“That, ladies and gentlemen, is the legacy of Harvey Milk; that’s about love and family and hope and change …” so said Robert Gleason at the conclusion of the presentation of the Inspiration Award to the Whittington family at today’s emotionally charged Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast at the Bayfront Hilton. There was hardly a dry…
Back when he first ran, unsuccessfully, for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk didn’t have the stamp of approval from the so-called “gay establishment.” Today, May 22 – which would have been his 84th birthday and is celebrated as Harvey Milk Day in California – he will be memorialized with…
The Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast of San Diego County’s co-chairs, City Commissioners Nicole Murray Ramirez and Robert Gleason have announced that this year’s honorees will be Gov. Barbara Roberts, the first elected woman governor of Oregon and a long-time civil rights and women’s advocate, and Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, who wrote the screenplay…
