Harvey Milk
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Oct 28, 2026
Jade HindmonHOST
I spoke with Huerta back in May of 2024.
Jade HindmonHOST
At the time, she'd just been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at San Diego's annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast.
Jade HindmonHOST
I started out by asking Huerta where she first found her voice as a young activist.
Dolores HuertaGUEST
I was always an activist.
14 MINS LATER
Jade HindmonHOST
Yeah, well, I mean, it sounds like, you know, ignorance could certainly be our downfall.
Dolores HuertaGUEST
It is.
Jade HindmonHOST
You recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at San Diego's annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast.
Jade HindmonHOST
And you had a relationship with Harvey Milk.
Brian Rubin-SowersHOST
Totally.
Brian DerrickGUEST
I mean, Harvey Milk, baby.
Brian DerrickGUEST
We've known it all along that hope is a required ingredient for there to be change.
Brian DerrickGUEST
Because once you stop believing that change is possible, then change becomes.
Cameron ShawPANELIST
Oh, yeah, probably.
Tim BraytonHOST
Because the Harvey Milk documentary is a masterpiece of a documentary.
Tim BraytonHOST
And Milk is fine.
Tim BraytonHOST
I don't dislike it, but it's not as good as the documentary.
SamHOST
He didn't win? No, he didn't win.
SamHOST
Sean Penn won for Harvey Milk.
SamHOST
which is a good performance, but this is.
SamHOST
It's
Becca BalintGUEST
I had no role models.
Becca BalintGUEST
The only real role model I had as an out gay person running for office was Harvey Milk.
Becca BalintGUEST
He was on the city council in San Francisco.
Becca BalintGUEST
And for folks who don't know his story, he actually was one of the first elected out gay elected officials in the country.
Zach Randles-FriedmanHOST
And sometimes I feel like we take it for granted.
Zach Randles-FriedmanHOST
Then in 1977, Harvey Milk, which I love this movie, he won a seat in the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.
Zach Randles-FriedmanHOST
He was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country.
Zach Randles-FriedmanHOST
And that sounds so crazy to say that We had no openly gay officials in our country at that time.
Reuben KayeGUEST
way.
Reuben KayeGUEST
Like for every person, every gay man who goes as Susan Dell to Halloween, just go make sure there's someone who's going as Harvey Milk, you know, something like that.
Reuben KayeGUEST
I don't know.
Reuben KayeGUEST
I don't know how you do a fabulous Harvey Milk Halloween costume, but I don't know.
Reuben KayeGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Andy ProcopisHOST
But I have brought you along to share some advice.
MarieHOST
I have it saved.
MarieHOST
And then I also always refer to what Harvey Milk, the club, endorses.
KatieHOST
They have their own little, like, ballot track or something.
MarieHOST
Yeah, that we officially endorse.
Julie LewisGUEST
So, yeah, there was definite stigma.
Julie LewisGUEST
I mean, I mean, he lived in the Castro district in San Francisco for a while where Harvey Milk got murdered.
Julie LewisGUEST
Like, you know, there was there was not just AIDS stigma.
Julie LewisGUEST
There was just gay stigma.
John HoweHOST
They defended him.
John HoweHOST
And the Harvey Milk scandal, do you remember the Harvey Milk scandal?
EbiHOST
The gay guy from San Francisco? And
John HoweHOST
how the killer got off on that.
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