The Murder of Harvey Milk

AI True Crime: The Murder of Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. His short political career, his battles over gay rights, the Briggs Initiative, and his assassination alongside Mayor George Moscone made him one of the defining figures in modern LGBTQ history.

GLBT Historical Society — Harvey Milk Primary Source Sethttps://www.glbthistory.org/primary-source-set-harvey-milk

The GLBT Historical Society maintains one of the most important collections of primary material relating to Milk, including photographs, oral histories, contemporary newspaper coverage, audio recordings, memorial material, and documentation of the reaction to Dan White’s trial.

GLBT Historical Society — Harvey Milk Recorded Political Willhttps://www.glbthistory.org/harvey-milk-audio

Approximately ten days after his election, Milk recorded a political will discussing what should happen if he were assassinated. The surviving recording has become one of the most famous primary documents associated with his life and death.

GLBT Historical Society — Harvey Milk Oral Historyhttps://docs.glbthistory.org/oh/MilkHarvey_77_001_web.pdf

An extensive contemporary interview with Milk from approximately 1977, covering his political views, organizing, gay politics, and his own experiences before his election to the Board of Supervisors.

GLBT Historical Society — Harvey Milk Research Guidehttps://www.glbthistory.org/research-guides

The Society’s research guides provide access to archival collections relating to Milk, San Francisco electoral politics, gay-rights activism, policing, Pride, and other subjects surrounding the events of 1978 and 1979.

GLBT Historical Society — Primary Source Setshttps://www.glbthistory.org/primary-source-sets

The Society’s larger digital primary-source collection includes material on Harvey Milk, the Briggs Initiative, policing and resistance, San Francisco Pride, and other movements and events that provide context for Milk’s political career.