New York's Harvey Milk School and Milwaukee's Alliance High school were inspirations for the Chicago proposal.
"Harvey Milk was victimized and became a martyr for a cause, " Weiss said.
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official from a major city in the United States.
That was also a year that Sean Penn won an Oscar for his performance as Harvey Milk.
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It's about Harvey Milk, who served on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors the city's equivalent of a city council.
Historically speaking, activists have always been targets for the groups or regimes they rage against, from Martin Luther King to Harvey Milk.
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Sean Penn won best actor for playing Harvey Milk in "Milk, " the story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office.
Harvey Milk is a band that does not take itself seriously.
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He worked with Harvey Milk, one of America's first openly gay politicians, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors until his assassination in 1978.
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"Milk, " the biopic about pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk, earned nominations for star Sean Penn, director Gus Van Sant and its original screenplay as well as a best picture nod.
The 2008 premiere of "Milk, " based on the life of well-known gay activist and city supervisor Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978, catapulted the Castro onto a bigger Hollywood stage, Mr. Arnold says.
"I Am Harvey Milk" will be directed by Noah Himmelstein, conducted by Dr. Timothy Seelig, orchestrated by August Eriksmoen and will feature the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus accompanied by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony.
That's not to say the work is done but rather Bayard Rustin, and Harvey Milk and Del Martin and the countless souls who have since moved on, did not fight for this notion of full equality, in vain.
Lippa said Monday that his "I Am Harvey Milk" part choral, part theater will be performed June 27-28 at The Nourse Auditorium as part of the events celebrating the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus' own 35th anniversary.
Reportedly written in response to one disappointed online fan ( not really), A Small Turn of Human Kindness marks somewhat of a return to Harvey Milk's weirdest and challenging music, but with every release, Harvey Milk has brought its disparate sonic worlds closer together.
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