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Got up in the middle of the street, they knocked me down and started beating me with their hands and their feet, their elbows.

Tried to muffle my screams.

So in came the activists like Harvey.

You know you're lying.

And so... Cut back to... September 22nd, 1975...

In the blink of an eye, Oliver Sybil becomes this hero.

And that same night, Oliver's friend Harvey hears about all this news and kind of senses, wait, maybe there's an opportunity here.

So he picks up the phone and he calls the columnist Herb Cain, a very, very well-known, well-loved gossip columnist.

And Cain isn't there, so Milk leaves a message on his answering machine.

And he basically says, look, I'm a friend of Oliver Sipple's.

I've known him for years.

Oliver Sipple worked on my campaign for supervisor.

So basically with without Sipple's consent.

Harvey outed him.

Milk outed him.

But what was Harvey Milk thinking that he would do this?

A square-jawed, heroic Marine... Who seemed to be a sort of, like, regular, like, red-blooded American...

And so Harvey said, and this was written down by his biographer, who I'm quoting, it's too good an opportunity for once we can show that gays do heroic things, not just all that caca about molesting children and hanging out in bathrooms.

Wasn't there somebody said, no, no, no, no, you got to ask the guy for it.

You can't just do that.