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Students at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco were among those across the Golden State who commemorated the slain civil rights leader and politician on what would have been his 81st birthday.

An anti-gay organization is telling parents in California that slain equality leader Harvey Milk was a "sexual predator of teens," according to a faith-based anti-gay online publication.

San Franciscans will have numerous options to mark the state’s second annual Harvey Milk Day, as various rallies and parties are planned for next weekend to celebrate the life of the gay icon.

To quell a growing controversy over its taking over Harvey Milk’s old film-developing storefront in San Francisco, the Human Right Campaign has agreed to share the space with the Trevor Project, which prevents gay teen suicide, gratis.

On the surface, the new tenant at the storefront where Harvey Milk waged his historic political campaign would seem like the last organization to anger people in the gay community.

Events were taking place in California and across the country Saturday in observance of Harvey Milk, marking the first day of "special significance" in the West Coast state to honor the slain gay rights leader.

A split school board in Bakersfield, Calif. voted "no" to Harvey Milk Day celebrations in district high schools. KBAK-TV’s Carol Ferguson reports.

The continued fallout over Proposition 8 and the election of openly gay state Assemblymember John Pérez’s election as speaker were among the many stories to garner headlines in 2009.

Slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and feisty football commentator John Madden are among those entering the California Hall of Fame.

California’s GOP governor made an annual Harvey Milk Day official. He also opened the door for recognition of same-sex marriages made outside the state during the window before Proposition 8 made such marriages illegal there.