Biography
First Gay Openly Elected Official in California in 1977
Assassinated 1978 while in office
Official Harvey Milk Biography
Teaching LGBTQ History and Why It Matters, Facing History and Ourselves
Learning Resources
Resources for Learning about Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk pages from the New York Times
Harvey Milk: First Openly Gay Male Elected to Public Office in the United States, Legacy Project Education Initiative
Primary Sources
Link to news coverage interviews about the gay community and the Harvey Milk Memorial.
Click here to access for the page dedicated to The Memorial at Harvey Milk Plaza to learn more.
Harvey Milk Picture Book Teaches Children about LGBTQ History
Streetcar 1051 Dedicated to Harvey Milk
Navy Launches a Ship Named for Harvey Milk (November, 2021)
- USNS Harvey Milk part of a six ship group; the other ships named for Sojourner Truth, Justice Earl Warren, Robert F. Kennedy, Lucy Stone, and John Lewis
Historic Number of LGBTQ Candidates Elected in 2020
334 out LGBTQ candidates won races for public office, comprising 42.7% of the total number of 782 candidates who appeared on the ballot this year.
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9 were at the federal level
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139 were in state legislatures
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21 were judicial
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5 were mayoral
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160 were local office wins (excluding mayor)
2020 Before the National Election
The number of openly LGBT+ elected officials in the United States reached a record high of some 840 gay, lesbian, bi and trans people in political office across the country
Gay and trans people hold 0.17% of elected positions nationwide while making up 4.5% of the U.S. adult population
2018 Mid-Term Elections and LGBTQ Officeholders
In Rainbow Wave, LGBT Candidates are Elected in Record Numbers
Kathy Kozachenko was the first openly gay person to win an election in America in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1974.
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