Reading comprehension
Read our article about Harvey Milk on pages 8-9 of
English Now
No 112. Then drag and drop words below into the correct spaces to complete the sentences, which are adapted from the article.
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Harvey Milk once said, “All men are created
______
. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words.”
Milk became the first openly gay person to be elected to public
______
in California.
Although he had known he was gay since he was a teenager, he didn’t become
______
gay until he was 40.
He became friends with gay radicals who frequented New York’s Greenwich Village, where the modern LGBTQ
______
began.
San Francisco’s Castro District is probably the most famous gay
______
in the US.
As Castro Camera became an important meeting place for gay people, Milk found his voice as a community leader and a gay
______
activist.
He tried twice to be
______
to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, before he was finally successful in 1977.
Milk had many political allies, including San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, and many political
______
, including Supervisor Dan White.
On November 27th 1978, Supervisor Dan White
______
and killed Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk.
Although White confessed to his crimes, he was found guilty of
______
and not murder, and sentenced to only seven years in prison.
The gay community responded to the sentence with a series of violent
______
known as the White Night riots.
Harvey Milk’s
______
, as a gay pioneer and icon, lives on through the LGBTQ movement and the many people that he continues to inspire.
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