By 1973, Harvey Milk had already been many things:
naval officer, high school teacher, bit-part actor, and wandering hippie.
But as he embarked on yet another life running a camera shop in San Francisco, he already found himself distracted.
From the Watergate hearings on national news, to the teacher who had to rent a projector when her school couldn’t afford one,
Harvey saw a desperate need for political reform. Milk strongly believed that tight knit neighborhoods
were essential to the fabric of the city, and that government should solve those community’s most practical problems.
From fixing potholes and putting up stop signs, to promoting a friendly culture of cooperation,
Milk envisioned a more personal approach to local government. This philosophy led him to run for the city’s Board of Supervisors
as the representative for his own district, which included the heart of American gay culture,
the Castro. At this time, police brutality, discrimination and media stereotyping
