Harvey Milk Francisco had no idea. It was just a really brief, provincial, localized current events story that the mayor and a city council member in San Francisco were killed. It didn't have much reverberation." Milk's life has been the subject of a musical theater production; an eponymous opera; a cantata; a children's picture book; a French-language historical novel for young-adult readers; and the biopic "Milk", released in 2008 after 15 years in the making. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, and won two Academy Awards for Best
Letter to Harvey Milk reminiscing about Harvey's use of Harry's words for his campaign (I’m Gonna Do For You). Back in class, Barbara shares her own writing about how much Harry's letter to Harvey Milk meant to her (A Letter To Harvey Milk). Frannie begins a reprise of “Thanks to Her,” lamenting that Barbara wants to share Harry's writing, when Harry notices a pink triangle on his teacher's shirt. This sight upsets him greatly and prompts him to share the story of his experience in a concentration camp during the Holocaust, in which he became lovers with his male friend Yussl, who eventually allowed