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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake City Council has voted to hold a public hearing on whether to name a street after pioneering gay leader Harvey Milk alongside thoroughfares honoring civil rights icons like Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez.
The council decided Tuesday to hold a public hearing April 19, and could also take a vote that day.
Milk became one of the first openly gay men elected to public office in the U.S. when he won a seat on San Francisco's board of supervisors. He was assassinated in 1978. Supporters say he set the tone for the modern gay rights movement.
The proposal to rename part of 900 South would highlight the thriving LGBT community in the city that's home to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose leaders preach tolerance but have steadfastly opposed same-sex marriage.
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