Milk, Harvey
From Astro-Databank
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| born on | 22 May 1930 at 01:30 (= 01:30 AM ) | ||
| Place | Woodmere NY, USA, 40n38, 73w42 | ||
| Timezone | EDT h4w (is daylight saving time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   00°24'   17°31 Asc. 23°32'
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Biography
American city government official who was shot and killed in San Francisco along with Mayor George Moscone. Milk was the first openly gay male elected to political office in a large, urban city. As a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, he passed two laws in his short political career; a law that dog owners had to clean up after their pets and a law against anti-gay discrimination. In the early 1970s, Milk believed that the dismissal of gays in society occurred because of their invisibility. Milk campaigned for a seat on the Board of Supervisors by publicity stunts to get attention and name recognition.
Milk's family ran a successful retail clothing business on Long Island, NY. In high school, he played sports and loved to play jokes on his friends. While just a kid, Milk knew of his sexual proclivity. He liked to frequent the gay section of New York's Central Park. In 1947, at 17, Milk was arrested for taking off his shirt in the public park. In 1951, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War.
Milk returned to New York to become a Wall Street financial analyst, however the financial world bored him. He campaigned for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 elections. He had many boyfriends and sexual partners in Greenwich Village but by the late 1960s grew tired of the radical scene. In 1972, Milk moved to San Francisco with his lover. The couple opened a camera shop in the Castro, an emerging gay center. In 1973, he made his first bid for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He made two more failed attempts until he finally gained his seat in the November elections of 1977.
As an openly gay political figure, Milk received many death threats. Trying to send a positive and credible image to the people of San Francisco, Milk changed his behavior of frequenting the gay bathhouses when he entered public life.
Milk had taken the vacated seat of Dan White, a troubled anti-gay conservative supervisor who had quit. White asked Mayor George Moscone to allow him to return to the Board with a raise. When Moscone refused his request, on 11/27/1978 White opened fire, shot and killed the mayor and put two bullets into the brain of Harvey Milk at San Francisco City Hall. Fellow supervisor Dianne Feinstein alerted the media about the tragedy. The city erupted in violence after Milk's death. White received a lenient sentence of five years in jail and parole.
Relationships
- homicide perpetrator relationship with White, Dan (born 2 September 1946)
Events
- Death by Homicide 27 November 1978 (Shot, age 48)
- Crime : Arrest 1947 (Indecent exposer, shirt removed, age 17)
- Social : Joined group 1951 (U.S. Navy)
- Work : New Job 1964 (Goldwater campaign)
- Family : Change residence 1972 (Moved to San Francisco)
- Work : Begin Major Project 1973 (S.F. Board of Supervisors, lost election)
- Work : New Job November 1977 (Elected into Board of Supervisors)
Source Notes
Jack Fertig quotes data from Milk
Categories
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee (Government official, Board of Supervisors)
- Passions : Criminal Victim : Homicide victim (Shot)
- Passions : Sexuality : Homosexual male
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Same sex
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Vocation : Business : Business owner (Co-owner of camera shop)
- Vocation : Military : Combat (Korean War)
- Vocation : Military : Military service (U.S. Navy)
- Notable : Famous : Criminal cases (High profile case, shot along with mayor)
