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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, alively 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 "This elegantly written and well-researched book recovers the Jewishness that has too often been erased or glossed over in the mythologizing of a gay icon."Helene Meyers, Tablet Harvey Milkeloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleckwas 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. Milks 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. Before finding his calling as a politician, however, Harvey variously tried being a schoolteacher, a securities analyst on Wall Street, a supporter of Barry Goldwater, a Broadway theater assistant, a bead-wearing hippie, the operator of a camera store and organizer of the local business community in San Francisco. He rejected Judaism as a religion, but he was deeply influence

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Author

Lillian Faderman

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300235272

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.7 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14