MILK MEMORIAL

San Franciscans remember Harvey Milk with a vigil last night & Cleve Jones speaks:

GOT MILK?

Happy Birthday to a true visionary and pioneer for gay rights activism.

Harvey Milk would be 80 if he were still alive.

We must take his message of hope, pure will and determination and march forward for our progress.

How are U celebrating today?

Various celebrations are:

In The Castro

In Sacramento

In Los Angeles

In San Diego

In New York City

SOUR MILK

On October 27, 2008: This blog made a posting about the San Francisco trolley car that was dedicated to Harvey Milk.




A streetcar, the San Francisco Municipal Railway Streetcar No. 1051, that was dedicated to slain activist and gay rights movement pioneer Harvey Milk was a victim of graffiti.


Transit authority officials did not learn about the defaced trolley until last week, but it seems the graffiti was in place for at least six weeks.



The Bay Area Reporter covered:




"Tom Nolan, the transit agency's openly gay chairman, called Muni executives as soon as he learned about the graffiti from the B.A.R. He said he finds it concerning that no one reported the homophobic graffiti and that it was allowed to remain in public view for the last six weeks. 'Graffiti itself is not extraordinary over there. In fact there is a great deal of it and it costs us hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove it. But I would think if there are homophobic slurs they would let the chairman of the board who is gay know about it,' said Nolan, the executive director of Project Open Hand and a former San Mateo County supervisor."





via bayareareporter


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