The Movie Milk Essay

Starr Holcombe

4/17/23

Adam Newmark

PS 3570 Milk

The movie Milk tells the story of Harvey Milk, an openly gay politician who became the first openly gay person elected official in California. The movie follows his career from the 1970’s when he first moved to California till his assassination in 1978. Harvey moves to San Francisco and starts a small business with his partner Scott in the Castro district. He sees and experiences discrimination against the LGBTQ community and decides to act and become involved in local politics. He became a vocal supporter of the LGBTQ community advocating for rights and representation, organizing public campaigns, and building a community of supporters. Harvey Milk ran for office 3 or 4 times facing

The movie milk activism shows the ways LGBTQ politics have been a driving force of advancing the community and contributing to broadening the field of political science’s understanding of identity politics. The article also discusses political institutions and policy outcomes. In the movie Harvey runs for office and works toward passing LGBTQ inclusive policies. The article talks about how they examined strategies used by LGBTQ activists and politicians to achieve policy change and the role political elites play in this change. In the movie it highlights the importance of political institutions and the policy process in advancing LGBTQ rights. Milk also has a theme of representation and political participation. Harvey’s campaign team focused on seeking support and representation for the LGBTQ community. The articel suggests the study of LGBTQ politics has contributed to the understanding of political participation and it also talks about the barriers the community faces with participation and representation. In the movie we see Harvey break these barriers and achieve the participation and representation his team was working for. Both this article and the movie depict the challenges faced by the LGBTQ community but how politics relating to the LGBTQ community has broadened the importance

“Milk” is a film that depicts a marginalized group just like women in the film industry. The LGBTQ community has faced underrepresentation and discrimination in the media and film. The movie sheds light on the discrimination and violence the LGBTQ community faces as we see when someone is beaten to death or when Harvey is assassinated. In the movie we see the importance women have in contributing to social and political movements. We see this when Anne Kornenberg takes over as the campaign manager of Harveys campaign. She plays a pivotal role in mobilizing his cause. For example, in the first scene that she's in the rest of the team is making fun of her for saying she will get an endorsement from a newspaper then with a few phone classes she is successful in getting the endorsement while the other members of the team were not. The chapter also discussed questions of gender and sexuality “Milk” shows the experiences of being gay and male and shows how societal expectations do not see this as normal and how this has an effect on Harvey. We see how his relationship affects him throughout the movie and how society views him through these relationships. In one scene we see harvey talking about needing to gain visibility for the LGBTQ community he says to his team and friends “they just need to know one of