Remembering Harvey Milk - Revision history

Ccarlsson: deleted removed video of his Last Words

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deleted removed video of his Last Words

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	I guess if you want to get the quintessential Harvey Milk the best place is his will, that amazing document left to his people in which he wanted to make it very clear that people that had found a place for themselves within the political system... ''that is not enough'', they were the vilest of the lot. And he wrote that will more I think than for any other person, to point that out, because he did not trust Mayor Moscone, who like most all straight politicians surrounded himself but that's the whole dynamic of the system the Harvey Milks of the world get the attention of the system and they respond by dealing with the suck-ups, if you pardon the expression. And that's the dynamic, and Harvey hated that dynamic, he hated empowering those people, and his statement was fundamentally saying if you really care about me, about my life, don't let my life be empowering those kind of people. It was fundamental to Harvey, and it's fundamental to people involved in social movements.		I guess if you want to get the quintessential Harvey Milk the best place is his will, that amazing document left to his people in which he wanted to make it very clear that people that had found a place for themselves within the political system... ''that is not enough'', they were the vilest of the lot. And he wrote that will more I think than for any other person, to point that out, because he did not trust Mayor Moscone, who like most all straight politicians surrounded himself but that's the whole dynamic of the system the Harvey Milks of the world get the attention of the system and they respond by dealing with the suck-ups, if you pardon the expression. And that's the dynamic, and Harvey hated that dynamic, he hated empowering those people, and his statement was fundamentally saying if you really care about me, about my life, don't let my life be empowering those kind of people. It was fundamental to Harvey, and it's fundamental to people involved in social movements.

	~~<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfHarveym1" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>~~

	~~'''Milk's Last Words'''~~

	[http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ma-Mo/Milk-Harvey.html Straightforward biography of Harvey Milk]		[http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ma-Mo/Milk-Harvey.html Straightforward biography of Harvey Milk]

Jeff: Text replacement - "category:Gay and Lesbian" to "category:LGBTQI"

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Text replacement - "category:Gay and Lesbian" to "category:LGBTQI"

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Ccarlsson at 05:37, 18 January 2017

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	''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''		''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''

	~~[[Image:Harvey-Milk-Danny-Nicoletta-and-Scott-Smith-Nov.-23-1977.jpg]]~~

	~~'''Harvey Milk, Nov. 23, 1977, after successful Supervisor campaign.'''~~

	~~''Photo: Dan Nicoletta, Bancroft Library''~~

	I never know what to say about Harvey. The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey was that he was hard to control. He went to institutions of power without a sense of "what do I have to do to get people to be nice to me?" but with a sense of "here I am, you better get your act together pretty quick," and it just got worse and worse. There was always a miraculous quality he had, of being able to bring people together, of being able to say to people who have been treated like scum all their lives, and had desperately tried to maintain some sort of relationship with society, to let go of all their protection without killing themselves. To be supporting enough and loving enough and reassuring enough that he could take people as screwed up as people like me and convince us to march with him, or to hand out leaflets with him, or to somehow identify as gay people, with the possibilities that he was ostracized. That's a magnificent thing for a person to do. I suspect that's what parents do, if they're honest, with their children.		I never know what to say about Harvey. The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey was that he was hard to control. He went to institutions of power without a sense of "what do I have to do to get people to be nice to me?" but with a sense of "here I am, you better get your act together pretty quick," and it just got worse and worse. There was always a miraculous quality he had, of being able to bring people together, of being able to say to people who have been treated like scum all their lives, and had desperately tried to maintain some sort of relationship with society, to let go of all their protection without killing themselves. To be supporting enough and loving enough and reassuring enough that he could take people as screwed up as people like me and convince us to march with him, or to hand out leaflets with him, or to somehow identify as gay people, with the possibilities that he was ostracized. That's a magnificent thing for a person to do. I suspect that's what parents do, if they're honest, with their children.

Ccarlsson at 23:40, 8 February 2016

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	''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''		''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''

	[[Image:~~gay1$gays~~-and-~~cablecar~~.jpg]]		[[Image:Harvey-Milk-Danny-Nicoletta-and-Scott-Smith-Nov.-23-1977.jpg]]

	'''~~Gay men turning a cablecar at the end of its line~~.'''		'''Harvey Milk, Nov. 23, 1977, after successful Supervisor campaign.'''

	''Photo: ~~Crawford Barton~~, ~~Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California~~''		''Photo: Dan Nicoletta, Bancroft Library''

	I never know what to say about Harvey. The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey was that he was hard to control. He went to institutions of power without a sense of "what do I have to do to get people to be nice to me?" but with a sense of "here I am, you better get your act together pretty quick," and it just got worse and worse. There was always a miraculous quality he had, of being able to bring people together, of being able to say to people who have been treated like scum all their lives, and had desperately tried to maintain some sort of relationship with society, to let go of all their protection without killing themselves. To be supporting enough and loving enough and reassuring enough that he could take people as screwed up as people like me and convince us to march with him, or to hand out leaflets with him, or to somehow identify as gay people, with the possibilities that he was ostracized. That's a magnificent thing for a person to do. I suspect that's what parents do, if they're honest, with their children.		I never know what to say about Harvey. The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey was that he was hard to control. He went to institutions of power without a sense of "what do I have to do to get people to be nice to me?" but with a sense of "here I am, you better get your act together pretty quick," and it just got worse and worse. There was always a miraculous quality he had, of being able to bring people together, of being able to say to people who have been treated like scum all their lives, and had desperately tried to maintain some sort of relationship with society, to let go of all their protection without killing themselves. To be supporting enough and loving enough and reassuring enough that he could take people as screwed up as people like me and convince us to march with him, or to hand out leaflets with him, or to somehow identify as gay people, with the possibilities that he was ostracized. That's a magnificent thing for a person to do. I suspect that's what parents do, if they're honest, with their children.

Ccarlsson: fixed video link

2015-11-09T07:49:47Z

fixed video link

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	I guess if you want to get the quintessential Harvey Milk the best place is his will, that amazing document left to his people in which he wanted to make it very clear that people that had found a place for themselves within the political system... ''that is not enough'', they were the vilest of the lot. And he wrote that will more I think than for any other person, to point that out, because he did not trust Mayor Moscone, who like most all straight politicians surrounded himself but that's the whole dynamic of the system the Harvey Milks of the world get the attention of the system and they respond by dealing with the suck-ups, if you pardon the expression. And that's the dynamic, and Harvey hated that dynamic, he hated empowering those people, and his statement was fundamentally saying if you really care about me, about my life, don't let my life be empowering those kind of people. It was fundamental to Harvey, and it's fundamental to people involved in social movements.		I guess if you want to get the quintessential Harvey Milk the best place is his will, that amazing document left to his people in which he wanted to make it very clear that people that had found a place for themselves within the political system... ''that is not enough'', they were the vilest of the lot. And he wrote that will more I think than for any other person, to point that out, because he did not trust Mayor Moscone, who like most all straight politicians surrounded himself but that's the whole dynamic of the system the Harvey Milks of the world get the attention of the system and they respond by dealing with the suck-ups, if you pardon the expression. And that's the dynamic, and Harvey hated that dynamic, he hated empowering those people, and his statement was fundamentally saying if you really care about me, about my life, don't let my life be empowering those kind of people. It was fundamental to Harvey, and it's fundamental to people involved in social movements.

	~~{{#ev~~:archive\|ssfHarveym1~~\|320}}~~		<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfHarveym1" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

	'''Milk's Last Words'''		'''Milk's Last Words'''

Ccarlsson: added youtube clip of Milk

2013-11-24T21:27:50Z

added youtube clip of Milk

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	''Photo: Rick Gerharter''		''Photo: Rick Gerharter''

			<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Pi7dlPBGDgI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

			'''Harvey Milk describing his three lives as renter, small businessman, and supervisor, having just been evicted from his own storefront on Castro after a 300% rent increase.'''

			''from documentary Pushed Out for Profit by Optic Nerve and Charles Bolton, 1978.''

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Ccarlsson: moved HARVEY MILK A Reflection by Harry Britt to Remembering Harvey Milk

2012-12-19T19:44:14Z

moved HARVEY MILK A Reflection by Harry Britt to Remembering Harvey Milk

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Ccarlsson: added link to outside bio of Harvey Milk, made some small edits

2012-12-19T19:43:25Z

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			<font size=4>A Reflection</font size>

			''by Harry Britt''

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	'''Harvey Milk, gay activist, city supervisor, businessman~~: The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey was that he was hard to control~~.'''		'''Harvey Milk, gay activist, city supervisor, businessman.'''

	''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''		''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''
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	''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''		''Photo: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California''

	''I never know what to say about Harvey. The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey was that he was hard to control. He went to institutions of power without a sense of "what do I have to do to get people to be nice to me?" but with a sense of "here I am, you better get your act together pretty quick," and it just got worse and worse. There was always a miraculous quality he had, of being able to bring people together, of being able to say to people who have been treated like scum all their lives, and had desperately tried to maintain some sort of relationship with society, to let go of all their protection without killing themselves. To be supporting enough and loving enough and reassuring enough that he could take people as screwed up as people like me and convince us to march with him, or to hand out leaflets with him, or to somehow identify as gay people, with the possibilities that he was ostracized. That's a magnificent thing for a person to do. I suspect that's what parents do, if they're honest, with their children.		I never know what to say about Harvey. The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey was that he was hard to control. He went to institutions of power without a sense of "what do I have to do to get people to be nice to me?" but with a sense of "here I am, you better get your act together pretty quick," and it just got worse and worse. There was always a miraculous quality he had, of being able to bring people together, of being able to say to people who have been treated like scum all their lives, and had desperately tried to maintain some sort of relationship with society, to let go of all their protection without killing themselves. To be supporting enough and loving enough and reassuring enough that he could take people as screwed up as people like me and convince us to march with him, or to hand out leaflets with him, or to somehow identify as gay people, with the possibilities that he was ostracized. That's a magnificent thing for a person to do. I suspect that's what parents do, if they're honest, with their children.

	''He wanted to teach the world to say the word "gay." He wanted to teach the gay community to say the word 'gay.' The question for them was not "do you believe in the system," but "what are you going to do with your own history?" Because he did not believe in the system, and he did not like other gay people who did believe in the system, very much. He liked the people who hated the system, but caring enough to be able to wallow in that pigpen in order to have their own history together. He wanted July 4th to be the national holiday for queers. Not because he fought to gain the patriotic symbols, but because they were ''the'' symbols. They were America's proud patriotic sense of itself, and he wanted us to define whatever was central for them as ours. By raising the flag, we're asserting who we are, we're claiming our history, we're claiming a nation, even though that nation does not perhaps deserve to be claimed.		He wanted to teach the world to say the word "gay." He wanted to teach the gay community to say the word 'gay.' The question for them was not "do you believe in the system," but "what are you going to do with your own history?" Because he did not believe in the system, and he did not like other gay people who did believe in the system, very much. He liked the people who hated the system, but caring enough to be able to wallow in that pigpen in order to have their own history together. He wanted July 4th to be the national holiday for queers. Not because he fought to gain the patriotic symbols, but because they were ''the'' symbols. They were America's proud patriotic sense of itself, and he wanted us to define whatever was central for them as ours. By raising the flag, we're asserting who we are, we're claiming our history, we're claiming a nation, even though that nation does not perhaps deserve to be claimed.

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	I guess if you want to get the quintessential Harvey Milk the best place is his will, that amazing document left to his people in which he wanted to make it very clear that people that had found a place for themselves within the political system... ''that is not enough'', they were the vilest of the lot. And he wrote that will more I think than for any other person, to point that out, because he did not trust Mayor Moscone, who like most all straight politicians surrounded himself but that's the whole dynamic of the system the Harvey Milks of the world get the attention of the system and they respond by dealing with the suck-ups, if you pardon the expression. And that's the dynamic, and Harvey hated that dynamic, he hated empowering those people, and his statement was fundamentally saying if you really care about me, about my life, don't let my life be empowering those kind of people. It was fundamental to Harvey, and it's fundamental to people involved in social movements.		I guess if you want to get the quintessential Harvey Milk the best place is his will, that amazing document left to his people in which he wanted to make it very clear that people that had found a place for themselves within the political system... ''that is not enough'', they were the vilest of the lot. And he wrote that will more I think than for any other person, to point that out, because he did not trust Mayor Moscone, who like most all straight politicians surrounded himself but that's the whole dynamic of the system the Harvey Milks of the world get the attention of the system and they respond by dealing with the suck-ups, if you pardon the expression. And that's the dynamic, and Harvey hated that dynamic, he hated empowering those people, and his statement was fundamentally saying if you really care about me, about my life, don't let my life be empowering those kind of people. It was fundamental to Harvey, and it's fundamental to people involved in social movements.

	~~''--Harry Britt''~~

	{{#ev:archive\|ssfHarveym1\|320}}		{{#ev:archive\|ssfHarveym1\|320}}

	'''Milk's Last Words'''		'''Milk's Last Words'''

			[http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ma-Mo/Milk-Harvey.html Straightforward biography of Harvey Milk]

Ccarlsson at 18:36, 12 January 2009

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Ccarlsson at 18:34, 12 January 2009

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