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5 days ago · The Times of Harvey Milk, originally meant to be a documentary about the Briggs Initiative campaign, traces Milk’s hard work and rise from Castro camera shop owner and neighborhood activist to the first out supervisor in the city and icon for the LGBTQ+ community.
3 days ago · Numerous books and films were made about Milk, including the 1984 documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, which earned an Academy Award; an opera, Harvey Milk (1995); and Milk (2008), a cinematic depiction of his political career that starred Sean Penn.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · None of these projects was met with significant controversy; while I had some notes on Brown’s depiction of a gay awakening (which, in its grandiosity, felt at times caricatured and even dated), the Academy, and a more broad and inclusive one than in the days of “Milk,” at that, saw fit to honor him, just as it had Stone and both of her female costars in “The Favourite.”
4 days ago · Penn, who won his second Oscar for playing gay politician Harvey Milk, told ‘The New York Times’ that his casting in the role “could not happen in a time like this”: “It’s a time of ...
4 days ago · It could not happen in a time like this,” Penn said about not playing Harvey Milk in 2024. “It’s a time of tremendous overreach. It’s a timid and artless policy toward the human ...
3 days ago · Mandel Ngan/TNS. Sean Penn says that despite earning critical acclaim and an Oscar for portraying Harvey Milk, he couldn’t play the role today due to the current debate over straight actors...
4 days ago · Penn portrayed the openly gay politician in 2008’s Milk and earned his second Oscar for the film. “I went 15 years miserable on sets,” Penn told The New York Times . “ Milk was the last ...
