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Milk (film)

Index Milk (film)

Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. [1]

218 relations: A. O. Scott, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Awards, Agitprop, Al Pacino, Alison Pill, American Samoa, Anita Bryant, Anne Kronenberg, Art Agnos, At the Movies (U.S. TV series), BBC, Ben Lyons, Ben Mankiewicz, Bill Kraus, Biographical film, Blu-ray, Box office, Box Office Mojo, Briggs Initiative, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Board of Film Classification, Bruce Cohen, Bryan Singer, California Proposition 8 (2008), California State Assembly, Candlelight vigil, Carol Ruth Silver, Castro Camera, Castro District, San Francisco, Castro Theatre, CBS Interactive, Censorship in Samoa, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, Christianity Today, Cinemark Theatres, Cleve Jones, Closeted, Conservatism, Conservatism in the United States, Dan Jinks, Dan White, Dana Stevens (critic), Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Nicoletta, Danny Elfman, ..., Dave Franco, David B. Goodstein, David Bowie, David Denby, David Fincher, Decca Records, Deleted scene, Denis O'Hare, Dennis Peron, Development hell, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Pabich, Dictator, Diego Luna, Directors Guild of America, Don Amador, Dustin Lance Black, DVD, Easter (Patti Smith Group album), Ella Taylor, Elliot Graham, Emile Hirsch, Entertainment Weekly, Ephemera, Eureka Valley, San Francisco, Evangelicalism, Everyday People, Fa'afafine, Fandango (company), Film festival, Focus Features, Frank M. Robinson, Gay bar, Gay village, Gender role, George Moscone, GLBT Historical Society, Gordon Lau, Gus Van Sant, Hamartia, Harris Savides, Harvey Milk, Homophobia, Howard Rosenman, Human Rights Foundation, Human rights in Samoa, I Am Sam, IFC (U.S. TV channel), Initiative, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Internment, James Franco, James Woods, Jeff Koons, Jimmy Carter, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Briggs (politician), John Podhoretz, Joseph Cross (actor), Josh Brolin, Judy Garland, Kelvin Han Yee, LA Weekly, LGBT culture in San Francisco, LGBT rights by country or territory, LGBT rights in Cuba, LGBT social movements, List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year, Los Angeles Times, Lou Lumenick, Lucas Grabeel, Luke Davies, Matt Damon, Metacritic, Miami–Dade County, Florida, Mick LaSalle, Momentum Pictures, Monogamy, Moscone–Milk assassinations, Nathan Rabin, New York City, New York Post, NPR, Oedipus, Oliver Stone, Orange County, California, Over the Rainbow, Owen Gleiberman, Patti Smith, Peter Travers, Phillip Burton, Politics of Cuba, Producers Guild of America, Protests against Proposition 8 supporters, Psychiatric hospital, Psychology, Queen Bitch, Randy Shilts, Richard Corliss, Richard Gere, Rob Epstein, Robin Williams, Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song), Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Ronald Reagan, Rotten Tomatoes, Same-sex marriage, Samoan culture, San Francisco, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco City Hall, Save Our Children, Scott Smith (activist), Screen Actors Guild, Sean Paul Lockhart, Sean Penn, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Slate (magazine), Sly and the Family Stone, Sociology, Sopwith Camel (band), Stephen Holden, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Talbot, Steven Wiig, Sundance Film Festival, Sylvester (singer), Ted Jan Roberts, The A.V. Club, The Advocate, The Austin Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Charlotte Observer, The Globe and Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, The Hues Corporation, The Mayor of Castro Street, The Monthly, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Zealand Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Swingle Singers, The Times of Harvey Milk, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Third gender, Time (magazine), Tom Ammiano, Ty Burr, United States elections, 2008, Variety (magazine), Victor Garber, War Memorial Opera House, Warner Bros., Weighted arithmetic mean, Wesley Morris, Working class, Writers Guild of America, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), Zodiac (film), 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, 24th Independent Spirit Awards, 62nd British Academy Film Awards, 81st Academy Awards. Expand index (168 more) »

A. O. Scott

Anthony Oliver Scott (born July 10, 1966), known professionally as A. O. Scott, is an American journalist and film critic.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Agitprop

Agitprop (from r, portmanteau of "agitation" and "propaganda") is political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

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Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Alison Pill

Alison Pill (born November 27, 1985) is a Canadian actress.

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American Samoa

American Samoa (Amerika Sāmoa,; also Amelika Sāmoa or Sāmoa Amelika) is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa.

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Anita Bryant

Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and political activist.

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Anne Kronenberg

Anne Kronenberg is an American political administrator and LGBT rights activist.

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Art Agnos

Arthur Christ Agnos (born Arthouros Agnos; September 1, 1938) is an American politician.

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At the Movies (U.S. TV series)

At the Movies (originally Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, and later At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper) is a movie review television program produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television in which two film critics share their opinions of newly released films.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Ben Lyons

Ben Lyons (born October 8, 1981) is an American entertainment reporter/sports commentator.

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Ben Mankiewicz

Benjamin Frederick "Ben" Mankiewicz (born March 25, 1967) is an American television personality.

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Bill Kraus

William James "Bill" Kraus (June 26, 1947 – January 11, 1986) was an American gay-rights and AIDS activist as well as a congressional aide who served as liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Briggs Initiative

California Proposition 6 was an initiative on the California State ballot on November 7, 1978, and was more commonly known as The Briggs Initiative.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Bruce Cohen

Bruce L. Cohen (born September 23, 1961) is a film, television, and theater producer.

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Bryan Singer

Bryan Jay Singer (born September 17, 1965) is an American film director, film producer, and writer.

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California Proposition 8 (2008)

Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections.

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California State Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature.

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Candlelight vigil

A candlelight vigil or candlelit vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to show support for a specific cause.

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Carol Ruth Silver

Carol Ruth Silver (born October 1, 1938)Schultz, Debra L. and Blanche Wiesen Cook (2002).

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Castro Camera

Castro Camera was a camera store in the Castro District of San Francisco, California, operated by Harvey Milk from 1972 until his assassination in 1978.

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Castro District, San Francisco

The Castro District, commonly referenced as The Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco.

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Castro Theatre

The Castro Theatre is a popular San Francisco movie palace which became San Francisco Historic Landmark #100 in September 1976.

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CBS Interactive

CBS Interactive Inc. (formerly CBS Digital Media Group) is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation.

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Censorship in Samoa

The United States Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Samoa states that: In May 2006, the film The Da Vinci Code was banned from local television stations in Samoa, as well as the country's only cinema.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Christianity Today

Christianity Today magazine is an evangelical Christian periodical that was founded in 1956 and is based in Carol Stream, Illinois.

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Cinemark Theatres

Cinemark USA, Inc. is an American movie theatre chain owned by Cinemark Holdings, Inc. operating throughout the Americas and in Taiwan.

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Cleve Jones

Cleve Jones (born October 11, 1954) is an American AIDS and LGBT rights activist.

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Closeted

Closeted and in the closet are adjectives for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender etc.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

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Conservatism in the United States

American conservatism is a broad system of political beliefs in the United States that is characterized by respect for American traditions, republicanism, support for Judeo-Christian values, moral absolutism, free markets and free trade, anti-communism, individualism, advocacy of American exceptionalism, and a defense of Western culture from the perceived threats posed by socialism, authoritarianism, and moral relativism.

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Dan Jinks

Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer.

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Dan White

Daniel James White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on Monday, November 27, 1978, at City Hall.

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Dana Stevens (critic)

Dana Shawn Stevens (born June 30, 1966) is a movie critic at ''Slate''.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.

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Daniel Nicoletta

Daniel Nicoletta (born December 23, 1954), is an Italian-American photographer, photo journalist and gay rights activist.

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Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Dave Franco

David John Franco (born June 12, 1985) is an American film and television actor.

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David B. Goodstein

David B. Goodstein (June 6, 1932 – June 22, 1985) was the publisher of The Advocate and an influential spokesperson on behalf of LGBT people and causes.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Denby

David Denby (born 1943) is an American journalist, best known as a film critic for The New Yorker magazine.

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David Fincher

David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American director and producer of films, television, and music videos.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Deleted scene

A deleted scene is footage that has been removed from the final version of a film or television show.

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Denis O'Hare

Denis Patrick Seamus O'Hare (born January 17, 1962) is an American actor noted for his award-winning performances in the plays Take Me Out and Sweet Charity, as well as portraying vampire king Russell Edgington on HBO's fantasy series True Blood.

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Dennis Peron

Dennis Robert Peron (April 8, 1945 – January 27, 2018) was an American activist and businessman who became a leader in the movement for the legalization of cannabis throughout the 1990s.

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Development hell

Development hell or development limbo is media industry jargon for a project that remains in development (often moving between different crews, scripts, or studios) without progressing to completion.

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Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born Dianne Emiel Goldman, June 22, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992.

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Dick Pabich

Richard William Paul "Dick" Pabich (August 23, 1955 – January 1, 2000) was a gay rights activist best known for his role as a campaign manager and friend to Harvey Milk.

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Dictator

A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power.

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Diego Luna

Diego Luna Alexander (born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, director and producer.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Don Amador

Donald Grace (October 23, 1942 – August 13, 1992), also known as Don Amador, was an American gay activist.

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Dustin Lance Black

Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Easter (Patti Smith Group album)

Easter is the third studio album by the Patti Smith Group, released in March 1978 on Arista Records (see 1978 in music).

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Ella Taylor

Ella Taylor is a film critic who was a staff writer for the LA Weekly and Village Voice Media, writing film and book reviews, interviews, profiles, and cultural and political commentary from 1989 to 2009, when she and much of the staff were laid off.

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Elliot Graham

Elliot Graham (born 1976, Claremont, California) is an American film editor.

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Emile Hirsch

Emile Davenport Hirsch (born March 13, 1985) is an American actor.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Ephemera

Ephemera (singular: ephemeron) are any transitory written or printed matter not meant to be retained or preserved.

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Eureka Valley, San Francisco

Eureka Valley is a neighborhood in San Francisco, primarily a quiet residential neighborhood but boasting one of the most visited sub-neighborhoods in the city, The Castro.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Everyday People

"Everyday People" is a 1968 song by Sly and the Family Stone.

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Fa'afafine

Fa'afafine are people who identify themselves as a third-gender in Samoa, American Samoa and the Samoan diaspora.

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Fandango (company)

Fandango is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app.

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Film festival

A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.

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Focus Features

Focus Features LLC is an American film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast through Universal Pictures, a division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Frank M. Robinson

Frank M. Robinson (August 9, 1926 – June 30, 2014) was an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer.

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Gay bar

A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBT and queer communities.

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Gay village

A gay village (also known as a gay neighborhood, gay enclave, gayvenue, gay ghetto, gaytto, gay district, gay mecca, gaytown or gayborhood) is a geographical area with generally recognized boundaries, inhabited or frequented by a large number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

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Gender role

A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.

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George Moscone

George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) was an American attorney and Democratic politician.

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GLBT Historical Society

The GLBT Historical Society (for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society) maintains an extensive collection of archival materials, artifacts and graphic arts relating to the history of LGBT people in the United States, with a focus on the LGBT communities of San Francisco and Northern California.

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Gordon Lau

Gordon J. Lau (August 22, 1941 – April 20, 1998) was the first Chinese American elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in San Francisco, California.

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Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker.

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Hamartia

The term hamartia derives from the Greek ἁμαρτία, from ἁμαρτάνειν hamartánein, which means "to miss the mark" or "to err".

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Harris Savides

Harris Savides (September 28, 1957 – October 9, 2012)Weber, Bruce New York Times, October 12, 2012.

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Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

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Howard Rosenman

Howard Rosenman (born February 1, 1945), also known as Zvi Howard Rosenman, is an American producer and motion picture executive.

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Human Rights Foundation

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies.

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Human rights in Samoa

Samoa, formally the Independent State of Samoa, has a population of approximately 188,000 people.

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I Am Sam

I Am Sam (stylized i am sam) is a 2001 American drama film written and directed by Jessie Nelson, and starring Sean Penn as a father with an intellectual disability, Dakota Fanning as his inquisitive daughter, and Michelle Pfeiffer as his lawyer.

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IFC (U.S. TV channel)

IFC (formerly known as the Independent Film Channel) is an American cable and satellite television channel that is owned by AMC Networks.

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Initiative

In political science, an initiative (also known as a popular or citizens' initiative) is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (referendum, sometimes called a plebiscite).

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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin is a paid daily newspaper based in Rancho Cucamonga, California, serving the Pomona Valley and southwest San Bernardino County region.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor.

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James Woods

James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor, voice actor, and producer.

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Jeff Koons

Jeffrey Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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John Briggs (politician)

John V. Briggs (born March 8, 1930) is a retired California state politician who served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate.

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John Podhoretz

John Mordecai Podhoretz (born April 18, 1961) is an American writer.

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Joseph Cross (actor)

Joseph Michael Cross (born May 28, 1986) is an American actor and producer.

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Josh Brolin

Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian.

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Kelvin Han Yee

Kelvin Han Yee is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films such as Milk (as Gordon Lau), Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (as Vietnamese Crime Boss), Lucky You (as Chico Banh), The Island (as a Censor), So I Married an Axe Murderer (as Master Cho), Answers to Nothing (as an EMT), Sweet November (as Burly Man), Patch Adams, Life Tastes Good (as Max), Clint Eastwood's True Crime (as Zachary Platt), A Great Wall (as Paul Fang, the film was also the first American Feature Film to be shot in the People's Republic of China by MGM).

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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LGBT culture in San Francisco

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in San Francisco is one of the largest and most prominent LGBT communities in the world, and is one of the most important in the history of LGBT rights and activism.

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LGBT rights by country or territory

Laws affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or territory; everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty as punishment for same-sex romantic/sexual activity or identity.

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LGBT rights in Cuba

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Cuba may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT social movements

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT+ people in society.

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List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year

This list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) firsts by year denotes pioneering LGBT endeavors organized chronologically.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lou Lumenick

Louis J. "Lou" Lumenick (born September 11, 1949) is an American film critic.

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Lucas Grabeel

Lucas Stephen Grabeel (born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, director, producer, singer and songwriter.

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Luke Davies

Luke Davies is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays.

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Matt Damon

Matthew Paige Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Miami–Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Mick LaSalle

Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is an American film critic and the author of two books on pre-Hays Code Hollywood.

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Momentum Pictures

Momentum Pictures is a film distributor owned by Entertainment One.

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Monogamy

Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).

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Moscone–Milk assassinations

The Moscone–Milk assassinations were the killings of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who were shot and killed in San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978.

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Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin (born April 24, 1976) is an American film and music critic.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Oedipus

Oedipus (Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

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Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American writer and filmmaker.

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Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Over the Rainbow

"Over the Rainbow" is a ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg.

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Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman (born February 24, 1959) is an American film critic, who has been the chief film critic for Variety since May 2016.

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Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

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Peter Travers

Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist, who has written for People and Rolling Stone.

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Phillip Burton

Phillip Burton (June 1, 1926 – April 10, 1983) was a United States Representative from California serving from 1964 until his death from thrombosis in San Francisco in 1983.

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Politics of Cuba

Cuba has had a communist political system since 1959 based on the "one state – one party" principle.

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Producers Guild of America

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a trade association representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States.

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Protests against Proposition 8 supporters

Protests against Proposition 8 supporters in California took place starting in November 2008.

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Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Queen Bitch

"Queen Bitch" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory.

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Randy Shilts

Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author.

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Richard Corliss

Richard Nelson Corliss (March 6, 1944 – April 23, 2015) was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time.

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Richard Gere

Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor and humanitarian activist.

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Rob Epstein

Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is an American director, producer, writer and editor.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song)

"Rock the Boat" is a song by American trio The Hues Corporation, written by Wally Holmes.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.

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Samoan culture

The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body within the government of the City and County of San Francisco, California, United States.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco City Hall

San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California.

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Save Our Children

Save Our Children, Inc. was a political coalition formed in 1977 in Miami, Florida to overturn a recently legislated county ordinance that banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation.

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Scott Smith (activist)

Joseph Scott Smith (October 21, 1948 – February 4, 1995) was a gay rights activist best known for his romantic relationship with Harvey Milk, for whom he was a campaign manager.

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Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.

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Sean Paul Lockhart

Sean Paul Lockhart (born October 31, 1986) is an American film actor and director, known for Milk (2008), Judas Kiss (2011), and Triple Crossed (2013).

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Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Sly and the Family Stone

Sly and the Family Stone was an American band from San Francisco.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Sopwith Camel (band)

Sopwith Camel was an American rock band associated with the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene of the mid 1960s.

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Stephen Holden

Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.

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Stephen Spinella

Stephen Spinella (born October 11, 1956) is an American stage, television, and film actor.

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Stephen Talbot

Stephen Henderson Talbot (born February 28, 1949) is an American TV documentary producer, reporter, writer, and longtime contributor to Public Broadcasting Service, especially the series Frontline and FRONTLINE World, and a former actor.

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Steven Wiig

Steven Ray Wiig (born December 30, 1972) is an American film actor, director, producer and musician.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah.

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Sylvester (singer)

Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947December 16, 1988), who used the stage name of Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter.

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Ted Jan Roberts

Ted Jan Roberts (born September 24, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor, martial artist, stuntman, and producer.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Advocate

The Advocate is an American LGBT-interest magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.

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The Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Charlotte Observer

The Charlotte Observer is a newspaper serving Charlotte and its metro area.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The Hues Corporation

The Hues Corporation was an American pop and soul trio, formed in Santa Monica, California in 1969.

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The Mayor of Castro Street

The Mayor of Castro Street is a 1982 biography of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts.

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The Monthly

The Monthly is an Australian national magazine of politics, society and the arts, which is published eleven times per year on a monthly basis except the December/January issue.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States.

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The Swingle Singers

The Swingles are a vocal group formed in 1962 in Paris, France by Ward Swingle with Anne Germain, Claude Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, Christiane Legrand, Claudine Meunier, Jean-Claude Briodin, and Jean Cussac.

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The Times of Harvey Milk

The Times of Harvey Milk is a 1984 American documentary film that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and then on November 1, 1984 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard is an American conservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year.

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The Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, is a collection of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, composed for solo keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Third gender

Third gender or third sex is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither man nor woman.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Ammiano

Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941) is an American politician and LGBT rights activist from San Francisco, California.

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Ty Burr

Ty Burr (born August 17, 1957) is an American film critic, columnist, and author who writes for The Boston Globe.

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United States elections, 2008

The 2008 United States elections were held on November 4.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Victor Garber

Victor Joseph Garber (born March 16, 1949) is a Canadian actor and singer.

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War Memorial Opera House

The War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California is located on the western side of Van Ness Avenue across from the westside /rear facade of the San Francisco City Hall.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Weighted arithmetic mean

The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris (born 1975) is an American journalist, film critic and podcast host.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers.

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You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a 1978 single by American disco/R&B singer Sylvester.

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Zodiac (film)

Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery-thriller film directed by David Fincher.

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2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike

From November 5, 2007, to February 12, 2008, all 12,000 film and television screenwriters of the American labor unions Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) went on strike.

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24th Independent Spirit Awards

The 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2008, were announced on February 21, 2009.

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62nd British Academy Film Awards

The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 8 February 2009 and honoured the best films of 2008.

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81st Academy Awards

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_(film)

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