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Help make Harvey Milk’s birthday a state holiday

If Harvey Milk had lived he would be 79 years old on Friday, May 22.

The effort to make the slain gay rights leader’s birthday a state holiday is in the California Assembly after the Senate approved the bill last week. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill last year, saying that Milk, who was a San Francisco supervisor when he was killed in 1978, should be recognized on the local level.

You can help influence the governor this time around by signing a petition at www.eqca.org/HarveyMilkDay.

Read a review of the DVD of the Oscar-winning movie “Milk” elsewhere on this blog.