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L. Stuart Milk

Human Rights/LGBT Civil Rights Advocate, Global Equality Advisor, Youth and Workforce Services Advocate

Founder, Harvey Milk Foundation

Stuart Milk formed the start up Not-for-Profit Harvey Milk Foundation to advise, assist and support LGBT rights organizations, movements and advocates worldwide with a primary mission to help achieve equality through the story and message of his late Uncle in all corners of the globe and to fulfill Harvey’s dream of a world without discrimination and a world without hate.  The cornerstone of this critical mission is the inspiring story of Harvey Milk and his example of building bridges with other diverse, often marginalized communities along with putting a very real and identifiable human face on the quest for LGBT equality.

Mr. Milk has worked with and alongside local and national LGBT organizations on six continents in both official matters with legislative and governmental entities as well as in capacity building events and demonstrations.  He has been an official delegate in sister city visits abroad and often serves as a representative and liaison for formal and informal dialogue with foreign policy leaders.  He frequently gives major keynote addresses at political conferences and conventions, international congresses, LGBT pride events, public demonstrations and parades, film and educational festivals, equality summits, and NGO and non-profit capacity building fundraising events.

Stuart’s first public address as an out LGBT activist took place at Oberlin College in 1984, where Stuart along with the Academy Award winning producer of  The Times of Harvey Milk, Richard Schmeiken, together addressed a crowd of thousands on the vital importance to the LGBT equality movement in remembering and celebrating his Uncle Harvey Milk as a civil rights hero on par with Martin Luther King, Ceasar Chavez and Ghandi.  Over two decades later, Stuart’s voice still gives rise to the story and lessons of his Uncle Harvey Milk.

Today, Stuart Milk has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, speaking in more then 40 states in the US and over 20 countries on six continents.  Stuart has accepted dozens of awards on behalf of his late uncle including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama in the summer of 2009 and the California Hall of Fame Medal from CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver in Decemeber 2009.   Mr. Milk is also the recipient of numerous national and international Civil and Human rights awards in his own right including the Equality Champion Award from Equality California in the United States, Spain’s Cultural Authenticity and Courage award in Madrid, the Jose Sarria International Human Rights Award by the International Court, Hachamat Lev Award from Keshet/Jewish Mosaic and Italy’s Medal of Turin.

In addition to his work on the Foundation, he serves on the full boards and advisory councils of several national and international human rights and youth advocacy organizations including Equality California, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, and the International Conference on Disadvantaged Youth. For the past two decades, Mr. Milk has been a leader in the human services field as an advocate in both the public and private sector serving at-risk youth and the economically disadvantaged.

Although Stuart often is quoted for remembrances of his intimate conversations with his late Uncle, he himself strives to continue the work his Uncle started with an ultimate goal to eradicate discrimination directed towards any and all marginalized minority communities; Mr. Milk feels he and all that follow in his Uncle’s footsteps will have fully honored the Harvey Milk legacy when minority discrimination, inclusive of LGBT discrimination and LGBT prejudice, both legal AND societal, has been halted and equality becomes the norm not only in the US but throughout the globe.

Stuart  Milk’s  Recent Speaking/Engagement Highlights included:

Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony, The White House, United States;

California Democratic State Convention, Sacramento, California, United States;

Turkey Lambda LGBT Panels, Istanbul, Turkey;

Florida Democratic State Convention, Disney World, Florida, USA;

Harvard University Human Rights Conference, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, USA;

Spain’s Annual Cultural Stage, Madrid, Spain;

International Conference of Inter-Pride, St. Petersburg, USA;

Global Congress on Equality, Cape Town, South Africa;

Youth First Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA:

Come Out With Pride, Orlando, Florida, USA;

Sao Paulo Justice , Sao Paulo, Brazil;

Milk Alumni Recognition Event,  Univeristy of Albany, Albany, USA;

Gay American Heroes Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA;

Cross Atlantic Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands;

Emery Awards, New York City, New York, USA;

Equality Florida Annual Gala, Orlando, USA;

Equality California Annual Gala Awards, San Diego, CA, USA;

Pacific Freedom Congress, SAR Hong Kong, China;

Grand Marshall, San Francisco Pride, San Francisco, CA, USA;

Sydney Pride (Mardis Gras), Sydney, Australia;

LI Equality Awards, Long Island, New York, USA;

Pan American Human Rights Summit, Santiago, Chile;

Eve of Justice and Candle lit March, San Francisco, United States;

Garden State Equality, South Orange, New Jersey, United States;

Anniversary Candle Light March and Rememberence, George & Harvey, San Francisco, USA;

International Organizational Development Congress, Zeist, Netherlands;

California Hall of Fame, Sacramento, United States;

National Educators Conference on LGBT Youth; California, United States;

Human Rights Alliance Gala, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States;

Grand Marshal, Boston Pride, United States;

Grand Marshal, San Diego Pride, United States;

Human Dignity International Congress, Quito, Equador;

International Court 45th Annual Recognition Gala; Lexington, Kentucky, US;

HMF kickoff at the California Museum, Sacramento, CA, United States;

EQCA Harvey Milk Day with US Speaker Nancy Pelosi; San Francisco, CA, United States;

MILK celebration, Los Angeles, CA, United States;

Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfasts, San Diego and San Francisco, United States;

“Riots to Rallies”, Boston, Massachusetts, United States;

Unification Summit, Mexico City, Mexico;

LGBT Jewish Movement Building Leaders Convening, Berkeley, CA, United States;

Summit of Americas, Status of Minorities, San Jose; Costa Rica;

No to Hate Candle Lit Vigil, Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom;

Unity Coalition/Coalition Unida, Legends Award, Miami, Florida, United States;

University of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States;

Medal of Turin, Turin, Italy;

Dialogue on Justice and Equality, Damascus, Syria;

Pacific Asian Summit on Human Rights, Tokyo, Japan;

State Visits, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies; Italy;

Keshet National Gala, Boston, Massachusetts, Unites States;

Equality Italia Human Rights Tour, Genoa, Bologna, Padua and Milano, Italy;

Human Rights Address to Italian Parliament, Rome, Italy;

Pittsburgh Pride Advocacy Rally, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;

Budapest Pride-Opening Keynote, Budapest, Hungary;

Business Diversity 2011, Brussels, Belgium;

Prague Pride (First), Czech Republic;

Central America Human Rights Conference, Panama;

SGMC Crescendo, San Francisco, United States;

17-24-30 Event, London, United Kingdom;