Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day speech: annotated

Harvey Milk (left) at Gay Pride, San Jose, California 1978 (Photo: via Wikimedia)

On June 25, 1978, the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riot in New York City, Harvey Milk gave an impassioned speech to his fellow San Franciscans celebrating Gay Freedom Day. At the time, LGBTQ+ individuals around the country were dealing…