Posted on 03/09/2007 2:50:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Mayor of Castro Street, Harvey Milk, will finally have a permanent place at San Francisco's City Hall once a commissioned sculpture of the former supervisor is completed and displayed.
Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated in their City Hall offices on Nov. 27, 1978. The killer, Dan White, was only sentenced to seven years in prison, leading to rioting among the city's gay community.
Both Milk and Moscone were leaders in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual rights movement.
Earlier this week, the San Francisco Art Commission approved a sculpture to be created by the Daub Firmin Hendrickson Sculpture Group. The group was one of three finalists being considered out of a pool of 40 entries.
A panel of community members and art experts judged several drawings and clay models to come up with the winner. The public was also asked to weigh in on the entries and the composites were displayed at City Hall.
The group will receive a $57,500 grant to complete the sculpture and pedestal, expected to be over 6 feet tall and made of bronze.
On the pedestal will be an excerpt from Milk's famous "Hope" speech. It will read, "The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be right."
The pedestal will also include the date Milk was elected to the Board of Supervisors, Nov. 8, 1977, and his May 22, 1930, birthday and date of death.
"Our goal was to capture Harvey Milk's animated, intelligent and humorous nature in our bust, and elements of his story in bas reliefs on the pedestal," the winning group said in a statement. "We hope that the sculpture, by permanently placing Harvey at the center of San Francisco politics, will enhance the meaning of City Hall and inspire all of us to rediscover Harvey's tireless fight for the fundamental principles of our democracy -- reminding us that we are all responsible for defending the rights of our fellow citizens."
The group has one year to complete the statue. The sculpture is scheduled to be unveiled in 2008 on Milk's birthday.
I remember TV coverage of riots that followed the Dan White sentencing. Hundreds of queers attacking the courthouse with bricks and other missiles, while trying to batter down the main doors.
But what stood out on the newsreel was the sound - not normal loud shouting, but an eerie highpitched mass screeching: "Eeeeee! Eeeeee!"
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Even though Milk was a Democrat and openly gay, he didn't deserve to be murdered by Dan White. Some of these comments here are nothing short of offensive and mean-spirited.
And just think, because of the murder of Moscone and Milk, that allowed Diane Feinstein to move up the chain. Not a good end result, if you ask me.
Should be sculptured out of fudge.
was that the one in Wyoming they beat into our heads for several years?
Di Fi would think your comments about her are offensive and mean-spirited too.
Whatever.
ok so THIS is why fox news was doing a news story about the contents of the twinkie!
no joke!
"Unless their conservative politics do not fit our agenda."
>>I wonder if the "elements of his story will have to be NC-17.
Seriously this person is have a stautu made because of the way he had ORGASMS!<<
Its more because of the way he was assassinated. The quick killing of the first openly gay man to be elected to public office energized gay activism.
BTW, when the mayor was assassinated along with Milk, the president of the Board of Supervisors automatically ascended to the mayoral position - thus making Diane Feinstein into Mayor of San Francisco - a position she had been unable win through election.
This assassination was a very bad thing practically as well a morally.
Ah, the days of DiFi's mayorality... when she sagely advised San Franciscans that they would be safer if their neighbors were using high powered rifles for self defense in high density urban housing than if they were using handguns.
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The woman hasn't gotten much brighter about weaponry during her tour in the Senate, either.
Moscone and Milk were typical loony 'Frisco politicians. Sexually deviant, deceitful and dangerous. It's a shame that they didn't follow their buddy Jim Jones into the jungles of Guyana. Would've saved Dan White's family a lot of grief.
>>Ah, the days of DiFi's mayorality... when she sagely advised San Franciscans that they would be safer if their neighbors were using high powered rifles for self defense in high density urban housing than if they were using handguns.
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The woman hasn't gotten much brighter about weaponry during her tour in the Senate, either.<<
I had not heard that... did she not consider penetration?!
Frankly if you want home defense that wont go through walls its hard to beat a shotgun.
>>Moscone and Milk were typical loony 'Frisco politicians. Sexually deviant, deceitful and dangerous. It's a shame that they didn't follow their buddy Jim Jones into the jungles of Guyana. Would've saved Dan White's family a lot of grief.<<
Was Moscone known to be gay? I had not heard that.
And I had forgotten about Jim Jones - didn't Moscone make the future butcher of Guyana - something like Housing director?
> I had not heard that...
I was at UC Berkeley at the time. I remember spitting coffee all over my newspaper when I read her quote. If you'd like, I'll see if I can still dig it up.
I. uh. I mean. Ummmmm. *nevermind*
Yeah. Well what the Hell can you expect from this crowd?
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