Dianne Feinstein was at the center of a key LGBTQ+ moment. She's being lauded as an evolving ally
BY JEFF MCMILLAN
Associated Press
Dianne Feinstein once stood at the center of a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history. Decades later, in death, shes being lauded by LGBTQ+ leaders as a longtime ally who, if she didnt always initially do the right thing, was able to learn and evolve.
Feinstein was president of the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors when she stood behind reporters microphones in November 1978 and grimly announced: Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.
George Moscone was the liberal mayor of San Francisco; Milk was Californias first openly gay elected official. White was a disgruntled former fellow county supervisor who was the boards sole vote against a gay anti-discrimination ordinance. And Feinstein, at age 45, found herself at the helm of a global center of gay life that, already roiled by the violence, was about to be further upended by AIDS.
She rose to the challenge and then some, advocates said after Feinstein, the nations oldest sitting U.S. senator, died Thursday at age 90.
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