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🗓️ 29 November 2020
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It’s November 29th. On this day in 1978, San Fransisco is in mourning, and there is violence in the streets, in the wake of the assassination of Harvey Milk, a board of supervisors member and gay rights advocate.
Jody and Niki discus the legacy of Harvey Milk, his evolution as a gay rights advocate, and the so-called “Twinkie Defense.”
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
0:07.0 | My name is Jody Abergan. |
0:12.0 | This day, November 29th, 1978. |
0:16.0 | Much of San Francisco is in shock. |
0:18.0 | There have been a few days of riots and violence |
0:21.0 | in the wake of the assassination of Harvey Milk two days earlier on November 27th. |
0:27.0 | Milk was a 48-year-old San Francisco supervisor, the city's first acknowledged homosexual official, he was assassinated in the San Francisco City Hall building, shot five times by former city supervisor Dan White. |
0:41.0 | Also shot and killed that day with San Francisco Mayor George |
0:44.6 | Moskoni. So here to talk about it with a little bit of a focus on Harvey Milk |
0:49.4 | and his political work and his legacy and a lot of the other interesting ripple effects from this moment is as always |
0:55.6 | Nicole Hammer of Columbia. Hello, Nicky. |
0:58.1 | Hello, Jody. |
0:59.3 | So people, I think, know the Harvey Milk story a little bit, the death there was a movie not that many years ago about |
1:06.1 | Harvey Milk and I he is his legacy is seen as you know one of the most |
1:11.4 | influential gay rights icons most influential gay rights icons in the 20th century but I was |
1:17.6 | wondering if we could actually start a little bit with just painting a sketch of him as a |
1:20.7 | local politician I mean what is your sense of what Harvey Milk was as a San Francisco supervisor? |
1:26.6 | You know, by the time he runs for office he's a fairly liberal politician. |
1:31.2 | He is promoting things like expanded child care, free transportation, |
1:38.0 | low rent housing, civilian review boards, the kinds of things that you would expect |
1:41.6 | from a Democratic politician in the 1970s and notably |
1:45.8 | like not a ton that he's saying on the front of gay rights. |
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