Harvey Milk was an important person not only to the American gay society, but to gay people all over the world. He was one of the first men to give the gay people a voice,
and hope about living a normal life like other people. The gay people was not treated right in the time before Mr. Milk started his work. The police would attack them with no reason, other people looked down on them, and they usually had a childhood with memories of getting bullied with. In one way you can compare it with the Afro Americans living in the USA some decades earlier. Only they did not have the same rights as these gay people had. The gay people only got looked down on. But both these groups of people have worked hard and fought many fights to come where they are today. Still there is many people who do not like gay people and think they are just faking it. But what can they do? They can not change other people. 
