Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club

[2] The club set forth the following as its organizing statement: No decisions which affect our lives should be made without the gay voice being heard.

[2]One of the club's early actions was to demonstrate at a speech given by Vice President Walter Mondale in Golden Gate Park on June 17, 1977.

[3] Harvey Milk, unfazed by previous electoral defeats, established the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club to amass greater political backing.

Re-entering the political arena in 1977, Milk aimed to broaden his appeal beyond the gay community by advocating for tax code reforms to stimulate industry growth, the creation of affordable housing, and the establishment of day care centers for working mothers.

“The irony of SFPD committing acts of brutality against peaceful protesters of the Resistance Contingent at the San Francisco Pride Parade on the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall is not lost on us,” the Milk Club wrote.

We want to listen to you and want to truly hear you, we will atone for our past.” While Scott's apology was met with "exuberant applause from the room," some attendees at the meeting expressed their concern about the ways in which the SFPD currently discriminates against LGBTQ people.