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Not into documentaries? Here are 5 films based on LGBTQ history that will grab your attention.
Interested in adding a little LGBTQ history to your movie watchlist, but don’t feel up to a hardcore documentary? We got you.
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Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones was bisexual & friends with Harvey Milk
The mass murder-suicide was the largest casualty of American citizens before 9/11.
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Assassinated San Francisco mayor’s papers give fascinating glimpse of early gay rights politics
Mayor George Moscone enacted the most sweeping gay rights protections of any city in the country. A year later, he and Harvey Milk were shot to death in City Hall.
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Pride in Pictures 2012: Police & Pride
It’s been a precarious relationship. But love blossoms.
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Portland honors Harvey Milk by renaming major street in LGBTQ district
The vote was unanimous.
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Pride in Pictures 1987: The AIDS Memorial Quilt goes on display
The power of Pride resonates through the Quilt.
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Pride in Pictures 1978: Harvey Milk makes coming out an international battle cry
The Mayor of Castro marches in SF and LA.
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San Francisco airport will name new terminal after Harvey Milk
They hope the name change will help queer visitors arriving in the city see “there’s a place where they belong.”
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The Legacy of ‘Seeing’ Harvey Milk
Thirty-five years ago today, our country lost a man who symbolized the breakdown of barriers for LGBT elected officials everywhere. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office in California, had held his office for less than a year before he was assassinated. But even in that short time, Milk helped erase some of the invisible boundaries defining who in our country can be elected officials. Following Marian Wright Edelman’s famous words that “you can’t be what you can’t see,” Harvey Milk gave generations to come a successful LGBT elected official to “see.”
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‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet shatter every closet door’
On this day, 33 years ago, former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White took a gun to City Hall and shot openly-gay Supervisor Harvey Milk five times — the final two shots had White pressing his gun directly at Milk’s skull, according to the medical examiner.