Twenty-five years after Milk's death
Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of San Francisco's Supervisor Harvey Milk and then-mayor George Moscone. Shot by their colleague, former Supervisor Dan White, Moscone and Milk led the way out of the closet for San Francisco and the nation. Today's memorial celebrations look at the enormous strides in the past year for gay and lesbian rights around the country. Milk's goal was to end the persecution of gaysmen and lesbians, to encourage us to recognize the power and the potentail we each carry. He wished that, "if a bullet should enter [his] brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."
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