On Election Night November 7, 1978 Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder captured the late gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk huddled with local LGBTQ advocates Gwenn Craig and the late Bill Kraus as they waited to see if California voters had defeated a homophobic ballot measure.
Craig and Kraus co-led the local committee that worked with Milk to defeat what was known as Proposition 6, which would have banned gays and lesbians and their straight allies from working as public school teachers in the Golden State.
A "No on 6" poster featuring the Statue of Liberty can be seen in the background of the black-and-white snapshot, taken just weeks prior to Milk being assassinated inside San Francisco City Hall a mere 11 months into