Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk

• Harvey Milk become the first openly gay public official in 1977.
• "All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words.” —Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk

• Harvey Milk believed that government should represent individuals, not just downtown interests, and should insure equality for all citizens while providing needed services.

Harvey Milk

• Given the hatred directed at gay people in general and Milk in particular—he received daily death threats—he was aware of the likelihood that he may well be assassinated. He recorded several versions of his will, “to be read in the event of my assassination.”

Harvey Milk

• “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

Harvey Milk

• On November 27, 1978, Harvey Milk was assassinated.
• His assassin famously used the twinkie defense in court saying that junk food made him kill.

Resources

• Harvey Milk. (n.d.). Retrieved April 13, 2016, from http://www.biography.com/people/harvey-milk-9408170#assassination