sentences:  With the onset of the AIDS epidemic, the Milk Club was an early advocate of closing down the city's gay bathhouses.The club also created some of the earliest safe sex education materials in the country.Shortly before San Francisco's annual Pride parade in 2019, a year that marked the 40th anniversary of the White Night riots, the Milk Club's Executive Board penned an open letter calling on the San Francisco Police Department to apologize for historic acts of violence against the city's LGBTQ community, including the ACT UP Castro Sweep in 1989, the White Night Riot in 1979, and the Compton's Cafeteria riot in 1966.