Even knowing the ending, I was completely entranced by Milk.
Milk chronicles the life of Harvey Milk and the early stages of the gay rights movement in the United States.
For those of you who donít know, Harvey Milk was the
Even knowing the ending, I was completely entranced by Milk.
Milk chronicles the life of Harvey Milk and the early stages of the gay rights movement in the United States.
For those of you who donít know, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office. He only served from January 8 Ė November 27, 1978 but the impact of his service was felt not only in San Francisco, but across the country.
Things were very different for LGBT people in the 1970s. Policemen still routinely assaulted gay men and lesbians outside of gay bars. I will spare you more graphic details but those assaults were often excessively violent. LGBT people could be fired for being gay, could be evicted from their apartments or denied housing altogether, simply for being gay.
I wonder what Harvey Milk would think of us now.
Here it is 31 years after his death and Proposition 8 just passed in California. In many parts of the country, gay people can still be fired or denied housing because they are gay. Anita Bryant may have decided that she was too virulent in her anti-gay bigotry but there have been many more to take her place. From Fred Phelps to the ďAmerican Family AssociationĒ, being anti-gay is big business.
I wonder what Mr. Milk would think of LGBT people being so talked about in national political campaigns? I wonder what he would think of groups like the Westboro Baptists? How wou