Harvey Milk cause of death: What happened to Harvey Milk?

As a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay male to hold elective office in California.

Milk was born and reared in New York, where he came to terms with his homosexuality as a young man, but he continued to pursue relationships with prudence and secrecy well into adulthood. He lost many of his traditional beliefs about sexual expression and individual freedom as a result of his experience in the 1960s counterculture.

He had moved around a lot, working at different jobs, and regularly changing locations, but he finally landed in the Castro, a place where gay men and lesbians were moving in large numbers at the time.

Harvey Milk cause of death: What happened to Harvey Milk?

Dan White (1946–1985), a former city supervisor who resigned from the board in protest of the city’s passage of a gay rights bill, shot Milk and Mayor Moscone to death in City Hall on November 27, 1978. White’s defense team used a strategy that became known as the Twinkie Defense in his murder trial.