CA Senate Approves Harvey Milk Day

Today the California Senate approved a bill designating May 22nd as Harvey Milk Day, the first such state holiday honoring a LGBT person in the history of the United States. The state Assembly approved the bill last month and the bill will return to the Assembly one more time for a "concurrence" vote before landing on the desk of Gov. Schwarzenegger.

Harvey Milk Day, if approved by the governor, will be a "day of significance," or non-fiscal state holiday, meaning government operations will not suspend and state employees will not get a paid day off. Milk, considered to be the first openly gay man in the world to be elected to a "substantial" public office, was murdered by fellow San Francisco Supervisor Dan White in 1978.