- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHarvey Bernard Milk
- Nickname
- Mayor of Castro Street
- Harvey Milk was born on May 22, 1930 in Long Island, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Chafed Elbows (1966), Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History (2017) and News Talk (1977). He died on November 27, 1978 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Ever-present smile.
- He is frequently credited as one of the most important figures in the LGBT Rights movement.
- In 1978, he was elected to the San Francisco city council, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California.
- He was posthumously awarded the Presidential medal of Freedom in 2009.
- Was of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
- His life has inspired such works as Randy Shilts' "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" and Romanovsky & Phillips' song "Homophobia", "Execution of Justice" an award-winning play by Emily Mann about his murder (remade for TV in 1999: Execution of Justice (1999)) and Stewart Wallace's and Michael Korie's opera, "Harvey Milk".
- "Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight".
- "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door".
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