After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city’s mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White’s attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.

Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk; but Milk is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man’s personal life and career. Milk (made by Gus vant Sant, director of films like Paranoid Park and Elephant) was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk’s real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.
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September 7th, 2008 at 22:01
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September 8th, 2008 at 11:23
i like sean penn much.
watching this!
September 8th, 2008 at 12:02
Wonderful. Both Sean Penn and James Franco are favourites of mine. And the story. And what an Anita Bryant lookalike!
September 9th, 2008 at 17:34
i moved to san francisco in 1978 met harvey several times he was very accesible my whole reason for being there was that i was an activist myself and i wanted to work on the anti prop 6 campaign that harver was spearheading we beat it it was the most thrilling time of my life you would not believe the reaction i sf at the murder of harvey by dan white it was utter madness and chaos incredible memories