Gay Lesbian History for Kids by Jerome Pohlen

Author:Jerome Pohlen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

Harvey Milk (right hand raised) walked from the Castro to city hall with his supporters on his first day of work, January 9, 1978. Photo by Daniel Nicoletta

“No On 6”

H ARVEY M ILK had been in office just a few months when Proposition 6 was announced, and he found himself thrust into a leadership role to defeat the measure, though more than 30 different organizations were already working against it. Most in the LGBT community read the early polls with dread: newspapers reported that almost twice as many people supported Prop 6 as opposed it.

The “No On 6” campaign started in the gay community. “My name is Harvey Milk, and I want to recruit you,” Milk told the crowd at the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade. “I want to recruit you for the fight to preserve your democracy from the John Briggs and the Anita Bryants who are trying to constitutionalize bigotry.”

The campaign borrowed a slogan from The Wizard of Oz: “Come Out! Come Out! Wherever You Are!” They encouraged LGBT citizens to talk to their families, friends, and coworkers to let them know the personal damage the law would do. If a person voted for Prop 6, it was a vote against their neighbors, their brothers and sisters, their children.

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