Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 1338 W. Lake, has announced the sale of two intimate letters from Harvey Milk to his friend Patrick Mormon, whom he befriended while serving in the U.S. Navy. The letters will be a highlight in the Fine Books and Manuscript auction Tuesday, July 28. (They will be exhibited Sunday-Monday, July 26-27.)
The first of the two letters being offered at auction shed light on the history of Milk’s discharge and the ethics of outing in the 1950s for young gay men in the Navy. In the second letter—postmarked “USS Kittiwake, New York, NY” with a specific date unknown—Milk revealed to friend and fellow servicemember Pat Mormon his intentions to be “married” to an unnamed lover and move to Dallas, Texas.
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