• Raising the Rainbow Flag Guide in slides

• Santa Cruz COE Flag Raising Ceremonies:  2025 Video * 2024 Video * 2023 Video * 2022 Video  (And 2022 Padlet) * 2021 Video (And 2021 Padlet)

Events

• Rainbow Flag Raising - 2024

• Rainbow Flag Raising Ceremony Video 2022. 

• See the 2022 video script / lesson plan.

• Add your photo to the Rainbow Flag Raising Padlet 2022

• 2022 Santa Cruz County Board of Education Proclamation

• See other 2022 Rainbow Flag Raising Resources.

• See the  Raising the Rainbow Flag padlet from 2021

• PVUSD Harvey Milk Resources 

• Host a Milk & Cookies Viewing Party

Lesson Plans

Elementary

• Be Who You Are

• Symbols of Us: Identity Flags & Capes

• San Francisco Unified School District Harvey Milk Curriculum 

• Prominent People in History

Secondary 

• Harvey Milk and the California Briggs Initiative in 1978. High School U.S. History or Government Class.

• Primary Source Materials About Harvey Milk that may be used for any lesson in middle school or high school. 

Activities

• Hyperdoc: LGBTQIA & The Supreme Court

• Hyperdoc: Identity, Stereotypes & Discrimination

Literature

• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders

• Sewing The Rainbow A Story About Gilbert Baker By Gayle E. Pitman, Ph.D

• The Harvey Milk Story By Kari Krakow

Videos

• Harvey Milk’s Radical Vision for Equality (5 min TedEd Video)

• Tell Me a Story: Harvey Milk (10 min story for younger children by Santa Cruz Library)

• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Pride Flag (9 min read aloud)

• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Pride Flag (4 min read aloud read by students)

• Pride Picture Books Read Alouds by Maya, a Third Grade Teacher (Each interactive story is about 20 minutes long)

• BrainPOP Harvey Milk video and related curriculum - for schools that have access to BrainPOP

Primary Sources

Harvey Milk Speeches

• San Francisco Gay Freedom Day, June 25, 1978

• Give Them Hope (2 min video. 1978)

• The Hope Speech, 1978.  (14 min. Read by a young person. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

• The Hope Speech, 1978 (19 min. Re-enacted by Sir Ian McKellen)

A Collection of Primary Sources

Even More

Further Reading 

• Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, St. Martin’s Press, 1982.

• Lillian Faderman, Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, Yale University Press, 2018. 

• An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings

Songs to Celebrate

• “Just Sing”

• “Beautiful Together”

• “Lead the Way”

• “Together”