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A
fter finally get-
ting elected
as a San
Francisco city supervisor
in 1977, gay rights activ-
ist Harvey Bernard Milk
liked to boast he was a
powerful homosexual"
Sean Penn stars as real-life gays rights icon
— a powerful Jewish
Harvey Milk in director Gus Van Sant's Milk.
homosexual at that.
Milk, the son of
Eastern European immi-
grants and part of a middle-class
movie Milk, which opened yesterday.
New York family whose grandfather
It's an Oscar-caliber biopic with Sean
founded a Long Island synagogue,
Penn, who resembles Milk, turning
became the first openly gay man to
in an Oscar-caliber best-actor perfor-
be voted into major public office in
mance as the title character.
America. It was a victory for human
Producers Bruce Cohen and Dan
rights as well as gay rights and forged
Jinks and director Gus Van Sant
coalitions among people across the
wanted the film to be as authentic as
political spectrum.
possible so they incorporated docu-
Milk changed gay rights history,
mentary footage and used the actual
an issue still smoldering in America.
texts of many of Milk's speeches.
California voted on Nov. 4 to ban
Included are young versions of
same-sex marriage; but a
newsmen Walter Cronkite
week later, a Connecticut
and Tom Brokaw and
court approved it there.
current California Sen.
Milk probably would have
Dianne Feinstein, then San
been in the forefront of the ban's
Francisco's head supervisor.
resulting protests and near-riots in
She's shown trembling while
California — except for the fact he
announcing the deaths of Milk and
was assassinated by fellow supervisor
Mayor George Moscone, who also
Dan White 11 months after he took
was shot by White. Milk and White
office in 1978, 30 years ago today.
had become adversaries over political
Milk — a Navy veteran, former
issues. Flexing his political muscles,
teacher and opera lover — had several Milk had threatened to turn his
homosexual escapades and as many
gay community followers against
jobs before he and longtime lover
Moscone's re-election bid if the mayor
Scott Smith moved to San Francisco.
reinstated White, who had resigned in
Milk opened a camera store on Castro
a pay dispute.
Street, the center of San Francisco's
Josh Brolin plays White, with best
gay community, and was dismayed
supporting actor Oscar possibilities.
when a nearby business owner wiped
James Franco is Milk's partner, Scott
his hand with a handkerchief after
Smith; Emile Hirsch is Milk protege
shaking hands with him.
Cleve Jones; and some of Milk's actual
He shed his long hair and beard
supporters from the 1970s play them-
for a clean-cut, three-piece-suit to
selves.
seek election. As the "mayor of Castro
Street", he also rallied gays and hip-
pies to help defeat a statewide referen-
dum to fire gay teachers.
Milk is now in theaters.
His story is expertly told in the
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