(1930 – 1978) Gay rights advocate and representative of San Francisco, CA’s Fifth District on the Board of Supervisors. After being discharged from the military, Milk eventually migrated to San Francisco where he set up a business in the Castro district and organized the Castro Valley Association. After multiple campaigns, he became the city’s first openly gay individual to gain high public office in 1977. Milk helped pass a city ordinance forbidding discrimination against gays and lesbians, but was assassinated at City Hall in November 1978 by a former supervisor named Daniel White, who shot Milk five times after killing then-Mayor George Moscone. After his death, nonetheless, Milk continued to be a symbol of both gay pride and the toll of homophobia in political actions in San Francisco and the nation. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) provides a compelling visual record of the man, his context and impact.