How ‘tikkun olam’ inspired world’s first openly gay politician Harvey Milk.

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Harvey Milk before a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978. (Courtesy of Harvey Milk-Scott Smith Collection, San Francisco Public Library)

On November 18, 1977, Harvey Milk distributed a secret tape recording to a select network of close friends. “To be played only in the event of my death by assassination,” the audio began, concluding: “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”