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Sean Penn as Harvey Milk stands smiling with his arm raised beside Victor Garber as Mayor George Moscone in front of ornate doors and an American flag in the film Milk.
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Milk

film by Van Sant [2008]
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Sean Penn as Harvey Milk stands smiling with his arm raised beside Victor Garber as Mayor George Moscone in front of ornate doors and an American flag in the film Milk.
Milk Sean Penn (left) and Victor Garber in Milk (2008).

The film Milk (2008) by Gus Van Sant is a biographical drama that chronicles the political career of Harvey Milk. Milk was an American politician and gay-rights activist who became one of the first openly gay elected officials in U.S. history when he won a seat on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated the following year and subsequently became a gay rights icon. The film stars Sean Penn as Harvey Milk and received Oscar nominations for best picture and directing.123

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