On the morning of November 27, 1978, both the city and the nation were shocked to learn of the assassinations of San ...

To commemorate Harvey Milk Day, TIME republishes a snippet of its coverage on the remembrance of his death. Milk was one of the first openly gay politicians in the United States. This article was ...

Nearly five decades since the late gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk’s political career was tragically cut short, the civil rights icon is still roiling politics in the United States.

The weekend before he died, on Nov. 27, 1978, Harvey Milk attended the Opera. The San Francisco supervisor rhapsodized about that performance of Puccini's politically charged love tragedy "Tosca" in a ...

Harvey Milk enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1951 and worked as a diving instructor in San Diego. Navy Ship Named for Harvey Milk, Slain Gay Rights Leader, Takes Shape He had served for four years when ...

No, this has pretty much nothing to do with the martyred gay San Francisco city supervisor. The quattet Harvey Milk may have, in its name, nodded in tribute to that man, but that’s where any political ...