Archive of Hope

by Milk, Harvey

  Harvey Milk, “Statement of Harvey Milk, Candidate for the 16th Assembly District,” campaign material, March 9, 1976, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 3, Series 2a.

  Harvey Milk, “Reactionary Beer,” column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, March 18, 1976, p. 12, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “Nixon’s Revenge—The Republicans and Their Supreme Court,” column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, April 15, 1976, p. 12, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 4, Series 2a.

  Harvey Milk, “My Concept as a Legislator,” column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, May 27, 1976, p. 22, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC43, Randy Shilts Papers, Mayor of Castro Street, Box 1.

  Harvey Milk, “’Uncertainty’ of Carter or the ‘Certainty’ of Ford,” column, “Milk Forum” (section), September 2, 1976, p. 8, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78 Clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “A Nation Finally Talks About . . . ‘It,’” column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, June 9, 1977, p. 17, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “Gay Economic Power,” column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, September 15, 1977, p. 12, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “You’ve Got to Have Hope,” speech, June 24, 1977, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  “Harvey Speaks Out,” interview, George Mendenhall, Bay Area Reporter, December 8, 1977, pp. 2, 4, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “A City of Neighborhoods: First Major Address”, Parts I and II, reprinted speech, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, January 10, 1978, pp. 13-14 and February 2, 1978, p. 9, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “The Word is Out,” public letter, February 1, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk, “Letter to ‘Abe’ on Domestic Politics,” private letter, February 7, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk, “Letter to Council Members concerning Judging People by Myths,” public letter, March 13, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk, “Resolution Requiring State Department to Close the South African Consulate” and “Closing the Consulate,” press releases, March 22, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2a.

  Harvey Milk, “Letter to President Jimmy Carter,” private letter, April 12, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 7, Series 2c.

  Harvey Milk, Untitled (on Gay Caucus and Gay Power), column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, April 27, 1978, p. 16, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “California Gay Caucus,” article draft, Alternate, May 12, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk, “Keynote Speech at Gay Conference 5,” tape cassette transcription of speech, June 10, 1978, San Francisco Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, Harvey Milk, Box 13. Courtesy of David Lamble.

  Harvey Milk, “Gay Rights,” article draft, Coast to Coast (San Francisco), June 16, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk, “Gay Freedom Day Speech,” reprinted speech, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, June 25, 1978, pp. 11-12, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “To Beat Briggs,” column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, August 3, 1978, p. 12, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “I Have High Hopes,” stump speech, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  “Harvey Milk vs. John Briggs,” televised debate transcription, August 6, 1978, Bay Area Television Archive at San Francisco State University, used with permission from Tom Spitz (KPIX/KBCW)

  Harvey Milk, “The Positive or the Negative,” column, “Milk Forum” (section), Bay Area Reporter, August 31, 1978, p. 14, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 26, 73-78, clippings.

  Harvey Milk, “Statement on Briggs/Bigotry,” public letter, September 22, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk, “Overall Needs of the City,” speech, September 25, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk and Frank Robinson, “Ballot Argument Against Proposition 6,” public letter, November 7, 1978, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, GLC35, Milk-Smith Collection, Box 9, Series 2d.

  Harvey Milk, “Political Will,” November 18, 1977, tape cassette transcription, San Francisco Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, Harvey Milk, Box 13. Courtesy of Walter Caplan.

  Editor Biographies

  JASON EDWARD BLACK is Associate Professor of Rhetorical Studies and an affiliate professor in Gender & Race Studies at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His research program is located at the juncture of rhetoric and social change, with an emphasis on American Indian resistance, GLBTQ community discourses, and Black liberation. His work in these areas has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Southern Communication Journal, American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Communication Quarterly, and elsewhere. Professor Black is the coeditor of Arguments about Animal Ethics (Lexington Books, 2010). He has received the Wrage-Baskerville Award from the National Communication Association and the Rushing Early Career Award and the Owen Peterson Award in Rhetoric and Public Address from the Southern States Communication Association.

  CHARLES E. MORRIS III is Professor of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and LGBT Studies at Syracuse University. He is the cofounding editor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (Michigan State University Press). His books include Remembering the AIDS Quilt (Michigan State University Press, 2011), Queering Public Address: Sexualities in American Historical Discourse (University of South Carolina Press, 2007), and Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest (Strata Publishing, 2001, 2006, 2013), and his essays have appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and elsewhere. For his work as an archival queer, Professor Morris has received two Golden Monograph Awards, the Karl Wallace Memorial Award, and the Randy Majors Memorial Award from the National Communication Association.

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