Documentary

The Times of Harvey Milk

UCLA School of Film and Television

Black Sand Productions

pacific arts

United States of America

English

Harvey Milk

Harvey Fierstein

Anne Kronenberg

Tory Hartmann

Tom Ammiano

Jim Elliot

Henry Der

Jeannine Yeomans

Bill Kraus

Sally M. Gearhart

John Briggs

Jerry Brown

Jimmy Carter

Dianne Feinstein

David Fowler

Joseph Freitas

Terence Hallinan

George Moscone

Dan White

Rob Epstein

Richard Schmiechen

Gregory W. Bex

John Benson

Frances Reid

Mark Isham

Deborah Hoffmann

Judith Coburn

Carter Wilson

Michael McNeil

Sara Chin

Lee Dichter

Dan Gleich

Michael Levin

Elizabeth Stevens

Peter Adair

Doug Dunderdale

Jon Else

Nancy Morita

Thomas O'Shea

Emiko Omori

Gary Becker

Jeffrey Friedman

Chris Kogler

Crystal Chan

Greg Chapnick

Pip Karmel

Brenda Sowa

Randy Sellgren

Teresa Bergman

Allan Bérubé

Randall Coleman

Cheryl Drake

Robert Galloway

Tracy Gary

Kennan P. Gault

Ellen Gelger

Anne Gorfinkle

Robert Hawk

David Hollander

Mary Ann Hutson

Melissa Katsus

Jonel Larson

Terry Lawler

Peter Lowy

Ellen Martin

Dennis McGowan

Dolores Neuman

Dick Pabich

Vito Russo

Tony Russomanno

Scott Thomas Smith

John Wright

Wendy Zheutlin

Robert Shoup

Jeff Watts

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I have to admit that I was completely unaware that San Francisco mayor George Moscone was also shot on the same day as Harvey Milk, nor that both were shot by a fellow city supervisor in their offices at City Hall - Dan White. This well-informed documentary begins at the start of Milk’s career where this man of Jewish immigrant heritage begins to assume some civic responsibility for his district. Attempting to get onto the city’s council in the early 1970s, he was able to raise the profile of the difficulties faced by the burgeoning gay population of the Castro and eventually, thanks to a more constituency based electoral process, find himself elected and popular amongst many in a community that were not, necessarily, from his own bailiwick. There is plenty of archive here to illustrate his personable nature and his tenacious attitude to improving the lives and opportunities of ordinary folk, often in the face of hostility from those whose bigotry and/or religiosity were determined to introduce in California, the sort of discriminatory legislation that was arriving in states like Oregon prohibiting homosexuals from being employed in professions like teaching. The narration remains fact-based and the narrative quite plainly presents us with ample supporting evidence and television programming that demonstrates just how ridiculous not just some of these arguments being put forward were, but also how those promulgating homophobic rules and regulations reeked of hypocrisy and double-standards. Unlike with many similar style political documentaries, this one has managed to garner contributions from those who campaigned and knew Milk himself, and it stays focussed on the efforts he made to change for good rather than attempt to broaden or generalise it’s themes - and I think that works better at keeping our attention on a man who was gay and was for gays, but was also for anyone whom he thought needed help. Much is made of other anti-discrimination trail blazers in the United States in the 1970s, and I think this illustrates poignantly that his contribution to equal rights under the law - especially for those too afraid to leave a closet - was as substantial as anyone else’s and deserving of grater plaudits than he has thus far received.

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