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Harvey MIlk was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Woodmere, New York.
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He served on the USSR Kittiwake and became a junior lieutenant.
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Harvey MIlk and Joe Campbell met in Jacob Riis Park in 1956 and fell in love with each other. The relationship lasted until 1961.
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Harvey Milk moved to San Francisco for work. At the time San Francisco was developing as the city with the largest gay population.
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Harvey MIlk and Scott Smith opened up Castro Camera on Castro Street after a roll of fil Milk left at a local shop was ruined using their last $1,000.
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"I got to the point where I knew I had to be involved or shut up." Harvey Milk lost his first city supervisor campaign due to inexperience and the lack of support other than gays because of his hippie lifestyle.
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Harvey MIlk lost his second supervisor campaign coming 7th, one place away from supervisor.
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Considered himself as a political underdog, Harvey Milk lost by yet the closest tie to his opponent Art Agnos.
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On election day NOvember 8, 1977, Harvey won by a tremendous 30% against the sixteen other candidates.
"The nongay community has mostly accepted it. What San Francisco is today, and what it is becoming, reflects both the energy and organization of the gay community and its developing effort toward integration in the political processes of the American city best known for innovation in life styles."
The New York Times, November, 1977 -
Harvey Milk walked to the city hall with his supporters, he officially became Supervisor Harvey Milk.
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Harvey Milk's first tenure was bringing the gay rights issue into attention. During voting, only Supervisor Dan White voted against the bill that outlawed discrimination of sexual orientation. Moscone enthusiastically signed the bill into law. Harvey also solved the dog feces problem by passing a bill that requires dog owners to scoop up their dogs' feces.
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The 1978 was one of the largest gay parade in history because of Harvey Milk's success at becoming San Francisco's city supervisor. Harvey Milk also gave one of him famous Hope Speech at the event and rode the way on a car with a sign "I'm from Woodmere, NY".
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On November 27, 1978, Former Supervisor Dan Wihte escaped metal detectors by breaking into the city hall's basement window. He shot Mayor Moscone because he won't let White restore supervisor position. Later, he shot Milk because he said Milk "smirked" at him.
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On May 21, 1979, Dan White was convicted of manslaughter instead of murder and was sentenced to 7 years in prison (although serving only little more than 4 years). People who were discontent with the result rioted in front of city hall.
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The move "MIlk" based on the life of the first openly gay to be elected Harvey Milk premiered. Harvey Milk was played by Sean Penn.
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The Harvey Milk Foundation is found by Stuart Milk, the nephew of Harvey Milk, in 2009. The Foundation is dedicated to advocate LGBTQ rights.
