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THE TE STORY BEHD OUT, PIXAR'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SHORT FILM
In this bpic, Sean Penn stars as a Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and the very first openly gay man to be elected to public office. While Turg is unverg German secrets, he’s hidg a few of his own—his homosexualy is chief among them. The 2019 bpic, starrg Taron Egerton as openly-gay sger-songwrer and mic in Elton John, tells the story of John's rise to fame and some of the setbacks he's experienced, cludg a stt rehab, throughout his s-long reer.
Members of the LGBTQ+ muny formed the group Lbians and Gays Support Mers after realizg police harassment agast the muny dropped off durg the strike. Milk was based on the real life of Harvey Milk, Ameri's first openly gay person to be elected as a public official. Milk served as a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and while the tle might not seem like a lot, the fact that a gay person was elected by the public to any posn 1978 was a huge tone for the LGBTQ+ muny.
It's a heartbreakg but very real look at what life was like for gay men an era when a adly vis was ravagg the muny while society refed to step up and help, and stead, isolated and ostracized the gay muny. In fact, the lear of Love Actn durg the time Conley was there - John Smid - eventually stepped down om the posn, admtg he was still gay and that nversn therapy don't work. In 1980, Al Paco starred a highly-ntroversial movie lled Cisg, about a serial killer who targeted gay men NYC's leather scene.