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Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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 ...
Scott Smith at 575 Castro Street photographed by Harvey Milk, 1973. Smith was instrumental to Milk's career as an activist and politician. He organized and managed Milk's campaigns for public office from 1974 to 1977 and his influence was widely in evidence after Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
60 Best Harvey Milk Quotes to Inspire and Uplift Bettmann - Getty Images Beside names such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and RuPaul is fellow LGBTQ+ icon and activist Harvey Milk.
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.