Both parties involved are dead yes, but one lives on through the iconizing him by what Sil has explained here. You see just because someone is physically dead means nothing, because if someone creates a situation where people are expected to glorify that person into the future or to set aside as a holiday or day of remembrance in that he be recognized on, then for those who are required to honor that day of remembrance, said person is then lifted from his grave to be honored again and again.
There in lay the problem in which Sil is heavily focused upon with all of this, and then she looks into the persons character to find that he was a bad man for whom should have no day of remembrance in honor of at all, and so she digs a little more deeper and finds that certain groups or people are responsible for this stamp and such in which he is honored by, and then she digs a little deeper, and even a little more deeper. See how all that works ?
Seawytch knows this. She wants the topic dropped as yet another de facto assistance to the past crimes of Harvey Milk. She doesn't want the public knowing what he did to the 16 year old minor boy, dragging him across state lines from New York to California where he remained a minor for two more years while Milk switched between sodomizing him and officiating as his legal guardian.
She doesn't want the fact that a gay accredited journalist and friend of Harvey Milk jotted down all this information for ANYONE to read. Most especially those of the 60 + LGBT groups from the US, Mexico and Canada who petitioned tirelessly for their messiah to be immortalized as an LGBT icon yet again, on a US Postage stamp.
No, this discussion of how tightly knit the sexuality of Harvey Milk is with those who admire him and what he did definitely bothers Seawytch and she would rather drop it, rather quickly. Because if people keep discussing LGBTers upholding a man guilty of serial sexual abuse against minor teens, homeless orphans on drugs, then maybe people in Utah might do the math on allowing gays to marry. They might figure out that marriage has as one of its perks, elevation to top-tier status to adopt .....orphans... And a group that clearly, obtusely and unambiguously embraces
the sexuality specifically of a serial sex abuser of orphaned teen boys..might not be worthy of such a perk and such access to orphans.
Making it worse, Seawytch and others like her seek to shroud the abuse, to make it go away, to lie about it, to change key dates to make it look like McKinley wasn't a minor. All these things are exactly the same things pedophiles do to cover up their crimes. When reminded of those crimes, instead of recoiling in horror, every single gay person I've debated about it, without exception, has jumped to Milk's defense in lockstep fashion..
I'm sure Seawytch wants the topic of Harvey Milk to go away. And gladly it will: the minute the 60+ gay groups who so recently had his image and sexualness iconized on the US Postage stamp publicly stand up and denounce him. They could even pretend they hadn't read his biography and were mistaken in getting him immortalized in law in California and on the stamp in the US as "the embodiment of the LGBT movement across the nation and the world". When they stand up and denounce Milk, I will stop talking about him. If they don't, I won't.