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The remarkable gay-straight political coalition created by Harvey Milk & George Moscone
It was an unlikely partnership.
George Moscone was a straight Catholic school graduate who grew up in an Italian-American neighborhood in San Francisco, handsome and naturally charming, a lawyer who first ran for office at age 30. Harvey Milk was the gay, Long Island-born son of Jewish parents, teased as a child for his prominent ears, a brash camera shop owner who didn’t run for office until his 40s.
Yet the two men found that not only did they like each...
