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40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. * gay mayor san francisco *

40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA

Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to marry. * gay mayor san francisco *

40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: Colorado this month elected the untry's first openly gay ernor. This all 40 years after the assassatn of the first openly gay elected official California, Harvey Milk.

GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE

Mark Leno would have been the cy's first gay mayor, but London Breed mak history as s first Ain-Amerin woman mayor. * gay mayor san francisco *

In California, a nservative state senator named John Briggs was phg a statewi ballot measure - Prop 6 - to ban gay and lbian teachers. Harvey Milk, an openly gay member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, led the fight agast the proposn, batg Briggs around the state. He thought the murr meant the end of the gay rights movement.

Today the seat Milk held when he was killed is occupied by another openly gay man, Rafael MANDELMAN: As someone who was 5 years old when he was shot, I am ntually grateful, not jt for Harvey but for the folks of that generatn who really did change the But first, Manlman not, Milk changed himself. But he worri that as queer people are priced out of gay neighborhoods like the Castro, dilut their polil power. Gwen Craig, who me to San Francis the 1970s and worked wh Harvey Milk before he was killed, trac all back to Milk phg people to e out of the CRAIG: I do thk that he sort of started this path that ma possible for the openly gay officials that were elected this last round.

SF MAYOR GAV NEWSOM RISKS CAREER ON GAY MARRIAGE

Gav Newsom, a vol supporter of gay marriage, is bettg his future on the fact that social attus are growg more liberal. * gay mayor san francisco *

A prev versn of this story rrectly stated that Gee Mosne was the first openly gay elected official California. In fact, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official California.

SAN FRANCIS MAY GET S FIRST GAY MAYOR

Forty years ago, on Nov. 27, 1978, California's first openly gay elected official was assassated. Harvey Milk champned gay rights and challenged the LGBTQ muny to be out and proud. * gay mayor san francisco *

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official the history of California, tak his place on the San Francis Board of Supervisors on January 8, 1978. The first and, for years, most visible openly gay polician Ameri, Milk was a longtime activist and pneerg lear of San Francis’s LGBT servg the Navy durg the Korean War, Milk held several whe-llar jobs New York Cy. Inially nservative and reluctant to advote for gay rights, Milk’s views changed around the time he and his then-partner opened a mera shop on Castro Street, the heart of the San Francis’s LGBT muny, many bs owners and cizens of the largely-gay Castro District, Milk was harassed by police and lol officials.

ASSASSATED SAN FRANCIS MAYOR’S PAPERS GIVE FASCATG GLIMPSE OF EARLY GAY RIGHTS POLICS

Dpe alienatg many Democrats, cludg other gay activists, wh his bombastic language and flower-child persona, he won the Castro district handily and me 10 out of 32 ndidat.

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