Brody's Notes... Human Rights Campaign To Share Milk's Old Storefront With The Trevor Project

Location of Harvey Milk's former camera store, 575 Castro Street, San Francisco, California

By Eric Ethington (Salt Lake City, Utah) JAN 18 | Following a national outcry over the Human Rights Campaign’s announcement that they were turning the old Camera Store owned by Harvey Milk into a gift store, the HRC released an update today saying they are donating part of the space to the Trevor Project.

The HRC says that part of the store space as well as $10,000 a year will go to the Trevor Project, to be used as a call center to take crisis calls from LGBT teens.

According to an Associated Press report, HRC President Joe Solmonese said:

“We are honored to partner with The Trevor Project in offering this important resource for LGBT youth across the nation from such a historic location."

AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Cleve Jones, who campaigned for and worked with Milk, said last month that an organization serving gay youth would be a more fitting to Milk's memory. Jones applauded the agreement HRC struck with The Trevor Project.

"It is wonderful that Harvey's message of hope will again emanate from the site of Castro Camera," he said. "He spoke often of our responsibility to our young people and experienced firsthand the pain of losing loved ones to suicide.... I think he'd approve."