[bedolido]

He was gay councilman in San Francisco in the 1980's (I believe. Could've been the 70's) murdered by a man that used the "Twinkee" defense and won (too much sugar).

Note: I can't remember all the facts, both this is about 80% accurate.

[bedolido]

both this is about 80% accurate.

But this is about 80% accurate.

[King Prout]

ah... the twinkie defense...
Mr. Simpson? Mr. Simpson? Paging a mister Homer J. Simpson!

[CounterCounterCulture]

"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you" (standard opening line by Harvey Milk).

Harvey Milk, the first openly homosexual San Francisco councilman, was assassinated along with the Mayor George Moscone at San Francisco's City Hall in 1978 by former city supervisor Dan "Twinkie Defense" White.

The one person who "benefitted" the most from this unfortunate situation was Dianne Feinstein who became mayor of San Francisco and eventually became a U.S. Senator.

[Dimensio]

A common misunderstanding is that the "Twinkie Defense" was an argument that excessive consumption of Twinkies led to a state of insanity in which Dan White was not responsible for his actions (specifically, the murder of Harvey Milk). In actuality, however, the Twinkies were not presented as the cause of White's mental illness, but a symptom. The defense argued that Dan White suffered from severe depression and at the time of the murder he was unable to distinguish right from wrong. As evidence of his condition, they presented the fact that White -- usually very helath-conscious -- had been living on a diet of nothing but Twinkies. Thus, the "Twinkie Defense" is commonly misunderstood, and it is mistakenly believed by many that Dan White argued that Twinkies drove him to murder, when actually there were argued to be a result of the same cause of the murder.

On a more on-topic note, I've frequently been accused of being "pro-gay" here on FR, but I must say that the idea of a "gays only" public high school is one of the worst uses of taxpayer money that I can imagine, and that I find the notion of homosexuals segregating themselves into seperate schools utterly absurd.