Harvey Milk Institute, located in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

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, was the largest

queer studies Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBT studies is the education of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoria, asexual, queer, questioning, inte ...

institute in the world, and was founded by

Jonathan David Katz Jonathan David Katz (born 1958) is an American activist, art historian, educator and writer. He is currently Associate Professor of Practice in Art History and Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Biography ...

in 1995. It was named in honor of

Harvey Milk Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in N ...

, an American politician and gay rights activist. The Institute strived to create an educational home for the San Francisco Bay Area's gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, who felt that their needs and interests were ignored or marginalised by schools of higher education. Courses offered by the Institute included Queering Culture, Prostitution 101, Lesbian and Gay Parenting and Queer Consciousness.

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