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Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in 1977 as he won a seat on the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. The year also brought Anita Bryant to the forefront as she lead a campaign to repeal a gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida.
1978 saw more struggles as Harvey Milk and George Moscone were shot and killed in City Hall by Dan White. The sentencing of Dan White sparked a riot after the sentence was perceived as light.
John Cloud writing about Harvey Milk in Time Magazine’s ‘100 Hero’s and Icon’s’ said “To be young and realize you were gay in the 1970’s was to await an adulthood encumbered with dim career prospects, fake wedding rings and darkened bar windows. No one person could change all that, and not all the changes are complete. But a few powerful figures gave gay individuals the confidence they needed to stop lying, and none understood how his public role could affect private lives better than Milk”.