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Harvey Milk

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2013

    Supervisor David Campos Wants to Name SFO After Harvey Milk

    Harvey Milk is to San Franciscans what George Bush is to Texans -- a friggin' hero. That's probably why Supervisor David Campos has decided our international airport should be named after the gay civil rights guru, an honor that's typically reserved for former presidents. According to KTVU, Campos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2012

    San Francisco Gets Perfect Score When it Comes to Being Gay Friendly

    San Francisco might not be the gayest city in America anymore, but it sure is among one of the gayest-friendly cities in the nation -- and that's something to brag about. On the 34th anniversary of Harvey Milk's death, the Human Rights Campaign released a national report that gives a snapshot of how ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 14, 2012

    Slouching Toward San Francisco

    San Francisco might not be the gayest city in America anymore, but it sure is among one of the gayest-friendly cities in the nation -- and that's something to brag about. On the 34th anniversary of Harvey Milk's death, the Human Rights Campaign released a national report that gives a snapshot of how ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 3, 2012

    Note-Worthy

    San Francisco might not be the gayest city in America anymore, but it sure is among one of the gayest-friendly cities in the nation -- and that's something to brag about. On the 34th anniversary of Harvey Milk's death, the Human Rights Campaign released a national report that gives a snapshot of how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2012

    LGBT Community Petitions S.F. Supervisors to Mark The Eagle Tavern as Historic

    All that effort you put into trying to save the Gold Dust Lounge in Union Square can now be seamlessly channeled into the city's SOMA neighborhood where the LGBT community is trying to stop the beloved Eagle Tavern from falling into the hands of non-queer buyers. A local petition is circulating aski ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Ouija Board: Let's Go To the Video on John Avalos' "Joke"

    Yesterday, John Avalos became the poster boy du jour for everyone who feels San Francisco is, actually "the Land of Oz" (his words). Websites hither and yon reported the San Francisco supervisor consulted an Ouija board in determining whether it'd be proper to name a Navy ship after Harvey Milk. Thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Supervisor John Avalos Claims He Talked to Harvey Milk's Ghost

    Have you ever wondered exactly how our government leaders make some of the decisions they do? Like many of you, we also assume enough city decisions are made through back room deals and a lot of back stabbing. And then there's Supervisor John Avalos' refreshing governing style. We were shocked, ente ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Happy Harvey Milk Day: Have a Milkshake

    Last week, we told you about those hatemongers up in Sacramento who wasted time and money trying to convince everyone to lock their kids inside for Harvey Milk Day, which, by the way, is today. And while we can't say for sure how many kids were forced to stay home from school so they didn't have to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Save California, Pro-Family Group, Demands Kids Skip School on Harvey Milk Day

    The right-wing pro-family group Save California has made the daunting request that probably won't go over well in San Francisco. Those hatemongers demand parents take their kids out of school on May 22 -- Harvey Milk Day -- so youngsters aren't subjected to curriculum, lessons, or positive informati ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 16, 2012

    Tragedy Made Us Stronger

    The right-wing pro-family group Save California has made the daunting request that probably won't go over well in San Francisco. Those hatemongers demand parents take their kids out of school on May 22 -- Harvey Milk Day -- so youngsters aren't subjected to curriculum, lessons, or positive informati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    San Diego Claims Harvey Milk as One of Its Own

    Aside from being located in the same state, there's very little San Francisco and San Diego have in common, except perhaps our affinity for men in sailor suits.In any event, we came across a more important thread that links these two disparate communities: our love for Harvey Milk.As the Bay Area Re ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 16, 2011

    Still Getting Over It

    Aside from being located in the same state, there's very little San Francisco and San Diego have in common, except perhaps our affinity for men in sailor suits.In any event, we came across a more important thread that links these two disparate communities: our love for Harvey Milk.As the Bay Area Re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Teacher Creates Workbook to Educate Kids About LGBT Contributions

    There is so much to learn ​Earlier this week, a large part of San Francisco was stunned, bitter, depressed -- pick your adjective -- when some parents complained about school boys taking a field trip to the iconic Castro District. The boys visited Harvey Milk's camera store and stopped by the hist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Get Drunk at the Library -- Legally. For a Good Cause.

    Frans HalsDrinking in the library? Huzzah! ​At last. At last. Lord God, I knew this day would come -- you will finally be able to rest the alcoholic beverage of your choice on the delightfully archaic mantelpiece of the ever so "mid-century modern" Harvey Milk library. And not only will you not ge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Harvey Milk's Camera Shop Defiled, and Other Outrages

    WWHD?​There's an emerging pattern in Gayville lately. It's not a new thing -- not new to the gays or the general population either for that matter -- but it's still disconcerting. It's called whorishness.Does everything good have to be sold out, watered down, or compromised? The Human Rights Campa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Human Rights Campaign To Move Into Harvey Milk's Camera Store

    Harvey Milk has been enlisted by the HRC​In what some grassroots gay activists are calling an "insult," the Human Rights Campaign is about to move into the location of Harvey Milk's old camera store at 575 Castro Street. It will be the new San Francisco "action center" providing information on the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2010

    Re-Deconstructing Tragedy

    Harvey Milk has been enlisted by the HRC​In what some grassroots gay activists are calling an "insult," the Human Rights Campaign is about to move into the location of Harvey Milk's old camera store at 575 Castro Street. It will be the new San Francisco "action center" providing information on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

    He came, he saw, he tweeted​Dude, I don't even know what happened this week. Do you? Answer the questions correctly, mail us all your answers here, and you'll win a damn prize. Onward! 1. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lost his Twitter virginity this week in San Francisco. What was the rough tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    10 Things To Do For Under $10: KISS Cover Love, Screaming Females, World Cupping

    Screaming Females play tonight at Hemlock​There seems to be something cheap for everyone this lovely first weekend of June. Art openings, the ultimate underground foodie event, plenty of live music and D.J.s ready to vie for your attention -- and it's all for less than the cost of a quality six-pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Feds Probing Dan White, Harvey Milk, George Moscone When White Killed Milk, Moscone

    All in the Feds' dossier...​At the time Dan White unloaded his pistol into Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, all three were under the FBI's microscope in political corruption probes. Documents obtained by San Francisco gay rights blogger Michael Petrelis and reported on by The Raw Story reveal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Humphry Slocombe Making Super-Gay Ice Cream for Harvey Milk Day

    Terry Schmitt/ChronicleWill it taste like rainbows?​Equality California is gearing up to host the local festivities for Saturday's first State-recognized Harvey Milk Day, and has asked ice cream kingpins Humphry Slocombe to create a special flavor to honor the late Supervisor and activist. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    San Francisco's Harvey Milk Day Plans Are Pathetic

    Jerry PritikinHarvey Milk stood for ... tricycle races? ​This Saturday, May 22, is the inaugural Harvey Milk Day in the State of California. As you'd expect, there's lots of stuff happening in San Francisco commemorating the gay icon. What you might not expect is how tame San Francisco's event ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Terrifying Revelations About Hauntings in City Hall

    Feature: Arson Our guide in the spookiest room in City Hall-- the Board of Supervisors main chamber!​City Hall is haunted. Not just by measures that have died within its chambers, but by actual spooks -- or so claimed our robed tour guide last night. The guy with the Snuggie shepherded a large g ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2009

    Take a Hike

    Feature: Arson Our guide in the spookiest room in City Hall-- the Board of Supervisors main chamber!​City Hall is haunted. Not just by measures that have died within its chambers, but by actual spooks -- or so claimed our robed tour guide last night. The guy with the Snuggie shepherded a large g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Leno: State Harvey Milk Day Entirely in Schwarzenegger's Hands

    Learning about John Muir has hardly made the state's schoolchildren conservationists ... so how could curriculum on Harvey Milk turn them gay?Milk, on the whole, tends to suffer when left out -- but Sen. Mark Leno feels a year of exposure is just what his Milk bill needed. The San Francisco State Se ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    You're In the Movie

    Learning about John Muir has hardly made the state's schoolchildren conservationists ... so how could curriculum on Harvey Milk turn them gay?Milk, on the whole, tends to suffer when left out -- but Sen. Mark Leno feels a year of exposure is just what his Milk bill needed. The San Francisco State Se ... More >>

  • News

    December 24, 2008

    Our critics name the best films of 2008

    Learning about John Muir has hardly made the state's schoolchildren conservationists ... so how could curriculum on Harvey Milk turn them gay?Milk, on the whole, tends to suffer when left out -- but Sen. Mark Leno feels a year of exposure is just what his Milk bill needed. The San Francisco State Se ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2008

    White Lies

    What Dan White's gay friend thinks of the Harvey Milk biopic.

  • Film

    December 3, 2008

    A Tale of Two Movies

    After decades in development hell, how Gus Van Sant finally got Milk.

  • Film

    November 26, 2008

    Proposition Hate

    Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2008

    Sinner, Saint, Martyr

    Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Last Night: Milk Premiere at the Castro Theater

    Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    Milk Trailer Revealed

    Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    Films on Location

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2008

    Last Night: Harvey Milk Bust Unveiling at City Hall

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2008

    The High Price of Getting a Head: City Hall Busts Cost an Arm and a Leg

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    February 13, 2008

    Reader Says SF Weekly Serves Self, Homophobe's Agenda

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    February 6, 2008

    Harvey Milk Killing Story Draws Fact-Checkers, Old Campaigners

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    Milk Production: Back In Time On Castro

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2008

    More Milk: Open Casting Call For Castro March Extras

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2007

    Van Sant's 'Milk' Locked, Loaded while 'Mayor of Castro St.' Cock-Blocked By Writer's Strike

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2007

    Harvey Milk Biopic to be filmed in SF, Mayor's Office Announces

    The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2003

    The Body Politic

    Remembering Moscone, Milk, and the "Twinkie Defense."

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2003

    Sound Effects

    Hide your harmonicas and tampons -- Sxip is back

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Beauty Supplies

    Skin Zone

  • News

    November 8, 2000

    A Legacy in Limbo

    Two decades after Harvey Milk's assassination, a historic collection of his memorabilia still waits for a proper home

  • Calendar

    November 18, 1998

    Photographic Memory

    Two decades after Harvey Milk's assassination, a historic collection of his memorabilia still waits for a proper home

  • Calendar

    November 27, 1996

    Night+Day

    Two decades after Harvey Milk's assassination, a historic collection of his memorabilia still waits for a proper home

  • Calendar

    November 22, 1995

    Night+Day

    Two decades after Harvey Milk's assassination, a historic collection of his memorabilia still waits for a proper home

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