In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors becoming the first openly gay man in the United States elected to public office.

* Harvey Milk Day ( California )

* 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

* 1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

One example is the outing of Oliver Sipple ( who saved the life of U. S. President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt ) by gay activists, most prominently Harvey Milk.

* 1946 – Dan White, American politician, assassin of George Moscone and Harvey Milk ( d. 1985 )

** San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U. S.

* November 27 – In San Francisco, California, Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White.

Harvey Milk

** Harvey Milk, American gay rights activist ( b. 1930 )

** Dan White receives a light sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, gay men in the city riot.

** Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist ( d. 1978 )

Harvey Milk, here with his sister-in-law in front of Castro Camera in 1973, had been changed by his experience with the counterculture of the 1960s.

By 1973, Harvey Milk, who would become the most famous resident of the neighborhood, opened a camera store, Castro Camera, and began political involvement as a gay activist, further contributing to the notion of the Castro as a gay destination.

The F Market heritage streetcar line turnaround at Market and 17th-streets at the Castro Street Station, a Muni Metro subway station, attracts many tourists which was renamed Harvey Milk Plaza in honor of its most famous resident.

The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

In 1999 he received an honorary degree from the Harvey Milk School for his support.

Woodson Elementary, Natalie Jones, was forbidden from delivering a class presentation on assassinated gay San Francisco city councillor Harvey Milk because her principal, and later the school district, declared it a " sensitive " issue that not all parents might want their children to learn about.

The term arose from Herb Caen's description of the trial of Dan White, who was convicted in the fatal shootings of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk.

* Harvey Milk: Former San Francisco Supervisor, gay rights pioneer, 2009 posthumous recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1947.

Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo playing in Battery Park ( New York ) | Battery Park, New York City, July 4, 2005Yo La Tengo collaborated with Yoko Ono on the 2003 charity album Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch in support of the Harvey Milk High School.

I was aware of Harvey Milk before most people were.

Harvey Bernard Milk ( May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978 ) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Muir is one of three people so honored in California, along with Harvey Milk Day and Ronald Reagan Day.

The doctrine would soon be abolished by ballot initiative in 1982 following the negative publicity surrounding the case of Dan White, who had killed George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

* Harvey ( film ), a film adapted from the Mary Chase play, starring James Stewart

Harvey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull.

Elwood P. Dowd ( Stewart ) is a middle-aged, amiable ( and somewhat eccentric ) individual whose best friend is an invisible 6 ' 3. 5 " tall rabbit named Harvey.

In addition, the Jimmy Stewart Museum, based in Stewart's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania, presents the Harvey Award to a distinguished celebrity tied to Jimmy Stewart's spirit of humanitarianism.

* Transcript of a July 1997 memorial for Stewart from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, which includes scenes from and commentary on Harvey

Her last Broadway show was a 1970 revival of Harvey, in which she co-starred with James Stewart.

Their most famous production was probably the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Chase classic Harvey, which Perry directed and which enjoyed enormous success on Broadway and as a film starring James Stewart.

Members of the Academy include David Bowie, Martha Stewart, Harvey Weinstein, Arianna Huffington, Matt Groening, Biz Stone, Internet inventor Vint Cerf, Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson, and R / GA Chairman and CEO Bob Greenberg.

* Harvey ( film ), 1950 ( starring Jimmy Stewart ).

* Harvey Milk, composer Stewart Wallace to a libretto by Michael Korie.

In 1950 he directed what was his biggest success to date, the James Stewart comedy Harvey.

The team also selected were forward Kenny Gattison, center Benoit Benjamin, forward Larry Stewart, Rodney Dent, Antonio Harvey, Reggie Slater, Trevor Ruffin, Derrick Phelps and Doug Edwards.

In 1947, actor James Stewart was appearing in the Broadway play Harvey ; in order to attend the event, he cancelled a weekend's worth of performances and refunds were issued to ticketholders.

He appeared in two 1962 MGM-Cinerama movies, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm with a cast that included Laurence Harvey, Karlheinz Boehm, Barbara Eden, Jim Backus, and Buddy Hackett, and How the West Was Won with a cast that included Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart and John Wayne.

Stewart had wished to make Harvey for Universal-International but, when the studio wouldn't pay the $ 200, 000 salary Stewart wanted, studio head William Goetz made an offer that Stewart could make both Harvey and Winchester ' 73 for a percentage of the profits that would be spread out over a period of time and qualify for a lower tax rate because Stewart would be taxed as a company rather than as an individual.

Throughout the 1970s and 1990s to the present, Indiana Harbor Belt operated an extensive interlocking tower system including: East End, Osbourne, Calumet, Stewart Avenue, Graselli, 55th Street and Argo towers and North Harvey switch tender.

He visits the Shiwa Ngandu estate, run by Lorna Harvey ( daughter of original owner Sir Stewart Gore-Browne ) and her husband John.