Free Virtual Event
HARVEY MILK: HIS LIVES AND DEATH
A conversation with Lillian Faderman
As the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, Harvey Milk became one of the most recognizable faces of the nascent LGBTQ civil rights movement. A man of many talents, he drew from the values of his Jewish heritage to create a political platform focused on helping the margins of society. Learn about his legacy more than 40 years after his assassination with LGBTQ scholar Lillian Faderman and Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue.
This event will be recorded. The recording will be posted at jewishlives.org/video within 2 weeks after the event.
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About the Speakers
Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove is Senior Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. In 1999 he was ordained at The Jewish Theological Seminary, and subsequently earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Editorial Board of Conservative Judaism. An officer of the New York Board of Rabbis, he is an advisor on interfaith affairs to the Anti-Defamation League and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of ten volumes of sermons and the editor of Jewish Theology in Our Time.
Lillian Faderman is a distinguished scholar of LGBT and ethnic history and literature. She has received numerous awards for her previous eleven books, three of which, Surpassing the Love of Men, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, and The Gay Revolution, have been named by the New York Times as Notable Books of the Year.
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