Harvey Milk

"When you bring up the name Harvey Milk, he stands for gay rights ...

Patty Murray's Chutzpah 2010

The tablecloth — a paper one, from Ernie's restaurant on the Upper West Side — was the handiwork of Mr. Frankel and Mr. Korie, who wrote the libretto for "Harvey Milk," among other operas, and who was starting to think about lyrics for the show.

Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006

Remember that moment in time: excessive sexual liberation and the Disco era were winding down; the new antigay menaces Anita Bryant and the Moral Majority were rearing their ugly heads - confronted by openly gay politicos such as Harvey Milk and others; and AIDS was right around the corner.

PageOneQ.com Latest 2010

One could argue that Harvey Milk and former San Francisco Mayor George Moscone weren't assassinated in 1978 purely on the strength of their political affiliations, but the power their words wielded while in office.

Morris W. O'Kelly: Tucson Tragedy Demands Discourse Recall Morris W. O 2011

I could list hundreds of gay men and women that have been slaughtered, hung to fence posts like scarecrows, beaten, dragged behind cars, set fire to...or even politicians, like Harvey Milk, who paid the ultimate price of homophobia, all because hate speech against the GLBT community is protected under the first amendment.

Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose Charles Karel Bouley 2011

In 1978 Dan White gunned down San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in cold blood but served only two years in prison courtesy of the "Twinkie Defense."

Al Checchi: Capitalism and Its Discontents: The Rise and Fall of the Twinkie Al Checchi 2012

Every relevant Democrat from Harvey Milk to Walter Mondale had courted him.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

The commission has ramped up its efforts to woo filmmakers in recent years, resulting in San Francisco shoots for such films as "Milk," about gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, and "On the Road," an adaptation of the classic by Jack Kerouac slated to come out next year.

Vital Signs 2011

One could argue that Harvey Milk and former San Francisco Mayor George Moscone weren't assassinated in 1978 purely on the strength of their political affiliations, but the power their words wielded while in office.

Morris W. O'Kelly: Tucson Tragedy Demands Discourse Recall Morris W. O'Kelly 2011

As one commenter notes, "That has got to be the first time ever that George Wallace and Harvey Milk have been on any sort of list together."

The Stranger Remixes Palin's Gunsight 'Surveyor's Marks' Map Jason Linkins 2011