Your support is essential.
Your support fuels the work we do to celebrate Harvey Milk and the LGBGT+ civil rights movement with a new commemorative space!
For information on how you can support the effort, please email robgevans1@gmail.com.
Why give?
Keep the momentum going! Your support fuels our work to help secure ongoing support for Harvey Milk Plaza.
Commemoriate our history. Your gift supports the commemoration of Harvey and other contributors to the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.
Foster a sense of belonging in others. Your support will help create a space where every LGBTQ+ person feels welcome, connected, and proud.
Invest in queer and trans visibility at the very center of San Francisco, a city long known for its commitment to inclusivity and acceptance.
For information on how you can support the effort, please email robgevans1@gmail.com.
Support the creation of public art installations that honor Harvey’s legacy and inspires with the story of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.
Inspire future activism through education, art, and programs celebrating the civil rights movement centered in the Castro.
“People's lives can be transformed by the movement. The new Plaza will help to accomplish this.”
Cleve Jones
“Having a space where we can go to organize, to come together and to fight back, is very San Franciscan and very much in the memory of Harvey Milk.”
Honey Mahogany
“Harvey Milk Plaza is at the heart of the Castro community — a place to gather, to go about our lives, and to remember Harvey’s many contributions.”
CA State Senator Scott Wiener
“It’s a chance to continue allowing people to participate in creating the change they want to see in the world.”
Juanita More
FAQs
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Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza was adversely impacted by the closure of San Francisco Parks Alliance, and is pursuing a new fiscal sponsorship. At this time, all gifts are greatly appreciated but are not tax deductible.
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Your gift will support the Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza, the small, mostly volunteer organization, so that we can continue the important work to deliver this City project, and lead the capital campaign to raise funds for the art and commemorative features that will tell the story of Harvey Milk and the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement centered in the Castro/San Francisco.
If you wish to make a gift directly to the Capital Campaign, please email robgevans@gmail.com.
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Yes, the design includes dedication opportunities for donors who make very generous contributions to our capital campaign. Also planned for the future is a “donor brick” program that will allow many donors to have their name, or the name of a loved one, displayed at the historic intersection of Castro & Market Streets, in the space named for Harvey Milk. For more information, email robgevans1@gmail.com.