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• TWO FIRSTS: SAN DIEGO ELECTS OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF LOR
• HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
• 40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
• GLORIA SWORN AS SAN DIEGO’S FIRST MAYOR OF LOR, FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• PALM SPRGS’ FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAYOR DISCS CHANG CY SHOULD MAKE
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• COLUMN: ‘OH, YOU’RE OUT?’ GAY POLICIAN N’T GET PRI FLAG RAISED HIS SMALL CALIFORNIA TOWN
• CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS CURRICULUM CLUDG GAY RIGHTS AFTER SPAT WH ERNOR
• GAY MAYORS? WHO R?

TWO FIRSTS: SAN DIEGO ELECTS OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF LOR

San Diego voters also oted Republins on their Cy Council, where Democrats will soon ntrol eight of the ne uncil mayor of San Diego, Gloria will be the most powerful gay male mayor the natn. Gloria endured antigay smear tactics durg his mayoral mpaign, which rulted threats on his life. Gentry, 82, served as a uncilman and mayor om 1982 to 1994, beg California’s first openly gay mayor.

Her stori have also highlighted stori of lol Black artists, Native Amerin theater, fah-based fns, nutrn and wellns programs, gay marriage, and Jewish life Southern California, om kosher rtrants to an exhib on home movi. San Diego jt experienced two firsts wh s recent electn: a new mayor who is openly gay and of lor, the Los Angel Tim reports.

HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA

Robert Gentry was the first openly gay elected official Southern California and the first openly gay Mayor California. Gentry also thored an ordance which registered both gay and straight domtic partnerships the cy, th offerg ernmental affirmatn of the relatnship and extendg any benefs to domtic partner registrants.

Gentry held the followg posns as an openly gay admistrator durg his tenure at UCI: Actg Dean of Stunts, Associate Dean of Stunts, Director of Development for Stunt Affairs, Director of Hog, Director of Stunt Special Servic.

40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA

Gentry helped tablish and -chaired the Chancellor's Advisory Commtee on the Stat of Lbians and Gays, which was an advisory mtee to the Chancellor of the mp that remend polici and practic support of the LGBTQ faculty, staff, and stunts. In 2016, he was the first openly gay man elected to public office his hometown of Stockton, followg the footsteps of Senator (and one of his role mols) Dr. In the early 1970s I me out of the closet and began to look at the growg so-lled Gay Liberatn Movement.

I found that this movement was not as welg as I expected to be, and that was very clearly ntrolled by upper middle class whe Gay men. The experienc, which boiled down to the lor of my sk, did not provi me wh the privileg that “straight-actg, ” whe Gay men enjoyed all their liv. My 36 years as an openly Gay profsnal arts admistrator and advote has been driven by the “belief that the arts are key to the velopment of healthy and ted dividuals, they ntribute to buildg safe muni, and that accs to the arts for all people, regardls of race and enomic stat, is vally important to a civilized society.

GLORIA SWORN AS SAN DIEGO’S FIRST MAYOR OF LOR, FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official the history of California, tak his place on the San Francis Board of Supervisors on January 8, 1978.

PALM SPRGS’ FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAYOR DISCS CHANG CY SHOULD MAKE

The first and, for years, most visible openly gay polician Ameri, Milk was a longtime activist and pneerg lear of San Francis’s LGBT servg the Navy durg the Korean War, Milk held several whe-llar jobs New York Cy.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

Inially nservative and reluctant to advote for gay rights, Milk’s views changed around the time he and his then-partner opened a mera shop on Castro Street, the heart of the San Francis’s LGBT muny, many bs owners and cizens of the largely-gay Castro District, Milk was harassed by police and lol officials. Dpe alienatg many Democrats, cludg other gay activists, wh his bombastic language and flower-child persona, he won the Castro district handily and me 10 out of 32 ndidat.

Still, Milk and the Castro’s rise to power cid wh the rise of anti-gay reactnari like Ana Bryant, and Milk unrstood both the power and the danger of his posn as facto lear of the largt gay muny Ameri. On the nth anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, shortly after his partner mted suici and the face of nservative backlash across the untry, Milk addrsed San Francis’s gay pri para, begng wh his tchphrase “My name is Harvey Milk and I’m here to rec you” and endg wh a msage of “Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to e to if the prsur at home are too great.

”The followg November, 75 percent of California voters rejected a referendum that would have allowed schools to fire teachers for beg homosexual. On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall 2019, Milk was an gural ductee onto the Natnal LGBTQ Wall of MORE: The Gay Rights MovementAlso on This Day History January | 8. 40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

COLUMN: ‘OH, YOU’RE OUT?’ GAY POLICIAN N’T GET PRI FLAG RAISED HIS SMALL CALIFORNIA TOWN

40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: Colorado this month elected the untry's first openly gay ernor.

This all 40 years after the assassatn of the first openly gay elected official California, Harvey Milk.

CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS CURRICULUM CLUDG GAY RIGHTS AFTER SPAT WH ERNOR

In California, a nservative state senator named John Briggs was phg a statewi ballot measure - Prop 6 - to ban gay and lbian teachers. Harvey Milk, an openly gay member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, led the fight agast the proposn, batg Briggs around the state. He thought the murr meant the end of the gay rights movement.

GAY MAYORS? WHO R?

Today the seat Milk held when he was killed is occupied by another openly gay man, Rafael MANDELMAN: As someone who was 5 years old when he was shot, I am ntually grateful, not jt for Harvey but for the folks of that generatn who really did change the But first, Manlman not, Milk changed himself. But he worri that as queer people are priced out of gay neighborhoods like the Castro, dilut their polil power.

Gwen Craig, who me to San Francis the 1970s and worked wh Harvey Milk before he was killed, trac all back to Milk phg people to e out of the CRAIG: I do thk that he sort of started this path that ma possible for the openly gay officials that were elected this last round. A prev versn of this story rrectly stated that Gee Mosne was the first openly gay elected official California. In fact, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official California.

In Febary, San Diego’s new mayor-elect, California State Assemblymember Todd Gloria, told LGBTQ Natn that beg gay is a superpower.