See “Harvey Milk: Messenger of Hope” located, pre-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and read the full exhibition catalog online at: http://bit.ly/HarveyMilkExhibition
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Harvey Milk participating in the Gay Freedom Day
parade with campaign manager Anne Kronenberg
behind the wheel June 25, 1978
Photograph by bil paul (b. 1943)
Courtesy of the photographer
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#HarveyMilk #HarveyMilkExhibition #AnneKronenberg #WomensHistoryMonth
“She was tough, you had to be,” former California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, who was also a contemporary of Milk at the time, recalled. “But she was also lovely, she has a great heart. She did a lot symbolically because women were not involved. We all thought we were liberals, but there was under-representation of women. And she held herself with the boys.”
#HarveyMilk #HarveyMilkExhibition #AnneKronenberg #WomensHistoryMonth
Ein Film, der über seine historische Vorlage hinauswächst und der sich heute, fast zwei Jahrzehnte nach seiner Premiere, wie ein queeres politisches Manifest anfühlt – und eine Mahnung ist. Und das nicht nur wegen der tragischen Geschichte, die der Film erzählt. In Sean Penns Darstellung von Harvey Milk liegt eine Verletzlichkeit und Würde, die selbst nach dem Abspann nachwirkt. Ob Julia Klöckner ihn allerdings je gesehen hat, ist mir nicht überliefert… (ZDF, Wh)
Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/gus-van-sant-sean-penn-milk-2008/
Today in Labor History January 15, 1976: A judge sentenced Sara Jane Moore to life in prison. She had attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in front of the St. Francis Hotel, in San Francisco. It was the second failed attempt on Ford that year. Oliver Sipple, a gay marine veteran happened to be standing nearby and thwarted her second shot. Sipple was out of the closet and fairly well-known in the San Francisco gay scene. He was also friends with Harvey Milk, who outed Sipple to journalist Herb Caen. Milk’s rationale: "For once we can show that gays do heroic things, not just all that caca about molesting children and hanging out in bathrooms." However, Sipple who was still in the closet with respect to his family, was devastated by the fame and attention it drew. His mother disowned him. Family members refused to speak to him. The president refused to invite him to the White House or offer him a medal or commendation in spite of saving his life. Sipple sued the San Francisco Chronicle for invasion of privacy. But the courts ruled against him. His mental and physical health deteriorated after this. He started drinking heavily and was found dead in his apartment in 1989, at the age of 47.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #assassination #potus #HarveyMilk #lgbtq #sanfrancisco #prison #veteran #journalism #oliversipple
All about the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/history/first-national-march-washington-1979
Harvey Milk - Reckoning
On April Fools' Day in 1994, Athens' Harvey Milk decided to pay homage to their hometown fellow band, R.E.M.
By covering all of Reckoning.
In 2024, Chunklet pressed a few hundred copies of Lance Bangs' (yes, *that* Lance Bangs) recording of the performance.
Sound quality isn't great, but it's quite fun.
Out January 23 - Harvey Milk “WhaRvEy milK” LP from Chunklet Industries.
Here are a few words on the release from Chunklet:
"One of the countless Harvey Milk recordings I’ve accumulated over the years is a spotless recording of the band performing on Atlanta radio stalwart WREK 91.1 over at Georgia Tech. The year is 1994. Harvey Milk perform their puzzling Southern Gothic dirge for the weirdos that religiously tune in to hear the vanguard of Georgia music on the Tech station."
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