"Milk" is about Harvey Milk,the first openly homosexual man elected to public office in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Renowned for his sharp wit and flamboyant clothes, Crisp became a gay icon with his 1968 book The Naked Civil Servant, the story of a young homosexual man in the less tolerant Britain of the 1930s.

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Mr Polding moved to the Kemptown area - a part of the city famous for its gay community - about nine months ago where he felt more comfortable living as an openly homosexual man, his family said.

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Can the homosexual Kynaston play a man onstage?

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