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Harvey Milk would have turned 91 this weekend: Remembering an LGBTQ icon
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Harvey Milk Foundation, and officially marked by the city of San Francisco since 2009, the day commemorates the birthday of the famed gay rights activist and lawmaker, who was assassinated November 27, 1978.Born in 1930, Milk was the first openly gay elected official in California.
Born in New York state, Milk joined the US Navy as a young man. He then went into the financial services sector, but relocated to San Francisco in the early 1970s, after experiencing its free-love, counter-culture atmosphere.He opened a camera store on Castro Street and began to become politically active.
He was elected as a city supervisor in November 1977; His swearing-in made national headlines.A year later, in November 1978, a disgruntled former supervisor,.
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