{"id":1969,"date":"2021-05-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gooroo.com\/blog\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2021-05-13T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:26:03","slug":"celebrating-harvey-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gooroo.com\/blog\/celebrating-harvey-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Milk: Celebrating This Pioneer Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"709\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132316\/cecilie-johnsen-G8CxFhKuPDU-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"harvey milk\" class=\"wp-image-1970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132316\/cecilie-johnsen-G8CxFhKuPDU-unsplash.jpg 709w, https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132316\/cecilie-johnsen-G8CxFhKuPDU-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Marking a worldwide celebration of sexual and gender diversities, its important to honour those who have stood for <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.gooroo.com\/courses\/activism-101-movements-that-change-america-part-1\/31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LGBTQIA+ rights<\/a>. Harvey Milk is one such pioneer. With his birthday also happening this week, today\u2019s blog will be talking about the importance of these movements and the people who help to drive them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"709\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132327\/tanushree-rao-xQpnI9wH0ck-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132327\/tanushree-rao-xQpnI9wH0ck-unsplash.jpg 709w, https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132327\/tanushree-rao-xQpnI9wH0ck-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-what-is-lgbtqia\">What is LGBTQIA+?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanting to move towards inclusivity, the shorter LGBT has expanded. Thus, adding new letters to represent members of the community. Keep reading to see what this acronym represents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>L<\/strong> is for <strong>Lesbian<\/strong>. Defined as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gooroo.com\/blog\/classic-novels-by-female-authors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a female-identifying person<\/a> who is attracted to another female-identifying person.<\/li><li><strong>B<\/strong> is for <strong>Bisexual<\/strong> \u2014 referring to someone who is attracted to more than one gender.<\/li><li><strong>G<\/strong> is for <strong>Gay<\/strong>. This is a male-identifying person who is attracted to another male-identifying person. Harvey Milk identified as a gay man.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>T<\/strong> is for <strong>Transgender<\/strong>. This is someone whose gender identity\/expression does not conform to they sex they were assigned at birth. Having to do with gender and not sexuality, transgender people may identity as other LGBQIA+ terms.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Q<\/strong> is for <strong>Queer<\/strong> or <strong>Questioning<\/strong>. Referring to anyone who is not straight or cisgender, <strong>Queer<\/strong> is an umbrella term in the community for those who don\u2019t wish to use labels. Historically, the term was as a slur. But, recently LGBTQIA+ people reclaimed it. <strong>Questioning<\/strong> is a term for those who are not sure about how they identify.<\/li><li><strong>I<\/strong> is for <strong>Intersex<\/strong> \u2014 referring to people who naturally have biological traits which don\u2019t match what is typically identified as male or female.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>A<\/strong> is for <strong>Asexual\/Aromantic<\/strong> or <strong>Ally<\/strong>. Another umbrella term, <strong>Asexua<\/strong>l is for those who do not experience attraction to others. <strong>Ally<\/strong> includes those who identify as cisgender and straight, but support the LGBTQIA+ community.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of this community faces prejudice and biases. International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia seeks to speak out against these terrible unfair treatments. One way of doing this is celebrating the lives of those who fought for LGBTQIA+ rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"709\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132337\/brielle-french-61JpASTemRU-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132337\/brielle-french-61JpASTemRU-unsplash.jpg 709w, https:\/\/gooroo-blog.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2021\/05\/13132337\/brielle-french-61JpASTemRU-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-the-life-of-harvey-milk\">The Life of Harvey Milk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dreaming of a better tomorrow, Harvey Milk hoped for a future filled with equality and devoid of hate. Before he was killed, he served less than a year in public office . But, the work he did very much change a city, nation, and a global community.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being the first openly gay elected official in California, Milk was the most pro-LGBTQIA+ political in the United States. Although politics and activism were not his interests early on, he was spurred into action after his experiences in the counterculture movement of the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving from New York City to San Francisco, Harvey Milk was amongst a migration of gay and bisexual men also travelling West. Despite running unsuccessfully three times, Milk\u2019s campaigns earned him increasing popularity until he eventually won a seat as city supervisor in 1997.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his time in office, Harvey Milk sponsored a bill banning the discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. After his death, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His final campaign manager, Anne Kronenberg, wrote of him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cWhat set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Marking a worldwide celebration of sexual and gender diversities, its important to honour those who have stood for LGBTQIA+ rights. Harvey Milk is one such pioneer. 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