We were very saddened to hear of the passing of Jazzie Collins. This post is dedicated to the memory of Jazzie: stalwart Milk Club member, fierce trans activist, and committed human rights advocate. The Milk Club will not be the same without her. 

CLICK HERE for Jazzie's obituary in the SF Bay Guardian. We miss you, Jazzie!

What is happening to Central Market?

New high-rise developments, tax breaks for Twitter and other tech companies, rising rents for tenants, and long-time community organizations and residents being displaced. And that's only part of the story. 

Join the Milk Club on Tuesday, July 9th from 7-9pm at the San Francisco LGBT Center (1800 Market St) for a panel discussion on the State of Central Market featuring community members and neighborhood activists who are working to keep Central Market a space for all. 

Come find out what's really happening along Central Market and what we can do about it!

Join the Harvey Milk Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Democratic Club as we celebrate 37 years of queer progressive leadership with awards and eats

 

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We are the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and we are here to recruit you for PRIDE. 

Given the controversy surrounding this year's Pride parade, we feel it is particularly important for queers and queer progressives to come together, be visible, and be heard during this year's festivities. Interested in marching with us? Complete this brief survey.  

We hope you can join the Milk Club at the following Pride weekend events:

Dear Ms. Adams,

The youth that are served by Larkin Street Youth Services are among our most vulnerable residents and the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club has long stood alongside you in your dedication to assisting them and fighting for their rights. You may remember that last year we partnered with the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in successfully lobbying the Mayor to restore $500,000 worth of funding that had been cut from your budget that was intended to serve young people with HIV.

We are however troubled by recent actions by your organization to infringe upon the rights of your own dedicated employees who have expressed interest in forming a union with Service Employees International Union Local 1021.

The employees at Larkin Street Youth Services are dedicated to creating a better quality of life for their clients and deserve the ability to advocate for their own quality of life as well. The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club has always stood with unions and we feel particularly strongly that those workers who are dedicating their lives to social justice, as yours are, deserve the opportunity to have a voice and to feel secure in their workplace. Teachers, nurses, and social workers in San Francisco have organized to improve the size of classes, nurse-to-patient ratios, and caseloads in the interest of those that they serve as well as their own working conditions. This is true in the case of your workers at LSYS as well.

Given the critical needs of the clients that you serve, it is troubling to us that you would spend your agency’s precious funds on your current anti-union campaign. Your workers, your clients and the San Francisco tax payers who help to fund your work deserve better.

The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club asks that you immediately cease your anti-union campaign, stop using agency funds for anti-union efforts and accept the results of the mail ballots currently being circulated.

Our club respects the crucial service that your organization provides to our city’s youth and hope that you show the workers who provide these vital services the opportunity to organize that they rightfully deserve.

Sincerely,

Tom Temprano

President, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club

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Sign the Change.org petition asking Larkin Street Youth Services to remain neutral.

Read the SF Bay Guardian article by Steve Jones about the use of LSYS funds in anti-union efforts.

Please join us at the Lookout, where the Harvey Milk Club will be celebrating the birthday of our namesake. There will be appetizers, a birthday cake, disco Djs, a raffle and more! 

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
9pm - midnight
The Lookout (3600 16th Street at Market)
No cover, all are welcome.

RSVP on Facebook here. 

This is the official afterparty for An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings being held at Books, Inc. from 7:30-9pm with editors Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III, photographer & former employee at Harvey Milk's camera shop Daniel Nicoletta, and Harvey's speechwriter, Frank Robinson.

Like many other LGBT San Franciscans, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club Board is outraged by SF Pride Committee’s decision to dump Bradley Manning as Parade Grand Marshal. Here is the Milk Club Board’s official statement on this shameful action:

"The Executive Board of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club is disappointed and angered by the recent announcements made by the SF Pride Board, which initially named Bradley Manning as a Grand Marshal of this year's parade and then recanted Manning's nomination in response to some predictable opposition. The Milk Club EBoard fervently supports Bradley Manning's act of conscience and ongoing struggle for basic fundamental rights. Manning's struggle is symbolic of the struggle of countless individuals to enjoy fair and just treatment under the law. SF Pride has never before shied away from such controversy and we question why this was handled in such an abrupt and unusual way. We would like to remind the Board of SF Pride that all of our LGBT rights have come through actions such as Manning's, such as Stonewall, such as the Compton's riot, in opposition to those institutions and laws that would prefer we did not exist. 

This is a statement issued by the Board members of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. Please direct all inquiries about this statement to [email protected].