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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  1. Harvey Milk once said, “All men are created
    ______
    . No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words.”
  2. Milk became the first openly gay person to be elected to public
    ______
    in California.
  3. Although he had known he was gay since he was a teenager, he didn’t become
    ______
    gay until he was 40.
  4. He became friends with gay radicals who frequented New York’s Greenwich Village, where the modern LGBTQ
    ______
    began.
  5. San Francisco’s Castro District is probably the most famous gay
    ______
    in the US.
  6. As Castro Camera became an important meeting place for gay people, Milk found his voice as a community leader and a gay
    ______
    activist.
  7. He tried twice to be
    ______
    to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, before he was finally successful in 1977.
  8. Milk had many political allies, including San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, and many political
    ______
    , including Supervisor Dan White.
  9. On November 27th 1978, Supervisor Dan White
    ______
    and killed Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk.
  10. Although White confessed to his crimes, he was found guilty of
    ______
    and not murder, and sentenced to only seven years in prison.
  11. The gay community responded to the sentence with a series of violent
    ______
    known as the White Night riots.
  12. 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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