How a Murder Changed Gay Rights Forever

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One of America's first gay elected officials found his home in San Francisco and spent the 1970s fighting tirelessly for gay rights. His murder and legacy transformed the movement for equality.
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SOURCES
A = Testimony of Denise Apcar, https://www.famous-trials.com/danwhit...
B = Testimony of William Melia, https://www.famous-trials.com/danwhit...
C = Testimony of Cyr Copertini, https://www.famous-trials.com/danwhit...
D = Confession of Dan White,   / dan-whites-audio-confession  
E = Testimony of Rudolph Nothenberg, https://www.famous-trials.com/danwhit...
F = Testimony of Carl Carlson, https://www.famous-trials.com/danwhit...
G = Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street, https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
H = Lillian Faderman, Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Yale University Press: 2018).
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J = Matthew S. Bajko, “Naval records indicate SF library's Milk discharge paperwork a fake,” Bay Area Reporter, 12 February 2020.
K = “Harvey Milk Meets John Briggs,” for KPIX-TV, 6 September 1978.
L = “The Trial of Dan White: The Diminished Capacity ("Twinkie") Defense,” https://www.famous-trials.com/danwhit...
M = “Harvey Milk tape recording,” 1978, https://archive.org/details/harvey-mi....

CITATIONS
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. D
8. A
9. G, ch.1
10. J
11. G, ch.2
12. G, ch.3
13. G, ch.5
14. H, 76-82.
15. H, 83.
16. H, 81-82.
17. G, ch.5
18. G, ch.6
19. H, 89-93.
20. H, 109, 126.
21. H, 133-134.
22. G, ch.10-11
23. H, 158-159.
24. G, ch.12
25. H, 159, 160-161.
26. I.
27. H, 162-164.
28. H, 164.
29. H, 171-172.
30. K.
31. H, 177.
32. H, 175.
33. H, 176.
34. H, 182.
35. H, 184.
36. H, 161-163, 207-208.
37. D
38. H, 213.
39. H, 217-218.
40. H, 224-225.
41. L.
42. H, 226.
43. H, 227.
44. M.
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00:00 MURDER
04:21 I. CONFUSION
07:49 II. BELONGING
09:58 III. FINDING HIS FOOTING
12:27 III. SECURING HIS PLACE
15:16 IV. FIGHTING HIS FIGHT
18:03 V. CLOSING THE DOOR
20:46 VI. THE TWINKIE DEFENSE
23:15 CONCLUSION
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Civic Center No on 6 #1, Smith (Daniel A.) and Queer Blue Light Videotapes, 1999-52, Courtesy of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
1975 Gay Freedom Day Parade, Harold T. O'Neal collection (2002-03), GLBT Historical Society, Courtesy of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.