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Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( /ˈfaɪnstaɪn/; born June 22, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992. She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
Born in San Francisco, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University. In the 1960s she worked in city government, and in 1970 she was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She served as the board's first female president in 1978, during which time the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk drew national attention to the city. Feinstein, who was the first to discover the shootings, succeeded Moscone as mayor. During her tenure as San Francisco's first female mayor she took a politically moderate stance, leading a revamp of the city's cable car system and overseeing the 1984 Democratic National Convention.
After a failed gubernatorial campaign in 1990, she won a 1992 special election to the U.S. Senate. Feinstein was first elected on the same ballot as her peer Barbara Boxer, and the two became California's first female U.S. Senators. Feinstein formerly chaired the Senate Rules Committee (2007–2009) and has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. She is also the first woman to have presided over a U.S. presidential inauguration.
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around the age of 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s.
Milk moved from New York City to settle in San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the Castro District. He took advantage of the growing political and economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests, and ran unsuccessfully for political office three times. His theatrical campaigns earned him increasing popularity, and Milk won a seat as a city supervisor in 1977, part of the broader social changes the city was experiencing.
Milk served almost 11 months in office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back. Milk's election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics. The assassinations and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city.
Actors: Peter Jason (actor), Sean Penn (actor), Tim Halpin (actor), Lucas Grabeel (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Sean Paul Lockhart (actor), James Franco (actor), Victor Garber (actor), Jimmy Carter (actor), Walter Cronkite (actor), Diego Luna (actor), Tom Brokaw (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Howard Rosenman (actor), Ronald Reagan (actor),
Plot: Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.
Keywords: 18-year-old, 1970s, 39-year-old, 40-year-old, 40th-birthday, activist, african-american, altoona-pennsylvania, american-dream, angerActors: John 'Frenchie' Berger (miscellaneous crew), Michael Singer (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth McGregor (actor), Peter Coyote (actor), Tim Daly (producer), Ralph Berge (miscellaneous crew), Bruce McFee (actor), Tim Daly (actor), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Louis Di Bianco (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Tyne Daly (actress), Daniel Licht (composer), Doug Lennox (actor),
Plot: The true story of the assassination of San Francisco Mayor 'George Moscone' (qv) and City Supervisor 'Harvey Milk (I)' (qv) on November 27, 1978. The case of assassin 'Dan White (III)' (qv) has become known as the "Twinkie defense" after his sentence was reduced from first-degree murder to voluntary manslaughter. White served five years in prison and committed suicide in 1985. This film is based on 'Emily Mann''s play.
Keywords: 1970s, asphyxiation, baseball, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, chinatown-san-francisco, church, controversy, crossdresser, fireman