The rainbow flag installation at Harvey Milk Plaza that towers above San Francisco’s Castro District may soon be designated a city landmark. 

First erected in 1997, the flag celebrates the 20th anniversary of the late Harvey Milk’s election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. According to the Harvey Milk Foundation, the election made him one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. 

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Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for his hometown newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.