Harvey Milk was a closeted Wall Street analyst, a Barry Goldwater Republican, and a man who showed no signs of political ambition until he was forty. Then he moved to San Francisco’s Castro District, came out, opened a camera shop, and reinvented himself as the most visible gay politician in America — winning a seat on the Board of Supervisors and becoming a national symbol of LGBTQ rights before being assassinated eleven months into his term.

This episode traces Milk from his Long Island childhood through the years of political invisibility, the Castro District transformation, the election that made history, and the assassination by Dan White that turned him into a martyr.

• Milk’s closeted years as a Wall Street Republican and the late-life transformation that followed
• The Castro District camera shop and the grassroots campaigns that failed before the one that succeeded
• The Board of Supervisors election and the eleven months of office that changed LGBTQ politics
• The assassination by Dan White, the Twinkie defense verdict, and the White Night riots