Harvey Milk Plaza

This guide to Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco's Castro follows a camera-shop owner who lost three straight elections for city supervisor before a change to district voting finally sent him to City Hall in 1977, making him the first openly gay man elected to office in the United States without already holding one. It covers the message he recorded to be played only if he were killed, and how a former City Hall colleague's grievance over his job set the stage for what came next. Stand at the mouth of the Castro Muni station and look up at the flagpole above you.