Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

HARVEY MILK Harvey Milk was born on May 22, 1930 in Woodmere, New York. He was an American politician, who was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California.. Harvey was also a civil rights activist. Since Harvey Milk’s murder in 1978, he has remained a symbol of activism. He brought people hope. Harvey started to fight for gay rights, movement in America. Back then homosexuals were legally and socially discriminated against in the United States. Milk realized he

door.” Subsequently, two bullets entered his brain. On November 27, 1978, just around five months after his Hope Speech, he was assassinated by Daniel White. Daniel White was a former San Francisco Board Supervisor who had issues with Milk’s sexuality and political decisions. Not to mention, White also killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone just seconds before Milk. Daniel White was only given five years for the assassinations due to the defense that he had depression caused by consuming too much

the year 1930. After college he served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1955. Following his discharge, Milk taught high school math, then worked as an actuary, and finally worked as a statistical analyst, until moving to San Francisco in 1972. Here he opened

the community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) worldwide. Harvey Milk served as the first openly gay individual to be elected into public office. Harvey Milk left a positive impact on the gay community and the Castro district of San Francisco through his contributions in politics and stance as an openly gay man. He can also be attributed to being the most influential gay individual to hold political office in United States history. Harvey Milk was born in Woodmere, New York to a Jewish

may not be any downfalls to giving people their basic civil rights, some are forced to fight for them. The American dream consists of these civil rights, and persons without them, cannot achieve this dream. The myth of the American dream for some members of our society is apparent during the American Gay Rights Movement, especially with certain people such as Harry Hay, Sylvia Rivera, and Harvey Milk, as well as during important events like homosexuality being listed as a mental illness, the Stonewall

the Consensus of the Judicial System It was November 27th, 1978. There was a cheerful atmosphere in San Francisco’s City Hall that morning. Supervisor Harvey Milk’s good mood was due to Mayor George Moscone’s upcoming announcement to the press. He was going to publicize that he had decided not to reappoint the ultra-conservative "voice for the family", Dan White, back to the board of supervisors. Harvey Milk was a fierce advocate of this political move, for he was the first openly gay elected official

Gay and Trans Rights: The Movement to Understanding The 20th century was a period of mass change, from technology to the ideals that people put forth to the reformation movements that occurred. A major, but not well known movement that took place was the gay and trans rights movement. This centered around the idea of those of the queer (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender+, or LGBT+) community that sought to be understood during a time of extreme prejudice against them. This led to incidents like

and thousands of people rejoiced. About two years before that, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier were the first same-sex couple in San Francisco that were legally married, when proposition 8 was passed in California. Beautiful, loving couples were finally given the same rights as others. Thirty-five years before then, a man named Harvey Milk was fighting for gay rights in San Francisco. Harvey made a tremendous impact on the lives of the LGBT community by making a safe place for them to live in and pushing

Harvey Milk said, “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”(Aretha 83). Harvey Milk was the first gay politician that moved people’s hearts. He changed the way people thought about gay people back in the 1970’s. Defending homosexuals from criticism, he civilized them with the people. Since the background of homosexuality was harsh which affected Harvey Milk’s early life, he took the action to process of becoming civilized as an officer, and he left many legacies

credited with reigniting the fire behind Americas’s modern LGBT rights movement” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/stonewall/. In 1973 the board of American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. In 1977 Harvey Milk wins a seat on the San Francisco board of supervisors. Milk introduces an ordinance which protects homosexuals from being fired due to their sexual orientation. Milk was the first openly gay to be elected to the public