Jim Jones promoted [[gay rights]], which appealed to [[Harvey Milk]]. Jones provided Milk's campaigns with “volunteers,” a printing press, and publicity through the Peoples Temple newspaper, the ''Peoples Forum'', with a readership of a half million.
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Harvey Milk provided legitimacy to Jim Jones. Milk spoke at Peoples Temple. Milk praised the Temple in his column in the ''Bay Area Reporter''. He lobbied on Jones’s behalf to President [[Jimmy Carter]], Secretary of [[Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures.