![]() ![]() The crusader for gay rights in San Francisco, and the nation, was 48.Īndy Taylor Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis During Duran Duran's Rock Hall Speech ![]() Dan White, a troubled politico who had served with Harvey on the city’s board of supervisors, pumped five bullets into Harvey. San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into offi ce in America, was shot dead in 1978, along with Mayor George Moscone, in City Hall. If there’s a better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure as hell haven’t seen it. It’s a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. There’s really no maybe about Milk, directed with a poet’s eye by Gus Van Sant from a richly detailed script by Big Love writer Dustin Lance Black. Maybe thoughtful filmmaking, no matter how incendiary and intimate, isn’t worth squat at an infantilized multiplex. Maybe you ought to know that President elect Barack Obama isn’t the only community organizer who went on to make a difference. Maybe you don’t know a damn thing about gay activist Harvey Milk. ![]()
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