Milk (film) million. "Milk" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 10, 2009. The DVD comes with deleted scenes and three featurettes: "Remembering Harvey", "Hollywood Comes to San Francisco", and "Marching for Equality". As of August 2009, the DVD release of the film has sold an estimated 600,413 units, resulting in $11.3 million in revenue. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 94% based on 236 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Anchored by Sean Penn's powerhouse performance, "Milk" is a triumphant account of America's first openly gay man elected to public
Harvey Milk boasts that it is the largest Democratic organization in San Francisco. In New York City, Harvey Milk High School is a school program for at-risk youth that concentrates on the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students and operates out of the Hetrick Martin Institute. In July 2016, US Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus advised Congress that he intended to name the second ship of the Military Sealift Command's John Lewis-class oilers, USNS "Harvey Milk". All ships of the class are to be named after civil rights leaders. In 1982, freelance reporter Randy Shilts completed his first book: