http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-limilk0418,0,4444764.storyFILE - In this June 26, 1978 file photo, then San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk is seen in San Francisco's seventh annual Gay Freedom parade. A network of Long Island gay and lesbian advocacy groups is honoring the slain gay rights activist this weekend. Milk grew up on Long Island and graduated from high school there in the late 1940s _ keeping his sexuality a well-guarded secret. (AP Photo/File) (AP / June 26, 1978)When Harvey Milk attended high school in Bay Shore in the 1940s, and later taught math and history and coached basketball there, he kept his sexuality a well-guarded secret.
"Like most men of his generation," biographer Randy Shilts wrote in "The Mayor of Castro Street," " Milk assiduously stuck to the double life he had carefully followed since his high school days."
More than half a century later, the Long Island Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Services Network will honor the slain gay-rights activist posthumously to draw attention to gays and lesbians with small-town roots. Milk's nephew, Stuart Milk, will accept the award for his uncle on Saturday.