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Harvey Milk sculpture planned for S.F. City Hall

SAN FRANCISCO -- A bronze bust of the first openly gay man to hold a prominent elected office in the United States is going up in City Hall, more than 28 years after he was assassinated.

Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and shot to death a year later, along with Mayor George Moscone, by fellow supervisor Dan White. White was convicted of manslaughter, and served a little more than three years in prison before committing suicide.

The bronze sculpture will sit atop a stone base inscribed with a quote from one of his most famous speeches.

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