Tag: Anti-LGBTQ violence

On November 27, 1978, Dan White walked into San Francisco City Hall with a loaded gun. Moments later, Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, a politician and gay rights activist, had been murdered. White was convicted six months later, not of first degree murder, but of voluntary manslaughter. He received a sentence of seven years and eight months in prison. His lawyers argued that Whites’ mental state had been impaired due to depression and excessive fast food consumption. The trial of...