A San Francisco supervisor wants to rename the city’s airport in honor of civil rights leader Harvey Milk, a change supporters said would send a global message about the importance and struggles of gays and lesbians for equality. Supervisor David Campos will introduce legislation Tuesday that would place the proposal to rename San Francisco International Airport as Harvey Milk San Francisco International Airport before voters in November. To send the name change to voters, Campos needs the support of five other supervisors, and Monday he already had four co-sponsors.
I love this idea—and I can’t wait to read the first story about someone’s luggage being lost in “the bowels” of Harvey Milk.
Someone still needs to carry out Jello Biafra’s old mayoral campaign pledge to erect a statue of Dan White (Milk’s assassin) and have the Parks Dept. sell things to pelt the statue with to raise money for the city.
I hope this passes. It’ll be interesting when Barack leaves office, I predict a race between Chicago and Honolulu to host Obama International Airport.