We Must Fight! March 24, 2011

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Harvey Milk - the first openly gay politican to be elected to office in California - speaks at a rally in Gus Van Sant's drama about his life, "Milk". He is played by actor Sean Penn.

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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 Day for us! And the young people in Jackson, Mississippi, in Minnesota, in the Richmond, in Widmere, 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!

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