San Francisco
San Francisco acted as a refugee camp for homosexuals, They were fired, thrown out of schools, beaten, thrown out of the armed services and all went to San Fransisco seaking acceptence. In 1976, Mayor George Moscone appoints Harvey Milk to the board of permit appels making Milk the first openly gay city commissioner in the U.S. As a result of his next election he co-founded the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club after his electin loss.