Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death

By: Lillian Faderman

A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities.

Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk’s assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century.