Good men slain: January 11, 1979.Shortly after former San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden supervisor Dan White gunned down openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk This article is about poltitician and activist. For the high school, see Harvey Milk High School. For the band, see Harvey Milk (band). Harvey Bernard Milk and Mayor George Moscone George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929–November 27, 1978) (pronounced "mos-cone-ee") was the mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. Background Moscone was born in San Francisco, California. on November 27, 1978, The Advocate published a special issue about the lives and deaths of the two fallen gay rights advocates. On the evening of the murders, more than 25,000 people marched in a silent candlelight vigil A candelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset. Such events are typically held either to protest at the suffering of some marginalized group of people, or in memory of lives lost to some disease, disaster, massacre or other tragedy. from the Castro, which Milk represented, to city hall. Response to Milk's murder was widespread. "The fact of his homosexuality gave him an insight into the scars which all oppressed op·press tr.v. op·pressed, op·press·ing, op·press·es 1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny. 2. peoples wear," said Dianne Feinstein, who succeeded Moscone as mayor. "He believed that no sacrifice was too great a price to pay for the cause of human rights." President Jimmy Carter said, "As supervisor, Milk had come to be widely regarded as a symbol of the aspirations of gay people to participate openly in mainstream politics and in society at large." He added that Milk was a leader "who kept his promise to represent all constituents." |
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