What Would Harvey Do?

365Gay.com: Activists ask, What would Harvey do?:

This Thanksgiving Day, at 10:55 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, it will be 30 years since a bullet exploded in Harvey Milk’s brain, killing him…

Just as we did during the AIDS epidemic, many activists find themselves asking, what would Harvey do now?

“I think that Harvey is smiling that we’re even here,” Milk’s lesbian campaign manager and aide Anne Kronenberg said after the premiere of “Milk” in San Francisco last month. “In thirty years, we’ve gone from the paranoid idea that having a lesbian teacher can make you into a dyke to talking about marriage.”

“…People keep saying, where’s the leadership? Who’s the Harvey Milk? And I wish there was a Harvey around to carry this banner,” (Milk political protégé Cleve) Jones went on. “But what is really heartening to me thirty years later is all these young people whose names are not yet known to us who are organizing in new ways. I went to the payphone with a bunch of dimes and called everyone who called everyone, but today they do it on Facebook. It’s a new wave of leadership.”

At the 1978 Pride march in San Francisco, standing on the steps of City Hall, Harvey Milk told the crowd, “History says that, like all groups seeking their rights, sooner or later we will win. The question is: when?”