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Milk Vs. Milk: The Black Lives Matter Campaign

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The film, Milk, was a story about one man named Harvey Milk who changed history. He was the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America. This was a giant victory for gay rights and his courage changed a lot of people’s lives. Harvey Milk changed the very nature of what it means to fight for human rights and especially gay rights. When I was watching this movie, I was reminded about the #Black Lives Matter campaign. Harvey Milk was fighting for something that some people either didn’t know about or just didn’t care. We can see this in society today with different campaigns that people are either not educated enough to understand or just simply don’t want to spend energy to learn about it. This films reveals a lot about
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The Times of Harvey Milk, by Rob Epstein and Richard Schmeichen, is a documentary about the career and assassination of the first openly gay elected city supervisor in the city of San Francisco, California. The main emphasis on the film lies in the groundbreaking nature of Milk’s election and public service to the city of San Francisco in the 1970s before his ultimate death at the hands of his former colleague. The narrator uses film clips from Milk’s time during his several campaigns as well as his time in office, combined with interviews of people who personally knew him that were filmed years after his death to depict the sheer influence of his work and mere existence on the gay rights movement, despite his time in office only being 11 months.

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In the essay “The Common Elements of Oppression” from Suzanne Pharr’s book Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism we learn about the different types of oppression. While watching the film Milk (2008) many of those elements of oppression are being strongly depicted. Throughout this piece examples will be given on how the film depicts three of those elements as described in Pharr’s book. The three elements of oppression that were the strongest in the film are: a defined norm, stereotyping and isolation.

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It was the artist against the average person. Harvey never felt like the town that he lived in could offer him what he wanted in the world and he seemed to feel like he didn’t fit in with everybody. He was looking for an outlet where he could express his artistic talent, which is important in bettering society. Still, after his death, his family still didn’t quite understand what the big deal was which threw an obstacle in the way. However, the fact that Harvey had passed away, it didn’t really matter anymore.

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Even in his earlier days, the act of expressing himself in whatever way he seemed fitting was commonplace. The traditionalistic, post World War II world of 1942 was not fully ready for Harvey and his lack of censorship, as he had been charged with indecent exposure at the age of seventeen after romping around New York City’s Central Park shirtless. (Pearson, John) After graduating from high school, Milk left home and enrolled in the New York State College for Teachers in Albany to study math and history. After his graduation in 1951, the twenty-one year old had served in the military during the Korean War for four years until his dishonorable discharge for his lack of concealing his homosexuality.

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He demanded that the government needed to change and respond to the needs of these individuals. He also fought for the preservation of the unique character of the city's neighborhoods, a decision disliked by his political adversaries. Milk was instrumental for the passage of the gay-rights law when he was a city supervisor. This law prohibited unequal treatment or discrimination with respect to employment opportunities and housing, basing on sexual orientation. By putting himself at the forefront of his movement, Milk exposed himself to a danger that would ultimately cost him his life.

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