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He also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for several years before he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story/288094/redirect/News/News/\">forced to retire\u003c/a> after the discovery of his sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11706596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8675-e1748995062500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor George Moscone, left, and Harvey Milk were political allies who represented a changing political landscape in San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1978, Milk was assassinated at City Hall alongside Mayor George Moscone by former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. His untimely death, as well as his years of activism on behalf of the gay community, turned him into a civil rights icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reported decision by the Trump Administration to change the names of the USNS Harvey Milk and other ships in the John Lewis-class is a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said San Francisco is proud to have Milk’s name on a naval vessel alongside others that honor civil rights giants. He fought not only for the LGBTQ+ community but for “the dignity and worth of every person,” she added.[aside postID=news_12042393 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/BoulderColoradoAttackGetty-1020x680.jpg']State Sen. Scott Wiener called the decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk a reversal of all the work that’s been done to persuade the Navy to recognize Milk and his service. 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He died for our community,” Wiener told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Hegseth are “determined to erase LGBTQ people from all aspects of public life,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleve Jones, a human rights activist who was a student intern in the office of Supervisor Milk, said the news of the possible name change is unsurprising in light of everything that has transpired since Trump’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it is interesting, however, that the defense secretary has chosen to focus so much attention on the name of a ship in the backdrop of major global conflicts such as the war against Ukraine and China’s threats against Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration … has turned the entire world order upside down and inside out,” Jones said. “It’s really shameful and does not bode well for the security of our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how Milk would react to this week’s news, Jones said he thinks the man would be unbothered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk “would shrug it off and laugh and double down,” Jones said. “It’s time for us all to focus on the real issues: the real issue of security, the real issues of housing costs, of groceries, of the press — the real issues facing Americans, the ones they talk about at their dinner table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they’re talking about the names of these ships at their kitchen table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener called the decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk a reversal of all the work that’s been done to persuade the Navy to recognize Milk and his service. He rebuked the order as an act of bigotry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The removal of Harvey Milk’s name from a naval vessel — during Pride Month, no less — is absolutely shameful. Harvey Milk was a hero. He was a veteran who served our country. He died for our community,” Wiener told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Hegseth are “determined to erase LGBTQ people from all aspects of public life,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleve Jones, a human rights activist who was a student intern in the office of Supervisor Milk, said the news of the possible name change is unsurprising in light of everything that has transpired since Trump’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it is interesting, however, that the defense secretary has chosen to focus so much attention on the name of a ship in the backdrop of major global conflicts such as the war against Ukraine and China’s threats against Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration … has turned the entire world order upside down and inside out,” Jones said. “It’s really shameful and does not bode well for the security of our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how Milk would react to this week’s news, Jones said he thinks the man would be unbothered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk “would shrug it off and laugh and double down,” Jones said. “It’s time for us all to focus on the real issues: the real issue of security, the real issues of housing costs, of groceries, of the press — the real issues facing Americans, the ones they talk about at their dinner table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they’re talking about the names of these ships at their kitchen table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, last Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939421/sf-court-releases-911-call-and-sfpd-body-cam-recordings-of-paul-pelosi-attack\">hit particularly close to home\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As one whose family has been the victim of political violence, I know firsthand that political violence of any kind has no place in our society,” the former House speaker \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1812268746574020870\">posted on social media platform X\u003c/a> shortly after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempt on Trump’s life comes less than two years after a man pursuing the former House speaker broke into \u003ca>Pelosi’s San Francisco home, bludgeoning her husband over the head with a hammer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States has a long history of political violence, with a number of tragic incidents in San Francisco and elsewhere in California that have sent major shockwaves across the nation. The double assassinations of former San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and former Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978 especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11994184/it-really-hits-home-bay-area-leaders-reflect-on-political-violence-after-trump-shooting\">left an indelible mark on the city’s political landscape\u003c/a>.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of our city’s DNA,” state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who has received multiple death threats for his pro-LGBTQ positions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/07/15/its-part-of-our-citys-dna-san-francisco-reacts-to-political-violence-00168210\">told Politico\u003c/a>. “San Francisco understands what happens when politics veer into violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four major incidents of political violence in California’s recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: June 5, 1968, Los Angeles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, with his wife Ethel standing behind him, gives a victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, after winning the California presidential primary. Minutes later, after exiting the ballroom, he is shot multiple times at close range by 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan and dies the following day in a nearby hospital. \u003ccite>(Bettmann via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A day after winning the California presidential primary, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a New York Democrat, addressed his supporters at a campaign event in a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. As he exited the event through a hotel kitchen, he was shot three times by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian-Jordanian man, who later said Kennedy’s support for Israel spurred his actions. Five other people were also wounded in the attack. Kennedy died at a nearby hospital the following day — June 6. In April 1969, Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dual assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford: September 1975, Sacramento and San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1827px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1827\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2.jpg 1827w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-1020x663.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-1536x999.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1827px) 100vw, 1827px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secret Service agents rush President Gerald Ford towards the California State Capitol following the attempt on his life by Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme in Sacramento on Sept. 5, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September 1975, as he campaigned for reelection, President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts, both of which occurred in California within just weeks of each other. Miraculously, he was not harmed in either attempt on his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first incident, on Sept. 5, Ford was walking toward the state Capitol in Sacramento to meet with Gov. Jerry Brown when Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, pushed through the crowd, drew a semi-automatic pistol and pointed it at Ford at close range, and unsuccessfully attempted to fire. Following the incident, Ford continued on to his meeting with Brown. Fromme was sentenced to 34 years in prison and released in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 17 days later, Sara Jane Moore confronted Ford outside the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco. She fired one shot but missed. A bystander grabbed her arm as a second shot was attempted. Moore was sentenced to life in prison for the attempt and released on parole in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford subsequently wore a bulletproof vest during public appearances but continued his vigorous campaign schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirelle Luecke, curator of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, said Ford at the time told reporters: ‘I don’t think anyone is president to cower in the face of a limited number of people who want to take the law into their own hands. The American people want a dialogue between them and their president and other public officials.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the end, Ford still lost his reelection bid that November — to Jimmy Carter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Harvey Milk/George Moscone assassinations: Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Logue lights some sage at the alter in front of 575 Castro St., the former location of Milk’s camera store, where marchers stopped before continuing the 25th Annual Candlelight March commemorating the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on Nov. 23, 2003, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, Dan White, a disgruntled former San Francisco supervisor, snuck into San Francisco City Hall through a basement window, avoiding the recently installed metal detectors. Despite resigning weeks earlier, White sought to be reinstated and confronted Mayor George Moscone about the issue in his office. When Moscone refused to grant his request, White shot him four times, killing him instantly. He then walked down the hall to the office of Supervisor Harvey Milk, who had opposed his reappointment and fatally shot him five times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first openly gay elected official in California, Milk became a prominent political activist in the fight for gay rights, helping to pass a San Francisco ordinance prohibiting anti-gay discrimination in housing and employment. Many of Milk’s supporters attributed White’s relatively light sentence — of seven years — to ingrained homophobic bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White was released from prison after just five years, and less than two years later, after moving back to San Francisco, he took his own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attack on Paul Pelosi: Oct. 28, 2022, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-1920x1080.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jury found David DePape guilty on all counts in San Francisco Superior Court on June 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early in the morning of Oct. 28, 2022, David DePape, a far-right conspiracy theorist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/search?q=depape&site=all\">broke into Nancy and Paul Pelosi’s home\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood by shattering a sliding glass door, with the intent of kidnapping and interrogating the then-House speaker. He found Paul Pelosi home alone, asking him, “Where’s Nancy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi managed to call 911 after DePape demanded to wait with him for his wife to return. When two San Francisco police officers confronted both men in the front doorway, DePape suddenly turned and struck Pelosi multiple times in the head with a hammer, fracturing his skull, before officers rushed in to restrain him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape was tried and found guilty in both federal and state court and sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for one count of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and one count of assault on the immediate family member of a federal official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Matthew Green and The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of our city’s DNA,” state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who has received multiple death threats for his pro-LGBTQ positions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/07/15/its-part-of-our-citys-dna-san-francisco-reacts-to-political-violence-00168210\">told Politico\u003c/a>. “San Francisco understands what happens when politics veer into violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four major incidents of political violence in California’s recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: June 5, 1968, Los Angeles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-515541742-1-3-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, with his wife Ethel standing behind him, gives a victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, after winning the California presidential primary. Minutes later, after exiting the ballroom, he is shot multiple times at close range by 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan and dies the following day in a nearby hospital. \u003ccite>(Bettmann via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A day after winning the California presidential primary, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a New York Democrat, addressed his supporters at a campaign event in a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. As he exited the event through a hotel kitchen, he was shot three times by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian-Jordanian man, who later said Kennedy’s support for Israel spurred his actions. Five other people were also wounded in the attack. Kennedy died at a nearby hospital the following day — June 6. In April 1969, Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dual assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford: September 1975, Sacramento and San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1827px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1827\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2.jpg 1827w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-1020x663.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Ford_rushed_from_Sacramento_assassination_attempt_image_A6320-23A-2-1536x999.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1827px) 100vw, 1827px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secret Service agents rush President Gerald Ford towards the California State Capitol following the attempt on his life by Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme in Sacramento on Sept. 5, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September 1975, as he campaigned for reelection, President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts, both of which occurred in California within just weeks of each other. Miraculously, he was not harmed in either attempt on his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first incident, on Sept. 5, Ford was walking toward the state Capitol in Sacramento to meet with Gov. Jerry Brown when Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, pushed through the crowd, drew a semi-automatic pistol and pointed it at Ford at close range, and unsuccessfully attempted to fire. Following the incident, Ford continued on to his meeting with Brown. Fromme was sentenced to 34 years in prison and released in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 17 days later, Sara Jane Moore confronted Ford outside the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco. She fired one shot but missed. A bystander grabbed her arm as a second shot was attempted. Moore was sentenced to life in prison for the attempt and released on parole in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford subsequently wore a bulletproof vest during public appearances but continued his vigorous campaign schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirelle Luecke, curator of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, said Ford at the time told reporters: ‘I don’t think anyone is president to cower in the face of a limited number of people who want to take the law into their own hands. The American people want a dialogue between them and their president and other public officials.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the end, Ford still lost his reelection bid that November — to Jimmy Carter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Harvey Milk/George Moscone assassinations: Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322405284-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Logue lights some sage at the alter in front of 575 Castro St., the former location of Milk’s camera store, where marchers stopped before continuing the 25th Annual Candlelight March commemorating the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on Nov. 23, 2003, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, Dan White, a disgruntled former San Francisco supervisor, snuck into San Francisco City Hall through a basement window, avoiding the recently installed metal detectors. Despite resigning weeks earlier, White sought to be reinstated and confronted Mayor George Moscone about the issue in his office. When Moscone refused to grant his request, White shot him four times, killing him instantly. He then walked down the hall to the office of Supervisor Harvey Milk, who had opposed his reappointment and fatally shot him five times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first openly gay elected official in California, Milk became a prominent political activist in the fight for gay rights, helping to pass a San Francisco ordinance prohibiting anti-gay discrimination in housing and employment. Many of Milk’s supporters attributed White’s relatively light sentence — of seven years — to ingrained homophobic bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White was released from prison after just five years, and less than two years later, after moving back to San Francisco, he took his own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attack on Paul Pelosi: Oct. 28, 2022, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_8387-1920x1080.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jury found David DePape guilty on all counts in San Francisco Superior Court on June 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early in the morning of Oct. 28, 2022, David DePape, a far-right conspiracy theorist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/search?q=depape&site=all\">broke into Nancy and Paul Pelosi’s home\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood by shattering a sliding glass door, with the intent of kidnapping and interrogating the then-House speaker. He found Paul Pelosi home alone, asking him, “Where’s Nancy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi managed to call 911 after DePape demanded to wait with him for his wife to return. When two San Francisco police officers confronted both men in the front doorway, DePape suddenly turned and struck Pelosi multiple times in the head with a hammer, fracturing his skull, before officers rushed in to restrain him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape was tried and found guilty in both federal and state court and sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for one count of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and one count of assault on the immediate family member of a federal official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Matthew Green and The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11994004/after-trump-shooting-california-republicans-hope-to-turn-down-the-burner-at-convention\">attempted assassination\u003c/a> of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend has awakened national memories of violence across the political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several Bay Area leaders, the shooting served as a reminder that threats they receive — which, by several accounts, have escalated in recent years — are real and dangerous. Political rhetoric is increasingly divisive and violent, and research shows members of marginalized groups are disproportionately targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the assassination attempt stirred painful memories of the city’s most notorious act of political violence: the 1978 shootings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former colleague in City Hall. More recently, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">attacked\u003c/a> in the family’s Pacific Heights home by a man who was allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991336/jury-finds-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-guilty-in-state-trial\">radicalized by conspiracy theories\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife decided to publicize multiple racist, threatening voicemails she’s received in a series of posts on X in January. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a series of posts on X in January, Fife, who is Black, shared several voicemails containing horrific and violent threats that were made against her. More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. As soon as I got elected, I no longer felt safe in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a member of Berkeley’s City Council who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">pushed for permanent supportive housin\u003c/a>g at People’s Park resigned over “harassment, stalking, and threats” that he said took a toll on his personal and family life. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, 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href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. 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"content": "\u003cp>Beginning in 1977, for nearly a year, Harvey Milk served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. He authored a bill banning discrimination in public places, housing and employment based on sexual orientation. He also promoted free public transportation, cheaper child care facilities and public oversight of the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November of 1978, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated. The city mourned the loss of two of its most outspoken political leaders. 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When I first met him, he was still emerging from his hippie phase, and he struck me as being entirely too old to be wearing a ponytail. But he and his partner, Scott Smith, had opened a little camera store on Castro Street, and I met him on Castro Street as he was registering voters. And that was our first conversation. I was struck by his warmth, though, and he ran for office a few times before he was elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with each campaign, I could see that he became more serious, more grounded in the issues and more thoughtful in his approach, which was never a single-issue thing. He cared, of course, about gay rights, the community we now call LGBTQ+. But he cared about unions, he cared about seniors, he cared about kids. He was a very astute coalition builder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some of the things he taught you about coalition building and government and advocacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11933264,arts_13845645,arts_13814550\" label=\"Related Posts\"]I got to work with Harvey on the Coors beer boycott, which was one of the first, if not the very first, real alliance between the LGBTQ movement and the labor movement, specifically the Teamsters, who were on strike at the brewery in Golden, Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey saw an opportunity to get jobs for gay people, to support the union and to build a relationship that ended up being incredibly valuable, because just a couple of years later, we in California faced the Briggs Initiative, which was Proposition 6 of the 1978 November ballot. Prop. 6 would have essentially made it illegal for LGBT people and their supporters to work in any capacity in the public school system. And so those initial alliances with labor through the Teamsters then grew to a powerful alliance with the teachers union, the service workers union, and all the unions who saw that not just as an attack on gay people, but as an attack on workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"A bespectacled white man with white hair and a green sweater smiles at the camera with arms crossed and a blurry city street behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-800x578.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleve Jones, in the Castro District in San Francisco, on Feb. 16, 2017. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Milk also taught me a lot. He took me with him to City Hall when he got elected and I was a student intern in his office until he was shot. So I got to work on the inside and saw the nuts and bolts of creating legislation, the hearings, the committee work, all of that. But I will say one kind of overarching lesson I learned from him that has really stuck with me is the importance of communicating with plain language, and always trying to find common ground. He was really a genius at that. He could meet anybody, a worker in a union hall, a society lady on Nob Hill, cute street kids. He could talk to anybody, find the common ground, and create a deeper conversation about shared values and shared aspirations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have been open about this before: You found Milk on the night that he was gunned down. What was going through your mind then? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Nov. 27, 1978. It was horrifying. I’d never seen a dead person before. I’d never seen close up what bullets do. I was maybe the third person to walk in. Dianne Feinstein was there. I just kept thinking, “Well, it’s all over now.” He was our leader. And also for me personally. Harvey had become, for me, very much a father figure. And I just kept thinking, everything’s over. I mean, how can we move forward without him? And it was a real personal loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that night was so extraordinary. As word spread, people began to gather, gay and straight, young and old, Black and brown and white, immigrant and native-born, and it was just thousands and then tens of thousands and tens of thousands more. And that enormous silent candlelight procession filled Market Street from Castro to City Hall. It was just the most extraordinary thing. And I think I realized that night that I was wrong. It wasn’t over. It was just beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a suit and tie leans back in his chair behind a desk in his office and smiles at the camera.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, Dec. 4, 1977. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We often just hear about these highlights with major figures, the tragic ones. But I want to know about moments of joy. Like maybe a time when Milk made people laugh or some other act of kindness.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey was very funny. He loved being a clown. He would dress up as a clown. He really had an amazing ability to connect with kids and make them laugh. He also had a real big place in his heart for senior citizens. At his campaign office, his camera store and his City Hall office, I was always struck by how many kids and seniors were there. He was very empathetic and he had all these funny little rituals. Like one of the rituals was that every year on his birthday, he would receive a pie in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was very good at self-deprecating humor, and this was part of a strategy, because at that point in time most heterosexual people had yet to encounter an out-loud-and-proud gay politician. So there was fear, there was anxiety, there were all sorts of preconceptions. And Harvey would disarm people with humor that would then open the door for more serious conversations to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have dedicated your career to fighting for LGBTQ rights. In what way did being close to Milk help you reach this point where you realized that this was the work that you wanted to do? \u003c/strong>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cleve Jones, author and activist\"]‘I have no doubt that if Harvey were here with us today, he would be warning people that there is peril ahead, that we are in dangerous times.’[/pullquote]You know, I was always interested in politics. I was always interested in the movement. I’m a product of the Vietnam War era and the Civil Rights Movement and the feminist movement. I graduated from high school in 1972, just as the war in Vietnam was winding down. Certainly Nov. 27, finding Harvey’s body, kind of set my course permanently. But I’m not just an LGBTQ activist. In fact, for the last 17 years or so, I’ve worked with Unite Here, the hospitality workers union in the Bay Area. We’re Local 2, and we’re a fighting union of people, immigrants, native-born, people of all colors, faiths, backgrounds, genders and orientations. We take on some of the biggest corporations in the world, and we fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We win contracts that provide workers with better pay, safer working conditions, access to health care and more respect on the job. And so my work for the last almost two decades now focused on labor as well as LGBTQ. It really goes directly back to Harvey Milk and the Teamsters and a Teamster organizer named Allan Baird, who gave Harvey a bullhorn and built that coalition to get Coors beer out of all the gay bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you see Milk’s legacy today, particularly in San Francisco and the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think about Harvey almost every day, and I wonder what he could have accomplished had he not been killed. I wonder if he would have survived the AIDS pandemic, which took so many of us. I think he might possibly have become mayor. I think he might have ended up in Congress. Maybe he would have ended up being just another disappointing politician who made big promises. But being cut down as he was, he gave a people and a community a shared martyr. Now, there are a lot of martyrs in the LGBTQ community. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I got to work with Harvey on the Coors beer boycott, which was one of the first, if not the very first, real alliance between the LGBTQ movement and the labor movement, specifically the Teamsters, who were on strike at the brewery in Golden, Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey saw an opportunity to get jobs for gay people, to support the union and to build a relationship that ended up being incredibly valuable, because just a couple of years later, we in California faced the Briggs Initiative, which was Proposition 6 of the 1978 November ballot. Prop. 6 would have essentially made it illegal for LGBT people and their supporters to work in any capacity in the public school system. And so those initial alliances with labor through the Teamsters then grew to a powerful alliance with the teachers union, the service workers union, and all the unions who saw that not just as an attack on gay people, but as an attack on workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"A bespectacled white man with white hair and a green sweater smiles at the camera with arms crossed and a blurry city street behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-800x578.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1408991899.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleve Jones, in the Castro District in San Francisco, on Feb. 16, 2017. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Milk also taught me a lot. He took me with him to City Hall when he got elected and I was a student intern in his office until he was shot. So I got to work on the inside and saw the nuts and bolts of creating legislation, the hearings, the committee work, all of that. But I will say one kind of overarching lesson I learned from him that has really stuck with me is the importance of communicating with plain language, and always trying to find common ground. He was really a genius at that. He could meet anybody, a worker in a union hall, a society lady on Nob Hill, cute street kids. He could talk to anybody, find the common ground, and create a deeper conversation about shared values and shared aspirations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have been open about this before: You found Milk on the night that he was gunned down. What was going through your mind then? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Nov. 27, 1978. It was horrifying. I’d never seen a dead person before. I’d never seen close up what bullets do. I was maybe the third person to walk in. Dianne Feinstein was there. I just kept thinking, “Well, it’s all over now.” He was our leader. And also for me personally. Harvey had become, for me, very much a father figure. And I just kept thinking, everything’s over. I mean, how can we move forward without him? And it was a real personal loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that night was so extraordinary. As word spread, people began to gather, gay and straight, young and old, Black and brown and white, immigrant and native-born, and it was just thousands and then tens of thousands and tens of thousands more. And that enormous silent candlelight procession filled Market Street from Castro to City Hall. It was just the most extraordinary thing. And I think I realized that night that I was wrong. It wasn’t over. It was just beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a suit and tie leans back in his chair behind a desk in his office and smiles at the camera.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-517285578-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, Dec. 4, 1977. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We often just hear about these highlights with major figures, the tragic ones. But I want to know about moments of joy. Like maybe a time when Milk made people laugh or some other act of kindness.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey was very funny. He loved being a clown. He would dress up as a clown. He really had an amazing ability to connect with kids and make them laugh. He also had a real big place in his heart for senior citizens. At his campaign office, his camera store and his City Hall office, I was always struck by how many kids and seniors were there. He was very empathetic and he had all these funny little rituals. Like one of the rituals was that every year on his birthday, he would receive a pie in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was very good at self-deprecating humor, and this was part of a strategy, because at that point in time most heterosexual people had yet to encounter an out-loud-and-proud gay politician. So there was fear, there was anxiety, there were all sorts of preconceptions. And Harvey would disarm people with humor that would then open the door for more serious conversations to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have dedicated your career to fighting for LGBTQ rights. In what way did being close to Milk help you reach this point where you realized that this was the work that you wanted to do? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>You know, I was always interested in politics. I was always interested in the movement. I’m a product of the Vietnam War era and the Civil Rights Movement and the feminist movement. I graduated from high school in 1972, just as the war in Vietnam was winding down. Certainly Nov. 27, finding Harvey’s body, kind of set my course permanently. But I’m not just an LGBTQ activist. In fact, for the last 17 years or so, I’ve worked with Unite Here, the hospitality workers union in the Bay Area. We’re Local 2, and we’re a fighting union of people, immigrants, native-born, people of all colors, faiths, backgrounds, genders and orientations. We take on some of the biggest corporations in the world, and we fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We win contracts that provide workers with better pay, safer working conditions, access to health care and more respect on the job. And so my work for the last almost two decades now focused on labor as well as LGBTQ. It really goes directly back to Harvey Milk and the Teamsters and a Teamster organizer named Allan Baird, who gave Harvey a bullhorn and built that coalition to get Coors beer out of all the gay bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you see Milk’s legacy today, particularly in San Francisco and the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think about Harvey almost every day, and I wonder what he could have accomplished had he not been killed. I wonder if he would have survived the AIDS pandemic, which took so many of us. I think he might possibly have become mayor. I think he might have ended up in Congress. Maybe he would have ended up being just another disappointing politician who made big promises. But being cut down as he was, he gave a people and a community a shared martyr. Now, there are a lot of martyrs in the LGBTQ community. A lot of people have been taken by violence or by suicide or have lost their way to drugs and alcohol, with which we suffer a lot of tragedies. But Harvey’s death brought us together in a powerful way that continues to reverberate through the generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the core of his message is the importance of coming out and being true to yourself. Being honest and open about who we are, and also about understanding that none of us goes through our lives alone, that all of our lives and our communities are intertwined and interconnected, and that what we do matters. The decisions that we make have consequences, and we need to support each other and do our best to build a world that is free from war in which we can live with justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1298867563.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1298867563-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo in which a white man screams with joy and pumps his fist in the air with his right hand while holding a sign that says "I'm from Woodmere NY" with the other, seated on the back of a convertible with a parade of people holding signs and flags behind him on a city street lined with people and buildings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1298867563-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1298867563-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1298867563-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1298867563.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harvey Milk at the Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, June 23, 1978. \u003ccite>(Terry Schmitt/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is a pretty fraught time for LGBTQ rights around the U.S. We’re seeing state legislatures introducing bills that ban books focused on queerness and others targeting drag performances. How do you think Harvey Milk would have tried to address this moment? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don’t need to speculate at all. I know exactly what he would do. He would be organizing people and he would be encouraging people to take responsibility for fighting these fights. You know, when Harvey was coming of age back in New York and as he was becoming aware of his sexual orientation and figuring out who he was going to be, the Holocaust was unfolding in Europe. As a Jewish gay person, Harvey was extremely aware of what could happen, and he spoke of it often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s this very famous quote from Dr. King about how the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice. And I believe that that is true. But when we step back and look at that arc, we see that there are a lot of twists and turns. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the wake of the mass shooting that claimed the lives of five people at Club Q in Colorado Springs, over 100 people came together on a somber Sunday evening in the Castro neighborhood to mark the 44th anniversary of the assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gathered at Harvey Milk Plaza, local community leaders expressed their sadness over the recent mass shooting and highlighted how much work still needs to be done to protect LGBTQ+ communities.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brian Springfield, executive director, Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza\"]'The mass shooting at Club Q that took five innocent lives in Colorado Springs is a reminder that there is still rampant gun violence and hate speech across America targeting the LGBTQ community and there is still work to be done to end this cycle of violence.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have had so much progress in terms of new laws protecting LGBTQ people,\" said memorial organizer Jeffery Kwong. \"But at the same time, we are shocked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the last year or two, there's this significant increase in extremist voices that have weaponized false narratives about queer people, whether they be trans athletes or teachers in the classroom or drag queens, and have weaponized those narratives to launch attacks against LGBTQ+ folks and communities, to introduce laws, to roll back those same protections that we have gained in the last four or five decades,\" said Kwong. \"And it's shocking that these extremist attacks are still out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Despicable and terrifying' social media attacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those false narratives were top of mind Sunday night for community leaders like state Sen. Scott Weiner, who recently became the target of an anti-gay online attack from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. The far-right Congress member, who has promoted conspiracy theories and was banned from Twitter for spreading misinformation about COVID, was reinstated to the social media platform this month following the company takeover by Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The word ‘groomer’ is categorically an anti-LGBTQ hate word,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1594394194809716737?s=20&t=DWt5R2tb_OB8iFUn-MQa5A\">Wiener tweeted on Nov. 20\u003c/a>, referring to a term some far-right conservatives have used to demonize the LGBTQ+ community and gay men in particular with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2011/10-anti-gay-myths-debunked\">false stereotype and anti-gay myth\u003c/a> that they are more likely to molest children. “It’s super homophobic/transphobic. It plays into the slander that LGBTQ people are pedophiles. It’s no different than calling someone a fagg*t. If you call someone groomer, you’re inciting violence against LGBTQ people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11932611,news_11932882\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1595113301176111104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Greene responded\u003c/a> by calling Wiener a \"communist groomer\" and promoting the Protect Children's Innocence Act, which would outlaw gender-affirming care for minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone after me multiple times and homophobic ways based on legislation, laws that I've authored to protect LGBTQ people, and particularly hostility to young people, including trans young people, so it's not surprising,\" said Wiener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it really was a vile attack to call me a quote-unquote 'communist groomer.' Communists, I don't care about. It's like a classic McCarthyism, whatever. But calling a gay man a groomer, just like they were calling the trans bartender who was murdered at Club Q a groomer, it is basically the same as calling me or us f------. And for a significant political leader, a high-ranking member of Congress, to use language like that is despicable and terrifying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people gathered.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of supporters showed out for a memorial for the Club Q shooting victims at Harvey Milk Plaza on Nov. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said that when powerful people with large platforms vilify LGBTQ+ people and announce to all of their followers that they are dangerous to children, it ultimately will instigate people to commit violence. He sees the rise in hate speech across social media as a cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twitter was never perfect, but it did a reasonably good job of moderating hate speech and and provocations to violence,\" said Wiener. \"And for all of these people now to be brought back in months, it just makes the platform toxic and also dangerous and just unsafe for people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the upset following Musk's takeover of Twitter — including layoffs of half its 7,500-person workforce, including content moderators — there's been a notable \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932611/with-mass-social-media-layoffs-researchers-warn-of-rise-in-hate-speech\">uptick in hateful content\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/06/racism-anti-semitism-surged-corners-web-after-trumps-election/?itid=lk_inline_manual_24\">Network Contagion Research Institute\u003c/a>, a group that analyzes messages on social media, reported that appearances of the N-word on the app \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ncri_io/status/1586007698910646272\">spiked nearly 500%\u003c/a> over the 12 hours after Musk’s deal to acquire Twitter was finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'There is still work to be done'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even in a progressive city like San Francisco, many children are still dealing with persecution for identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community, said Jacob Stensberg, artistic director of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We like to think San Francisco is a bubble and everyone here is welcome and included,\" said Stensberg, speaking on the SFGMC's work in schools. \"But we work with 12-, 13-, 14-year-olds who can't come out because of the way they're treated at school or in their communities. And so it's still about providing a space free from the threat of violence, just as it was 44 years ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, he became the first openly gay elected official in California history. A year later, his advocacy led to the Board \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220406154606/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/22/archives/bill-on-homosexual-rights-advances-in-san-francisco.html\">passing an ordinance to protect gay people from workplace discrimination\u003c/a>. During that time, Milk also opposed a state ballot measure, Proposition 6, that would have banned gay and lesbian teachers, debating then-state Sen. John Briggs on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, Supervisor Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by former police officer and city supervisor Dan White. The deaths sparked a political awakening among the LGBTQ+ community and allies on gay rights issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing glasses and a shirt that reads \"gun reform now\" holds a sign that says \"Moscone & Milk Gun Victims\" while standing outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Beaudette along with his dog, Yoko O-yes, shows support for gun reform during a memorial for the Club Q shooting victims held at Harvey Milk Plaza on Nov. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were victims of hatred and gun violence 44 years ago this Sunday,” said Brian Springfield, executive director of Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza, in a statement on Friday before the gathering. The nonprofit neighborhood organization is dedicated to maintaining and improving the public plaza, which was named in honor of the politician and civil rights icon one year after his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mass shooting at Club Q that took five innocent lives in Colorado Springs is a reminder that there is still rampant gun violence and hate speech across America targeting the LGBTQ community and there is still work to be done to end this cycle of violence,\" continued Springfield. \"The fight for full acceptance and freedom isn’t over and members of the LGBTQ+ community everywhere deserve to feel safe in public spaces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a coat hold a microphone outside around people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks to a crowd at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro on Nov. 27, 2022 to honor victims of the Q club shooting. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann, the anniversary felt bittersweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's hundreds and hundreds of queer elected officials,\" said Mandelman, of the progress the LGBTQ+ community has made since Milk's assassination. \"This is a quite different world. And I think in many ways, Harvey Milk, if he were alive today ... he would be very gratified to see the changes that have happened. I think he'd also be saddened that there's still so much killing and hatred and death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have had so much progress in terms of new laws protecting LGBTQ people,\" said memorial organizer Jeffery Kwong. \"But at the same time, we are shocked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the last year or two, there's this significant increase in extremist voices that have weaponized false narratives about queer people, whether they be trans athletes or teachers in the classroom or drag queens, and have weaponized those narratives to launch attacks against LGBTQ+ folks and communities, to introduce laws, to roll back those same protections that we have gained in the last four or five decades,\" said Kwong. \"And it's shocking that these extremist attacks are still out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Despicable and terrifying' social media attacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those false narratives were top of mind Sunday night for community leaders like state Sen. Scott Weiner, who recently became the target of an anti-gay online attack from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. The far-right Congress member, who has promoted conspiracy theories and was banned from Twitter for spreading misinformation about COVID, was reinstated to the social media platform this month following the company takeover by Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The word ‘groomer’ is categorically an anti-LGBTQ hate word,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1594394194809716737?s=20&t=DWt5R2tb_OB8iFUn-MQa5A\">Wiener tweeted on Nov. 20\u003c/a>, referring to a term some far-right conservatives have used to demonize the LGBTQ+ community and gay men in particular with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2011/10-anti-gay-myths-debunked\">false stereotype and anti-gay myth\u003c/a> that they are more likely to molest children. “It’s super homophobic/transphobic. It plays into the slander that LGBTQ people are pedophiles. It’s no different than calling someone a fagg*t. If you call someone groomer, you’re inciting violence against LGBTQ people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1595113301176111104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Greene responded\u003c/a> by calling Wiener a \"communist groomer\" and promoting the Protect Children's Innocence Act, which would outlaw gender-affirming care for minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone after me multiple times and homophobic ways based on legislation, laws that I've authored to protect LGBTQ people, and particularly hostility to young people, including trans young people, so it's not surprising,\" said Wiener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it really was a vile attack to call me a quote-unquote 'communist groomer.' Communists, I don't care about. It's like a classic McCarthyism, whatever. But calling a gay man a groomer, just like they were calling the trans bartender who was murdered at Club Q a groomer, it is basically the same as calling me or us f------. And for a significant political leader, a high-ranking member of Congress, to use language like that is despicable and terrifying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people gathered.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60555_DSC01240.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of supporters showed out for a memorial for the Club Q shooting victims at Harvey Milk Plaza on Nov. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said that when powerful people with large platforms vilify LGBTQ+ people and announce to all of their followers that they are dangerous to children, it ultimately will instigate people to commit violence. He sees the rise in hate speech across social media as a cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twitter was never perfect, but it did a reasonably good job of moderating hate speech and and provocations to violence,\" said Wiener. \"And for all of these people now to be brought back in months, it just makes the platform toxic and also dangerous and just unsafe for people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the upset following Musk's takeover of Twitter — including layoffs of half its 7,500-person workforce, including content moderators — there's been a notable \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932611/with-mass-social-media-layoffs-researchers-warn-of-rise-in-hate-speech\">uptick in hateful content\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/06/racism-anti-semitism-surged-corners-web-after-trumps-election/?itid=lk_inline_manual_24\">Network Contagion Research Institute\u003c/a>, a group that analyzes messages on social media, reported that appearances of the N-word on the app \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ncri_io/status/1586007698910646272\">spiked nearly 500%\u003c/a> over the 12 hours after Musk’s deal to acquire Twitter was finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'There is still work to be done'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even in a progressive city like San Francisco, many children are still dealing with persecution for identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community, said Jacob Stensberg, artistic director of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We like to think San Francisco is a bubble and everyone here is welcome and included,\" said Stensberg, speaking on the SFGMC's work in schools. \"But we work with 12-, 13-, 14-year-olds who can't come out because of the way they're treated at school or in their communities. And so it's still about providing a space free from the threat of violence, just as it was 44 years ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, he became the first openly gay elected official in California history. A year later, his advocacy led to the Board \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220406154606/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/22/archives/bill-on-homosexual-rights-advances-in-san-francisco.html\">passing an ordinance to protect gay people from workplace discrimination\u003c/a>. During that time, Milk also opposed a state ballot measure, Proposition 6, that would have banned gay and lesbian teachers, debating then-state Sen. John Briggs on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, Supervisor Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by former police officer and city supervisor Dan White. The deaths sparked a political awakening among the LGBTQ+ community and allies on gay rights issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing glasses and a shirt that reads \"gun reform now\" holds a sign that says \"Moscone & Milk Gun Victims\" while standing outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60544_DSC00947.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Beaudette along with his dog, Yoko O-yes, shows support for gun reform during a memorial for the Club Q shooting victims held at Harvey Milk Plaza on Nov. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were victims of hatred and gun violence 44 years ago this Sunday,” said Brian Springfield, executive director of Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza, in a statement on Friday before the gathering. The nonprofit neighborhood organization is dedicated to maintaining and improving the public plaza, which was named in honor of the politician and civil rights icon one year after his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mass shooting at Club Q that took five innocent lives in Colorado Springs is a reminder that there is still rampant gun violence and hate speech across America targeting the LGBTQ community and there is still work to be done to end this cycle of violence,\" continued Springfield. \"The fight for full acceptance and freedom isn’t over and members of the LGBTQ+ community everywhere deserve to feel safe in public spaces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a coat hold a microphone outside around people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks to a crowd at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro on Nov. 27, 2022 to honor victims of the Q club shooting. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann, the anniversary felt bittersweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's hundreds and hundreds of queer elected officials,\" said Mandelman, of the progress the LGBTQ+ community has made since Milk's assassination. \"This is a quite different world. And I think in many ways, Harvey Milk, if he were alive today ... he would be very gratified to see the changes that have happened. I think he'd also be saddened that there's still so much killing and hatred and death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Navy has \u003ca href=\"https://fb.watch/97Bg9Y1dpH/\">launched and christened a ship named for the slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk\u003c/a>, who served in the Navy during the Korean War but was discharged after being questioned about his sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 742-foot-long ship that launched from San Diego on Saturday is the second of six new vessels in the Navy's fleet oiler program, which will help replenish fuel for other Navy ships that are already out at sea. The Navy plans to eventually have 20 ships in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naming the ship after an icon of the LGBTQ+ rights movement represents a symbolic milestone for the military following a long history in which queer service members were unable to serve openly. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said it helps right the wrongs of the past and shows a commitment to current and future LGBTQ+ service members. It's estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lgbtq-veterans-discharged-dishonorably-sexual-orientation-full-benefits/story?id=80129318\">100,000 veterans have been discharged from military service because of their sexual orientation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Leaders like Harvey Milk taught us that diversity of backgrounds and experiences help contribute to the strength and resolve of our nation. There is no doubt that \u003ca href=\"https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/2835280/navy-to-christen-future-usns-harvey-milk/\">the future sailors aboard this ship will be inspired by Milk's life and legacy\u003c/a>,\" Del Toro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Milk, Milk's nephew and the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, spoke at the event and said one of his uncle's dreams was \"for service members to serve with authenticity and not be forced to hide who they were and who they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11895495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three men stand together outside at an event with white chairs in the background. From left to right, a man in a bow tie and suit, another man in a navy hat and glasses holding a photo of Harvey Milk in naval uniform, and right, a smiling man in a suit with a goatee.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, David Campos, vice chair of the California Democratic Party; Nicole Murray-Ramirez, an LGBTQ+ activist, holding a photo of Harvey Milk; and Bevan Dufty, director of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District pose for a photo before the launching of the USNS Harvey Milk in San Diego on Nov. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/\">Harvey Milk served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955\u003c/a>, including during the Korean War. His nephew said the Navy provided the Milk family with the documents outlining his discharge and it was \"less than honorable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk says the Navy approached him about reversing his uncle's dishonorable discharge posthumously, but that he decided against it as a reminder that not everyone was treated with honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11708059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Take a look back at a San Francisco that was at a crossroads and the day that changed the city forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We have to teach our history to prevent ourselves from going backwards,\" Stuart Milk said Saturday. \"This navy ship sends an important message to the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, after his Navy career, Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. But he was assassinated just one year later by a former city supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Campos, who also served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and who is now a candidate for the state Assembly, told KQED the naming is \"historic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The navy kicked Harvey Milk out with a dishonorable discharge for being gay, and it now is naming a ship after him. It shows how far we in the LGBTQ community have come,\" Campos said. \"This ship will be an ambassador for LGBTQ inclusion and dignity as it travels the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another politician, Bevan Dufty, an out gay man who serves on the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors, said the ship's christening was a testament to Milk's legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What was monumental about the christening is how many straight white men, many of whom in the military, stood up and spoke eloquently and powerfully about who Harvey was, the fight he gave his life for, and the importance of authenticity and coming out, and being inclusive,\" Dufty said. \"You have to shake your head a little bit and go wow, this is amazing. It's one thing to stand at the Board of Supervisors and extoll the virtues of Harvey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dufty said, \"to have a naval ship named in his honor is huge. It's not quite as big as the ship, but it's huge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sponsors of the ship were Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Paula Neira, a Navy veteran and the clinical program director at the Center for Transgender Health at Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neira christened the ship by breaking a bottle of champagne on the hull, which is a Navy tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six new ships are part of a program named after the late civil rights leader and former Georgia Rep. John Lewis. The five other ships in the fleet are also named for leaders who championed civil rights: former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Robert F. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naming the ship after an icon of the LGBTQ+ rights movement represents a symbolic milestone for the military following a long history in which queer service members were unable to serve openly. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said it helps right the wrongs of the past and shows a commitment to current and future LGBTQ+ service members. It's estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lgbtq-veterans-discharged-dishonorably-sexual-orientation-full-benefits/story?id=80129318\">100,000 veterans have been discharged from military service because of their sexual orientation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Leaders like Harvey Milk taught us that diversity of backgrounds and experiences help contribute to the strength and resolve of our nation. There is no doubt that \u003ca href=\"https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/2835280/navy-to-christen-future-usns-harvey-milk/\">the future sailors aboard this ship will be inspired by Milk's life and legacy\u003c/a>,\" Del Toro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Milk, Milk's nephew and the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, spoke at the event and said one of his uncle's dreams was \"for service members to serve with authenticity and not be forced to hide who they were and who they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11895495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three men stand together outside at an event with white chairs in the background. From left to right, a man in a bow tie and suit, another man in a navy hat and glasses holding a photo of Harvey Milk in naval uniform, and right, a smiling man in a suit with a goatee.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, David Campos, vice chair of the California Democratic Party; Nicole Murray-Ramirez, an LGBTQ+ activist, holding a photo of Harvey Milk; and Bevan Dufty, director of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District pose for a photo before the launching of the USNS Harvey Milk in San Diego on Nov. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/\">Harvey Milk served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955\u003c/a>, including during the Korean War. His nephew said the Navy provided the Milk family with the documents outlining his discharge and it was \"less than honorable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk says the Navy approached him about reversing his uncle's dishonorable discharge posthumously, but that he decided against it as a reminder that not everyone was treated with honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11708059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Take a look back at a San Francisco that was at a crossroads and the day that changed the city forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We have to teach our history to prevent ourselves from going backwards,\" Stuart Milk said Saturday. \"This navy ship sends an important message to the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, after his Navy career, Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. But he was assassinated just one year later by a former city supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Campos, who also served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and who is now a candidate for the state Assembly, told KQED the naming is \"historic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The navy kicked Harvey Milk out with a dishonorable discharge for being gay, and it now is naming a ship after him. It shows how far we in the LGBTQ community have come,\" Campos said. \"This ship will be an ambassador for LGBTQ inclusion and dignity as it travels the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another politician, Bevan Dufty, an out gay man who serves on the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors, said the ship's christening was a testament to Milk's legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What was monumental about the christening is how many straight white men, many of whom in the military, stood up and spoke eloquently and powerfully about who Harvey was, the fight he gave his life for, and the importance of authenticity and coming out, and being inclusive,\" Dufty said. \"You have to shake your head a little bit and go wow, this is amazing. It's one thing to stand at the Board of Supervisors and extoll the virtues of Harvey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dufty said, \"to have a naval ship named in his honor is huge. 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Executive Director Terry Beswick says the rainbow flag’s design is iconic and internationally known because it represents hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist, we have the right to love who we want to love and to participate as full members of society,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original 1978 Rainbow Flag returned to San Francisco on June 4, 2021. It’s being housed at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rainbow flag isn’t just colorful lines on a sheet. The eight rows of fabric — \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-rainbow-flag-become-a-symbol-of-lgbt-pride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violet, indigo, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, red, hot pink\u003c/a> — are the brain child of gay activist and artist \u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker\u003c/a> who passed away in 2017. He and a crew of more than 30 people created the first rainbow flag in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea came to Baker after gay activist and politician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harvey-milk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a> told Baker the community needed a new symbol that exudes affirmation, Beswick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ezraromero/status/1400895410365886465\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were probably some drugs involved when Gilbert was on a dance floor [when] he had an epiphany about a rainbow,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Terry Beswick, GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive executive director\"]‘People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist.’[/pullquote]A year after flying in the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day celebrations, the flag was found in storage to be badly mildewed. Part of it was salvaged and it remained in Baker’s care for decades. When he died in 2017, the remainder was among the boxes given to his sister. It was later passed on to his friend Charles Beal to carry in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101871889/san-francisco-and-lgbtq-pride-before-and-after-stonewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stonewall 50\u003c/a> Parade in New York City, but at that point it wasn’t known that it was the original rainbow flag. Then in 2020, the flag was authenticated by a flag expert. The flag is now part of the Gilbert Baker Collection at the museum and is the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/performance-protest-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Performance, Protest and Politics: The art of Gilbert Baker.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beswick travelled to New York a few weeks ago to pick the flag up and brought it to San Francisco in a lavender suitcase. He cracked open the case surrounded by friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone had the idea that the rainbow, which comes from nature, just like LGBTQ people come from nature, would be a great symbol,” he said. “We take it for granted a little bit . . . but it’s had these amazing consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elected officials admire the original 1978 Rainbow Flag held in a glass casing at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flag has elevated LGBTQ voices and is universally understood to represent the full spectrum of the LGBTQ community. San Francisco Mayor London Breed spoke at the unveiling saying she wants San Francisco to remain a refuge for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about LGBTQ history, and it’s not just about San Francisco history,” she said. “This is American history. It’s important to recognize it in a way that elevates the conversation that provides the room and the space to spread out and to see the different messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ezraromero/status/1400893354557153284\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/mission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker Foundation\u003c/a> president and friend of the flag-maker Charles Beal said he wished Baker could have witnessed Friday’s homecoming event, but that the flag continues to provide a sense of home, safety and peace for LGBTQ people around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"lgbtq\" label=\"More LGBTQ coverage\"]“It means something to a lot of people around the world and we got to never forget that,” he said. “Today in Tehran, people are running out in the streets with rainbow flags and running because they’re afraid to be caught. 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