Annual 'Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast' To Be Held in Palm Springs Friday

PALM SPRINGS, CA -- The 5th annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast, which will celebrate the life and legacy of the first openly gay person elected to public office in California, will host about 650 community members for a
sold-out event tomorrow in Palm Springs.

Held each year near Harvey Milk's May 22nd birthday, the event honors the slain San Francisco supervisor and the efforts of a number of local equality organizations.

Activist and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta will be the keynote speaker and State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) will receive the Harvey B. Milk Leadership Award of the Coachella Valley for his work on equal
rights, according to organizers.

Leno is the author of Senate Bill 572, which officially designated May 22 as Harvey Milk Day in California.

This year's Special Guest Youth Speaker will be Yucca Valley High School graduate Enrique Campos, who will share his story about coming out during his teen years and how his school and work life have unfolded since.

More than 100 of those attending will be area high school students, organizers said.

Tickets are still available.

For more information, visit www.pspride.org .

--City News Service/Photo courtesy of Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast Coachella Valley on Facebook