Harvey Milk and his “Hope” Speech
Words: 480 Pages: 2 7561The politics of the 1970’s saw great democracy, legally much discrimination was gone. Expression of gender roles and sexuality were evolving and people no longer felt bound by social pressure. With this, conservatives began looking for ways to regulate sexuality. Anita Bryant led an anti-gay movement after she pushed to overturn an ordinance in Dade County, Florida, “prohibiting discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual preferences” (Freeman 341). Bryant deemed homosexuality a sin and portrayed gays as sexual predators. […]
