Today Is Harvey Milk Day. Come Out To Honor His Memory.
Today is Harvey Milk Day. Milk was born today in 1930, and shot to death 48 years later. Barack Obama awarded Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
Today, the White House will honor 10 members of the LGBT community with the Harvey Milk Champions of Change Award in a ceremony scheduled for 3:00 PM EDT. We’ll have live streaming video so come back to the site to watch!
The Harvey Milk Foundation sponsors Harvey Milk Day each year on this day, as a day of service.
“We are asking you to celebrate Harvey Milk’s life story, message and legacy in celebrating globally on his birthday to give hope and inspire disenfranchised communities,” Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, founder of the foundation, says on their website:
Harvey was a pioneer of the 20th century. His struggle and his deeds will prove to history that there’s no such thing as a gay way, there is only one way. We can make Harvey live forever by continuing to do things his way, in the deeds and in the accomplishments of our daily efforts to make our world live.
He believed broad public education and dialogue was paramount to his life’s work as a civil rights leader and with your energy we hope you will work to inspire individuals, communities and organizations to carry on his values in a timeless vision for a better world.
You can learn more about Harvey Milk Day by visiting Harvey Milk Day on Facebook, and follow them on Twitter.
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Image by Memeographs via Facebook
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