Harvey Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in a major city. A champion for LGBT civil rights he worked to be at the Briggs Initiative to ban gays from teaching in public schools. He was a hero who died fighting for Equality.
On October 13, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law a day to commemorate Harvey Milk. Having previously vetoed the measure, Schwarzenegger says he was convinced to change his mind by Gus van Sant’s Academy award-winning film on Milk’s life and by the decision of Barack Obama to award Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. California law prescribes public school holidays and commemorative activities for days such as Harvey Milk Day.
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