New York Times obituary for Harvey Milk, run September 28, 1978
November 27 1978: Harvey Milk—the first openly gay elected official in California—is assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone. The San Francisco city supervisor ran on a pro-gay-rights platform and was instrumental in passing the most stringent homosexual rights ordinance in the nation. A former Supervisor, Mike White, is later convicted of intentional manslaughter. White was the only one of the city’s eleven supervisors to vote against the ordinance.