#danwhite
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1979, the #WhiteNightRiots occurred in #SanFrancisco. The #LGBTQ community was rightly furious that politician #DanWhite was convicted of manslaughter, not murder (and served just two years in prison) for assassinating #HarveyMilk and Mayor George Moscone.
May 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
People are resistant to being corrected with actual facts sometimes. I get it, we're mad about the $5M, but that is the wrong case to use as an example. The Harvey Milk trial "Twinkie defense" was more stupid. 1/
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The Trial of Dan White: The Diminished Capacity ("Twinkie") Defense
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May 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Slayer Of Mayor Free On Parole Near L.A."
January 7, 1984
#History #OTD #HarveyMilk #DanWhite
#GeorgeMoscone
January 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today in #LaborHistory 5/21/1979: White Night #Riot in #SanFrancisco after city supervisor #DanWhite was absolved of 1st degree murder of supervisor & #lgbtq activist #HarveyMilk & progressive mayor #GeorgeMoscone & after years of #police abuse of the lgbtq community.
May 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Well, the Twinkie Diet HAS been used to excuse violence in the past…
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#sanfrancisco
#harveymilk
#mayormoscone
#diannefeinstein
Somehow I doubt this takedown would have helped 50 years ago…
March 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1978, former #SanFrancisco Supervisor #DanWhite assassinated Mayor #GeorgeMoscone and fellow Supervisor #HarveyMilk. White was convicted only of 'voluntary manslaughter', serving just five years, because eating junk food supposedly showed he was depressed.
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1979, the #WhiteNightRiots broke out in #SanFrancisco. The #LGBTQ community was furious #DanWhite was not convicted of murder for killing #HarveyMilk & #GeorgeMoscone. And they didn't fuck around: 61 cops were hospitalized and 12 #police cars were torched.
May 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1979, the #WhiteNight riots in #SanFrancisco saw 61 cops hospitalized and squad cars torched. It was sparked by weak sentencing of former cop #DanWhite, murderer of #HarveyMilk. Police responded by invading a gay bar, shouting slurs and beating people.
May 22, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Today in #LGBTQ History 5/22/1930: #HarveyMilk was born. Gay rights activist. 1st first openly gay Supervisor in #SanFrancisco. Former #police #DanWhite assassinated him & Mayor George Moscone. Only got a couple years in #prison, leading to the White Night #Riot in San Francisco.
May 22, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Today in #LaborHistory 5/21/1979: White Night #Riot in #SanFrancisco after city supervisor #DanWhite was absolved of 1st degree murder of supervisor & #lgbtq activist #HarveyMilk & progressive mayor #GeorgeMoscone & after years of #police abuse of the lgbtq community.
May 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Taiga is sleeping. One step in front of the other and I’ll get there….

Observations at the Edge of a Journey - heading back to Tokyo

📔 The Glass Age Diaries | 9 December 2024

#japan #45books #tokyo #travel #manmigration #fatherhood #chriscleverley

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Observations at the Edge of a Journey - heading back to Tokyo
The Glass Age Diaries | December 9 2024 | At Heathrow airport the car park is familiar. And the Queens Arms pub where I saddle up on a high stool for a glass of water and yet another black Americano. ...
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December 9, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Today in #LGBTQ History 5/22/1930: #HarveyMilk was born. Gay rights activist. 1st first openly gay Supervisor in #SanFrancisco. Former #police #DanWhite assassinated him & Mayor George Moscone. Only got a couple years in #prison, leading to the White Night #Riot in San Francisco.
May 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Madness reigns in "White Darkness," just as it did in Jonestown and San Francisco's City Hall in 1978 - At the center is Renata (Marcie Henderson) a delusional beauty engaged in a frantic search for an angel.

Full opera youtu.be/il1jmf53rys?

#jimjones #danwhite #jonestown #prokofiev #fieryangel
September 11, 2026 at 11:42 AM
American fireman, politician and felon Dan White, best known as the murderer of gay politician #HarveyMilk, was BOTD in 1946. Persistently rumoured to have been a closeted gay man, he served 5 years in prison for Milk’s murder, killing himself in 1985. #danwhite #bornonthisday #badgay #harveymilk
Dan White
American politician and murderer Dan White was BOTD in 1946. Born in San Francisco, California, he grew up in a conservative Irish-American family. He joined the US Army after high school, seeing a…
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September 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
1/3: Nov 27, 1978, SF city mayor #GeorgeMoscone & openly gay city supervisor #HarveyMilk are assassinated by killer cop, anti-lgbtq bigot (& former city supervisor) #DanWhite who claimed he "ate too much sugar" & didn't realize he planned & executed the assassinations of his political rivals...
November 27, 2024 at 5:13 PM