In 1978, Harvey Milk made national news when he was sworn in as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Running against 16 other candidates, he wins the election by 30 percent. Milk begins his term by sponsoring a civil rights bill that outlawed sexual orientation discrimination.

After a leading a successful campaign to defeat Proposition 6, also known as the Briggs Initiative, a proposal to fire any teacher or school employee who publicly supports gay rights in the November 1978 election, Harvey and Mayor George Moscone are assassinated by Dan White, a recently-resigned San Francisco city supervisor on November 27.

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