Thread by @LisaTalmadge

Dianne Feinstein was the very first straight person to speak to a gay group while running for office in SAN Francisco.

(Reasons why the gays didn’t fall for the video trap nonsense)

Short video will make you cry. 🌈💔✊

tellhistory.com/index.php/2016…

h/t and gratitude @gtripsa

"I heard the doors slam, I heard the shots, I smelled the cordite, He whisked by, everybody disappeared. I walked down the line of supervisors' offices. I walked into one and found 🌈Harvey Milk -- put my finger in a bullet hole trying to get a pulse.” -Dianne Feinstein

"I opened (Milk's) door. I found Harvey on his stomach. I tried to get a pulse and put my finger through a bullet hole. He was clearly dead.

I remember it, actually, as if it was yesterday. And it was one of the hardest moments, if not the hardest moment, of my life," Feinstein

"It was a devastating moment. For San Francisco, it was a day of infamy." -Dianne Feinstein, on the murder of the first openly 🏳️‍🌈 gay SF supervisor Harvey Milk.

Dianne Feinstein, announcing the murders of San Fransisco Mayor George Moscone and first 🌈 openly-gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk, assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White, on November 27th, 1978.

Feinstein recalls the murders of Harvey Milk and George Mascone.
What the murders did to the families and the city of San Francisco.
(And the (#LGBT) nation, I remember this as an 18 yr old in Orlando)

Feinstein described Harvey Milk as larger than life, a breakthrough politician and a true leader of the burgeoning gay rights movement.

"White Nights Riots" followed the "light" sentence of Dan White after murdering Gay rights legend Harvey Milk and Mayor George Mascone.
Queer people rioted.
Fictionalized here in "When we Rise"

1993 Dianne Feinstein votes for the nomination of Roberta Achtenberg to be Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at HUD, the first openly #LGBT federal appointee to be confirmed.
Achtenburg was appointed by Bill Clinton.

1996 Dianne Feinstein is one of only 14 Senators to vote against the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.

2000 Dianne Feinstein Votes yes on an amendment that would expand the definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation, gender, and disability.
President Clinton's Hate Crimes Enhancement Act.

2006: Dianne Feinstein Votes no on the Marriage Protection Amendment to which attempted to create a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.

(Yes, the haters always wanted a constitutional amendment)

2010 Dianne Feinstein Votes to repeal "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" and allow open LGB military service.

The DADT compromise was made in 1993 when President Clinton tried unsuccessfully to completely Lift the Ban on gay, lesbian and bi military service.

2011 Dianne Feinstein chairs the first congressional hearing on the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

washingtonblade.com/2011/04/26/vot…

2011 Dianne Feinstein introduces the "Respect for Marriage Act" trying to repeal the "Defense of Marriage Act" and allow for marriage Equality 2 years before the Supreme Court eventually struck DOMA down in 2013.

1996 Dianne Feinstein votes for ENDA the Employment Non Discrimination Act to protect #LGBT employees. The bill fails by one vote. c-span.org/video/?c447181…

2011, 2013, 2015 Dianne Feinstein Repeatedly introduces the Respect for Marriage Act in the Senate to repeal the discriminatory DOMA law and recognize same-sex marriages.

2015 Feinstein Votes for the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit public schools from discriminating against students based on actual or perceived gender identity or sexual orientation. (Bill fails to pass)

2017 Feinstein Co-sponsors the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in places of public accommodation. (Bill fails to pass)

2017 Feinstein introduces a bill to nullify President Trump’s “Free Speech and Religious Liberty” Executive Order to prevent discrimination against #LGBT individuals, women and religious minorities.

2010 Dianne Feinstein joins 11 Senators, members of Judiciary in letter to President Museveni of Uganda urging him NOT to sign into law the "Kill the Gays" Bill passed by Ugandan parliament. votesmart.org/public-stateme…

2018 #LGBT org, Alice B.Toklas Club endorses Dianne Feinstein for reelection citing specifically her legislation on fuel economy standards and preserving the Mohave desert. feinsteinforca.com/media/alice-b-…

I'll wrap up this thread with this article that contrasts two styles of politics.

I submit both are valid.

"Good Cop and Kamala is a Cop"

We need both.

latimes.com/politics/la-na…

2011 Di Fi at @HRC because #LGBT champions show up.