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PL LYN WAS SEAN PENN’S FIRST GAY
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Harvey Milk is one of the most important gay activists history, and straight actor Sean Penn won an Osr for playg him. Col Firth played a gay profsor 'A Sgle Man' 2009.
SEAN PENN AND GAY RIGHTS
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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. For those California havg to vote for Proposn 8, would have been easier to ci jt by watchg Ana Bryant rantg about the evils of homosexualy. Starrg as Harvey Milk (Penn) and his younger gay lover Stt Smh (Fran), the G Van Sant-directed Milk, both men knew they would eventually have to embrace.
In an terview wh the film's screenwrer Dt Lance Black for the November 2008 issue, Fran revealed that there were plenty of nerv on set, pecially when me to poppg Penn's (gay) cherry.
'Black: You broke Sean Penn's gay I did. Notwhstandg the mosty of his office and the tragic forhorteng of his tenure, Milk, among the first openly gay elected officials the untry, had a profound impact on natnal polics, and his rich afterlife Amerin culture has affirmed his stat as pneer and martyr. This is ls a matter of sexualy there is no longer much novelty a straight actor’s “playg gay” than of temperament.
SEAN PENN AND GAY RIGHTS
Before that subway statn enunter, we have already seen real-life news vio of the aftermath of Milk’s assassatn, as well as gray photographs of gay men beg round up by the police.
” That was an openg le that the real Milk often ed his speech to break the tensn wh straight dienc, but the film shows him ployg wh mostly gay crowds as well, wh a slightly different flectn.
Shortly after movg wh Stt om New York to the Castro sectn of San Francis, Milk begs anizg the gay rints of that neighborhood, seekg out alli among bsmen, labor unns and other groups. The cy’s gay ele, disfed by his nontatnal tactics, keeps Milk at a distance, leavg him to build a movement om the ground up wh the help of a young rabble-roer and ex-htler named Cleve Jon (Ee Hirsch). Meanwhile, lol San Francis issu are overshadowed by a statewi anti-gay-rights referendum and the natnal csa, led by the orange-juice spokmol Ana Bryant, to repeal municipal antidiscrimatn laws.