{"id":483,"date":"2008-10-22T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rawtop.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2008-10-22T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T18:39:54","slug":"harvey-milk-on-the-politics-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/2008-10\/harvey-milk-on-the-politics-of-hope","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Milk On The Politics Of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2008\/10\/a-message-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Towleroad<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s brilliant. It reminds us once again why it&#8217;s important to vote for gay and gay friendly candidates this year. It&#8217;s about giving future generations visible options, letting them know they can be who they want to be, achieve what they want to achieve.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"causecast_video\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"cv=?3a0d2eb&amp;location=http:\/\/www.causecast.org\/videos\/2980&amp;sizeString=550x340&amp;current_user=&amp;appDomain=http:\/\/www.causecast.org\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"isInternal\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"0x000000\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.causecast.org\/swf\/videoplayer\/VideoPlayer.swf?v=?3a0d2eb\" \/><embed id=\"causecast_video\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"550\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/static.causecast.org\/swf\/videoplayer\/VideoPlayer.swf?v=?3a0d2eb\" bgcolor=\"0x000000\" wmode=\"transparent\" isinternal=\"true\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"cv=?3a0d2eb&amp;location=http:\/\/www.causecast.org\/videos\/2980&amp;sizeString=550x340&amp;current_user=&amp;appDomain=http:\/\/www.causecast.org\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" align=\"middle\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now compare that to this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-4wQfQtpDAc&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xcc2550&#038;color2=0xe87a9f&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-4wQfQtpDAc&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xcc2550&#038;color2=0xe87a9f&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much I could say about that clip, but the point is many of us grew up around people like that (in my case they managed to state their bigotry a bit more tactfully, but the bottom line was about the same). It&#8217;s vital that young gay teens see that when they get the opportunity to get out from under those circumstances there&#8217;s a life waiting for them that&#8217;s worth living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this video on Towleroad &#8211; it&#8217;s brilliant. It reminds us once again why it&#8217;s important to vote for gay and gay friendly candidates this year. It&#8217;s about giving future generations visible options, letting them know they can be who they want to be, achieve what they want to achieve. Now compare that to this&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}