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
Anita Bryant mockery in the RiffTrax short "Drugs Are Like That". Armistead Maupin, in his 1980 novel "More Tales of the City", used Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign to prompt a principal character to come out of the closet. Bryant appears in archive footage as a principal antagonist in the 2008 American biographical film "Milk," about the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. She was also portrayed as the principal antagonist in the 2011 play, "Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins." In May 2013, producers announced plans for a biographical HBO film based on Bryant's life to star