White Night riots
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The White Night Riots, beginning on May 21, 1979, comprised two events: The first was the San Francisco, California, gay community's response to the minimal sentence given to former policeman, firefighter then San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White for killing George Moscone (then Mayor of San Francisco) and Harvey Milk (an openly gay supervisor of San Francisco), in November 1978. It began as a peaceful but angry march from the Castro District to City Hall, but turned into a riot after it reached its destination. Acting mayor Dianne Feinstein addressed the crowd as did Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, alleged to be one of Dan White's targets, in attempts to defuse the crowd's frustration with the judge's sentencing Dan White to only seven years in prison.
See also
- Gay Power, Gay Politics, an episode of CBS Reports about the San Francisco LGBT community, produced in the aftermath of the riots.
- LGBT History
- The Times of Harvey Milk, a 1984 documentary which describes the White Night riots.
- Stonewall riots
- List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States