Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk (* May 22 1930 in Woodmere , Nassau County , New York , † November 27 1978 in San Francisco ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) and civil rights of gay and lesbian movement . He was the first openly gay politician in the U.S..

After studying Milk served for 3 years and 11 months in the U.S. Navy - which he had already committed to the high-school diploma - as a Navy Diver, an activity similar to the combat swimmers in the German Bundeswehr. Milk to 1957 worked as a teacher at George W. Hewlett High School in Long Iceland. He met Joe Campbell, with whom he began a long relationship. Soon his work bored him, they went together to Dallas , Texas , where they are not feeling well. They returned to New York and found work as an insurance statistician Milk in New York.

In 1970 Milk broke up with his real life. One of the reasons was the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, the violent protests and demonstrations in most younger Americans unleashed. The protesters accused the major American corporations to nurture the conflict, because he would bring business benefits, many burned in protest their credit the Bank of America . Milk this afternoon demonstration was fired because he refused to cut his hair short. Milk went back to New York and worked with Tom O'Horgan as Produktionsasssistent. After the play was not very successful Inner City, Milk came in 1972 with his new life partner Scott Joseph Smith, whom he at the subway station Christopher Street had met, back to San Francisco. After Milk and Smith had spent a year on the dole, they opened on 3 March 1973 in a Castro Street camera store.

Although he was very restless, working in different ...