Moscone, Milk celebrated at annual event
Thirty-four years later, it is still "that day, that brutal, brutal day."
But as Assemblyman Tom Ammiano stood on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday to commemorate the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk inside the building in 1978, his was ultimately a message of victory.
"We've triumphed," said Ammiano, a teacher who volunteered on Milk's campaign before following his footsteps to the Board of Supervisors and beyond as a champion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. "We've said, 'All right, you might take away the messengers, but you're not going to take away the message.' "
That notion that even though their lives were cut short, Moscone and Milk set San Francisco irreversibly on the course of becoming a bastion of tolerance, inclusion and forward thinking was echoed by the ranks of elected officials who spoke.
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