The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World, by Andrew Reynolds

Discourse has been altered only by minority groups being ‘at the table’, something enabled by ground-breaking activists, writes Charlie Pullen

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January 31, 2019

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Transformative figure: the pioneering political career of Harvey Milk was portrayed cinematically by Sean Penn

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