Interesting Facts Timeline Harvey Milk Trivia Wordle

May 22, 1930

Harvey Bernard Milk, a Lithuanian-American Jewish boy was born.

1943 - 1947

Harvey attends Bay Shore High School.

1956

Harvey meets Joe Campbell. They will be together for six years.

1956 - 1961

Harvey is a teacher and basketball coach at a New York High School.

1962

Harvey's Mother Minerva dies.

1972

Harvey and his new boyfriend Scott Smith move to San Francisco.

1973

Harvey and Scott open Castro Camera in the Castro District of San Francisco.

November, 1973

Harvey runs for the San Francisco Board of supervisors. He does not win.

November, 1975

Harvey runs for the Board of supervisors and loses again.

1976

Harvey gets named to the Board of Permit Appeals.

November 8, 1977

Harvey gets elected to the Board of supervisors representing District 5. He becomes the first openly gay man elected to a political position in the US.

June 25, 1978

Harvey gives what is now called the 'hope speech'.

November, 1978

Harvey defeats a bill to get all gay teachers in San Francisco fired.

November 27, 1978

Dan White assassinates Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in the San Francisco City Hall.

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