Second look. Im julie haener. This thursday mark as grim anniversary in the history of San Francisco. And in the history of the gay rights movement. It was 35 years ago that former supervisor dan white entered city hall and shot and killed mayor george masconi and supervisor harvey milk. In 1998 on the 20th anniversary of those assassinations, Dennis Richmond had a look back at those days and San Francisco politics. Reporter on november 27th, 1998, the bay area was still reeling on the events in jones town where 75 people had lost their lives. We thought nothing that wrenching could happen that soon and we were wrong. Both mayor masconi and supervisor milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is supervisor dan white. Reporter the bay area was reeling again. This time over the assassination of two of San Franciscos most prominent elected officials. It was incomprehensible. It was incomprehensible. And dan white as a killer was incomprehensible. So, when i went out to make the announce
Areas rich gay pride history. The parade draws over 1 million people. But through the years the parade has meant a lot of Different Things to different people. Reporter gay and lesbian people would not have marched down the street the last 15 years ago. Nonetheless, wear costumes. Floats were sponsored by blue chip corporations and refreshments were pedaled by iconic american brand names, coke, pepsi, budweiser. Has the parade just become a big party. A commercialized event with nothing left to say. It was anything but widely accepted in 1972 when a band of gays, lesbians, hippies and anarchys marched down the street. And as their numbers grew so did their boldness. For the first time many felt safe in being publicly gay. Even flamboyantly gay. And according to susan striker, director of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, Transgender Society theyre too showy. Theyre too visible. They dont look like anybody else. And i think the extravagance of some gay pride parades is to say yeah so what. So
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