Organizers say this year's event has added heaviness in the wake of the recent killings at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs.
Harvey Milk founded what is now known as the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, explained the club's current vice president Jeffrey Kwong. Kwong, who also lives in San Francisco, explained that the club hosts this vigil each year.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
But Kwong noted, at the vigil this year, grief is compounded by the recent, deadly shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs. Also present at this vigil was Carol Ruth Silver, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with Mill. Silver said she has attended vigils for Milk and Moscone each year since they were killed.
Silver believes that if Milk had not been killed, he would have gone on to become one of the most influential leaders in the state."It's just difficult to understand how-- with all the progress that’s been made since those days [when Milk was alive],” Silver said.
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