Harvey Milk
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"Harvey Bernard Milk" was an American politician who became List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year/the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around the age of 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s.

Milk moved from New York City to settle in San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the The Castro, San Francisco/Castro District. He took advantage of the growing political and economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests, and ran unsuccessfully for political office three times. His theatrical campaigns earned him increasing popularity, and Milk won a seat as a city supervisor in 1977, part of the broader social changes the city was experiencing.

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Hope will never be silent.

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All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

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If a bullet should go through my head let that bullet go through every closet door.

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