WI: Milk Assassination Failed

Okay, let's suppose a scenario where Dan White successfully kills Mayor Moscone but fails to kill Harvey Milk. He makes a full recovery. What do propose this would mean for San Francisco politics, California politics, the queer movement, the oncoming of HIV/AIDS, etc.?
 

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Milk probably runs for Mayor and wins. Dianne Feinstein's career growth is put on hold for some time.
 
Okay, let's suppose a scenario where Dan White successfully kills Mayor Moscone but fails to kill Harvey Milk. He makes a full recovery. What do propose this would mean for San Francisco politics, California politics, the queer movement, the oncoming of HIV/AIDS, etc.?

Well if nothing else, the Dead Kennedys version of I Fought The Law will have different lyrics.
 
We could see no rise to power of Nancy Pelosi, which could lead to President Byrd in 2007.
Of course, Milk would have one major problem- People's Temple was a supporter of him at times.
Side note: Could this mean a bigger role of Frank Robinson, Milk's speechwriter, in the Science Fiction world?
 
My biggest curiosity is about HIV/AIDS, as Scott Smith of course died from complications with the disease meaning Milk himself was at risk. At the very least obviously he'd have been very, very deeply impacted by it. His presence within that crisis would certainly have changed things.
 
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