Feburary 17, 2016 This week in Gay Palm Springs

“VOICES”Understanding the
The unofficial yet elegant and simple guide to
gender awareness.
The troubling truth about our gay
history
1976San Francisco Mayor George Moscone
appoints Harvey Milk to the Board of Permit
Appeals, making Milk the first openly
gay city commissioner in the United States.
Milk decides to run for the California State
Assembly and Moscone is forced to fire him
from the Board of Permit Appeals after just
five weeks. Milk loses the State Assembly race
by fewer than 4,000 votes. Believing the Alice
B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club will never
support him politically, Milk co-founds the
San Francisco Gay Democratic Club after his
election loss.
1980 The democrats begin fighting for gay
rights.
At the 1980 Democratic National Convention
held at New York City’s Madison Square
Garden, Democrats took a stance supporting
gay rights, adding the following to their plank:
“All groups must be protected from discrimination
based on race, color, religion, national
origin, language, age, sex or sexual orientation.”
Optical illusion?
Floor tiles at the Basilica of St. John
Lateran in Rome
The information that your eyes feed
back to the brain must to be understood
by the brain,
While the brain is quite clever at
guessing what it should be seeing and
sometimes this difference can be quite
astounding.
Up? Or down?
2012 The GOP remains divided on Gay rights
issues, calls the supreme court activist judges
that must be repealed as Justice dies in
mysterious circumstances during NRA like
hunting trip.
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