Yesterday I watched the movie MILK, a movie about Harvey Milk who was the first openly gay individual to hold public office in California. Harvey Milk was a Public Supervisor in the late seventies and he triumphed over great adversity in order to hold that position.
Watching this movie made me think back to our discussion in class last Wednesday and about Miss California's response about same sex marriage. I wondered if her response was taken more to heart and affected more people because she represents California. California is a state that has had a lot to do with the Gay Rights Movement. Many people came to San Francisco in the mid-seventies for this very reason. Everyone in class had said, "Miss California is entitled to her own opinion" and had felt that the audience, Perez Hilton, and the general public gave her too hard of a time for expressing it. But, getting a brush on my history of the Gay Rights Movement I can understand why more people would have expected a different response from Miss California.
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