Monday, September 14, 2009

Pride At The Movies

All Men Are Created Equal. No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can Never Erase Those Words



Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old Harvey Milk gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the city's Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fronted by singer Anita Bryant. Closer to home, Milk has a continuing struggle with his fellow supervisor, Dan White, a staunch social conservative.

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Milk is showing upstairs in Bentley’s Bar, on OConnell Street at 8pm.
If you haven't seen this film yet, go see it, it will change your life

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