George Moscone

In four years as San Francisco’s District 8 supervisor, Mandelman has a lot to show for his efforts.

“The Quilt is an important reminder that the HIV/AIDS crisis is still not over and there is much work to be done.”

Dan White cried while he complained that Harvey Milk was being “devious and started kind of smirking” before he shot him.

A welcomed development from the Navy — that once discharged the civil rights leader — just in time for today’s observation of #HarveyMilkDay.

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.

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.

Interested in adding a little LGBTQ history to your movie watchlist, but don’t feel up to a hardcore documentary? We got you.

The mass murder-suicide was the largest casualty of American citizens before 9/11.

Mayor George Moscone enacted the most sweeping gay rights protections of any city in the country. A year later, he and Harvey Milk were shot to death in City Hall.

It’s been a precarious relationship. But love blossoms.

The vote was unanimous.

The power of Pride resonates through the Quilt.

The Mayor of Castro marches in SF and LA.

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

Thirty-five years ago today, our country lost a man who symbolized the breakdown of barriers for LGBT elected officials everywhere. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office in California, had held his office for less than a year before he was assassinated. But even in that short time, Milk helped erase some of the invisible boundaries defining who in our country can be elected officials. Following Marian Wright Edelman’s famous words that “you can’t be what you can’t see,” Harvey Milk gave generations to come a successful LGBT elected official to “see.”

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.