Harvey Milk: LGBTQ+ Heroes Series

Since ASU’s Fletcher Library is commanding us, “Celebrate Pride,” I thought it would be a good idea to look at the lives of the heroes of the LGBTQ+ movement. We know that the leftist professors like to make sure that we see the truth about history and the ugliness that has been committed, tear down statues of perverts, take down their pictures, and erase any memory of supposed “heroes” who committed evil deeds. Yes, let’s do that.

That brings us to Harvey Milk. The good: he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Wow. What a fantastic accomplishment. And in San Francisco, of all places?

The reality: he molested and sexually abused underage boys, including runaways who were destitute and had no one to help them. At least one of these ended up committing suicide. Milk took advantage of boys who were vulnerable and marginalized.

“Biographer Daniel Flynn notes that “Milk’s taste in men veered toward boys.” Milk’s close friend Oliver “Bill” Sipple “knew that Harvey Milk slept with boys.” In a laudatory biography written by esteemed LGBTQ journalist and close friend of Milk, Randy Shilts documents how, in 1963, a 33-year-old Milk invited a 16-year-old drug-addicted runaway “looking for some kind of father figure” named “Jack” Galen McKinley to be his live-in lover. Describing his typical day in a letter to a friend, Milk said he would “cook dinner, [expletive] Jack, take a bath, [expletive] Jack, listen to some music, [expletive] Jack, wash the dishes, [expletive] Jack.” Shilts notes that “Harvey always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems.”

He took away the voice of the voiceless.

He was a known pedophile and a sex predator.

That’s his legacy.

I will continue to have more bios on the heroes of the LGBTQ+ movement. I think you’ll start to see a theme.

https://wng.org/opinions/who-was-harvey-milk-1749078257