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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 ...
After graduating, he moved to San Francisco and befriended Harvey Milk. After Rivaldo consulted Milk's unsuccessful 1975 supervisor campaign, the two established the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club. Rivaldo was a consultant and graphic designer for Milk's successful 1977 supervisor campaign. He and Dick Pabich ran a political consulting company.
Harvey Milk was known in San Francisco for his activism against then-popular anti-gay initiatives. He made history when the city elected him as city supervisor in 1977. And, during his time in ...
The Harvey Milk Foundation was founded in 2009 by Harvey Milk's nephew, Stuart Milk, and Harvey's campaign manager and political aide, Anne Kronenberg, based on discussions held with the family and close Harvey Milk allies [1] after Stuart received the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier that year.
A few hours after finding Milk's body, Feinstein broke the news that embittered former Supervisor Dan White had killed Milk, one of the nation’s first openly gay elected officials, and Mayor ...
The Times of Harvey Milk documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor.The film documents Milk's rise from a neighborhood activist to a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination in November 1978 at San Francisco's city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath.
On her very last day on Earth, Feinstein was working in the Senate chamber she helped shape for three decades