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Vor 2 Tagen · At the GGBA installation dinner in 1976, John Schmidt asked then mayor George Moscone to speak. Mayor Moscone came. That was my first GGBA event, and it was a very heady affair. The air was electric. At that time it was unheard of for a mayor to address our community. The mayor’s presence marked our coming out as a community, and acknowledged ...
26. Apr. 2024 · Harvey Milk, American politician and gay-rights activist. His election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 made him one of the first openly gay elected officials in U.S. history. In 1978 Milk and San Francisco mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Dan White, a conservative former city supervisor.
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Vor 21 Stunden · George Moscone. James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what he termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The Chorus, whose roster of active singers is nearly 300 people has a storied history, dating back to their first performance, only a month after their formation, at the candlelight march following the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. The Chorus was the first in the world to openly proclaim their dignity by using the word “gay” in their title. SFGMC’s ...
14. Apr. 2024 · Writing on the occasion of a memorial service held for Harvey Milk and George Moscone at the cathedral, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen took a paragraph to riff on the ...
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25. Apr. 2024 · By now, he was established as the leading political spokesman for the Castro’s vibrant gay community. His close friend and ally Mayor George Moscone, appointed him to the city’s Board of Permit Appeals, making Milk the first openly gay city commissioner in the United States.
22. Apr. 2024 · In 1978, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. Milk encouraged LGBT people to "come out of the closet" during his speeches and passed a gay rights ordinance in the city of San Francisco. But 11 months after his election, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated. Despite his short ...
