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Harvey Milk Day is organized by the Harvey Milk Foundation and celebrated globally each year on May 22 in memory of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and politician assassinated in 1978. In 2010, the Harvey Milk Foundation organized a Harvey Milk Day Steering Committee, under the leadership of Nicole Murray Ramirez and Anne Kronenberg, to begin expanding each year on Harvey Milk Day events around the globe. In California, Harvey Milk Day is recognized as a legal state holiday. The holiday was established by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009 following the success of the award-winning feature film Milk retracing Milk's life. Each year since, a number of events are officially hosted by the Harvey Milk Foundation and feature a number of Harvey Milk Day's sponsors and partners. International, national, regional and local organizations hold a number of events each year to commemorate Harvey Milk Day. WikiQueer became the official archive of Harvey Milk Day as a part of Harvey Milk Day 2012. (more...)