Gay icon gay rights. Milk's image as a positive role model led to him becoming the namesake for the first high school designed primarily for gay teenagers, the Harvey Milk High School, in the East Village of New York City. The portrayal of those efforts in the critically acclaimed film "Milk" earned Sean Penn an Oscar and comparisons to the contemporary battle over the anti-gay ballot initiative Proposition 8 raging in California at the time of the film's release in 2008. An ironic icon is Anita Bryant, who worked to oppose homosexuality. During the 1970s, Bryant led a national campaign, "Save Our
Gay-for-pay the role of the real-life gay rights activist-political leader Harvey Milk). In film and TV, "pinkface" is the use of straight actors to play LGB roles or characters. Anna King of "Time Out" likens "pinkface" to blackface. The LGB community raised concerns about the film "Brüno", in which a straight actor (Sacha Baron Cohen) plays the role of a gay man to "...mak[e] fun of the queer community". Dennis Lim states that the depictions of gays in mainstream film typically include the "gay joke" (in which LGB people are depicted to create humor); depicting gay men pejoratively as a "daisy,