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Harvey Milk: a hero for the left?
As the first openly gay politician in the US, his very existence was progress – but is he an appropriate icon for the left, asks MATTHEW TRINDER
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NOVEMBER 2018 saw the 40th anniversary of the assassination of San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the US.
He fought for gay rights at a time when they were under direct threat. Many local gay rights laws across the country were being repealed in the mid-1970s by public votes and in 1978 Proposition 6, backed by resurgent right-wing Christian evangelicals, aimed to ban gay men and women from teaching in California’s public schools.
It was so extreme even Ronald Reagan came out against it! Partly due to Milk’s spirited fightback and inspirational leadership however, it was defeated at the ballot box just three weeks before his death.
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