Many commemorated American politician and LGBTQ+ activist, Harvey Milk, on Friday November 27, which marked 42 years his assassination by political opponent, Dan White.
Many commemorated American politician and LGBTQ+ activist, Harvey Milk, on Friday November 27, which marked 42 years his assassination by political opponent, Dan White.
Friday November 27 marks 42 years since the assassination of American politician and LGBTQ+ activist, Harvey Milk, in 1978.
A photographic archive tracing the history of New York City’s Pride Parades in the 1970s and ’80s, annotated by the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), is coming up for auction on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
Swann Auction Galleries to host The Pride Sale, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, LGBT+ campaigning and WorldPride Events.
November 2018 saw the 40th anniversary of the assassination of San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, America’s first openly gay man to be elected to public office. Even though he died years before I was born, he has had a huge influence on me intellectually, politically and spiritually. He fought for gay rights at a time when they were under direct threat in the United States.
After last year’s glorious Summer Of Love, Brighton Pride 2018 will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic Rainbow Flag with the theme Colour My World. Originally commissioned by politician and activist Harvey Milk and devised by artist Gilbert Baker in San Francisco in 1978, the Rainbow Flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) pride and LGBT+ social movements.
This summer will see the publication of a new photographic book which records LGBT+ life in San Francisco during a seminal period in the development of the LGBT+ movement. LGBT: San Francisco is the first book dedicated to photographer Daniel Nicoletta’s archive of powerful images tracing the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s to the present day.
