[CounterCounterCulture]

If they want to celebrate a gay someone, why not pick someone everyone is familiar with and comfortable with. Like Liberace. Or Rock Hudson. I mean, either one of those guys (?) would be better than some guy in SF who is unknown out of SF.

Because they need a "martyr." They need to be portrayed as victims instead of perpetrators. They need to point out "intolerent" opponents of the radical homosexual movement as being equivalent to Harvey Milk's killer.

[massgopguy]

Harvey Milk wasn’t killed for being Gay. he was killed because he was the witness to the murder of the intended target Mayor Musconi.