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Celebrating 15th anniversary of Harvey Milk Day

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Harvey Milk’s birthday, May 22, is officially a Day of Special Significance in California. Other states also honor Milk. Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office in U.S.

history. In 1977, he was elected to a seat on the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. His term began in January 1978 and ended in November when disgruntled former Supervisor Dan White assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone at City Hall.

In his 1982 book “Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk,” Randy Shilts wrote a moving account of San Francisco’s 1978 memorial for Milk.

A “massive crowd stretched the entire distance from City Hall to Castro Street, some 40,000 strong utterly silent,” Shilts wrote.

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