"There is no law that two human beings cannot love each other."
The LGBTQ community lost a hero 42 years ago. This is the story of gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
The LGBTQ community lost a hero 42 years ago. This is the story of gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
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00:00Well, he was, you know, somebody whose notion of politics and community was one.
00:07He became such a symbol of hope for so many people.
01:00The message of Harvey is that we are stronger with our differences.
01:13We should never divide ourselves and we should embrace them.
01:15And we shouldn't become tolerant of each other.
01:17We should embrace our wonderful rainbow of diversity.
01:30When some gay people started to move in and started to make it a healthy climate economically and socially, they accepted us.
02:00There is a law that says gay people cannot be married, but there is no law that says two human beings cannot love one another.
02:10He really showed that he was willing to put his life on the line.
02:30He believed that it was important to be an example to people that, you know, maybe didn't quite have the courage yet to come out or live how they wanted to do.
03:00His name was Harvey Milk and he was here to recruit us, all of us, to join a movement and change a nation.
03:29For much of his early life, he had silenced himself.
03:32In the prime of his life, he was silenced by the act of another.
03:36But in the brief time in which he spoke and ran and led, his voice stirred the aspirations of millions of people.