It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.

The assassinations and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real for all of us. In 2002 Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States".