Local News in Brief : Santa Ana : Candlelight March Will Honor Slain Gay Leader
A candlelight march to honor the memory of Harvey Milk, slain San Francisco city supervisor and gay activist, will be held in Santa Ana today, the 10th anniversary of the slayings of Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.
After the procession, the Academy Award-winning documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk” will be screened at 9 p.m. at the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County, 12832 Garden Grove Blvd., Suite A, Garden Grove.
The march is sponsored by the Orange County Visibility League, a lesbian and gay civil-rights organization. It will begin at 7 p.m. at the Orange County Courthouse, at Flower Street and Civic Center Drive. Participants are asked to bring candles.
According to organizers, the march is being held not only to honor Milk, a hero to the gay and lesbian movement, but also to call attention to the increasing violence against the homosexual community. Three alleged neo-Nazi skinheads are on trial in Santa Ana in the assault of gay men in Laguna Beach last summer.
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