Visionary Civil Rights leader and revolutionary Harvey Milk has finally been honored by the state of California with an official day to celebrate his life and impact. Each May 22nd is now “Harvey Milk Day”. On that day state schools and educational institutions will now be encouraged to conduct relevant civil rights related exercises.
Anne Kronenberg, Harvey Milk’s friend and campaign manager, has written of him: “What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us.”
Kudos to our own visionary leader, Mark Leno, who has persisted with this bill (as well as with other civil rights legislation) even after it had been repeatedly strangled and brutally murdered by the oblivious Schwarzenegger.
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No one is really sure why our Austrian overlord finally decided to sign the Harvey Milk Day bill, after repeatedly vetoing it, as well as continually vetoing proposed equal marriage rights legislation, in the past. Perhaps Sean Penn’s Oscar helped to wedge the governor’s head out of the dark crevice. We can only speculate.
I finally watched the movie ‘Milk’ not long ago. Sean Penn was excellent as usual. From looking at that statue, he even has some resemblance to Harvey Milk.
One Sunday afternoon my husband Peter and I actually stumbled across one of the key City Hall scenes being filmed in San Francisco for the movie “Milk” when we rode our bicycles to the Civic Center Farmers Market. Sean Penn was repeatedly giving one of Harvey Milk’s famous equal rights speeches on the steps of the city building. Everyone was in period costume, and all of the cars on the streets had been replaced with 70′s era vehicles. Sean Penn walked directly past us, maybe two feet away. His transformation into character was so utterly complete, that, even though I knew that it was Sean Penn walking right past me, I had a difficult time believing it. He certainly deserved his Oscar.
I just saw the Harvey Milk story and it makes me want to be a gay activist and I’m not gay. What an incredible man!!