Milk Page #9

- I've learned a lot from you, Harvey.

I'm getting back

to my party now.

I'm going to get my

picture in the papers, too.

Why are you even here? Why did

you just show up from somewhere?

I've got my own issues.

- Okay.

I've got my own issues.

- Thank you.

"Thank you." Whatever.

I don't even know who you are. You just

showed up out of nowhere, Latino man.

Dan White's got an issue!

John Briggs said this morning that Dade

County, Oklahoma, and St. Paul, Minnesota

were only preliminary battles.

He called his California campaign against

homosexual teachers the main event.

What it's doing,

what these people are doing is

changing our morals from our religious background.

And I don't want that.

This came in

the mail today.

"You get the first bullet the

minute you stand at the microphone."

... Supervisor Harvey Milk.

Well, publicity's working.

You don't have

to go up there.

The whole nation is watching.

I have to go.

My name is Harvey Milk

and I'm here to recruit you!

I want to recruit you for the

fight to preserve your democracy!

Brothers and sisters,

you must come out!

Come out to your parents,

come out to your friends,

if indeed they are your friends.

Come out to your neighbors,

come out to your fellow workers.

Once and for all,

let's break down the myths

and destroy the lies

and distortions.

For your sake,

for their sake.

For the sake of all the

youngsters who've been scared

by the votes

from Dade to Eugene.

On the Statue of Liberty,

it says,

" Give me your tired, your poor, your

huddled masses yearning to be free. "

In the Declaration of

Independence it is written,

"All men are created equal and

endowed with certain inalienable rights. "

So, for Mr. Briggs,

and Mrs. Bryant,

and all the bigots

out there,

no matter how hard you try,

you can never erase those words from

the Declaration of Independence!

No matter how hard you try,

you can never chip those words

from the base of

the Statue of Liberty!

That is where America is!

Love it or leave it!

Okay, the mayor says Briggs is on his way

here and that he could intercept him for us.

We could get him face to face.

- Go get the press.

All right.

Well, I see naked men walking

around, naked women walking around,

which doesn't bother me as far as

my personal standards of nudity,

but it's not proper. It wouldn't be allowed

for any other parade in San Francisco,

and it should not be

allowed for the Gay Parade.

I have a right to be at

this parade, Mr. Mayor.

I'm afraid it's not in the

interest of your safety,

or my public's safety to let

you into these parade grounds.

I'm Harvey Milk. It's an

honor to meet you, Mr. Briggs.

Yeah, no, I'm aware.

You know, it's sad, Mr. Milk, that

you're afraid to fight this out in public.

Oh, that's not true.

I'd very much like to have

a public debate with you.

I'm very interested in the

details of your argument.

Oh, well, you know,

you know the details.

I mean, just look at the votes across

this nation. The public is with me.

They are today.

Which is why

with my city's mayor

and the San Francisco

press as my witnesses,

I'd like to challenge

you to a public debate.

Oh, I think

that's a yes.

You know, Mr. Milk, we don't allow

people who practice bestiality

to teach our

children, and... Excuse me,

and the reason we don't

is because it is illegal.

It is not illegal to be a

homosexual in California.

And your law goes

even further.

Any school employee who even

supports a gay person will be fired.

Well, that's true. But gay people

don't have any children of their own.

And if they don't recruit our

children, they'd all just die away.

You know? And that's why they're all

so interested in becoming teachers,

because they want to encourage

our children to join them.

And how do you

teach homosexuality?

It's like French?

I was born of

heterosexual parents,

taught by

heterosexual teachers

in a fiercely

heterosexual society.

So why then

am I homosexual?

And no offense meant,

but if it were true that children

mimicked their teachers,

we'd have a hell of a lot

more nuns running around.

We were really, genuinely

frightened by Proposition 6.

And with Anita and Briggs gaining

strength, we were very pessimistic.

We didn't think that there was

any chance that we could beat it.

But what we did hope for

is that we could

organize enough,

so that when we did lose,

all hell would break loose.

We're still losing 60-30. We got

to take this show on the road.

Put out a press release.

Call Briggs' office, tell him he

can pick the audience, the town.

I'll tell my supporters

to stay away.

Harvey, his audiences are

intensely devout. You'll get killed.

Get me Orange County.

In your statements here and all

these newspapers and tonight,

you say that child

molestation is not an issue.

If it's not an issue,

why do you put out

literature that hammers it home?

Why do you play

on this myth and fear?

Same thing with VD, Harvey,

we put out publications...

This is campaign

literature.

Well, we put out publications

about VD so you can avoid it.

You yourself had said that there's more

molestation in the heterosexual group,

so why not get rid

of the heterosexual teachers?

We are not talking about

homosex... About child molestation.

Nearly... The fact is, nearly 95

percent of the people are heterosexual,

so, if we took the heterosexuals

out and the homosexuals out,

you know what,

we'd have no teachers.

We'd have no teachers,

no more molestation.

So you're saying that the

percentage of the population

is equal to the percentage

of child molestation?

No, no, no,

I'm not saying that, no.

That's what

you just said.

No, no, no. I'm not saying that at

all. I am saying that we can't prevent

child molestation, so let's

just cut our odds down

by taking out the homosexuals and

keeping in the heterosexual groups.

Sir, in your drive

for personal power,

how many careers are you

willing to see destroyed?

How many lives, in your lust for power,

will you destroy and when will it stop?

Jack, what is it?

Nothing.

Just wondering when you'll be home.

You just had them pull me out of my big

vote on the dog sh*t ordinance for this?

What, do you do

this on purpose?

F***, Harvey,

it's poop, okay?

I just hope I'm more

important than poop.

Look, it's... I just... I don't

know what time I'll be home.

6:
00 or 6:15.

Okay.

- Okay?

I'm all right.

I'll see you then.

Okay.

6:
15, then.

Dan, how's the baby?

You didn't bring up

supervisor pay raises?

In fact, I heard that you

plan to publicly oppose them.

Well, I heard that you

planned to vote against them, too.

Were you setting me up?

It's not a good time

for me, politically speaking.

Dan, there's a vote on the

Police Desegregation Settlement.

You give me that and I'll

consider backing pay raises.

I don't trade votes.

Unlike you,

the way I was raised,

we believe in right and wrong.

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