Harvey Milk's birthday is the first time in history the day will be marked as Harvey Milk Day in California to recognize the slain gay rights activist and politician.

 

Milk’s fellow activists Cleve Jones said that many of Milk’s friends and colleagues did not survive 80’s and 90’s, so there was only a small group of them who worked very hard for a long time to keep his name alive. At times, it felt like a losing battle. Now he s really confident that Harvey’s name will be remembered.
 
On the other hand, Randy Thomasson, who has been a strong opponent of Harvey Milk Day since its introduction said that Harvey Milk Day isn’t about tolerance, equality or hope. It is about desensitizing children as young as kindergarten to support the unhealthy and unnatural homosexual agenda of a notorious gay activist named Harvey Milk.

 
Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to the public office in a major US city. Milk along with San Francisco’s Mayor George Moscone was assassinated in 1978 by former supervisor Dan White.
 
In view of the Harvey Milk Day, there will be various events and gay marriages happening this weekend across the city.