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There are hundreds of images of Smith, taken by Milk and others, in the Harvey Milk Archives/Scott Smith Collection at the San Francisco Public Library. After being discharged from the United States Navy, Milk spent many hours taking pictures. Smith was his favorite model; sometimes Milk spent entire rolls of film just taking pictures of Smith. [3]
Harvey Bernard Milk was born in the New York City suburb of Woodmere, to William Milk and Minerva Karns. He was the younger son of Litvak parents and the grandson of Morris Milk, a department store owner [ 4 ] [ 5 ] who helped to organize the first synagogue in the area. [ 6 ]
Lawrence Stuart Milk (born December 26, 1960) is an American LGBT human rights activist and political speaker. The nephew of civil rights leader Harvey Milk, he is the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation. [1] He has engaged in domestic and international activism, including work with LGBT movements in Latin America, Europe, Asia and the ...
Anne Kronenberg is an American political administrator and LGBT rights activist. She is best known for being Harvey Milk's campaign manager during his historic San Francisco Board of Supervisors campaign in 1977 and his aide as he held that office until he and mayor George Moscone were assassinated.
On a cool autumn morning 45 years ago, Dianne Feinstein was the first to find the body. It was November 1978, and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk had just been shot dead in his City Hall office.
Attempts to put Milk's life to film followed a 1984 documentary of his life and the aftermath of his assassination, titled The Times of Harvey Milk, which was loosely based upon Randy Shilts's 1982 biography, The Mayor of Castro Street (the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1984, and was awarded Special Jury Prize at ...
He became a public figure during his run for office, calling for hope and change rather than hate and hiding with many — now famous — Harvey Milk quotes. In many ways, he was the first openly ...
Harvey Epstein — a very real Democratic assembly member of New York State's 74th district who is in fact running for city council — has since responded to the sketch, which has come as a shock ...