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By Anslem Samuel | Published July 21, 2011 | Full size is 620 × 480 pixels

JAMES “JIMMY” CARTER, 39TH US PRESIDENT (1977-1981) 1977 Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay male candidate for public office—San Francisco Board of Supervisors. 1977 Jean O’Leary of the National Gay Task Force meets with Margaret Costanza of the Carter Administration to discuss discrimination laws. 1977 Florida votes to repeal law barring discrimination against homosexuals (Anita Bryant leads the cause). 1978 Harvey Milk is assassinated. 1980 The President’s administration endorses a proposal to repeal a section of the immigration law prohibiting entry of homosexual aliens from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (aka the McCarran-Walter Act). The Select Committee on Immigration and Refugee Policy recommends changes and Ted Kennedy calls for repeal though he doesn’t follow through.

JAMES “JIMMY” CARTER, 39TH US PRESIDENT (1977-1981) 1977 Harvey Milk becomes the first openly…