A bronze bust of the first openly gay man to hold a prominent elected office in the United States is going up in City Hall, more than 28 years after he was assassinated.

The statue to Harvey Milk will be unveiled at San Francisco City Hall on May 22 - on what would have been Milk’s 78th birthday.

Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and shot to death a year later, along with Mayor George Moscone, by fellow supervisor Dan White.

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