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Harvey Milk

First openly gay elected official in California; assassinated in 1978.

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Harvey Milk

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Harvey Bernard Milk was born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, New York.[1] Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.[2]

Key facts and history

A 2020 Bay Area Reporter article states that naval records confirm Milk was forced to resign on February 7, 1955 rather than face a court-martial because of his homosexuality.[3] He ran for city supervisor in 1973 and earned 16,900 votes, coming in 10th place out of 32 candidates.[4] Milk was described as a martyr by news outlets as early as 1979.[5] After finishing college, Milk enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during the Korean War.[6]

The Castro Street Fair, which Milk put together in 1974, drew over 5,000 people and gave some EVMA members their best business day ever.[7]

What the research sources say

A 2020 Bay Area Reporter article notes that naval records show Milk was forced to describe in precise detail the gay sex he engaged with men in the early 1950s while living in San Diego.[3] A 2002 Westword article states that in 1973, Milk made a political deal with local Teamsters who objected to Coors' anti-union stance.[8] The Westword article also notes that twenty years after Milk's murder, his friends and fans poured cases of Coors into a gutter to celebrate his legacy.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Harvey Milk" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Harvey Bernard Milk." Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 10: 1976–1980. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.; "Harvey Bernard Milk". Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.; Shilts, p. 4. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Harvey Milk" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Leyland, p. 37. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. "Naval records indicate SF library's Milk discharge paperwork a fake", by Matthew S. Bajko, Bay Area Reporter, February 12, 2020. .. facts only, no text reused. ebar.com
  4. Wikipedia, "Harvey Milk" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "S.F. Vote Tally: Supervisors", San Francisco Chronicle (November 7, 1973), p. 3.; Shilts, pp. 78–80. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Harvey Milk" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Milk was described as a martyr by news outlets as early as 1979, by biographer Randy Shilts in 1982, and University of San Francisco professor Peter Novak in 20; Smith and Haider-Markel, p. 204. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Harvey Milk" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Harvey Bernard Milk". Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.; "Naval records indicate SF library's Milk discharge paperwork a fake", by Matthew S. Bajko, Bay Area Reporter, February 12, 2020. .; "The Navy made Harvey Milk resign for being gay. Now they're going to name a ship after him", by Marisa Iati, The Washington Post, December 15, 2019. ".; While Milk said numerous times that he was dishonorably discharged and claimed it was because he was gay, for a number of years this claim was doubted. For exam (we en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Harvey Milk" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Harvey Bernard Milk". Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.; Shilts, p. 90. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Roberts, Michael (June 27, 2002). "A Brewing Disagreement" , Westword. Retrieved January 18, 2009.. facts only, no text reused. westword.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Harvey Milk (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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1. In which place was Harvey Milk born?

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2. In what year was Harvey Milk born?

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From the source: “Harvey Bernard Milk was born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island.”

3. In what year did Harvey Milk die?

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From the source: “Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in ”

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