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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
Milk: Directed by G Van Sant. Wh Sean Penn, Ee Hirsch, Josh Brol, Diego Luna. The 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 official." data-id="ma * milk gay rights movie *
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. 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.
10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Amy Award nomee G Van Sant directs Amy Award wner Sean Penn as real-life gay-rights in Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office Ameri. In 1977, he was voted to the cy supervisors' board of San Francis. The followg year, both he and the cy's mayor Gee Mosne were shot to ath by another cy supervisor, Dan Whe. * milk gay rights movie *
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.
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).
BRGG PEOPLE HOPE: HARVEY MILK AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AMERI
* milk gay rights movie *
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.
For those who were around to wns the tragic Cy Hall killgs of San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne and the natn’s first openly gay polician, cy supervisor Harvey Milk unfold, you know how the events of Nov. 27, 1978 rocked the Bay Area’s foundatn. * milk gay rights movie *
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.