And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.
- Harvey Milk
I think we’ve come a long way as a nation since the tumultuous sixties and seventies, yet if you turn on the TV you can see we are still engaged in an ongoing war of cultures. Much progress has been made, and yet we still have much further to go. And while much progress has been made in other parts of America, here in the South there are many who choose to hide who they are. True, there’s no need to skip down the street waving a rainbow flag. But there’s also no need to keep someone you love a secret. If love is kept in secret then that isn’t love at all. I’m just not sure what that is, but it most definitely is not love.
What are you doing to celebrate Harvey Milk Day?
Cities across the USA to observe Harvey Milk Day – USATODAY.com
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Posted on 21 May, 2010
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