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Harvey Milk

Still image of Harvey Milk featured in "The Times of Harvey Milk." A 40th anniversary screening of the 1984 documentary is part of a series of events commemorating what would have been Milk's 95th birthday.
Posted inJewish Life

Where to celebrate Harvey Milk Day: Honoring the gay Jewish icon’s 95th birthday

by J. Staff May 16, 2025May 29, 2025

In honor of what would have been Harvey Milk’s 95th birthday on May 22, communities across San Francisco are coming together to celebrate Harvey Milk Day with a series of […]

Supervisor Harvey Milk at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Day Parade, as it was then called. (Courtesy GLBT Historical Society Jewish LGBTQ Voices and Activism Source Set)
Posted inTheater

Harvey Milk opera that ‘reimagines’ the gay Jewish icon returns to S.F.

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 14, 2025May 15, 2025
Demonstrators call for a cease-fire in Gaza, protesting the USNS Harvey Milk as it arrives in San Francisco before its maiden voyage to the Middle East, March 29, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inUncategorized

Protesters call for Gaza cease-fire at USNS Harvey Milk celebration in S.F.

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins March 29, 2024March 30, 2024
Harvey Milk at Castro Camera in the mid-1970s (Photo/Courtesy S.F. Public Library)
Posted inLocal Voice

Let’s make our own statement at S.F. State and install a Harvey Milk mural

Jeff Saperstein by Jeff Saperstein October 19, 2020October 19, 2020
Decades after he was forced to resign from the Navy for being gay, slain S.F. Supervisor Harvey Milk will have a Navy ship named after him.
Posted inBay Area

Navy vessel named for Jewish gay rights icon Harvey Milk begins construction

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 16, 2019December 17, 2019
Harvey Milk at Castro Camera in the mid-1970s (Photo/Courtesy S.F. Public Library)
Posted inLetters

Horrors on the border; Harvey Milk, frat bro; kudos to CJM

by J. Readers July 2, 2018July 2, 2018
Harvey Milk (Photos/Courtesy S.F. Public Library)
Posted inPride

The essential Jewishness of Harvey Milk

by Rob Gloster June 14, 2018June 15, 2018
The cast of "A Letter to Harvey Milk" in one of the play's musical numbers
Posted inCulture

Off-Broadway Harvey Milk musical puts gay Jewish pride onstage

Ted Merwin by Ted Merwin March 28, 2018April 2, 2018

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