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Harvey Milk and Prop 6
12023-05-24T00:38:15+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49131970s Focused Researchgallery2023-09-20T21:59:50+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49*Select the content pages below for more on information on the images above included in the media gallery.
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1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.51.00 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:51:28+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Protest March 11A march against the Briggs initiative in 1978. Local politicians and activists came together to oppose the Proposition 6 initiative through carefully crafted protests and media appearances. California Proposition 6, informally known as the Briggs Initiative, was a ballot initiative put to a referendum on the California state ballot in the November 7, 1978 election. It was sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator from Orange County. The failed initiative sought to ban gays and lesbians from working in California's public schools.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.51.00 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:51:28+00:001978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.52.19 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:53:08+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Protest March 21Members of Los Angeles gay community march down Hollywood Boulevard July 2, 1978 to protest a proposed ban on homosexual teachers. In a step beyond repeal of anti-discrimination measures, Oklahoma and Arkansas banned gays and lesbians from teaching in public schools. The idea for the Briggs Initiative was formed during the success of the repeal of the Dade County anti-discrimination language.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.52.19 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:53:08+00:00July 2, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 4.00.39 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T23:01:26+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Protest March 31One sign reads,“Stop Briggs!” during an anti-prop 6 parade in San Diego 1978. The 1978 parade and the months that followed were focused on defeating the Briggs Initiative in the election. A “Save Our Teachers” movement began statewide on this task and the San Diego group became involved in planning the 1978 parade. Buttons and signs were made for the cause, and organizers worked to convince San Diego voters to cast down the Briggs Initiative. These efforts were successful and Prop 6 was defeated, a huge victory for the community.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 4.00.39 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T23:01:26+00:001978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.53.56 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:54:29+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Protest Advertisment1Advertisement against Proposition 6, an initiative sponsored by State Senator John Briggs to expel gay and lesbian teachers, 1978. The Briggs Initiative galvanized the California LGBTQ+ community, as well as state and national political figures. Harvey Milk, elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors the previous year, was arguably the most vocal and visible opponent of Proposition 6. More surprisingly, Ronald Reagan (then Governor of California) came out against it, as did both former US President Gerald Ford and current President Jimmy Carter. Anita Bryant made frequent appearances in support of Proposition 6 as part of the Save Our Children coalition. The referendum failed by a vote of 58.4% to 41.6%.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.53.56 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:54:29+00:001978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.55.39 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:56:19+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: John Briggs at Rally1John Briggs at a rally support for prop 6, the measure was the first attempt to restrict gay and lesbian rights through a statewide ballot measure, 1978. The success of Anita Bryant's repeal of Dade County’s ordinance preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation sparked additional efforts to repeal legislation that added sexual orientation or preference as a protected group to anti-discrimination statutes and codes.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.55.39 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:56:19+00:001978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-17 at 2.28.41 PM_thumb.png2023-03-17T21:30:00+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: John Briggs and Harvey Milk meet6John Briggs and Harvey Milk meet, 1978. A coalition of activists mobilized under the slogan "Come out! Come out! Wherever you are!" to defeat the initiative. In what became the No On 6 campaign, gay men and lesbians went door to door in their cities and towns across the state to talk about the harm the initiative would cause. Gay men and lesbians came out to their families and their neighbors and their co-workers, spoke in their churches and community centers, sent letters to their local editors, and otherwise revealed to the general population that gay people really were "everywhere" and included people they already knew and cared aboutmedia/Screen Shot 2023-03-17 at 2.28.41 PM.pngplain2023-11-22T18:54:02+00:001978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.57.54 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:58:19+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Letter from Harvey Milk1Letter from Harvey Milk to President Jimmy Carter about Briggs Initiative, June 28, 1978. Gay men and lesbians came out to their families and their neighbors and their co-workers, spoke in their churches and community centers, sent letters to their local editors, and otherwise revealed to the general population that gay people really were "everywhere" and included people they already knew and cared about.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.57.54 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:58:19+00:00June 28, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.59.06 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:59:57+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Harvey Milk and Jane Fonda1Harvey Milk and Jane Fonda share a laugh together while campaigning against the Briggs Initiative, December 10th, 1978.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.59.06 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:59:57+00:00December 10th, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 4.02.40 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T23:03:47+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Briggs Defeated1November-December 1978 issue of ACLU News celebrating the failure of the Briggs initiative. A diverse group of politicians including Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, Gerald Ford, and then-president Jimmy Carter all opposed the bill. Some gay Republicans also became organized against the initiative on a grassroots level. The most prominent of these, the Log Cabin Republicans, was founded in 1977 in California, as a rallying point for Republicans opposed to the Briggs Initiative. The Log Cabin Club then lobbied Republican officials to oppose the measure. The initiative was defeated on November 7, 1978 and lost even in Briggs's own Orange County, a conservative stronghold.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 4.02.40 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T23:03:47+00:00December 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-17 at 2.24.41 PM_thumb.png2023-03-17T21:26:16+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491970s LGBT Movement Featuring Harvey Milk3Harvey Milk, a native of Long Island, New York, served in the U.S. Navy before working at a Wall Street investment firm. Keeping his homosexuality a secret at first, Milk became more openly gay through his exposure to New York City’s bohemian theater scene. After moving to San Francisco in the early 1970s, Milk established himself as a leading political activist for the gay community. Winning a seat on the city’s Board of Supervisors, he emerged as one of the country’s preeminent openly gay elected officials, spearheading an important anti-discrimination measure. Milk was murdered in November 1978 by a former colleague, Dan White. - history.coommedia/Screen Shot 2023-03-17 at 2.24.41 PM.pngplain2023-03-20T20:40:17+00:001970sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 1.37.45 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T20:38:36+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491970s San Fransisco Gay Life 21The first large group of lesbians in the San Francisco Gay Parade, invited by Harvey Milk, 1974. Kinsey Institute researchers, for example, over half of the gay white females they interviewed said they had had less than ten sexual partners; most of the gay women they talked to rarely cruised and rarely had casual sex; they tended to be monogamous, serially. According to gay therapists I spoke with, a major problem for gay men often lay in developing intimate relationships; gay women often had the reverse of that problem their relationships were generally so close and so emotionally intense that even the unhappiest of couples would have difficulty separating. If gay-male society seemed in many ways impersonal and atomistic, lesbian society often seemed to be private and intimate to the point of suffocation. While gay men flocked to bars and bathhouses, gay women nested at home or gathered in small groups.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 1.37.45 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T20:38:36+00:001974Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 1.41.08 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T20:43:56+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491970s San Fransisco Gay Life 41Castro Street during the the 1970s. Harvey Milk, spoke of gay people as an oppressed minority and promised to make common cause with the racial-minority groups in the city and with the poor. But the gay immigrants were now calling this alliance in question. They might be refugees from oppression, but they were also mostly young white men who had arrived in town at the very moment for beginning their careers. In practice, they were taking professional and managerial jobs, or they were staffing the numerous new service industries, or they were starting businesses of their own. In many ways, they were proving a boon to the city. By pioneering the dilapidated neighborhoods, they were helping to reverse the white and middle-class flight to the suburbs, thus increasing the tax base both directly and indirectly. Since they had no children, they made no demands on the schools, and they had more income than the average family man or woman to spend both on entertainment and on housing. They were supporting the opera, the ballet, and other cultural institutions of the city. But in settling the poor neighborhoods they were pushing real-estate prices up and pushing black and Hispanic families out.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 1.41.08 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T20:43:56+00:001970sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.15.51 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:17:41+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491976 Harvey Milk on the Campaign Trail 11Harvey Milk passes out fliers at a San Francisco Safeway grocery store during his 1976 state assembly run. Harvey Milk loved campaigning; that was the real secret of his success. For months out of every year, he would let his business drift into further disarray in order to get up at five in the morning and shake hands at bus stops, to visit people in the neighborhood, to speak at every meeting that he was invited to. He organized a Castro Village business association and the annual Castro Street Fair; he persuaded gay bars across the city to boycott Coors beer in aid of a union campaign. He became a figure in the neighborhood, and, eventually, one who could get things done.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.15.51 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:17:41+00:001976Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.18.22 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:19:39+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491976 Harvey Milk on the Campaign Trail 21Harvey Milk on the campaign trail in 1976. Harvey Milk is internationally renowned as an LGBTQ hero, having used his position as the first out LGBTQ elected official in California to loudly fight back against the tornado of anti-LGBTQ discrimination furiously whipping the country into a frenzy with the rise of the Moral Majority and Anita Bryant’s crusade to “save our children” in 1977. Effectively using his bullhorn on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Milk helped lead the nail-biting successful campaign to stop the Briggs Initiative, which would have permitted the firing of gay teachers and their allies in 1978.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.18.22 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:19:39+00:001976Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.20.53 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:26:37+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491976 Harvey Milk on the Campaign Trail 31Harvey Milk meets Jimmy Carter, May 1976. Milk could afford to laugh, for in five years of campaigning he had become a powerful speaker—articulate, witty, and capable of pulling out the full range of rhetorical stops. On the rostrum, Briggs was no contest for him, and in November Milk’s political judgment turned out to be correct. The teachers’ associations viewed the Briggs Initiative as threatening to teachers and to the cause of civil liberties in general, and campaigned vigorously against it. The liberal politicians in the state came out against it, but so, too, did former Governor Ronald Reagan. President Carter came out against the initiative, as did former President Ford. On Election Day, Californians voted two to one against it. The defeat of the Briggs Initiative was a personal triumph for Milk.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.20.53 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:26:37+00:001976Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.28.08 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:29:44+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491977 Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone1San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and Mayor George Moscone are shown in the mayor's office during the signing of the city's gay rights bill. April 1977.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.28.08 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:29:44+00:00April 1977Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.59.06 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:59:57+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Harvey Milk and Jane Fonda1Harvey Milk and Jane Fonda share a laugh together while campaigning against the Briggs Initiative, December 10th, 1978.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.59.06 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:59:57+00:00December 10th, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.57.54 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:58:19+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Letter from Harvey Milk1Letter from Harvey Milk to President Jimmy Carter about Briggs Initiative, June 28, 1978. Gay men and lesbians came out to their families and their neighbors and their co-workers, spoke in their churches and community centers, sent letters to their local editors, and otherwise revealed to the general population that gay people really were "everywhere" and included people they already knew and cared about.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.57.54 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:58:19+00:00June 28, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.53.56 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:54:29+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 California Prop 6: Protest Advertisment1Advertisement against Proposition 6, an initiative sponsored by State Senator John Briggs to expel gay and lesbian teachers, 1978. The Briggs Initiative galvanized the California LGBTQ+ community, as well as state and national political figures. Harvey Milk, elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors the previous year, was arguably the most vocal and visible opponent of Proposition 6. More surprisingly, Ronald Reagan (then Governor of California) came out against it, as did both former US President Gerald Ford and current President Jimmy Carter. Anita Bryant made frequent appearances in support of Proposition 6 as part of the Save Our Children coalition. The referendum failed by a vote of 58.4% to 41.6%.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.53.56 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T22:54:29+00:001978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Harvey_Milk_thumb.jpeg2022-02-28T23:59:05+00:00Dianne Sanchez Shumwaycebf33b775182a1705dfec7188306245482120a61978 California Proposition 6: Briggs Initiative1Harvey Milk at the Gay Pride Parade carrying a side reading, “I'm from Woodmere, New York” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE/HEARST NEWSPAPERS VIA GETTY IMAGES. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/harvey-milk-lgbtq-activist-legacymedia/Harvey_Milk.jpegplain2022-02-28T23:59:05+00:001978Dianne Sanchez Shumwaycebf33b775182a1705dfec7188306245482120a6
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 1.54.45 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:11:05+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 Harvey Milk at Pride Parade 11Harvey Milk being on top of a car during the Gay Freedom Day Parade in June, 1978. After moving to San Francisco in the early 1970s, Milk established himself as a leading political activist for the gay community. Winning a seat on the city’s Board of Supervisors, he emerged as one of the country’s preeminent openly gay elected officials, spearheading an important anti-discrimination measure. Milk was murdered in November 1978 by a former colleague, Dan White.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 1.54.45 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:11:05+00:00June 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.12.02 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:12:31+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 Harvey Milk at Pride Parade 21Supervisor Harvey Milk during the Gay Freedom Day Parade in June, 1978. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, Milk had attended teachers’ college in upstate New York and then gone into the Navy and quickly become an officer. He had spent nearly four years in the Pacific, and left on his own accord. He returned to Long Island and taught high-school history and math for a few years; then he left, going to Dallas, with a lover, for no better reason than to get out of the cold weather. He soon moved back to New York. He took a job as an actuarial statistician for an insurance company, then one as a researcher for a Wall Street investment firm. Both jobs bored him eventually—as did running a camera store in the Castro. He seemed to be a hippie who had taken a long time to discover that he was one. He was, in fact, a born politician, and at the age of forty-three he had finally found his vocation.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.12.02 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:12:31+00:00June 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.37.29 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:38:50+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 Dan White 11Dan White assassinates Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk at City Hall. November 27, 1978. San Francisco.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.37.29 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:38:50+00:00November 27, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.41.30 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:42:30+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 Dan White 31Outside San Francisco’s Hall of Justice, as Dan White was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison (which he served 5) for the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, November 27, 1978. In 1998, Frank Falzon, the homicide inspector with the San Francisco police to whom White had surrendered after the murders, said that he met with White in 1984, and that at this meeting White had confessed that he had intended to kill not only Moscone and Milk, but another supervisor, Carol Ruth Silver, as well as then-member of the California State Assembly and future San Francisco mayor Willie Brown. Falzon quoted White as having said, "I was on a mission. I wanted four of them. Carol Ruth Silver, she was the biggest snake ... and Willie Brown, he was masterminding the whole thing."media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.41.30 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:42:30+00:00November 27, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.13.37 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:14:17+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 Harvey Milk at Pride Parade 31Anne Kronenberg driving newly elected supervisor Harvey Milk in SFLGBT Pride Parade, June 1978.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.13.37 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:14:17+00:00June 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.30.55 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:31:49+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 Harvey Milk Elected 11Harvey Milk is sworn in to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors becoming the first openly gay city official in California history. San Francisco, January 9th, 1978.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.30.55 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:31:49+00:00January 9, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.32.07 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:34:50+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491978 Harvey Milk Elected 21Supervisor Harvey Milk at Mayor George Moscone's desk, March 7, 1978. Milk became nationally famous for his “coming out” speeches. “Gay people, we will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets,” Milk said during one rally against the anti-gay Briggs Initiative. After receiving daily death threats, Milk said in his audiotaped will: “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.32.07 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:34:50+00:00March 7, 1978Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.55.10 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:55:45+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491979 Harvey Milk's Legacy 11On May 22, thousands gathered peacefully in the Castro to sing "happy birthday" to Harvey Milk, San Francisco, 1979. The day after the riot, on what would have been Milk’s 49th birthday, 20,000 San Franciscans gathered to remember him. That October, more than 75,000 people marched for gay rights in Washington, D.C., and gay rights activists from around the country were inspired to continue their fight.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.55.10 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:55:45+00:00May 22, 1979Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.56.45 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:57:13+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491979 Harvey Milk's Legacy 21Harvey Milk outside his campaign office, mid to late 1970s. Although he spent less than a year in office, Milk’s brief time in the public eye marked an important stepping stone in the battle for gay rights. His story became known to wider audiences through Randy Shilts 1982 biography, “The Mayor of Castro Street,” and Rob Epstein’s 1984 Oscar-winning documentary, “The Times of Harvey Milk.”media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.56.45 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:57:13+00:00mid 1970sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.58.11 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:58:45+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491979 Harvey Milk's Legacy 31Supervisor Harvey Milk poses outside his camera shop after his 1977 election to the Board of Supervisors, September 11, 1977. Additionally, more elected officials, including Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds and Barney Frank, came forth to acknowledge their homosexuality during this period. In subsequent years, Milk’s name was attached to a series of schools, buildings and public centers throughout California. He was the subject of another acclaimed film in 2008, with actor Sean Penn and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black earning Academy Awards for their contributions to director Gus Van Sant’s biography, “Milk.”media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.58.11 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:58:45+00:00September 11, 1977Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.47.21 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T21:48:08+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491979 White Night Riots 31Demonstrators smash glass out of the front doors of the San Francisco City Hall. Thousands marched to city hall, protesting the voluntary manslaughter conviction of Dan White in the fatal shootings of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk, May 22, 1979. San Francisco. Chaos erupted, as the crowd fought with police and destroyed a dozen police vehicles, as well as parts of City Hall itself. After three hours, officers moved in to quell the rioting for good, using tear gas in the process, and the crowd dispersed. In all, 59 officers and 124 protestors were injured, with about two dozen arrests made.media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 2.47.21 PM.pngplain2023-04-03T21:48:08+00:00May 22, 1979Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Harvey Milk_thumb.jpeg2021-12-02T22:45:55+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491977 Harvey Milk - The Gay Rights Movement6November 8, 1977 Harvey Milk wins a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and is responsible for introducing a gay rights ordinance protecting gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs. Milk also leads a successful campaign against Proposition 6, an initiative forbidding homosexual teachers.media/Harvey Milk.jpegplain2022-07-08T19:38:53+00:001977Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49