Were the 1970s the most exciting time in history to come out?

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Harvey Milk rides atop a car in the 1978 San Francisco Pride parade. Milk, “the Mayor of Castro Street,” had been elected to the city’s board of supervisors in November 1977. (Photo: Pat Rocco / ONE Archives Foundation)

Was there ever been a more exciting time to come out of the closet than 1970s San Francisco?

There was Harvey Milk’s rise to power, Sylvester’s seductive disco music, the thriving gay bar and leather scene, Armistead Maupin’s…