Gender Diversity In The Movie Milk

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Milk It’s not far that my brother or sister can’t get marry because they are in love with the same sex. I think as people we forget that homosexuals’ people have feeling to. Because they are attracted to the same sex doesn’t mean that they are trouble people. Many judge their sexuality as of what kind of person they are such as dealing in risking behavior. In fact these people wont to live happy normal live with the person they love. The movie milk was an incredible movie. The movie milk was very interesting to me because Harvey was fighting for gay right. He was an activism for the gays in Castro district which later he became the first openly gay men in the United States to be elected to political office and won a seat in the in 1977. …show more content…

In one scene of the movie when they were in front of their camera shop the liquid store owner said some nasty thing to them such as against the law in god eyes and his eye to. The moments evoked particular emotions in the movie was the speech at the gay riley pride because he just receive a threat letter that he was going to be shot if he got on the stage. He proves to everyone that this moment was to ring equal right to the gays. His words were very powerful and emotional because he was speaking from the heart and that made me very happy. The challenging my notions about sexuality and gender is to understand what the gay committee is going though before judging it. If Harvey was to come out today he would be surprise have many people will support him. The issue I see him having in our day in time same sex marriage and adoption. Because many same sex couples can not adopt kids because there gay and some state still haven’t granted the gay committee right to get marry. In conclusion gay committee is still getting discriminate against because of thereof their relationship with the same sex. I still say that the gay committee must continue to drive and fight for what they believe in because Harvey

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