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Yesterday was the anniversary of the White Night Riots, which took place in San Francisco on May 21 1979 after Dan White was found guilty only of voluntary manslaughter after his murder of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. The violent police retaliation in the Castro that evening was swift and brutal. Underground cartoonist Paul Mavrides designed the now iconic NO APOLOGIES tee shirt in the immediate aftermath of the riots.
Today is Harvey Milk’s birthday, and there are events today in the Castro in memory.
Also on this day in Queer Ancestors:
Venus Xtravaganza, forever commemorated in Paris is Burning, was born today in 1965. She was murdered in 1988, aged 23.
Arnold Lobel, creator of Frog and Toad, was born today in 1933. He died of AIDS in 1987 at the age of 54.
Today’s also the anniversary of the passing of poet Langston Hughes, who died after complications due to surgery for prostate cancer in 1967 at the age of 66.
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