“…Harvey and the mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone, were assassinated. It was first unfurled in June, 1978.įive months later, Harvey and the mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone, were fatally shot. He asked his friend Gilbert Baker, a designer, to help him create a symbol for the gay community, and Gilbert designed the Rainbow Flag. We need a symbol that shows who we are and how we feel.” “He discovered that the best way to change the laws was to help make laws.”Īfter Harvey first won public office, he had an idea: Harvey dreamed that one day he and his friends would be treated like everyone else, and be able to live and love as they pleased. When he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, he became one of the country’s first openly gay people elected to public office. Harvey Milk was born in New York in 1930, and moved to San Francisco in 1972.
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