Harvey Milk

Description:

Harvey Milk-eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck-was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century.

subjects: Jewish men,  Politicians,  Gay politicians,  Gay men,  Gay liberation movement,  Biography,  History,  Politicians, united states,  Gay men, biography,  Jews, united states, biography,  LGBTQ biography and memoir,  LGBTQ activism,  collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist

People: Harvey Milk

Places: San Francisco,  California

Times: 20th century