DBWI Harvey Milk dies in 1978

While it is certainly nice to think that only Harvey Milk could have gotten into office, people forget that Harvey Milk got into office mainly on the basis of the coattails of Governor George Moscone in the 1980s. If Milk had been killed in 1978 during the shootings by Dan White that killed Supervisors Willie Brown and Dianne Feinstein, it is most likely that Angela Alioto (D-CA) or Jackie Speiers (D-CA) would have followed the electoral route that Milk took. While many LGBT issues would have been postponed (e.g. the Federal Marriage Freedom Act), the progressive nature of California would have been maintained....
 
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