They remember San Francisco’s Harvey Milk, the charismatic leader from the Castro who was elected to the city’s Board of Supervisors in 1977 before being tragically assassinated. When most Americans think about the story of gay rights, they look back to New York’s 1969 Stonewall Riots, when gay men in Greenwich Village rose up in response to a police raid and sparked a decade of determined activism. An unmistakable shift in the political climate has encouraged lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to join CEOs and professional athletes in affirming that gay people should be treated equally in all walks of life. In the past two years, public support for marriage equality passed the 50 percent mark for the first time, and today, it is even higher-69 percent-among people under 30. Next weekend’s Pride Parade in Boston will cap off an extraordinary run for the gay rights movement.
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