HARVEY MILK STREET PROJECT

Portland has a tradition of naming public spaces equality, and one of the first openly LGBTQ after civil rights heroes who were emblematic of the Americans ever elected to public office. His communities they represented. Despite this, there is unapologetic insistence on full equality galvanized no street, building, or park in Portland named after the budding LGBTQ rights movement. He supported an LGBTQ civil rights leader. The Street activists around the country, including the campaign Project is a campaign to name the 13 blocks of SW opposing the anti-LGBTQ Measure 51 in the after Harvey Milk, and is led by a same year he died. Harvey was assassinated in 1978 grassroots coalition of members of the LGBTQ by an anti- activist and former colleague, who community and downtown business owners. also murdered ’s pro-equality mayor. To this day, Milk’s legacy and message of hope Harvey Milk was a prominent LGBTQ rights activist continue to inspire young LGBTQ activists around in the early stages of our community’s struggle for the world.

WWW.HARVEYMILKPDX.ORG / [email protected] “I am proud to add my enthusiastic support to this proposal to ENDORSEMENTS recognize Harvey Milk here in Portland. He was Community Organizations a role model of courage ACLU of Oregon Our House and honesty for our Basic Rights Oregon Portland 's Chorus country.” Bridging Voices Portland Choir Cascade AIDS Project PSU’s Resource Center - Governor Barbara Dykes on Bikes PDX PQ Monthly Roberts El Hispanic News Pride Foundation First Unitarian Church of Portland “Given a history of bias International Imperial Court Council Prism Health Northwest Gender Alliance Quest Center for Integrative Health and bigotry against the OHSU Partnership Project Rose City Gay Freedom Band people who make up the Oregon Dept. of Veterans Affairs Veterans for Human Rights GLBTQ community, we need to create cultural Community Leaders symbols that reinforce our roles as positive members Governor Barbara Roberts Thomas Lauderdale Governor Ted Kulongoski State Rep. Karin Power of the broader Darcelle XV & Roxy LeRoy Cathy Travis society. Naming a street Kathleen Saadat Nancy Hales after Harvey Milk will… acknowledge our struggle Tom Potter Judy and Dennis Shepard Nicole Murray Ramirez and our humanity.” Terry Bean Marty Davis - Kathleen Saadat, Portland activist & musician Congressman Barney Frank Reverend Nathan Meckley, MCC Cory L. Murphy-Helmkamp Roey Thorpe Jean Pierre Nugloze Esera Tuaolo “As a gay man and business Lisa Schroeder Billy Bean owner on SW Stark Street, Suzanne Hale Homer Williams this project is remarkable to Jason Collins Mark Edlen me. I was an LGBTQ activist Portland’s Business Community in Togo before I was forced to leave and seek asylum Businesses on SW Stark St: Other Portland Businesses: here in the US, because my Al-Amir Restaurant Powell's City of Books American Panda McMenamins government passed a 5-year Boxer Gerding-Edlen prison sentence for anyone Caribbean Kitchen FamilyCare Health who is gay. The Harvey Milk Chez Dodo Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Street Project makes me so proud that I picked Club Rouge Harsch Investment Properties Crystal Hotel Studio Blue Portland to start my business and new life!” Cultured Caveman Rose City Commercial Real Estate John Fluevog Shoes Hobo’s Restaurant - Jean Pierre Nugloze, Owner of N’Kossi Boutique Kenny & Zukes Blue Hour de l’Afrique on Southwest Stark Street Mother's Bistro & Bar 23 Hoyt N'Kossi Boutique de l'Afrique Oregon Pacific Investments “Harvey Milk’s message is Peterson's Grocery Store The Rainbow Room Lounge Pulehu Pizza Stag PDX one of positivity and hope. Quik Fish Poke Bar It’s exciting to see somebody Ringlers Annex Clark Lewis who has done so much good The Roxy Triangle Productions be recognized, and I would Steven Allen love to have a street named Stumptown Coffee Roasters Sushi Food Cart after him in Portland.” Timbuk2 Velvet Lounge Café - Gus Van Sant, Portland filmmaker and director of West End Bikes the movie Milk, a biopic of Harvey Milk’s life Zeus Café