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Harvey Milk, in Life and on Film, Typified the Proud Jew as Outsider

JL;DR SUMMARY The film "Milk," starring Sean Penn, explores Harvey Milk's life as a gay activist and subtly touches on his Jewish identity. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Secular JewYiddishJewish Identity1970sSan FranciscoLgbtq+ ActivismHarvey MilkGay Rights MovementOutsiderMark Leno

Places mentioned

San Francisco, California, United States
"San Francisco In an early scene in Milk the new biopic starring Sean Penn as slain gay activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk Milk, a proud new shop owner in the citys Castro district, seeks to join his neighborhood business association."
Woodmere, New York, United States
"Born in Woodmere, N.Y., on May 22, 1930, Milk would have been 78 this year."
New York, United States
"Milk, who grew up on Long Island, was an entirely secular Jew."

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