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Oct 24, 2024 · At White’s murder trial, his attorneys successfully argued that his judgment had been impaired by a prolonged period of clinical depression, one symptom of which was the former health enthusiast’s consumption of junk food.
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In 2008 the film Milk depicted the assassinations as part of a biographical story about the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. The movie was a critical and commercial success, with Victor Garber portraying Moscone, Sean Penn playing Milk and Josh Brolin playing White.
Sep 24, 2024 · On November 27, 1978, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Dan White snuck into City Hall and murdered Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
Harvey Milk, was a visionary civil and human rights leader who became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
The Movie "Milk" gives the impression that before he was murdered by Dan White, Harvey Milk was a politician who was quickly growing powerful in California politics. Is there anything to suggest Milk was interested in statewide office, and if he was, how was he thought of outside of San Fransisco?
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in New York.
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What was Milk's message, and how is it still deployed through the relics of his life? Harvey Milk argued for gay rights and for the full inclusion of gay bodies into the body politic. People can be pictures and Milk's assassination was an act of iconoclasm.
