West Hollywood Prop 8 Rally Remembers Those Who Made 2013 Supreme Court Decision Possible
Posted in: Today's ChiliWEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Screenwriter and gay activist Dustin Lance Black began his Proposition 8 victory speech by acknowledging that today’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community stands on the shoulders of those who had come before — in particular, those of slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in San Francisco.
“Harvey Bernard Milk, our dear hero, one of our father figures,” began Black. “He said, ‘We can no longer be satisfied with crumbs.’ It is time for this community to stop asking for crumbs and demand the real thing, ’cause they may find that they could actually get it, and we have.”
Black spoke on stage at a rally Wednesday evening in West Hollywood, the center of gay life in the Los Angeles area. The event drew hundreds of people to celebrate the Supreme Court’s dismissal of Prop 8 and the overturning of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. And, like Black, some couldn’t help but think back to bittersweet memories of loved ones who didn’t live to see legal same-sex marriage in California.
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