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San Diego Gets the World's First Harvey Milk Street
Yesterday the San Diego City Council unanimously voted to name a street after LGBT civil rights pioneer, Harvey Milk, becoming the first city in the country to do so.
Yesterday the San Diego City Council unanimously voted to name a street after LGBT civil rights pioneer, Harvey Milk, becoming the first city in the country to do so.
“A year ago, a group of community leaders came together around the notion the time had come to honor an LGBT civil rights leader in San Diego the same way we have given honor to other civil rights leaders such as Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, Jr,” said Dwayne Crenshaw, San Diego LGBT Pride Executive Director. “Today marks a symbolic and significant moment in the movement forward towards the American value of equality.”
The city will unveil the new street on what would be Milk's 62nd birthday, Tuesday, May 22. Festivities will begin at 5 p.m. at the corner of Harvey Milk Street (formerly Blaine Ave.) and Centre Street, and will include Crenshaw, several city council members, city commissioner Nicole Murray-Ramirez, Milk's nephew Stuart Milk, and Delores Jacobs, the CEO of San Diego's LGBT Community Center.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2012/05/09/san-diego-gets-worlds-first-harvey-milk-street
