Harvey Milk Sculpture
Planned for SF
By AP from the
NYTimes on the Web, March 9, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO -- A bronze bust
of the first openly gay man to hold a prominent elected office in the United
States is going up in City Hall, more than 28 years after he was assassinated.
Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and
shot to death a year later, along with Mayor George Moscone, by fellow
supervisor Dan White. White was convicted of manslaughter, and served a
little more than three years in prison before committing suicide.
The bronze sculpture will sit atop a stone base inscribed with a quote from one
of his most famous speeches.
The Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial Committee, which spent the past six years
raising money for the project, said it hopes to install the sculpture on May 22,
2008, which would have been Milk's 78th birthday.
In the years since his death, Milk has become the most recognizable martyr of
the gay rights movement.
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