Founders and members of the group are inspired and influenced by the Stonewall riots in the late 1960s , the activism and organizing work of San Francisco 's Castro activist Harvey Milk who was assassinated in 1978 ; the White Night riots in the aftermath of the Milk 's murderer trial ; and the HIV/AIDS activism of the 1980s and early 1990s
assassinated in 1978
Moscone–Milk assassinations
Queer Liberaction