Milk, starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, has been getting rave reviews the last couple of weeks! It has already won numerous Best Film Titles!The New York Films Critics Circle has awarded Milk with Best Picture and Best Actor for Sean Penn. Josh Brolin also took home the award for Best Supporting Actor.
The biopic also won the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award, which honors films who raise awareness on challenging social issues.
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected into public office in San Francisco in 1977. His positive attitude and refusal to recognize the hatred of the anti-gay community lead him to his victory. Harvey Milk passed one of the first gay right ordinances in our country.Milk was assassinated on November 27, 1978.
His uplifting efforts and messages of hope to the shadowed LGBT community raised a time of compelling desire and awakened diversity in our country.
Watch this moving excerpt of his speech "You Cannot Live on Hope Alone" presented in 1978:
I can't wait to see this film! Hopefully I'll be seeing it this week! Will you see it?
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