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I don't have to tell you guys who Harvey Milk is, but just in case, gay man elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco City Council in 1977, led the successful fight against an anti-gay ballot initiative backed by Anita Bryant, who was then

America's most prominent and really effective anti-gay bigot slash activist, and then Harvey

was murdered, assassinated in 1978. Anyway, I wanted to open this week's show with a clip,

a clip from Milk's most famous speech, his hope speech. It's a long clip

for the top of the show. It's about two minutes long, but I think it's worth it, and I hope

you'll indulge me. Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio was a young gay person, where all of a sudden

realizes that here he is gay, knows that if the parents find out, they'll be tossed out of the

house, the classmates would taunt the child, and the Anita Bryans and John Briggs are doing their

bit on TV, and that child had several options, staying in a closet, suicide,

and then one day that child might open a paper and says homosexual elected in San Francisco

and there are two new options.

The option is to go to California.

Stay in San Antonio and fight.

Two days after I was elected, I got a phone call, and the voice was quite young.

It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the person said, thanks.

And you've got to elect gay people so that that young child and the thousands upon thousands

like that child know that there's hope for a better world, there's hope for a better

tomorrow, without hope, not only gays, but those blacks, the Asians, the disabled, seniors, the uses, the uses, without hope, the usses, give up.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you and you, you've got to give

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