Milk (2008) is an american movie directed by Gus Van Sant starred by great actor Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, he is nominated in Oscar 2009 as best actor thanks to his performance in this controversial movie.

During the 70s Harvey Milk was an employee of a financial gray New York, he knew his  future couple the sympathetic Scott Smith. So passionate is the relationship that Milk is ready to leave work and live without hide his homosexuality.

So he moved with her partner to San Francisco, the Castro district, a place where many gays live.

Milk taken awareness of the city, and more specifically with the same people with their sexual orientation. To the point of struggle hard to be elected city councilor in what would mark a milestone, the first elected official confessed a homosexual male in the United States.

After more than twenty years from his dead, the idea is to dramatize these events in a big blockbuster militant, with the dual goal of advocating no secret gay rights and reach a wider audience.

The film opens with the news of the assassination of Milk and George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco, to show the flash-back years of political activism of the first, he counted on a tape recording. Gus Van Sant manages a script who, despite the wealth of material available on Milk preferred documented firsthand talking to the environment and gay political character.