Dan White

He also fanboyed Jesse Helms, the notoriously racist and anti-gay senator from North Carolina.

It’s hard not to note the parallels between Milk’s murder and Republicans avoiding metal detectors and pledging to carry guns into the nation’s capitol.

“Culturally, psychologically, economically, politically – gays and lesbians are discriminated against. They don’t need me, but… they like me!”

The night the man who murdered Harvey Milk got away with murder, there were 12 incinerated police cars, 150 injuries, and dozens of arrests.

It was an unlikely partnership.

While the Stonewall Riots get all the attention, the White Night Riots were a brutal showdown with police that turned mourners into a mob.

The vintage streetcar appeared in a major film.

They hope the name change will help queer visitors arriving in the city see “there’s a place where they belong.”

On this day, 33 years ago, former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White took a gun to City Hall and shot openly-gay Supervisor Harvey Milk five times — the final two shots had White pressing his gun directly at Milk’s skull, according to the medical examiner.