Dan White, who assassinated Harvey Milk, the first LGBTQ person elected San Francisco city supervisor, was convicted of manslaughter and not murder. (Media coverage of the trial enshrined the term "Twinkie defense" into the lexicon to denote a seemingly longshot legal strategy, though White's attorneys weren't arguing that junk food caused White's actions, only that his increasing consumption of it was a symptom of depression that did contribute to the crime, according to Snopes.) The protests, which started at City Hall and were broken up by tear gas, were exacerbated when police officers rolled into San Francisco's gay district, the Castro, after the City Hall protests had ended and began to illegally shut down gay bars and beat patrons in the street, according to SFGate.