The adolescent roots of Harvey Milk’s activism.

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Harvey Milk poses outside his camera shop after his 1977 election to the Board of Supervisors; Harvey Milk in the 1951 edition of his college yearbook.(Getty Images)

Long before Harvey Milk became the groundbreaking, life-changing leader first beloved as “The Mayor of Castro Street” and then the first openly gay city commissioner in the United States as San Francisco City-County Supervisor, he was a typical Jewish kid from…