The always intrepid Harvey Milk was born on May 22, 1930. He spent his early life in New York and graduated from Albany State College in 1951. Immediately after his graduation, he entered the United States Navy, which promptly dishonorably discharged him upon learning that he was gay. He went back to New York to begin a career as a stock analyst but found himself disillusioned with the stock market and decided to take up theater production. After a few years in the theater, he decided to take his stunning personality on the road. His travels took him around the United States before he landed in San Francisco in the early 1970's and began an activist career which would transform the face of San Francisco and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community and enliven young activists for decades to come.

Supervisor Harvey Milk became the first open member of the LGBT Community to be elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 after three unsuccessful bids for elective office. Prior to his election, Milk owned and operated a camera shop at in San Francisco's infamous Castro District and became a leading advocate for the GLBT community and for small business in the City of San Francisco.

Outspoken, Jewish and gay, Milk devoted his life to his passions: politics, theatre, and freedom of sexual expression. As a superrvisor, he began, with several other activists, a boycott against the Coors Brewing Company which created a rift between that company and the LGBT Community which resonates to the present day as one of the first realizations by the LGBT community of the collective power of boycott. And, although he authored only two pieces of legislation in his term one of which included a ban on discrimination of lesbians and gay men, he actively opposed the Briggs Initiative, which banned openly gay and