A message for boys from Harvey Milk (or from me to you)
"Go after
her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because
that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you
a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me
happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There
are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the
street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need
to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought
I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough
of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and
honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles
on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe
into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can
recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in
meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what
loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is
worth anything, really." - Harvey Milk
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