Brgg People Hope: Harvey Milk and the Gay Rights Movement Ameri - U.S. Virtual Embassy Iran

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• MILK, THE MOVIE, GIV HISTORIL SIGHT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS BATTLE, MAN BEHD MOVEMENT
• 10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• BRGG PEOPLE HOPE: HARVEY MILK AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AMERI

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

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. Life changed history, and his urage changed 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors, beg the first openly gay man to be voted to major public office Ameri. 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.

10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

Milk ma a powerful appeal to closeted gays to e out to their fai, iends and -workers, so the straight world might stop monizg an abstract ia.

But so powerful was the movement he helped spire that I believe his appeal has now pretty much been heed, save certa backward regns of the land that a wise gay or lbian should soon prive of their Van Sant's film begs wh Harvey Milk at 48, reflectg to his tape rerr about a personal journey that began at 40. He was love wh Stt Smh (Jam Fran), they moved to San Francis, they opened a mera shop the shadow of the Castro Theater and saw that even Ameri's largt and most vol gay muny was beg systematilly persecuted by homophobic didn't enter polics as much as he was phed by the evince of his own ey. The pnt thg would have been to cut ti wh Lira, but Milk was almost pulsively most fateful relatnship was wh Dan Whe, a seemgly straight member of the Board of Supervisors, a Catholic who said homosexualy was a s and mpaigned wh his wife, kids and the Amerin flag.

An awkward alliance formed between Milk and Whe, who was probably gay and ed their areas of polil agreement as a beard. There, termed to enjoy a life where he and others are ee to live and love, Milk disvers his te llg as an advote for equal rights and, eventually, a lear of the gay-rights movement.

BRGG PEOPLE HOPE: HARVEY MILK AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AMERI

But after he fally succeeds beg the first openly gay man to be elected to public office by wng a seat on the cy's Board of Supervisors 1977, Milk meets Dan Whe (Josh Brol). What do your kids thk about the gay rights movement, and how do they thk thgs have changed -- if at all -- sce 1978? The story of Harvey Milk is one of the most clearly adult and ser topics a gay film has taken on recent years.

A member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, Milk was the first openly gay elected public official the Uned murrer, a cy official lled Dan Whe, who also killed the San Francis mayor Gee Mosne, was subsequently given the absurdly lenient sentence of seven years jail after g what beme known as the "Twkie fence" – Whe claimed that his excsive nsumptn of sugary snacks, cludg Twki, had driven him to engage murro vlence. Whe served five years jail, and mted suici two years after beg a subject for a movie, Milk's story is far removed om the faiar topics of gay cema.

In 1919, the Weimar Republic saw a Magn Hirschfeld-scripted drama, Anrs als die Anrn (Different om the Others), pleadg for regnn of the homosexual's ndn. There is not much Victim which suggts the ndn might be somethg outsi the psychiatrist's field of tert, and the proper rponse to the film might be py rather than rpect for the 1960s saw some velopment gay and lbian society which was ocsnally reflected movi. Instead, for many years, English-language cema stayed firmly, even opprsively wh the bounds of genre, where the figure of the homosexual or lbian uld hardly be exprsed any regnisable way.

The late Seventi specialised dramatic acts of matchls self-hatred, and Mart Crowley's The Boys In The Band, or the Al Paco leather-queen vehicle Cisg have now acquired a perd gay cema, and ed gay wrg, ncentrated for the time beg on two topics: g out – which somebody to terms wh their sexualy and embarks, pale but hopefully, on a new life – and the Aids drama. Comg Out, one of the very last products of the East German film dtry, showed how gay films uld reach beyond their obv nstuency; this one, an elegant and well-crafted film, had the East Germans qug to see signs of the new eedoms the cema. We have seen a good number of gay-themed movi sce, and the succs of the London Lbian and Gay Film Ftival has shown what a market there is for films about any aspect of gay and lbian life.

Rupert Everett observed, his wonrful tobgraphy, Red Carpets and other Banana Sks that Hollywood has agreed that gay actors will do very well for the ic gay rol – the gay bt iend, the bchy queen the office. For the ser gay rol, a straight actor mt be is te for Tom Hanks Philalphia, Charlize Theron Monster, Hilary Swank Boys don't Cry, Sean Penn Milk, and Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback Mounta.

But the limatns of Hollywood's tert gay people is shown by the way they reward a straight actor playg gay, and announcg, as Jake Gyllenhaal did after the filmg of Brokeback Mounta, that beg asked to kiss a man was an extraordarily trmatic and upsettg task. Plan to-renews until ncelledTry for eeIn some ways, televisn seri have done better – Rsell T Davi's origal Queer as Folk may have shocked the mastream viewer wh s ankns, but succeed, too, shockg the gay dience wh s utter accuracy. There are few films, even now, that seek to prent gay life, or even a gay character, the same way that Davi's seri did; as people wh , jobs, tns, hop, sir, ambns and iends.