http://thenewgay.net/2008/12/hidden-history-queer-quotes-harvey-milk.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://thenewgay.net/2008/12/hidden-history-queer-quotes-harvey-milk.html#comment-8408 Mark Meinke Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:25:00 +0000 http://tngmichael.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/hidden-history-queer-quotes-harvey-milk/#comment-8408 The passage of time blurs memories of who said what. I have heard several times and have read that "Gay is Good", the first self-affirming slogan of the modern queer era, was coined by Harvey Milk. He may have said it, may even have said it frequently, but the slogan-making was actually the work of Frank Kameny in the summer of 68, a little over 40 years ago. The passage of time blurs memories of who said what. I have heard several times and have read that “Gay is Good”, the first self-affirming slogan of the modern queer era, was coined by Harvey Milk. He may have said it, may even have said it frequently, but the slogan-making was actually the work of Frank Kameny in the summer of 68, a little over 40 years ago.

]]> http://thenewgay.net/2008/12/hidden-history-queer-quotes-harvey-milk.html#comment-8407 Patrick Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:01:00 +0000 http://tngmichael.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/hidden-history-queer-quotes-harvey-milk/#comment-8407 Now that Harvey has had the Hollywood treatment with 'Milk', there is the new problem of quotes from the film's script on places like IMDB.com being confused as direct quotes of Harvey Milk himself. I went hunting for Harvey Milk quotes online and came up with <a HREF="http://www.queervisions.com/arch/2008/12/milk_in_the_foo.html" REL="nofollow">this</a> but I sometimes wonder if some of the quotes originated in the mind of a script writer fleshing out an imaginary scene. Now that Harvey has had the Hollywood treatment with ‘Milk’, there is the new problem of quotes from the film’s script on places like IMDB.com being confused as direct quotes of Harvey Milk himself. I went hunting for Harvey Milk quotes online and came up with this but I sometimes wonder if some of the quotes originated in the mind of a script writer fleshing out an imaginary scene.

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