Title: 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
Places: San Francisco, California
People: Harvey Milk
Time periods: 20th century