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Hi, I'm Anita Bryant.

Hello, I'm Anita Bryant.

With a religious fervor

that has made her America's most

controversial woman overnight,

her group is crusading to

repeal a new Dade County law,

which protects homosexuals

in jobs and housing.

I believe that more than ever

before, that there are evil forces

round about us,

even perhaps disguised

as something good,

that would

want to tear down

the very foundation, the family

unit, that holds America together.

There are those

people who say that it is

kind of an eye for an

eye law that is at work here,

that you're denying homosexuals

many of their rights as well.

You see, if homosexuals are

allowed their civil rights,

then so would prostitutes

or thieves or anyone else.

God puts it in

a category of morality.

Doesn't that necessarily

follow that you believe that

homosexuality

ought to be illegal?

I do believe

that it should be illegal.

Well, we lost, but

we didn't lose by much.

More votes than ever!

That used to

make you laugh.

Harvey, I got to

show you something.

This is incredible.

If we can get that new initiative

on district elections to go through,

and we can, we can,

the boundary for the

new supervisor district

is gonna go right

down Market Street,

right around the

Haight like this,

and right around

the Castro.

The Haight and the Castro.

That's it.

If these are the only people we have

to convince, the hippies and the gays,

you win, you win.

You win by a landslide.

You'll be the first openly gay man

elected to major office in the U.S.

I don't know if I

have another one in me.

Or Scotty.

Yeah, well.

Relentless man.

Oh, you're a relentless man.

This is the

CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

The battle over homosexual rights

in Dade County, Florida.

The battle pitting

singer Anita Bryant

against gay rights activist

comes to a vote there Tuesday.

The issue was whether or not to

repeal a four-month-old ordinance,

which prohibits job and housing

discrimination against homosexuals.

In anticipation of the vote,

the gay community

has staged protests

in New York and other major

cities across the country.

The vote is

going now 18,930 for repeal.

Oh, give me

a f***ing break.

Eighty eight hundred

sixty nine against repeal.

Virgil, is that enough for

you to make a projection?

Yes, I think very definitely that the

ordinance is going to be repealed.

With this margin, it's over.

Tonight, the laws of God

and the cultural values

of man have been vindicated.

The people of Dade County,

the normal majority,

have said,

"Enough, enough, enough."

Singer

Anita Bryant's well publicized...

Scotty?

I'm sorry, sir, I read

about you in the paper.

I'm sorry.

I can't talk right now.

Sir, I think I'm

gonna kill myself.

No. You don't

want to do that.

Where are you calling from?

Minnesota.

You saw my picture in

the paper in Minnesota?

How did I look?

My folks are gonna take me to this

place tomorrow. A hospital. To fix me.

There's nothing wrong

with you. Listen to me.

You just get on a bus to

the nearest biggest city.

Los Angeles or

New York or San Francisco,

it doesn't matter,

you just leave.

And you are not sick,

and you are not wrong

and God does not hate you.

Just leave.

I can't.

I can't walk, sir.

Paul, I need

you to come out here.

Hello?

Harvey!

Hello?

Oh, sh*t.

Harvey, you better come down,

there's going to be a riot.

Harvey, you should

get to the stage.

Bring him the stage, guys.

If you can't control

them, we will.

Just get me permission

to march them.

Where?

Anywhere.

Out of the bar

and into the streets!

Anita Bryant's

coming for you!

Out of the bar

and into the streets!

Anita Bryant's

coming for you!

We have

vowed to fight back!

We have vowed

to fight back!

We have vowed

to fight back!

We have vowed

to fight back!

We have vowed

to fight back!

We have vowed

to fight back!

We have vowed

to fight back!

I know you are angry.

I am angry!

Let's march the streets of San

Francisco and share our anger!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now! Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

- Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

- Gay rights now!

Gay rights now! Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

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Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

My name is Harvey Milk

and I want to recruit you.

I am here tonight to say

that we will no longer

sit quietly in the closet.

We must fight.

And not only

in the Castro,

not only in

San Francisco,

but everywhere

the Anitas go.

Anita Bryant

did not win tonight.

Anita Bryant

brought us together!

She is going to create

a national gay force!

And the young people

in Jackson, Mississippi,

in Minnesota,

in the Richmond,

in Woodmere, New York,

who are hearing

her on television,

hearing Anita Bryant

on television,

telling them they are

sick, they are wrong,

there is no place in this

great country for them,

no place in this world,

they are looking to us

for something tonight.

And I say

we have got to

give them hope!

Hope!

...for a better world.

Hope for a better tomorrow.

Hope for a better place to come into

if the pressures at home are too great.

Hope for the worker who

awakens from the American dream

only to find that all the

jobs have left the country.

We've got to

give them hope.

When San Francisco

changed its voting rules,

so that people could elect people

from their own neighborhood,

so that the blacks could elect

a African-American supervisor,

and in Chinatown, they could

elect a Chinese supervisor,

and in the Castro, they could choose

between myself and Rick Stokes.

But decent art

begs balance, right?

So, little district eight,

two miles south of the Castro,

still very much the same.

Irish Catholic, conservative.

And with just the

right amount of poetry,

they found themselves

a handsome ex-cop.

See, I'm not going to be

forced out of San Francisco

by splinter groups of social radicals,

social deviants, and incorrigibles.

Now you must realize that there are

thousands upon thousands of frustrated,

angry people,

such as yourselves,

just waiting to unleash

a fury that will eradicate

the malignancies that

blight our beautiful city.

Just one more. We can't let

Rick Stokes take this one.

Let Rick Stokes

take it.

Sorry.

I can't do another one.

Oh, God damn it.

Bring out the old,

bring in the new.

This is over. Done.

I don't want to see one more thing

that says f***ing Assembly on it.

'Cause this three time f*ggot

loser is running for supervisor.

There she is.

- Who the heck is that?

That's our

new campaign manager.

She called last week to volunteer

and I asked for her help.

Help or take over?

What about Scott?

We need new blood.

Gentlemen, Anne Kronenberg.

A woman.

A woman who likes women.

And that's odd, isn't it?

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