Harvey Milk

Andrew Lippa to star in world premiere of 'I Am Harvey Milk'

2013-04-02 08:10:00

"I Am Harvey Milk," a new oratorio from Tony and Grammy nominee Andrew Lippa, will make its world premiere in June at the Nourse Auditorium in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus 35th anniversary. The composer, who penned the...

Gay marriage supporters rally in Santa Ana ahead of DOMA hearing

2013-03-27 10:26:00

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. Gay marriage proponents are riding into Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court discussion about the Defense of Marriage Act on a wave of support from Proposition 8 debates a day earlier....

Gay marriage goes before the U.S. Supreme Court today

2013-03-26 06:50:00

SAN FRANCISCO — As the battle over gay marriage takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, a new survey shows that attitudes on same-sex marriage have shifted rapidly. Polling data consistently show that knowing a gay person is a...

Chief Justice Roberts' lesbian cousin hopes for gay marriage win

2013-03-25 20:02:00

SAN FRANCISCO – For Ohio senator Rob Portman, knowing that his son was gay helped change Portman's mind. For President Obama, talking with gay White House staffers and learning that his daughters’ friends had same-sex parents proved...

Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure

2013-03-20 13:28:00

To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...

Letters: Guns and homicides

2013-03-19 00:00:00

Re "Assault weapons ban advances," March 15 In supporting her bill to ban assault weapons, Sen. Dianne Feinstein recounts her experience as a San Francisco supervisor in 1978 with the senseless slayings of her colleagues Harvey Milk and Mayor George...

Renaming SFO after Harvey Milk might be less pricey than thought

2013-03-15 05:02:47

Senate committee approves assault weapons ban

2013-03-14 09:02:00

WASHINGTON — A federal ban on assault weapons cleared a Democratic-run Senate committee Thursday in a party-line vote after its chief sponsor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the 2nd Amendment.� “I&...

Letters: Don't play with airport names

2013-03-07 00:00:00

Re "Idea isn't flying," March 5 The latest proposal to change the name of an airport — this time San Francisco International Airport to the name of slain civil rights activist Harvey Milk — is getting a thumbs-down by the people. No wonder....

Russian lawmakers give initial OK to gay 'propaganda' bill

2013-01-25 12:36:00

MOSCOW — The lower house of Russia's parliament on Friday approved in the first reading a controversial measure against the spread among minors of “propaganda” seen as supporting homosexuality. But the lawmakers put off until the...

'Lovelace' helmers to make Oscars documentary for TCM

2013-01-09 18:12:00

EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Awards get a fair amount of coverage (and then some) from Web prognosticators. But a full documentary treatment is a much rarer thing. That’s the effort the decorated documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will...

New Jersey teen comes out during awards ceremony -- to cheers

2013-01-24 12:30:00

There are a lot of ways to come out to people as something other than totally straight, but most of them fall under two categories: Person by person, where the ritual of admission is repeated as much as it needs to be, or all at once. The latter --...

Harvey Milk in 1977. A new concert piece about the slain gay rights activist will premiere in San Francisco.

2013-04-01 20:38:00

San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to rename the city's airport for slain politician Harvey Milk.

2013-01-17 13:57:05

Academy Award-winning documentary about San Francisco's first openly gay elected city official who was slain in 1978.

2012-12-18 16:01:24