Harvey Milk

Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235275
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvey Milk written by Lillian Faderman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk’s assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century. Before finding his calling as a politician, however, Harvey variously tried being a schoolteacher, a securities analyst on Wall Street, a supporter of Barry Goldwater, a Broadway theater assistant, a bead-wearing hippie, the operator of a camera store and organizer of the local business community in San Francisco. He rejected Judaism as a religion, but he was deeply influenced by the cultural values of his Jewish upbringing and his understanding of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. His early influences and his many personal and professional experiences finally came together when he decided to run for elective office as the forceful champion of gays, racial minorities, women, working people, the disabled, and senior citizens. In his last five years, he focused all of his tremendous energy on becoming a successful public figure with a distinct political voice.

Author : Rob Sanders
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0399555331
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag written by Rob Sanders and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION • Celebrate Pride and it's iconic rainbow flag--a symbol of inclusion and acceptance around the world-- with the very first picture book to tell its remarkable and inspiring history! "Pride is a beacon of (technicolor) light." --Entertainment Weekly In this deeply moving and empowering true story, young readers will trace the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings in 1978 with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world. Award-winning author Rob Sanders's stirring text, and acclaimed illustrator Steven Salerno's evocative images, combine to tell this remarkable - and undertold - story. A story of love, hope, equality, and pride.

Author : Kari Krakow
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643796000
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harvey Milk Story written by Kari Krakow and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Picture book biography of Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S"--

Author : Lesléa Newman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299205738
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Letter to Harvey Milk written by Lesléa Newman and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poignant and humorous collection of stories offers a fresh perspective on current issues such as homosexuality and anti-Semitism and lends a unique voice to those experiencing growing pains and self-discovery. Newman’s readers accompany her quirky Jewish characters through all types of experiences from an initial lesbian sexual encounter to being sequestered in a college apartment after paranoid Holocaust flashbacks. In these stories characters anxiously discover their lesbian identities while beginning to understand, and finally to embrace, their Jewish heritage. The title story, "A Letter to Harvey Milk," was the second place finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Competition.

Author : Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190460970
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children of Harvey Milk written by Andrew Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. Featuring LGBTQ icons from America to Ireland, Britain to New Zealand; Reynolds documents their successes and failures, heartwarming stories of acceptance and heartbreaking stories of ostracism, demonstrating the ways in which an individual can change the views and voting behaviors of those around them. The book also includes rare vignettes of LGBTQ leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean who continue to fight for equality in spite of threats, violence, and homophobia. A touchstone narrative of the tumultuous journey towards LGBTQ rights, The Children of Harvey Milk is a must-read for anyone with an interest in social change

Author : Randy Shilts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312560850
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayor of Castro Street written by Randy Shilts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city official in the nation, recounts his public and personal life, and examines the emergence of the San Francisco gay community as a social and political force.

Author : Barbara Gottfried Hollander
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 153838096X
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvey Milk written by Barbara Gottfried Hollander and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Milk dreamed of a better tomorrow filled with love and equal rights for all. In 1977, Milk was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, only to be assassinated less than a year after he took office. Through his personal and professional life, Harvey Milk became a role model and beacon of hope for many members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community. Readers will examine the life of this civic hero, including his struggles as a young man, who inspired the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

Author : Safia Amor
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1644211858
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvey Milk written by Safia Amor and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the incredible story of Harvey Milk, one of the greatest fighters for gay rights. Called ""the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States," Harvey Milk fought against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In the 1970s when Harvey is elected into office in San Francisco, homosexual relations are still against the law in the United States, and homophobia is being stoked by outspoken conservatives and the religious right. Just ten months after being elected, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone are assassinated by a homophobic former colleague. The killer finds sympathy from his jurors and gets a light sentence. Milk's death becomes a metaphor for the experience of gays in America and his legend as a fighter for gay rights is cemented.

Author : Harvey Milk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985505318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harvey Milk Interviews written by Harvey Milk and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-nine chronologically arranged interviews spanning Milk's political career from his first days as a candidate to shortly before his assassination.

Author : Harvey Milk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275497
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Archive of Hope written by Harvey Milk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. An Archive of Hope is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume a substantial collection of his speeches, columns, editorials, political campaign materials, open letters, and press releases, culled from public archives, newspapers, and personal collections. The volume opens with a foreword from Milk’s friend, political advisor, and speech writer Frank Robinson, who remembers the man who “started as a Goldwater Republican and ended his life as the last of the store front politicians” who aimed to “give ‘em hope” in his speeches. An illuminating introduction traces GLBTQ politics in San Francisco, situates Milk within that context, and elaborates the significance of his discourse and memories both to 1970s-era gay rights efforts and contemporary GLBTQ worldmaking.