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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.
Dan White was born in Long Beach, California, on September 2, 1946, [1] the second of nine children in a working-class Irish-American family. He grew up in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco and attended Archbishop Riordan High School, until he was expelled for violence in his junior year. [2]
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 ...
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.
Smith's friends and family nicknamed him "The Widow Milk" because of the dedication he had to archiving Harvey Milk's photos and belongings. [4] Smith fell into a very deep depression after Milk was killed. With Frank M. Robinson, [2] he was the executor of Milk's last will and testament. [2] [5]
The first cut of steel for Harvey Milk occurred on 13 December 2019, marking the beginning of construction of the vessel. [14] The ship had her christening ceremony and was then launched on 6 November 2021, with Milk's nephew Stuart Milk, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, and the ship's sponsor, prominent LBGTQ activist Paula Neira, in attendance ...
Harvey Milk’s Most Memorable Quotes. Woman's Day/Getty Images ... "If every gay person were to come out only to his or her own family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers, within days 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.