Photo by Rink.

Nov. 8 was 30 years to the day that Harvey Milk won election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was the first out gay man elected to office in America. Although he was assassinated just over a year later, Milk’s time in office represented great leaps forward for the gay movement in the United States. He was everything your could want in an inspirational leader, his loss a great tragedy. A group of friends of Milk, along with current city supervisors, gathered to mark the date. Picutred: Milk friend Wayne Friday, photographer Dan Nicoletta, whose pictures of Milk hang on the wall behind the group, Supervisor Bevan Dufty with daugher Sidney, Marvey milk’s nephew Stuart (who eerily resembles Milk), and Supervisor Geraldo Sandoval.