want our children to grow up? What is the environment we've chosen teaching them?" These questions were heightened after our oldest son started identifying as gay at a young age.

We Are All Just People

Elan Barnehama | Posted 02.05.2013 | Gay Voices
Elan Barnehama

By any measure there have been tremendous gains in acceptance. But still, the list containing Mollie Olgin and Kristene Chapa, Jadin Bell, Tyler Clementi, Matthew Shepard, and countless others is not shrinking.

Harvey Milk Is My Religion

Sarah Prager | Posted 04.06.2013 | Gay Voices
Sarah Prager

While I knew since before I came out to myself that there are many gay people of faith and many faiths that accept gays, God and religion are not where I turned. Learning about the stories of those LGBT people who had come before me gave me strength.

San Francisco International - Harvey Milk Airport? Why Not, Indeed!

Michael Yaki | Posted 03.18.2013 | San Francisco
Michael Yaki

What better way to remind and educate the world of the historic life and times of Harvey Milk than at one of the great crossroads of the world, our own international airport?

Teacher Canned In Mexico For Showing 'Milk'

Latino Rebels | Posted 01.15.2013 | Latino Voices

With all that was happening in December, here is one story we just missed, but after we received a Change.org petition that is now going viral on the ...

Harvey Milk International?

AP | Posted 03.17.2013 | Travel

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco lawmaker on Tuesday introduced legislation that would ask voters to rename the city's airport after slain gay r...

Letter to the Marine Who Warned Dianne Feinstein About His Guns and Freedom

Jim Sleeper | Posted 03.09.2013 | Politics
Jim Sleeper

Here in today's casino-financed, un-unionized, gladatorially entertained America, a lot of the people who are arming themselves against irrational fears have let themselves become the meek servants of huge corporate bureaucracies that no one elected.

PHOTOS: Harvey Milk, George Moscone Remembered After Assassinations

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.29.2012 | San Francisco

November 27 is a sensitive day for San Francisco. Anyone who lived in this city in 1978 remembers that morning, four days after Thanksgiving, when...

Behind the Twinkie Defense

Paul Krassner | Posted 01.16.2013 | Crime
Paul Krassner

Scherr was sitting in the audience at the campus theater where a panel discussion of the case was taking place. I was one of the panelists. When Scherr was introduced from the stage, I couldn't resist saying to him on my microphone, "Care for a Twinkie?"

LGBT History Month Icon Of The Day: Cleve Jones

The Huffington Post | JR Tungol | Posted 10.11.2012 | Gay Voices

Cleve Jones was in his early 20's when he first met Harvey Milk. His life soon changed as he began interning for the famous LGBT rights pioneer and la...

LGBT History Month Icon Of The Day: Harvey Milk

The Huffington Post | JR Tungol | Posted 10.01.2012 | Gay Voices

In his impassioned 1978 "Gay Freedom" speech, Harvey Milk, LGBT rights pioneer, activist and one of the first openly gay officials elected in the Unit...

Saul Alinsky Elementary School? How We Honor America's Radicals and Reformers

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.24.2012 | Politics
Peter Dreier

A society that really wants to celebrate the life of an important figure -- to keep his or her memory alive in our collective psyche -- must do so publicly and permanently.

Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are!

Noah Baron | Posted 09.04.2012 | Gay Voices
Noah Baron

Those of us who were lucky enough to be born into climates safe for us -- because of where we live or because of the identity we have -- have a moral obligation to be out (and yes, I'm looking at you, closeted celebrities). Cowardice and "privacy" are no excuse.

18 Surprising Facts About Pride

Huffington Post | Kevin Burra | Posted 06.04.2012 | Gay Voices

Did you know that the Mafia owned the Stonewall Inn when the famous riots took place in 1969? Or that there were originally eight stripes on the Rainb...

San Diego Dedicates Harvey Milk Street

Mike Spradley | Posted 07.25.2012 | Gay Voices
Mike Spradley

On May 22, 2012 a large crowd gathered at the corner of Center Street and what was formerly known as Blaine Ave., in San Diego, for the unveiling of the nation's first Harvey Milk Street, named for the first openly gay man ever elected to public office in the United States.

San Francisco Official Says 'Ouija Board-Harvey Milk' Comment Was Joke

AP | Posted 05.24.2012 | Weird News

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco supervisor who said he consulted a Ouija board before a vote now says he was joking – and the only spirit he wa...

San Francisco City Official Consults Ouija Board Before Vote

www.huffingtonpost.com | Posted 05.23.2012 | Weird News

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A San Francisco supervisor says he consulted a Ouija board before city leaders voted on whether to recommend naming a Navy ship ...

Two California Cities Honor Harvey Milk With Street, Park

Posted 05.22.2012 | Gay Voices

Two California cities are paying tribute to Harvey Milk with unique monuments on what would have been the slain gay rights leader's 82nd birthday. ...