Harvey Milk wore many masks. As a gay man in postwar America, it was necessary to hide his true self in order to avoid scandal and possible ruin. But Milk’s chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself - sometimes from one extreme to another - was remarkable, and a key asset in his rise to become America’s first openly gay elected official. Part 1 of 2.

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