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Harvey Milk "Mayor of Castro" Memorial edition


Harvey Milk Club members Supervisor Tom Ammiano, Police Commissioner David Campos, activist singer/songwriter Holly Near, former Harvey Milk Club president Michael Goldstein and Rick Hauptman alight outside 575 Castro Street yesterday, the site of former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk's camera store, to honor and remember the life of the first elected openly gay San Francisco supervisor. The event kicks off a year-long series of events leading up to the 30th anniversary of Milk's assassination on November 27, 1978.
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Luke Thomas and Elaine Santore

November 28, 2007


Milk celebrants began the 29th Harvey Milk memorial march
at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro.


Assemblymember Mark Leno (center) joins future Assemblymember Tom Ammiano
as marchers pass the historic Castro Theatre.
Ammiano quipped, upon noticing the letters 'A' and 'S' missing from the theatre's neon "Castro" sign, "They gotta put the 'ass' back in C-ass-tro!"


Former Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver: "The real essence of why Dan White was unhappy on the board was because of a project that he had promised his constituents in the Excelsior, that he would prevent from coming into their neighborhoods. Why would he prevent it? Because, it would have gay people, drug abusers. It would be a place where rehabilitation would occur. And when Harvey and I and five other members of the board of supervisors said 'we will allow that project to go forward,' it was then that Dan White saw himself as a failure. In fact, saw himself as the failure he'd always been. It was a great tragedy that neither Harvey Milk or George Moscone were able to fulfill the political careers they were elected to serve."


Staring heavenly bound, District 3 Senator Carole Migden made a fashionably late appearance outside Milk's former camera shop.


Migden said of Milk: "He was a former stock broker in New York City, so he knew about men and money. He knew how to be poweful in the world and he understood power, and that's why he was remarkably successful in a short political life. He knew only bullets could stop him."


The Last Words of Harvey Milk.


Building Inspections Commission President Debra Walker.


Harvey Milk Club President Brian Basinger.


It's a dog's life.


Celebrating Milk's contribution to civil rights and social justice.


Supervisor Bevan Dufty.


Event organizers Krissy Keefer and Brian Basinger


The Times Of Harvey Milk with ancient footage of a young Tom Ammiano.

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