SAN FRAN AIRPORT RENAMED HARVEY MILK?

Could  the San Francisco airport  be renamed for Harvey Milk?

A charter amendment sponsored by Supervisor David Campos would put the question on the ballot this fall.

"If five of Campos' colleagues agree to submit the proposed name change to voters and the amendment goes through in the fall, the city would become home to the world's first airport honoring an openly gay person, said Milk's nephew, Stuart Milk..." 

 

ON THIS MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WEEKEND THE NEWS IS EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT IN THE NATION'S CONTINUAL PROGRESSIVE ATTITUDES ON CIVIL EQUALITY & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR ALL.

My heart is full!

 

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly homosexual person to be elected to public office in California and the United States when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community. In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States"