#harveymilk — Public Fediverse posts

Politics isn't a spectator sport—it's a ground game. 🗳️ We've curated Harvey Milk’s most defiant quotes on grassroots power and community action to help you lead from the front. No more empty slogans, just raw strategic wisdom. ✊

#HarveyMilk, #GrassrootsPower, #Activism, #CommunityOrganizing, #SocialJustice

Read more: https://mooddrafts.com/why-visibility-wins-harvey-milk-quotes-for-grassroots-power/

Rights aren't a deal. They're a necessity. Harvey Milk didn't wait for permission, and neither should we. Reclaiming that uncompromising spirit today with words that still cut through the noise. 🏳️‍🌈⚖️

#HarveyMilk, #HumanRights, #SocialJustice, #EqualityNow, #Activism

Read more: https://mooddrafts.com/equality-is-non-negotiable-harvey-milk-quotes-on-human-rights/

Visibility isn't just about being seen—it's about survival. Harvey Milk knew that every time we come out, we dismantle a stereotype. I’ve curated his most defiant words to help you own your narrative and speak your truth. Ready to be loud? 🏳️‍🌈✨

#HarveyMilk, #LGBTQAdvocacy, #VisibilityMatters, #ComingOut, #PrideMonth, #BeSeen

Read more: https://mooddrafts.com/step-into-the-light-harvey-milk-quotes-on-coming-out/

Milk (2008)

https://www.zdf.de/filme/milk-movie-100

https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt1013753

#Milk #HarveyMilk #zdf #zdfmediathek #mediathek #Biographie #GusVanSant #SeanPenn #JoshBrolin #EmileHirsch #film

Ein Film, der über seine historische Vorlage hinauswächst und der sich heute, fast zwei Jahrzehnte nach seiner Premiere, wie ein queeres politisches Manifest anfühlt – und eine Mahnung ist. Und das nicht nur wegen der tragischen Geschichte, die der Film erzählt. In Sean Penns Darstellung von Harvey Milk liegt eine Verletzlichkeit und Würde, die selbst nach dem Abspann nachwirkt. Ob Julia Klöckner ihn allerdings je gesehen hat, ist mir nicht überliefert… (ZDF, Wh)

Ein Film, der über seine historische Vorlage hinauswächst und der sich heute, fast zwei Jahrzehnte nach seiner Premiere, wie ein queeres politisches Manifest anfühlt – und eine Mahnung ist. Und das nicht nur wegen der tragischen Geschichte, die der Film erzählt. In Sean Penns Darstellung von Harvey Milk liegt eine Verletzlichkeit und Würde, die selbst nach dem Abspann nachwirkt. Ob Julia Klöckner ihn allerdings je gesehen hat, ist mir nicht überliefert… (ZDF, Wh)

Ein Film, der über seine historische Vorlage hinauswächst und der sich heute, fast zwei Jahrzehnte nach seiner Premiere, wie ein queeres politisches Manifest anfühlt – und eine Mahnung ist. Und das nicht nur wegen der tragischen Geschichte, die der Film erzählt. In Sean Penns Darstellung von Harvey Milk liegt eine Verletzlichkeit und Würde, die selbst nach dem Abspann nachwirkt. Ob Julia Klöckner ihn allerdings je gesehen hat, ist mir nicht überliefert… (ZDF, Wh)

Ein Film, der über seine historische Vorlage hinauswächst und der sich heute, fast zwei Jahrzehnte nach seiner Premiere, wie ein queeres politisches Manifest anfühlt – und eine Mahnung ist. Und das nicht nur wegen der tragischen Geschichte, die der Film erzählt. In Sean Penns Darstellung von Harvey Milk liegt eine Verletzlichkeit und Würde, die selbst nach dem Abspann nachwirkt. Ob Julia Klöckner ihn allerdings je gesehen hat, ist mir nicht überliefert… (ZDF, Wh)

Ein Film, der über seine historische Vorlage hinauswächst und der sich heute, fast zwei Jahrzehnte nach seiner Premiere, wie ein queeres politisches Manifest anfühlt – und eine Mahnung ist. Und das nicht nur wegen der tragischen Geschichte, die der Film erzählt. In Sean Penns Darstellung von Harvey Milk liegt eine Verletzlichkeit und Würde, die selbst nach dem Abspann nachwirkt. Ob Julia Klöckner ihn allerdings je gesehen hat, ist mir nicht überliefert… (ZDF, Wh)

#HarveyMilk was the first openly gay man elected in the US with his seat on #SF’s Board of Supervisors. On Nov 27th 1978, Dan White murdered him in #CityHall after failing to be reinstated to his seat by the Mayor and other victim, #GeorgeMoscone. #photography #americana #wa #california #architecture #canon80d #colorphotography #blackandwhitephotography #ushistory

Harvey Milk - Reckoning

On April Fools' Day in 1994, Athens' Harvey Milk decided to pay homage to their hometown fellow band, R.E.M.

By covering all of Reckoning.

In 2024, Chunklet pressed a few hundred copies of Lance Bangs' (yes, *that* Lance Bangs) recording of the performance.

Sound quality isn't great, but it's quite fun.

#nowplaying #vinyl #HarveyMilk #janglepop #REM

Seven times Pete Hegseth embodied toxic masculinity

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-toxic-masculinity

Joe Biden to receive top honor at LGBTQ+ leadership conference for his contributions to equality

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/biden-lgbtq-victory-institute-honor

Joe Biden to receive top honor at LGBTQ+ leadership conference for his contributions to equality

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/biden-lgbtq-victory-institute-honor

Als einer der ersten offen schwulen Politiker in den USA kämpfte Harvey Milk für die Rechte der LGBTQ+-Community. Seine Ermordung machte ihn zu einem Märtyrer, dessen Mut bis heute als Symbol der Hoffnung dient. #HarveyMilk #LGBTQ

“ #HarveyMilk’s name returned to headlines after the defense secretary ordered the name of the slain gay rights advocate, who served in the Navy, removed from a naval ship. But Milk’s legacy lives on in other ways, including in an #opera that carries a powerful story of its own.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/composer-reimagines-his-harvey-milk-opera-while-rebuilding-life-after-traumatic-injury

Gus van Sant, Sean Penn – „Milk“ (2008)

Ein Film, der über seine historische Vorlage hinauswächst und der sich heute, fast zwei Jahrzehnte nach seinem Erscheinen, wie ein queeres politisches Manifest anfühlt – und eine Mahnung ist. Und das nicht nur wegen der tragischen Geschichte, die der Film erzählt. In Sean Penns Darstellung von Harvey Milk liegt eine Verletzlichkeit und Würde, die selbst nach dem Abspann nachwirkt. Ob Julia Klöckner ihn allerdings je gesehen hat, ist mir nicht überliefert. (ZDF, Neu!)

"Milk"
Spielfilm über die Geschichte des ersten offen schwulen Politikers der USA aus den 70er Jahren: #HarveyMilk.

Die Filmbiografie von Gus Van Sant aus dem Jahr 2008 mit Sean Penn in der Hauptrolle wurde für 8 Oscars nominiert.

Jetzt gratis #Streaming in der Mediathek von #ZDF:
https://www.zdf.de/filme/milk-movie-100

#LGBTQ #PrideMovies

🌈 #HappyPride

Hegseth and Trump will never be even half the man or have half the courage, humanity, intelligence and integrity of #HarveyMilk

#FairWindsAndFollowingSeas

#Pride #LGBTQI+ #HarveyMilk

On May 21, 1979, now forever known as the White Night Riot, thousands of members of San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro District community had marched that very route but in the opposite direction. They marched downtown to Civic Center, where they soon had the mayor, the chief of police, the city council, and three hundred cops holed up in the courthouse, surrounded by a pissed off mob, much broken glass, and a line of burning police cars. It was a glorious sight, especially the burning police cars. I'm sorry I got there late (long story) and missed the part where the mob first encountered the cops who had been sent out to stop them. The cops were severely outnumbered. They panicked, broke and ran for their lives. It was a total rout. I'll regret till the day I die having arrived too late to see that.

I got there in time for some arson, though. That was gratifying. The trick with the arson was to first expropriate handfuls of newspapers out of the municipal trashcans. I'm old enough to remember municipal trashcans on every corner in the neighborhood. I'm even old enough to remember the newspapers themselves. They were common then and easy to find. Newspapers are seldom inflammatory, but as long as they're dry, they're always inflammable. Certain comrades (I'll spare you the names) crumbled up wads of said newspapers, set them alight, and shoved them underneath the back ends of said police cars. That's where the gas tank is located. It didn't take much flame, or very much time, for the flame to set off the gasoline. A safe distance was only a short sprint away. A mighty whump was followed by an orange fireball ascending to heaven. This happened over and over, one after another. It felt transcendental. It was as if I'd led a good life and then died and this was my reward in the afterlife, which of course was absurd as reality is totally lacking in afterlife. But that's how it felt. Feelings and reality sometimes diverge. It's part of the human condition.

Little was accomplished except for the symbolism, but we all felt good about that because symbolism matters. That's not just us being subjective. That's Semiotics 101, first semester. Not just the concept of symbolism, but the symbols themselves matter, especially around here. We're a symbol-minded people. Make of that what you will. For years after White Night a popular T-shirt sold at Bound Together showed a burning police car from a photo taken that night, with the caption, "No Apologies: May 21, 1979, San Francisco". The same image became a popular wall poster in dorm rooms, squats, and collective living arrangements. It was even seen wheat pasted on unguarded public walls. An uncropped version graced the front cover of a Dead Kennedys record. It became a meme, years before social media learned what the word meme meant.

My favorite part of the riot wasn't watching all those black and whites ablaze. It was a couple of twinks with a Polaroid camera who asked me to photograph them posing in front of a charred, still smoldering, police motorcycle. They intended to mail it to their friends back east to show them the real San Francisco because, "They think all we ever do out here is take drugs, have sex, and eat Rice-A-Roni." I obliged their wishes. That's the kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime at most. Mostly it happens less often than that.

#Pride #LGBTQI+ #HarveyMilk

When the ex-cop who murdered Harvey Milk got off with a slap on the wrist, San Francisco did this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BujRKn1vbSQ

#Pride #LGBTQI+ #HarveyMilk

"Hegseth announces new name of US navy ship that honored gay rights icon Harvey Milk

Hegseth announces new name of US navy ship that honored gay rights icon Harvey Milk

Defense secretary said the vessel will be renamed after Oscar V Peterson to take ‘politics out of ship naming’
Edward Helmore
Fri 27 Jun 2025 14.40 EDT

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has formally announced that the US navy supply vessel named in honor of the gay rights activist Harvey Milk is to be renamed after Oscar V Peterson, a chief petty officer who received the congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of the Coral Sea in the second world war.

“We are taking the politics out of ship naming,” Hegseth announced on Friday on X.

In an accompanying video-statement, Hegseth added: “We are not renaming the ship to anything political. This is not about political activists, unlike the previous administration. Instead, we are renaming the ship after a congressional Medal of Honor recipient.”

“People want to be proud of the ship they are sailing in,” Hegseth added.

The move comes amid a widespread backlash against LGBTQ+ rights and issues in the US under the Trump administration, ranging from banning books associated with LGBTQ+ causes to reducing the rights of transgender people.
Outside view of plate glass windows and person leaning against them

The oil-supply vessel had been named after the San Francisco gay rights activist, who was murdered in 1978 after serving as a city supervisor, dubbing himself the “Mayor of Castro Street”. He had served in the navy as a diving officer on a submarine rescue ship but resigned with an “other than honorable” discharge rather than be court-martialed for homosexuality."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/hegseth-navy-ship-harvey-milk-oscar-peterson

#HarveyMilk will be remembered long after the Faux news drunk, ship or not.

#Pride2025 #GiftArticle

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/usns-harvey-milk-navy-ship-name-hegseth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.d5NF.nC6XdkbdR9yu&smid=url-share

Here's a thought:
The whole Harvey Milk naval vessel DEI fiasco is ENOUGH to vote out every god-damned Republican in 2026 and 2028, and never let them back in.
BTW, they can change the ship's name, but not its classification: John Lewis class (underway replenishment oilers).
Then, of course, there is all the other unconstitutional, fascist bullshit.
#HarveyMilk #DEI
#HomophobicGOP

If you've not seen my latest YouTube vid please check out "Pride & Harvey Milk".

I'm discussing the real essence of LGBTQ pride and what that truly means for us all.

https://youtu.be/7RV5E5SkMLQ?si=V_ibfnmCCcPrywNV

#HarveyMilk #GayRights #Pride #Rainbow #Defiance

If you've not seen my latest YouTube vid please check out "Pride & Harvey Milk".

I'm discussing the real essence of LGBTQ pride and what that truly means for us all.

https://youtu.be/7RV5E5SkMLQ?si=V_ibfnmCCcPrywNV

#HarveyMilk #GayRights #Pride #Rainbow #Defiance

This is a calculated attempt to erase women, POC, indigenous people, and the #LGBTQ+ community from history and society.
And it will fail.
But how much damage will it inflict in the meantime?
https://medium.com/prismnpen/sorry-maga-you-cant-erase-harvey-milk-677c61b853ee?sk=a752fd564f8606ec3a515418ffee0559

#USPolitics #HarveyMilk #Erasure #Bigotry #QueerHistory

Thought I would do something a little different for Pride this year on YouTube. Let's talk about one of the most influencial figures in LGBTQ activism #HarveyMilk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RV5E5SkMLQ

#LGBTQ #Pride #HumanRights #YouTube

The Battle of Home Depot

• OPEN: (0:56) Liked by Flavor Flav!; (2:12) Tubi TV Night; (5:48) D-Day 81 / Convoy Day 50!
• MAIN: (8:32) The Battle of Home Depot / L.A. Occupation / Masked ICE / America license / Gov. “Newscum”
• NATIONAL: (25:30) Terry Moran / Walter Cronkite; Abrego Garcia returned
• REPUBLICANS: (32:24) Musk / Trump “breakup”; Joni Ernst tripled down; What’s in Face-Eating Leopards Bill?
• DEMOCRATS: (44:13) How many Dems have died in office?; “Big Tent Democrats”; Searchlight for “broadly popular positions”; UN Gaza ceasefire veto; Andrew Cuomo
• WEST: (1:01:14) Canyon County Pride; Jonathan Joss murder; USNS Harvey Milk, Medgar Evers renames
• MUSIC: (1:09:53) Home Run Singers
• RANT: (1:23:48) FBI Snitch on Trans Kid Care
• CLOSE: (1:32:15) Ruth Belville, The Lady Who Sold Time; Rodgers to Steelers; NHS 40th Reunion “What Have You Done”

#AaronRodgers #AndrewCuomo #CWMcCall #California #CanyonCounty #Convoy #DDay #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #FlavorFlav #GavinNewsom #Gaza #GrahamNash #HarveyMilk #ICE #Idaho #JonathanJoss #JoniErnst #LosAngeles #MedgarEvers #NampaHighSchool #NationalGuard #PaulCarrack #PittsburghSteelers #Pride #RitchieTorres #RoKhanna #RuthBelville #StephenStills #TerryMoran #TonyBurrows #transgender #Tubi #UnitedNations #WalterCronkite

https://radicalruss.com/?p=19497

The film earned Oscar wins for Sean Penn as Best Actor and #DustinLanceBlack for Best Original Screenplay. The film also earned nominations for, among others, Best Picture, Best Director for #GusVanSant and Best Original Score for #DannyElfman. #MilkMovie #LandmarkTheatres #HarveyMilk #SeanPenn #EmileHirsch #JoshBrolin #DiegoLuna #JamesFranco #VictorGarber #PrideMonth 2/2

The film earned Oscar wins for Sean Penn as Best Actor and #DustinLanceBlack for Best Original Screenplay. The film also earned nominations for, among others, Best Picture, Best Director for #GusVanSant and Best Original Score for #DannyElfman. #MilkMovie #LandmarkTheatres #HarveyMilk #SeanPenn #EmileHirsch #JoshBrolin #DiegoLuna #JamesFranco #VictorGarber #PrideMonth 2/2

The film earned Oscar wins for Sean Penn as Best Actor and #DustinLanceBlack for Best Original Screenplay. The film also earned nominations for, among others, Best Picture, Best Director for #GusVanSant and Best Original Score for #DannyElfman. #MilkMovie #LandmarkTheatres #HarveyMilk #SeanPenn #EmileHirsch #JoshBrolin #DiegoLuna #JamesFranco #VictorGarber #PrideMonth 2/2

The film earned Oscar wins for Sean Penn as Best Actor and #DustinLanceBlack for Best Original Screenplay. The film also earned nominations for, among others, Best Picture, Best Director for #GusVanSant and Best Original Score for #DannyElfman. #MilkMovie #LandmarkTheatres #HarveyMilk #SeanPenn #EmileHirsch #JoshBrolin #DiegoLuna #JamesFranco #VictorGarber #PrideMonth 2/2

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 10, #MilkMovie will be showing at 7pm at select #LandmarkTheatres. The film is about #HarveyMilk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California and stars #SeanPenn, #EmileHirsch, #JoshBrolin, #DiegoLuna, #JamesFranco and #VictorGarber. #PrideMonth 1/2

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 10, #MilkMovie will be showing at 7pm at select #LandmarkTheatres. The film is about #HarveyMilk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California and stars #SeanPenn, #EmileHirsch, #JoshBrolin, #DiegoLuna, #JamesFranco and #VictorGarber. #PrideMonth 1/2

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 10, #MilkMovie will be showing at 7pm at select #LandmarkTheatres. The film is about #HarveyMilk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California and stars #SeanPenn, #EmileHirsch, #JoshBrolin, #DiegoLuna, #JamesFranco and #VictorGarber. #PrideMonth 1/2

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 10, #MilkMovie will be showing at 7pm at select #LandmarkTheatres. The film is about #HarveyMilk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California and stars #SeanPenn, #EmileHirsch, #JoshBrolin, #DiegoLuna, #JamesFranco and #VictorGarber. #PrideMonth 1/2

One's a documentary and the other is a movie but the subject remains the same. Harvey Milk was a visionary civil and human rights leader.

Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in the USA, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

#movie #documentary #tv #pridemonth #harveymilk #usa #uk #politics #lgbtqia #art

Rex Huppke nails it: "In a display of infantile weakness, Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth has ordered the U.S. Navy to remove iconic gay rights activist and Korean War veteran #HarveyMilk’s name from a ship."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/04/harvey-milk-navy-ship-hegseth-renaming/84030017007/

#LGBTQ

"La destra #USA cancella i nomi di attivisti #LGBTQ e neri dalle navi. L’omofobia del potere è più pericolosa dei dazi."

#Trump #razzismo #HarveyMilk #BlackLivesMatter
#4giugno

https://diogenenotizie.com/trump-cancella-milk-e-altri-eroi-civili-e-omofobia-di-stato/

#PickledPete #idiot47 #GOP #republicans #lgbtq #pride #harveymilk If Pickled Pete wants a war with the LGBTQ community he’s got it. We will take him down and hand him his beaten ass. CALL TO ACTION: Okay everybody, we need to dig up every spec of dirt on Pickled Pete and get it published in every media outlet we can. Our goal is to destroy this creep’s reputation and career so completely that he will never be a threat to us again. Get to work folks!

Navy will rename the USNS Harvey Milk, named for LGBTQ rights pioneer https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/us-navy-rename-usns-harvey-milk-lgbtq-rights-rcna210729

In light of #Hegseth's stupid, symbolic, fascistic plan to erase naval vessels' names, such as #HarveyMilk, #RuthBaderGinsberg and #HarrietTubman, here are some incredibly smart, profound, and beautifully written #books by #PercivalEverett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner, that address and repair erasure. Read them in between going to protests, calling your Congresspeople, and all the other forms of #resistance in which you engage.

Erasure
The Trees
JAMES

In light of #Hegseth's stupid, symbolic, fascistic plan to erase naval vessels' names, such as #HarveyMilk, #RuthBaderGinsberg and #HarrietTubman, here are some incredibly smart, profound, and beautifully written #books by #PercivalEverett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner, that address and repair erasure. Read them in between going to protests, calling your Congresspeople, and all the other forms of #resistance in which you engage.

Erasure
The Trees
JAMES

In light of #Hegseth's stupid, symbolic, fascistic plan to erase naval vessels' names, such as #HarveyMilk, #RuthBaderGinsberg and #HarrietTubman, here are some incredibly smart, profound, and beautifully written #books by #PercivalEverett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner, that address and repair erasure. Read them in between going to protests, calling your Congresspeople, and all the other forms of #resistance in which you engage.

Erasure
The Trees
JAMES

In light of #Hegseth's stupid, symbolic, fascistic plan to erase naval vessels' names, such as #HarveyMilk, #RuthBaderGinsberg and #HarrietTubman, here are some incredibly smart, profound, and beautifully written #books by #PercivalEverett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner, that address and repair erasure. Read them in between going to protests, calling your Congresspeople, and all the other forms of #resistance in which you engage.

Erasure
The Trees
JAMES

In light of #Hegseth's stupid, symbolic, fascistic plan to erase naval vessels' names, such as #HarveyMilk, #RuthBaderGinsberg and #HarrietTubman, here are some incredibly smart, profound, and beautifully written #books by #PercivalEverett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner, that address and repair erasure. Read them in between going to protests, calling your Congresspeople, and all the other forms of #resistance in which you engage.

Erasure
The Trees
JAMES

It gets predictably worse:

#HarveyMilk is just one of several trailblazers whose name has been identified for possible removal from naval vessels. …they include #ThurgoodMarshall, the first #Black #SCOTUS justice; #RuthBaderGinsburg [#RBG], another Supreme Court justice, who became a feminist icon;

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#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #bigotry #discrimination #hate #Trump #PeteHegseth #military #Tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/politics/navy-ships-harvey-milk-renamed.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=38D79453-1DC0-4D75-BF31-6387C3AEDEF0

The U.S. Navy is considering renaming naval ships named after civil rights leaders including Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, and Lucy Stone, the abolitionist and suffragist. Here's more from @CBSNews.

https://flip.it/EmBx0o

#UnitedStates #USMilitary #HarveyMilk #ThurgoodMarshall #LucyStone #USHistory @histodons #Pride #LGBTQHistory #TrumpAdministration

"A #defense #official confirmed that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during #Pride month -- was intentional." (Was to be announced June 13.) #Hegseth orders #ship #renamed, generally "taboo" in the Navy. The #JohnLewis "oiler" ships are all #named after #HumanRights #activists. #HarveyMilk's family had a US #Naval #history, he was a diver on a submarine rescue ship in the #KoreanWar. Hegseth claims he does this "to re-establish a warrior culture."
#USA #LGBTQ https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html