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Milk, Harvey, 1930-1978 "Gayvote" [Volume 1, No. 1, January 1978]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09871.07 Author/Creator: Milk, Harvey, 1930-1978 Place Written: San Francisco, California Type: Booklet Date: January 1978 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 28 cm, Width: 21.5 cm Order a Copy

One issue of "Gayvote" dated January 1978. Cover page consists of Harvey Milk's swearing in at City Hall on January 9, 1978, followed by a news article covering the event. Other articles within the documents are: feature on the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club; highlight of Assembly Bill 1107 which would raise the BART fares; boycotting Coors beer who made financial contributions to organizations "which oppose the rights of women, third-world and gay people."

Milk, Harvey, 1930-1978
Moscone, George, 1929-1978
Marks, Milton, 1920-1998
McCarthy, Leo T., 1930-2007

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