Harvey Milk

Milk, The Biopic and The Lesson

Josh Bolotsky | Posted 12.01.2008 | Entertainment

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Josh Bolotsky

Milk manages to balance the needs of two very different films in its running time. It is, first of all, a superb biopic, as well as a meditation on the responsibility activists have to the people.

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Where is Harvey Milk Today?

Ari Bendersky | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago

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Ari Bendersky

Watching the film on the 30th anniversary of Milk's tragic and unnecessary death ... I was reminded that while we've come far, we really haven't gotten anywhere.

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A Post-Thanksgiving Cornucopia: World AIDS Day, The Birth of (RED)WIRE, Milk and Prop 8

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.01.2008 | Entertainment

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Mike Ragogna

The new online digital magazine (RED)WIRE will sponsor a series of unique performances by artists such as U2 and Sheryl Crow, in its bid to help fight AIDS.

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Channeling Harvey Milk: It's Coalition-Building, Stupid!

Torie Osborn | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

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Torie Osborn

Yes, we've come a long way when we are fighting for the right to marry as opposed to defending the right of gay schoolteachers to work. But we could have beaten Prop 8 had we studied our own history.

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Universal Health Care and the New America (with Respect to Harvey Milk)

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

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Thomas DeLorenzo

We must fight for all Americans to be treated equally on every single level of their lives -- and this must include health care. We must fight every single day for this change.

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Movie Review: Milk

Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Jonathan Handel

One failing of the otherwise interesting film is that it never gives any insight into the reason behind Milk's rapid career change from insurance to gay insurgency. It's not too much of a stretch to say that Milk was born again.

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Giving Thanks For Harvey Milk

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Kerry Trueman

The most poignant aspect of Milk is that the story it tells -- of the fight against ignorance and intolerance -- is, unlike the hairdos and the Haight couture in the film -- all too current.

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Uncomfortable Thanksgiving: Obama, Prop 8, and My Marriage

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

This year the fear and bigotry that animated Proposition 8 in California has made this a strange Thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving San Francisco 1978

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

It was the Monday after Thanksgiving, thirty years ago today, that San Francisco again changed forever. Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated.

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Milk and Orange Juice: My Anita Bryant Experience, Part 1

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

There she was, on the screen, in Milk. Anita Bryant, speaking out about "the homosexual agenda." Back in 1977, she was hugely controversial.

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Milk: Christians Vs. Gays, Round One

Jim David | Posted 11.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Jim David

Maybe Milk will inspire a new generation of activists to end this antigay nonsense once and for all. Maybe, with all its relevance, Milk will actually change some minds.

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"Milk" Review: Sean Penn Performance "Glorious"

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 11.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Gus Van Sant has spent the past few years making dreamy, amorphous meditations on life and death that seemingly were intended for his hardcore fans, h...

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Milk: Hope On The Screen And In The Streets

Tanene Allison | Posted 11.24.2008 | Entertainment

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Tanene Allison

The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.

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Milk -- We Need Him Now More Than Ever

Matt Budd | Posted 11.24.2008 | Entertainment

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Matt Budd

Harvey Milk inspired hundreds of thousands of gay people in his lifetime and now with Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, he has the opportunity to reach millions more in death.

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Sen. Feinstein On "Milk": "It's Very Painful For Me"

New York Times | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

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Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it. ... I asked Senator Feinstein, who became mayor...

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Sean Penn's Milk Has Blast From the Antigay Past

Marc Malkin | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment

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Marc Malkin

Bryant became the gay community's public enemy No. 1 for leading a movement to overturn antidiscrimination laws. I called her office to find out what she thinks about the upcoming movie.

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California's Shame

Emily Cotler | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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Emily Cotler

Equality for all. What could be more basic and simple than that? And yet, California's Proposition 8 passed. If you don't know what Prop 8 entails, it...

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James Franco Talks "Supportive Wife" Role In "Milk"

LA Times | Posted 11.02.2008 | Entertainment

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James Franco is loosening up. That may seem an odd way to characterize an actor who is pursuing an MFA in fiction writing at Columbia University, taki...

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The Legacy of Harvey Milk

Kip Williams | Posted 10.29.2008 | Entertainment

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Kip Williams

Last night was the world premiere of Milk at the Castro Theatre! For those who don't know, that's the new Gus Van Sant film about Harvey Milk, starring Sean Penn in the title role.

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Sean Penn Premieres "Milk" In San Francisco

AP | EVELYN NIEVES | Posted 10.29.2008 | Entertainment

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SAN FRANCISCO — It was only fitting that "Milk," the film about Harvey Milk's life and death, premiere Tuesday night in the Castro. Milk, San F...

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The LGBT Community Happy to Join the Campaign for Change

Tanene Allison | Posted 10.28.2008 | Home

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Tanene Allison

We've never before had a Presidential and Vice Presidential ticket that was so actively supportive of members of the LGBT community and understanding of how our stories and lives are intricately connected to the story that is America.

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Open Letter to Sen. Feinstein

Lane Hudson | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

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Lane Hudson

At a time when Prop 8 threatens to deal an enormous setback to the fight for equality for the LGBT community, politicians have been silent for far too long. One of those politicians is you.

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"Milk" Brings '70s Flashbacks, Marketing Problems

New York Times | Posted 10.16.2008 | Entertainment

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One morning in 1978 a disgruntled San Francisco politician, Dan White, climbed through a City Hall window, assassinated Mayor George Moscone, then sho...

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Sean Penn Texted Madonna After Guy-On-Guy KIss

Out Magazine | Posted 09.29.2008 | Entertainment

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Sean Penn's "Milk" costar James Franco has further dished about the pair's lengthy on-screen kiss. Franco told Out magazine, "After our [on-screen] ki...

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"Milk" Trailer: Sean Penn Plays Gay Official In '70s San Francisco (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.04.2008 | Entertainment

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Here is the first video look at Gus Van Sant's "Milk." The film tells the story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk (played...

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