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Harvey Milk  

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  • Harvey Milk (1930–78) was the first openly gay elected political official in the United States. Elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, Milk was an advocate for gay rights who also sought to improve the quality of life for his constituents in the Castro area of the city. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West; Milk, Harvey]

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