| | 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 [[Department of Health and Human Services|Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures. Milk wrote to President Carter defending Jones "as a man of the highest character," and stating that people wanting to leave the Temple were trying to "damage Rev. Jones' reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies".<ref>Milk, Harvey [http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg ''Letter Addressed to President Jimmy Carter, Dated February 19, 1978''] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybbC0i4?url=http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref> | | 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 [[Department of Health and Human Services|Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures. Milk wrote to President Carter defending Jones "as a man of the highest character," and stating that people wanting to leave the Temple were trying to "damage Rev. Jones' reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies".<ref>Milk, Harvey [http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg ''Letter Addressed to President Jimmy Carter, Dated February 19, 1978''] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybbC0i4?url=http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref> |
| − | Jones preached that everyone was [[homosexual]].<ref>[https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31908 Everybody is a homosexual"] by Michael Bellefountaine, Jonestown Alternative Considerations, San Diego State University.</ref> Milk wrote to Jim Jones "my name is cut into stone in support of you - and your people."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=24taDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT254&lpg=PT254&dq=%22my+name+is+cut+into+stone+in+support+of+you+-+and+your+people.%22&source=bl&ots=ynq76x7v9F&sig=ACfU3U1baSHsO8-hnZ5MVbDiNeBbUn9TbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz8vLNi6XgAhWG1IMKHfWVCZQQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22my%20name%20is%20cut%20into%20stone%20in%20support%20of%20you%20-%20and%20your%20people.%22&f=false Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death], Lillian Faderman, Yale University Press, May 22, 2018, p.</ref> On the anniversary of his assassination, Milk was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by [[President Barack Obama]] for his legacy of fighting in the [[LGBTQ]]+ movement.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKOv8HA76o President Obama Honors Harvey Milk With Presidential Medal of Freedom], youtube.</ref> | + | Jones preached that everyone was [[homosexual]].<ref>[https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31908 Everybody is a homosexual"] by Michael Bellefountaine, Jonestown Alternative Considerations, San Diego State University.</ref> Milk wrote to Jim Jones "my name is cut into stone in support of you - and your people."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=24taDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT254&lpg=PT254&dq=%22my+name+is+cut+into+stone+in+support+of+you+-+and+your+people.%22&source=bl&ots=ynq76x7v9F&sig=ACfU3U1baSHsO8-hnZ5MVbDiNeBbUn9TbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz8vLNi6XgAhWG1IMKHfWVCZQQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22my%20name%20is%20cut%20into%20stone%20in%20support%20of%20you%20-%20and%20your%20people.%22&f=false Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death], Lillian Faderman, Yale University Press, May 22, 2018, p.</ref> On the anniversary of his assassination, Milk was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by [[President Barack Obama]] for his [[LGBTQ]]+ legacy.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKOv8HA76o President Obama Honors Harvey Milk With Presidential Medal of Freedom], youtube.</ref> |