Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk

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 where he acknowledged his homosexuality as an adolescent, but chose to pursue sexual relationships with secrecy and discretion well into his adult years. His experience in the counterculture of the 1960s caused him to shed many of his conservative views about individual freedom and the expression of sexuality. Milk moved to San Francisco in 1972 and opened a camera store. Although he had been restless, holding an assortment of jobs and moving house frequently, he settled in The Castro, a neighborhood that was experiencing a mass immigration of gay men and lesbians. He was compelled to run for city supervisor in 1973, though he encountered resistance from the existing gay political establishment. His campaign was compared to theater; he was brash, outspoken, animated, and outrageous, earning media attention and votes, although not enough to be elected. He campaigned again in the next two supervisor elections, dubbing himself the "Mayor of Castro Street". Voters responded enough to warrant his running for the California State Assembly as well. Taking advantage of his growing popularity, he led the gay political movement in fierce battles against anti-gay initiatives. Milk was elected city supervisor in 1977 after San Francisco reorganized its election procedures to choose representatives from neighborhoods rather than through city-wide ballots. Milk served almost eleven months in office, during which he sponsored a bill banning discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. The Supervisors passed the bill by a vote of 11–1, and it was signed into law by Mayor George Moscone. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor. Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community. In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States". Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: "What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us." Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harvey Milk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Título: Harvey Milk
  • Popularidad: 0.379
  • Conocido por: Acting
  • Cumpleaños: 1930-05-22
  • Lugar de nacimiento: Woodmere, Long Island, New York, USA
  • Página principal: https://milkfoundation.org
  • También conocido como:
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Harvey Milk Películas

  • 1984
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    The Times of Harvey Milk

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    7.257 1984 HD

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  • 1971
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    Homosexuelle in New York

    Homosexuelle in New York

    1 1971 HD

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  • 2021
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    Pat Rocco Dared

    Pat Rocco Dared

    1 2021 HD

    Este documental arroja una luz sobre un momento pionero en la historia del cine y el movimiento de los derechos de los homosexuales, ya que revisa...

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  • 2015
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    Reel in the Closet

    Reel in the Closet

    8 2015 HD

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  • 2008
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    Mi nombre es Harvey Milk

    Mi nombre es Harvey Milk

    7.238 2008 HD

    Harvey Milk fue el primer político abiertamente homosexual elegido para ocupar un cargo público en Estados Unidos y asesinado un...

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  • 1979
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    Gay Power

    Gay Power

    1 1979 HD

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  • 2024
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    Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

    Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

    6 2024 HD

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  • 2009
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    575 Castro St.

    575 Castro St.

    4 2009 HD

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  • 2019
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    Ask Any Buddy

    Ask Any Buddy

    4 2019 HD

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  • 2007
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    14 Women

    14 Women

    8 2007 HD

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