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Vor 21 Stunden · 1951–1955. Rank. Lieutenant (junior grade) Unit. USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) 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.
Vor 5 Tagen · The Briggs Initiative was ultimately defeated at the polls in November 1978. Harvey Milk, a gay man elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, gave a rousing speech at the city's 1978 Gay Freedom Day celebration. In it, he challenged State Senator John Briggs, who had sponsored the ballot proposition to ban gays and lesbians ...
Vor 4 Tagen · On election night in 1978, gays and lesbians in California braced themselves for the statewide vote on Proposition 6. Less than a month after the results came in, a pair of killings shocked San ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Harvey Milk’s remarkable career was tragically cut short on November 27, 1978, when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor. The news of their deaths sent shockwaves through the community, but it also galvanized them.
Vor 4 Tagen · An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches & Writings, University of California Press, 2013. Shilts, Randy. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
Vor 4 Tagen · Harvey Milk was the first out gay politician to ever be elected in California. While on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Milk made a name for himself as a prominent,...
Vor 21 Stunden · After decades of wandering and job-hopping, Harvey Milk found his purpose as a gay community leader with growing political ambitions. But his historic election was jus...
