Comments on: Milk Photographer Jerry Pritikin is OK with HRC at Castro Landmark

By: san francisco photographer jerry

san francisco photographer jerry — Sun, 15 May 2011 09:56:16 +0000

[...] Milk Photographer Jerry Pritikin is OK with HRC at Castro Landmark … Dec 16, 2010 … I moved to San Francisco in 1960. …. I was in San Francisco to help coordinate the direct actions … [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:44:00 +0000

So, to sum it up, I have ideals but they can be bought for the right price.

At least an x-rated magazine store would keep the stroller brigades away.

By: Rob T.

Rob T. — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:53:00 +0000

Towleroad today, Huffington Post tomorrow!
Congratulations on getting the word out.
Rob T.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:44:00 +0000

Right on Jerry. You’ve still got the gay rights spirit.

By: David John Fleck

David John Fleck — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:11:00 +0000

I recently paid a late night visit to the old camera shop location. I was in San Francisco to help coordinate the direct actions of GetEQUAL, One Struggle, One Fight and Pride at Work volunteers to silently interrupt Rep. George Miller’s election debate in Vacaville and to close down Market Street at Castro in protest of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Both actions were designed to draw attention to the Employment Non Discrimination Act (ENDA) stalled in Miller’s committee and the House.

The storefront was abandoned and locked tight of course, but I could make out the mural of Harvey on the wall. Up and across the street I saw the current HRC retail store and ‘Action Center.’ It was also closed – empty of people but full of merchandise -and the lights inside were blazing.

I asked my host, Robert Moore of Affirmations (Mormon LGBT), what he thought of the HRC store in the Castro. He said that in all the years the store had stood on that corner, not a single community meeting had been held there. No San Francisco grassroots group had ever been invited or allowed to meet there. To his mind there was no ‘action’ at the Action Center; it was just a ‘tourist trap’ where HRC collected email addresses from customers and counted them as members.

That’s all I needed to know.

By: Michael@LeonardMatlovich.com

Michael@LeonardMatlovich.com — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:26:00 +0000

PPritikin’s entitled to his opinion, of course, and he’s not alone. But I believe they’re failing to focus on the much larger issue than occupation of a piece of real estate—the expressed intention of HRC to conflate their identity with Milk’s through various HRC-branded Milk tchotchkes after two years in which most of their energy has gone to covering Obama’s ass and, were Milk alive, he’d be one of those denouncing them for it the loudest. And not just Milk but Steven Endean, HRC[F]’s founder whom, unlike Milk, I did personally know. Steve would be outraged simply with what has been done to his creation even before their attempt to grave rob Milk’s legend.
Finally, Milk was defeated three times not two before winning office, and the article linked to about pioneering elected out gay officials is also wrong. Jim Yeadon was the third, not the fourth.