Harvey Milk
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk was born on May 22, 1930 at Woodmere Hospital in Long Island, New York. His official name, from his Lithuanian heritage, was Glimpy Milch. Milk was a popular high school athlete. He graduated from Albany State College in 1951 where he had majored in math and minored in history. Milk entered the Navy soon after he finished college and in the Korean War advanced to the rank of chief petty officer on the U.S.S. Kittyhawk, only to be dishonorably discharged when his homosexuality was discovered. After being discharged, he went on to become a Wall Street investment banker.
Soon after becoming a banker, Milk became bored and the life in the openly gay Greenwich Village drew him in...