Harvey Milk Day: a look at the life and legacy of the gay icon

Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. It was his third bid for that office. (Photo: The Harvey Milk Foundation)

Most things about Harvey Milk were bigger than life — his fiery speeches, his penchant for making an entrance and his public exhortations to fellow gays and lesbians to come out of the closet during the 1970s, when “homosexual” was the accepted…