Milk to Be Honored by Obama
Gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk is to be posthumously awarded with a Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor.
President Obama will bestow the honor to the murdered San Francisco supervisor along with 15 others, including lesbian tennis legend Billie Jean King and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Speaking to the Washington Times, Stuart Milk, Harvey’s nephew, said: “My uncle would be so proud of this high honor.”
Stuart will accept the award on behalf of his uncle at the White House ceremony on August 12th.
Read more at: Pink News!
3 Comments
Elián Maricón
07 Aug 2009 03:08 pm
See? He loves us. He really loves us!
James
07 Aug 2009 03:08 pm
I personally believe President Obama is doing the very best he can to stay within the interest of all Americans.
He has certainly acknowledged the LGBT community more than any other political leader, especially a president, and there is good in that.
Change doesn’t happen overnight, and it’s not about just demanding laws, it’s also about changing attitudes. There’s a very fine line between the two and President Obama is right to observe that line carefully.
I haven’t been able to do as much for LGBT community as President Obama has, and even if I had, I still wouldn’t have the right to judge him.
Let’s see where we are in 4 years before we have a meltdown.
I wonder if Milk would have been honored by McCain or Palin if they had won the election?
Troy
08 Aug 2009 10:08 am
That was such a good movie!
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