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Harvey Milk:
This is Harvey Milk speaking on Friday, November the 18th. This is only to be played in the event of my death by assassination. During one of my early campaigns I began to open speeches with a line that became kind of a signature. "My Name is Harvey Milk and I want to recruit you." If I was speaking to a slightly hostile audience, or a mostly straight one, I might break the tension with a joke. "I know, I'm not what you expected, but I left my high heels at home." I fully realize that what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, makes himself a target for someone who is insecure, terrified, afraid and disturbed themselves. It's a very real possibility, you see, because in San Fransisco, we have broken the dam of a major prejudice in this country
This is Harvey Milk speaking on Friday, November the 18th. This is only to be played in the event of my death by assassination. During one of my early campaigns I began to open speeches with a line that became kind of a signature. "My Name is Harvey Milk and I want to recruit you." If I was speaking to a slightly hostile audience, or a mostly straight one, I might break the tension with a joke. "I know, I'm not what you expected, but I left my high heels at home." I fully realize that what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, makes himself a target for someone who is insecure, terrified, afraid and disturbed themselves. It's a very real possibility, you see, because in San Fransisco, we have broken the dam of a major prejudice in this country
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If I was speaking to a slightly hostile audience
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or a mostly straight one I might break the tension with a joke
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I know I know I'm not what you expected
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but I left my high heels at home
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I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for
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an activist a gay activist
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makes himself the target for someone who is insecure
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terrified afraid and disturbed themselves
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Movie Summary
The story of Harvey Milk and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.
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Harvey Milk
