Sean Penn won the Best Actor Academy Award for 2008's film Milk, even beating out Brad Pitt. Context In 2016, President Obama ...

Sean Penn, who played Harvey Milk on the big screen, is ripping Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for reportedly ordering the Navy to strip an oil ship of its name honoring the gay rights activist. “I’ve ...

The U.S. Navy is reportedly preparing to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy support ship christened in honor of the assassinated gay rights icon, an order that comes directly from Defense Secretary ...

Sean Penn, recently split from wife Robin Wright Penn, was caught on film kissing another man. Dun-dun-duuuun! Okay, it was for his new film, in which he plays slain gay rights activist and San ...

Sean Penn as pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk, in Milk (2008). Photograph: Focus Features ...

Pete Hegseth announced that the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor, stripping the ship of the name of a slain gay rights activist who served during the Korean War. The ...

USNS Harvey Milk is renamed after a WWII sailor in the latest Pentagon diversity purge Harvey Milk, who was portrayed by Sean Penn in an Oscar-winning 2008 movie, served for four years in the Navy ...

USNS Harvey Milk is renamed after a WWII sailor in the latest Pentagon diversity purge Harvey Milk, who was portrayed by Sean Penn in an Oscar-winning 2008 movie, served for four years in the Navy ...

Harvey Milk, who was portrayed by Sean Penn in an Oscar-winning 2008 movie, served for four years in the Navy before he was forced out for being gay.

Harvey Milk, who was portrayed by Sean Penn in an Oscar-winning 2008 movie, served for four years in the Navy before he was forced out for being gay.

That 2008 movie about the murder of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected public official in California, earned Penn his second Oscar. (His first was for Mystic River in 2003.) ...