What Harvey Milk, Proposition 6, and an explosive gay riot in 1979 can tell us about 2024.
For the two years leading up to May 21, 1979, gay activists followed the rules. They engaged in civil debates. They sought justice at the ballot box. They peacefully mourned the assassination of Harvey Milk. But the verdict in Dan White’s murder trial changed everything.
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