Tag: Harvey Milk

  • TODAY IN LGBT HISTORY | Harvey Milk murdered

    TODAY IN LGBT HISTORY | Harvey Milk murdered

    Harvey Milk was one of the 20th century’s LGBT trailblazers

  • TODAY IN LGBT HISTORY | Harvey Milk speechwriter and author Frank M Robinson dies

    TODAY IN LGBT HISTORY | Harvey Milk speechwriter and author Frank M Robinson dies

    Credited to helping fuel the LGBT+ movement’s rhetorical power in the US.

  • 40 years ago today, Harvey Milk was murdered

    Although his time in politics was relatively short, Milk’s untimely death at the hand of Dan White, ensured that Harvey Milk would forever be held up as one of the most powerful and iconic men of politics the world has ever seen.

  • 10 gay and bi guys whose careers boomed at 40

    Sometimes it can feel like the world’s media is fixated on the achievements of the under 20s. The careers of those who are beyond the age of 25 don’t seem relevant, well we disagree. Here are 10 gay and bisexual men whose careers totally bloomed after the age of 40, although some of them were […]

  • 10 Guys Whose Careers Exploded After Turning 40

    Sometimes it can feel like the world’s media is fixated on the achievements of the under 20s. The careers of those who are beyond the age of 25 don’t seem relevant, well we disagree. Here’s 10 gay and bisexual men whose careers took off after the age of 40, although some of them were already […]

  • Unsung Gay Heroes In History

    We look back into history and highlight other unsung gay men who have made an incredible different to our lives. Alan Turing (1912–1954) Alan Turing was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and mathematical biologist. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley […]

  • GAY HISTORY: Unsung Gay Heroes In History

    We look back into history and highlight other unsung gay men who have made an incredible different to our lives. Alan Turing (1912–1954) Alan Turing was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and mathematical biologist. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley […]

  • Harvey Milk speechwriter and and author Frank M Robinson dies, 87

    Frank M Robinson, who was a renowned science fiction and thriller writer has died at the age of 87 today. Born in 1926, Frank M. Robinson moved to San Franciso in the 1970s where he became a a speechwriter for Harvey Milk. He also had a small role in the film Milk. He was the […]

  • Six of the best gay icons of film

    Whether you’re looking for a film about a gay icon or whether it is a gay icon in a starring role, the cinema is the perfect place to track down your favourite idol. The question of what defines someone as a vintage icon is a difficult one, whether it is their looks, their sexuality, their […]

  • Six quotes that made Harvey Milk Great

    Six quotes that made Harvey Milk Great

    Harvey Milk would have been 83 years old if Dan White hadn’t killed him in 1978. Today Harvey Milk Day is celebrated to remind us all how incredible his achievements were and to give all LGBT people around the world Hope. “It takes no compromise to give people their rights…it takes no money to respect […]

  • HARVEY MILK | A gay icon who changed the face of gay politics

    HARVEY MILK | A gay icon who changed the face of gay politics

    American politics was filled with a sea of heterosexual faces, sometimes fiercely homophobic, but mostly irreverent towards the gay community, that was until Harvey Milk entered the political arena. Embed from Getty Images Harvey Bernard Milk was born in the cold and wet winter of 1930, his birthplace was Woodmere, a small, hard-working, middle class, […]