Was It Good For the Gays? ‘Milk’ | Decir

Contents:

• GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• DE 'MILK' A 'PHILALPHIA': LA LUCHA L MOVIMIENTO GAY EN EL CE
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS? ‘MILK’
• MILK, THE MOVIE, GIV HISTORIL SIGHT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS BATTLE, MAN BEHD MOVEMENT

GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

5 ln fe agast the Temecula Valley Unified School District ls than a day after nservative board members voted to reject a state-endorsed curriculum that clus a short bgraphy of gay rights lear Harvey Milk. Komrosky, the board print, has lled Milk a "pedophile, " while dozens of atten, many om outsi the school district, livered impassned speech agast teachg anythg that refers to sex or homosexualy to elementary school-age stunts.

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

DE 'MILK' A 'PHILALPHIA': LA LUCHA L MOVIMIENTO GAY EN EL CE

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. "Milk, " a bpic about gay rights activist Harvey Milk, opened theaters 2008 to cril acclaim.

The movie tells the te story of the man who ma history by beg Ameri's first openly gay polician, solidifyg his legacy as an in for the LGBTQ+ muny. The film suggts that Dan Whe may have been a closeted gay man, whose tormented mental state and nfn over his sexual inty, along wh his fancial and polil troubl, played a role his sudn homicidal behavr when he assassated Milk 1978.

This portrayal of Dan Whe heavily rembl Colonel Frank Fts the 1999 movie "Amerin Bety, " a character whose homophobia is fueled by his own reprsed homosexualy, eventually drivg him to m murr. Although 's possible that Whe had sexual securi or was secretly gay, there isn't any real-life evince or suggtn to support this speculatn, nor the ia that Whe murred Milk as a rult of his reprsed homosexualy.

WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS? ‘MILK’

In the film, Harvey realiz that orr to beat Proposn 6 (the ballot iative aimed at banng gay men and lbian women om workg California's public schools), he'd need to challenge the proposn's sponsor John Briggs to a public bate. Dan Whe's disfort wh homosexualy and gay men like Harvey Milk is equently picted the movie, wh his polil and public rhetoric labelg gay people as "splter groups of social radils, social viants and rrigibl.

" From Whe's pot of view, this seems necsary orr to appease District 8 voters, the majory of whom are whe, nservative, middle-class fai who are opposed to San Francis's expandg gay muny. However, his homophobia isn't as apparent his private moments wh Milk, as Whe tri to build a personal and profsnal rapport wh the Board of Supervisors.

MILK, THE MOVIE, GIV HISTORIL SIGHT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS BATTLE, MAN BEHD MOVEMENT

Asi om the film's suggtn that his homophobia may have been rooted his own reprsed homosexualy (or, at least, that Milk thought so), most of s pictn of Whe is factually accurate.

Ray Sloan, Whe's chief polil adviser and mpaign manager was (and is) a gay man.

Speakg wh SF Weekly before the film's release, Sloan sought to dispel misnceptns about who Whe was and why he murred the first openly gay man to be elected to public office -– that me om a place of betrayal, not homophobia. " The verdict had rulted uproar among the gay muny San Francis, settg off the vlent "Whe Nights Rts. "Milk" screenwrer Dt Lance Black and director G Van Sant chose to foc on Harvey Milk's life and polil reer om 1970 to 1978, emphasizg on Harvey's journey towards beg the first openly gay man to be elected to public office, and his victory over Proposn 6.

For stance, though Milk had known that he was homosexual sce his adolcence, he rried on wh his life adherg to what society had expected of any man that era, pursug relatnships wh secrecy well to his adulthood. At the time, gay servicemen were prohibed om openly acknowledgg their sexualy. While the film mak a few subtle referenc about Milk's prr polil affiliatns, would have been tertg to see how Harvey's views on gay rights evolved as he me to terms wh his own sexual orientatn.

Gav Newsom followed through on his threats to fe the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD), lnchg his next culture war attack agast nservative board members who rejected state-endorsed curriculum that allegedly mentns gay rights activist Harvey Milk. "GAVIN NEWSOM CELEBRATES ‘INCREDIBLE’ STORE CLAIMING TO SELL ‘BANNED’ BOOKS WHILE STUMPING FOR BIDEN IN IDAHO A close-up of Amerin polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk (1930-1978) as he mpaigns for a posn on the San Francis Board of Supervisors September 1977. Opponents of the textbook argue that sex and homosexualy should not be tght materials for elementary school stunts, an argument emergg school districts across the natn as many ntue to clu LGBTQ+ ntent si the classroom.