Well compensated and politically conservative-he campaigned for Republican presidential hopeful Barry Goldwater in 1964-the straight-laced Milk was content to live a closeted life in those days.
Kittiwake during the Korean War until his honorable discharge in 1955. Milk went on to attend Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and served as a diving instructor and chief petty officer aboard U.S.S. After graduating with a mathematics degree in 1951, he followed in his parents’ footsteps and enlisted in the Navy.
Milk enrolled at the New York State College for Teachers at Albany, where he joined the Jewish fraternity Kappa Beta and became sports editor of the school paper.
Milk’s cover was helped by his athleticism-he played football and basketball at Bayshore High School-and a quick comic wit that made him popular among classmates. However, he also knew full well the need to conceal any signs that would raise suspicion, such as his love of opera. Milk realized he was gay at an early age, and reportedly was indulging his desires with illicit trysts by his early teens. The second son of William and Minerva Milk, he came from a family with prominent ties to the community: His Lithuanian-born grandfather Morris owned Milk’s Dry Goods, which became the largest department store on Long Island, and had helped organize the area’s first synagogue.
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