'Gotta Give 'Em Hope': The Legacy Of Harvey Milk
by Neda Ulaby
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96865519All Things Considered, November 11, 2008 · In two weeks, the film Milk is going to open. It's about Harvey Milk, who served on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors — the city's equivalent of a city council. In 1978, when he was gunned down by an assassin, he'd been in office less than a year.
The first openly gay man to be elected to public office, Milk left a legacy of determined enfranchisement that lives on in the more than 600 openly gay or lesbian elected officials serving now in North America. But especially among younger elected officials, memories of Milk are beginning to fade.
