My grandparents’s neighborhood for the 4th of July party always has poster competition, in which kids and adults draw or write something according to the theme, and in 2015 the theme was “ if you could ask a real or imaginary american character, what would you ask him”. I participated in the competition and I chose Harvey Milk and asked him : even though you didn’t fight for same sex marriage what would say about the great changes ( on June 26th the supreme court legalized same-sex marriage in the hole U.S.A.) the have occurred in less the 40 years? I didn’ t win, but it got me thinking…
Who was Harvey Milk? Harvey Milk was a man’ just like us, who fought for what he believed in and wasn’t scared of death exposing his beliefs. He was a man, a man who wanted something that everybody should want: the chance of being all treated equally, without any discrimination. It was during the ’70 of the 20th century in San Francisco, Harvey was living in the gay neighborhood and had witnessed the unfair treatment of …show more content…
first of all in 2009, he was awarded by president Barack Obama posthumously the Presidential Medal of Freedom, due to his huge contribution to the gay rights movement stating. Secondly in New York a school program “ The Harvey Milk High School” that concentrates on the need of at-risk LGBTQ… students. Lastly a couple of films and documentaries have been done, such as the “ The Times of Harvey Milk” which was even awarded an Emmy and an Oscar for best documentary or the movie “ Harvey” which won 2 oscars In conclusion, to me, Harvey Milk, wasn’ t just man, he was and still is a role model, because everyone should fight for his rights and the ones of every other person like
Who was Harvey Milk? Harvey Milk was a man’ just like us, who fought for what he believed in and wasn’t scared of death exposing his beliefs. He was a man, a man who wanted something that everybody should want: the chance of being all treated equally, without any discrimination. It was during the ’70 of the 20th century in San Francisco, Harvey was living in the gay neighborhood and had witnessed the unfair treatment of …show more content…
first of all in 2009, he was awarded by president Barack Obama posthumously the Presidential Medal of Freedom, due to his huge contribution to the gay rights movement stating. Secondly in New York a school program “ The Harvey Milk High School” that concentrates on the need of at-risk LGBTQ… students. Lastly a couple of films and documentaries have been done, such as the “ The Times of Harvey Milk” which was even awarded an Emmy and an Oscar for best documentary or the movie “ Harvey” which won 2 oscars In conclusion, to me, Harvey Milk, wasn’ t just man, he was and still is a role model, because everyone should fight for his rights and the ones of every other person like