Harvey Milk celebrates winning a seat on the Board of Supervisors
1977
Robert McLeod's photograph, run on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner the morning after the vote. Milk, at right, had lost several earlier campaigns before taking the District 5 seat, becoming one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country.
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