人生/輪孫

Let's start from this.

The book recently I read is ' The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk' . I have to say that this book really change my thought. It has been almost 3 years since 'Brave New World' influenced me. Although I haven't finished it yet, I still got something to write.

What is the main point I got from this book?

I must say, hope. Why and how?

From this book, I don't regard Milk as a gay hero, but a normal man who fought not for himself, but all gay people on the world. In his early life, he lived no different from others, had jobs, house, lovers and enough money. How he became a gay rights fighter isn't important for me, but how he fought.

There is so many thing unbelievable. You can also know some history of San Fransisco, but the more impressive thing is how people treated gay when 1978 and before. A politician could hint that gay people were no different from murderers, rapists, thievies, communists and Nixon, and sponsored a Proposition which prevented gay and gay rights supporter from working in public school, and got the result of the Proposition with 58% no and 42% yes. How terrible it was! Almost 42% people who lived in 1978 California voted that Proposition with yes. That's what I can't image. That's totally different from what we've known about US, and it did, happened in 1978 California, just 30 years ago.

So now you may know why this books is so important for me. It not only tells me a gay rights fighter story, but also shows me how difficult that gay people had survived. It tought me that everything we have now is not so easy to get. We have to fight for our rights. It's not only about gay, but also blacks, asians and others.

Harvey Milk tought me that: I deserved to live better, because a fighter has gave us HOPE.

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Harvey Milk: " If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destory every closet door."