Moscone–Milk assassinations The centerpiece was a section displaying the suit Milk was wearing at the time of his death. The suit is currently on display in the Society's permanent museum space in the Castro. In 2008 the film "Milk" depicted the assassinations as part of a biographical story about the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. The movie was a critical and commercial success, with Victor Garber portraying Moscone, Sean Penn playing Milk and Josh Brolin playing White. Penn won an Oscar for his performance and Brolin was nominated. In January 2012, the Berkeley Repertory Theater premiered "Ghost Light",
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,