Milk (film) Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film was released to much acclaim and earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds. Ultimately, it received eight
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