Milk: Bt Gay Movie Of The De

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• MILK: BT GAY MOVIE OF THE DE

MILK: BT GAY MOVIE OF THE DE

Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2008R2h 8mThe story of Harvey Milk, and his stggl as an Amerin gay activist who fought for gay rights and beme California's first openly gay elected story of Harvey Milk, and his stggl as an Amerin gay activist who fought for gay rights and beme California's first openly gay elected story of Harvey Milk, and his stggl as an Amerin gay activist who fought for gay rights and beme California's first openly gay elected productn, box office & pany Vios14More like this7. Lookg for more purpose, Milk and his lover Stt Smh (Jam Fran) relote to San Francis, where they found a small bs, Castro Camera, the heart of a workg-class neighborhood that was soon to bee a haven for gay people om around the his beloved Castro neighborhood and betiful cy empowerg him, Milk surpris Stt and himself by beg an outspoken agent for change.

He seeks equal rights and opportuni for all, and his great love for the cy and s people brgs him backg om young and old, straight and gay, alike – at a time when prejudice and vlence agast gays was openly accepted as the norm. Milk serv San Francis well while lobbyg for a cywi ordance protectg people om beg fired bee of their orientatn – and rallyg support agast a proposed statewi referendum to fire gay schoolteachers and their supporters; he realiz that this fight agast Proposn 6 reprents a pivotal precipice for the gay rights movement.

" In ont of burly straight unn workers, he opts for, "My name is Harvey Milk, and sorry I am not what you expected, but I left my high heels at home" narratn, Milk explas gay activists are targets for beg so visible. Milk says 's not agast the law to open a bs, and the neighbor says "There are man's laws, and there is God's law", and storms across the street back to his liquor store makg clear gay men aren't wele the, Milk and Smh open the mera shop anyway. Milk asked the man if he still had a problem wh homosexuals now that his bs was dog so well, and then lghed his way out of the man's store, bee that liquor store ma the "good list" for g around and supportg the LGBT talks about some of the men who started g around the mera shop to hang out and bee volved gay activism this perd.

A small crowd gathers and Milk says, "My fellow generat" to get everyone's attentn, before sayg the police need to stop verg their badg when they attack gay bars and need to be held acuntable, sce tax should go to protectn not persecutn.

He then lnch to a number of mpaign stops, htg barber shops, street rners, and anywhere there's a group of people assembled, mpaigng to bee the first openly gay man elected to office the Uned Stat (and possibly the world) mpaigng, Milk meets young Cleve Jon, who appears to be a male prostute, hangg around wh a group of other prostut. Milk se Jon is a smart-ass, and tells him that he should always do what he do bt, but if he's gog to be a prick, be a prick for a good knows he needs a major endorsement to w Supervisor, and also unrstands all the big money gays only support tablished policians like Diane Feste, who already has all the money she needs. He tells Milk that Supervisor is a cy-wi office (meang Milk needs the support of the entire cy, not jt his one area, makg harr for a gay man to w office if the only people who like him are those the Castro).

But you only unrstand that at the end, and should have fun rackg up good spects through the years so you have that to look back on (this is lled forhadowg) talks about a gay march Spa to remember the gays who were killed unr Fran's dictatorship, only recently end wh the rtoratn of Kg Juan Carlos and the nstutnal monarchy. Blood ran rivers through the gutters, but Jon said the gays there Spa kept says the LGBT muny San Francis uld have a revolutn here California too, but guys n't e the Castro jt to cise for sex anymore.

She beme an LGBT boogeyman by votg herself to a csa to overturn gay-iendly referendums and rolutns across the untry, startg Da County, Florida where she was most famo for her orange juice mercials.

The Da County gay protectn law required the ernment to enforce non-discrimatn polici for all gay employe, but Bryant said gays should be treated like prostut, thiev, and other viants and should get no such protectn unr the law.

One of his mpaign staff holds a map of the electn regn, showg how well Milk did, paratively, and tellg him if the Cy's new Supervisor electn plan pass, Milk's district would clu only the Haight Ashbury and Castro neighborhoods, meang Milk would only need to w "hippi and gays" to be a Supervisor when the next electns were held. He's torn between wantg to bee the first openly gay man to w elected office, and wantg to keep his relatnship wh Smh and also have a normal Cronke mak the first of several appearanc here, reportg news Bryant's anti-gay csa is makg stris across the untry.

Jack's father ed to beat him and kicked him out of the hoe, and Milk tells him no one will ever beat him aga, as Milk won't let 's now November 1977 and Milk's aln of support is unn members, women, senrs, and gays.

The news media is si and ask Milk if gays are takg over San Francis and Milk says he was elected to serve all the people and that is what he will 1978, Milk is sworn by the Mayor at Cy Hall. Milk also says he wants to set a trap for Ana Bryant by g up wh a cywi ordance protectg gays San Francis jt like the on she keeps shootg down across the untry, to get Bryant to brg her fight to San Whe, also elected Supervisor, v Milk to his son's baptism, and Milk accepts. Jack agre, and Milk starts a relatnship wh this crazy person who mov wh then go to Dan Whe's baby's service, where he and Whe discs exchangg vot: Whe will vote for Milk's pro-gay ordance if Milk will support Whe's plan to keep a psychiatric hospal out of his district.

Whe says they will ed "watch out for each other", and Whe's wife terpts wh a ltle impole bigotry, so Milk spars wh her for a while polely as the baby choos that moment to 's staff tells him he n't be alli wh Whe, but Milk says no one else lik him and he thks Whe might be gay too, livg a pretend life, bee that's what Milk himself did back New York. The staff also don't like Jack, bee he is crazy, and say Milk's gone and ma this crazy person First Bryant has an ally California named Briggs, who is a state senator phg legislatn California lled Proposn 6, which will require the state to fire all gay teachers, and all teachers who support gay rights. Bryant and Briggs velop a shoppg list, acrdg to Milk, of people they want to go after bee they are gog to Hell: start wh gays, then h Jews and Mlims another polil event, where important people are gathered to strategize the fight agast Prop 6, Jack's there and has hidn the closet, havg a crazy episo.

Milk says that is the wrong approach, and they need flamg old queens (his words) all the brochur so people n see who exactly is beg affected by this, sce everyone knows a gay person, whether they realize or not, and if people see folks they know the anti Prop-6 ads, they won't vote to discrimate agast cis to rally his own troops, as he thks the gay ele's approach is stupid.

Smh's there, and remembers how Milk himself never me out to his fay and was always so secretive about beg gay, so he thks 's hypocril of Milk to ask all the young people to e out to their fay and iends. At this pot, he realiz to build support for his pro-gay legislatn, he needs people to see him as acplishg somethg bis gay-related efforts, so he cis to sponsor legislatn requirg people to clean up after their dogs, sce dog fec are a health hazard and nuisance.

Milk, of urse, mak a big show out of how gross dog droppgs n be the park when stepped on, and the media eats up his Gay Rights Ordance pass Cy Hall, 10 Y and 1 No wh the lone No g om Dan then go to talk to Whe after the vote. He urg the crowd to tell everyone they know to e out of the closet and break down all the myths about gay people, get rid of all the barriers, li, and 's at Cy Hall, too, talkg to reporters, tellg them naked men should not be allowed the Pri Para bee naked people aren't allowed any other para the cy receiv word the villao Briggs is head to San Francis to dispt the para, and the Mayor wants Milk to tercept him, so Mosne orrs the police to divert his r and brg to the docks where Milk and the media uld wa. In San Francis, there's strong worry if Prop-6 pass, there will be news not the anti-gay movement of the late 1970s was the first time the Christian muny anized as a polil force and flexed s, the boy om Mnota who wanted to kill himself a few years before, lls Milk the night of the Prop-6 vote.

Briggs and Prop-6 went down by the 2:1 marg Milk had predicted San Francis, the only district for vote FOR Prop-6 was Dan Whe' tells people California is clear they all know a gay person, and this is a victory and a fort for everyone the Whe rigns om the Supervisor's Board, and is immediately dragged to a closed door meetg wh the police unn, who wants him to rent his leads to a battle where Milk prsur Mayor Mosne to not allow Whe to rent his rignatn, bee the police are old enemi of gays and once someone rigns, he rigns, and there are no do-overs. For as far and wi as you n see the streets are l wh ndl, a long march to Cy 's narratn ntu, as he speaks to his microphone at home narratg his letter: "I want 1000 to rise if I am assassated, let the bullet my bra stroy every closet door, want the movement to ntue beyond meI want this to go beyond gays, to Asians, and Blacks, and Senrs, all the "Us-" out there, all of "Us". 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. 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.

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.

"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.