Dan White

Archive documents late San Francisco mayor Moscone’s close LGBTQ ties

LGBT History Month: Details advances made in early ‘gay rights’ days

by LGBT History Project on October 5, 2018

In June 1977 an irate San Francisco resident mailed off a letter to then-mayor George Moscone. The focus of his ire was the planned Pride celebration at the end of the month.

‘Dear Harvey’ celebrates Harvey Milk

Readings of the play bring the story to a new generation

by QNotes Staff on May 5, 2017

Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978. He was the first openly gay elected official in California. He was only 11 months into his first term as a San Francisco supervisor when he and the mayor, George Moscone, were shot and killed by fellow supervisor Dan White.