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Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milks career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Franciscos growing gay community, and organizes gays purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the citys conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milks relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.
Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the citys Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fronted by singer . Closer to home, Milk has a continuing struggle with his fellow supervisor, , a staunch social conservative.
Sean Penn
Harvey Milk
Josh Brolin
Dan White
Emile Hirsch
Cleve Jones
Diego Luna
Jack Lira
James Franco
Scott Smith
Alison Pill
Anne Kronenberg
Victor Garber
Mayor Moscone
Denis O'Hare
John Briggs
Joseph Cross
Dick Pabich
Stephen Spinella
Rick Stokes
Lucas Grabeel
Danny Nicoletta
Brandon Boyce
Jim Rivaldo
Howard Rosenman
David Goodstein
Kelvin Yu
Michael Wong
Jeff Koons
Art Agnos
Ted Jan Roberts
Dennis Peron
Boyd Holbrook
Denton Smith
Frank M. Robinson
Frank Robinson
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