By Jenn Sanders

SAN DIEGO–The Hillcrest Town Council voted 24-3 on Tuesday evening, March 13,  to recommend to the San Diego City Council that Blaine Street be renamed as Harvey Milk Street after the gay San Francisco City-County supervisor who was slain along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in 1978 by former  supervisor Dan White.

Blaine Street runs for five blocks from Centre lane to Cleveland Ave. It is a small road, but nonetheless, in the history of the US, it is a big deal. If the City Council approves, San Diego will have the first street, in the United States, named after one of the greatest political activists in LGBT history, according to the LGBT Pride organization.

Milk, who was Jewish,  ran unsuccessfully three times before he won a seat in 1977 as a San Francisco city-county supervisor.  His election was one of the first in the country for an openly gay person.   Once on the board, he was able to pass  gay rights ordinances while representing the Castro District.

*
Preceding is reprinted from the Grossmont College Summit.