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Proposed California Harvey Milk Day Causes Quite a Stir

Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone during the signing of the city’s gay rights bill in 1977.

From: The San Francisco Sentinel – BY ERIC BAILEY – The Los Angeles Times – The legacy of Harvey Milk has had a very good year.

Three decades after California’s first openly gay elected leader [...]

Milk, Lucas named to California Hall of Fame

Nominees to be inducted in Dec. 1 ceremony

From: The Washington Blade – SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and feisty football commentator John Madden will be among the newest inductees to the California Hall of Fame.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver unveiled the list [...]

Gov. Schwarzenegger Shouldn’t Diss Harvey Milk. Again.

From: GayRights.Change.org – by Michael A. Jones – Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed an effort to create a state-sponsored “Harvey Milk Day,” which would honor the late politician’s legacy and advocacy for equal rights.  At the time, Gov. Schwarzenegger said that Milk wasn’t a well-known enough figure to merit his own state day, and [...]