Good As You: Harvey Milk Roundup
05/17/2010
Video: And now for a six minute cynicism break...
Happy Birthday, Harvey Milk [Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy: YouTube] (h/t: Jerry Pritikin)
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10/12/2009
While we weren't looking, did Schwarzenegger do something great?
So far we've seen no official confirmation. But considering Alice Kessler from Equality California is plugged into the know, we're gonna trust this tweet: @alice4eqca [Twitter] Whoa. If true (and again, we have no reason to doubt), this would mean...
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09/03/2009
Milk bill: Will Assembly buy the cow?
We just heard that SB572, the bill to honor Harvey Milk with an annual day of recognition, has failed in the California state Assembly by a three vote margin. But according to the anti-gays at SaveCalifornia.com, it can still pass....
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08/25/2009
CA: Arnold takes his inductees with Milk
First he got a Presidential medal of Freedom. Now Harvey Milk is receiving a posthumous honor from his home state: SACRAMENTO, CA - The 2009 California Hall of Fame Inductees were announced Tuesday morning. They include a hilarious actress, bodybuilding...
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08/12/2009
Audio: Medaling in hope
Here's President Obama bestowing a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom upon Harvey Milk: Now let's hope this president will have the mettle to grant us the freedom for which Harvey fought! **UPDATE: Complete remarks, which also honored the LGBT-centric work...
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08/11/2009
Harvey's life, now with strings attached
This kite has been seen flying over San Francisco: The Famous Harvey Milk Kite is Back in Civic Center Airspace [SF Citizen] The religious right has already begun petitioning to ban wind.
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07/31/2009
Intolerance, both lactose and whack-'mos
Professional "ex-gay" Jeff Johnston, working solely from secondhand accounts contained in Randy Shilts' The Mayor of Castro Street, has written a new smear piece that attempts to do nothing more than demean Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Harvey Milk. Johnston's...
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07/30/2009
Harvey Milk, B.J. King (no, that's not a nickname) to receive presidential medals
We're still waiting for the Obama administration to show mettle against conservative opposition in order help gays achieve full, unequivocal freedom. But it is nice to see that this year, the prez is showing medals of freedom to two out...
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07/22/2009
Dietary warning: Candi's empty calories leave no room for Milk
Focus on the Family's Candi Cushman has highlighted five key bullet points for why she claims to oppose SB 572, a California bill that would require the state's governor to proclaim May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day,...
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05/22/2009
Happy b-day! We got you an undying passion for LGBT equality
Harvey Milk, vigil for the LGBT icon's birthday [Examiner] Tell the Governor Harvey Milk Matters [EQCA]
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05/15/2009
CA Senate Milks Harvey Bernard's memory
By a 24-14 party-line-plus-one-Republican vote [thanks, Sen. Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria)], the California Senate has again approved a bill that would honor Harvey Milk: The bill by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would designate each May 22—Milk's birthday—as a "day...
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04/17/2009
Come for the bagels, stay for the Milk
It'll be a posthuous homo homecoming this weekend out of Long Island. That's because the Long Island Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Services Network is planning to honor the legacy of one of their hometown boys, slain gay rights pioneer...
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03/26/2009
Video: Macabre-tube
Youtube is sometimes so cool: Youtube is sometimes so spooky: MizJuana [YT] *SEE ALSO: The day this fabulous host, Juana Samayoa, handed a Briggs Initiative spokesperson her booty on a platter:
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Video: Molotov cocktail burns both Milk and truth
-FACT: The connection between San Francisco politicians and Jim Jones' Peoples Temple is the subject of great debate. It is fair to say that many politicians of all stripes supported early version of Jim Jones' "church," as did many Bay...
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03/09/2009
Photo: Applauding murder
The following murder-feting sign was being held up outside last week's Prop 8 hearing: (photo is being sent around by EQCA) Pretty insane, right? Yea, we thought so too. Which is why we have taken the liberty of making it...
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02/24/2009
Conservs mad at 'Milk'? We say: Liquidate your own movement's story!
Social conservatives have been furious over this year's "culture war"-centric Oscar bait: Our suggested retaliation? They should convince a conservative studio exec to produce this: The Anita Bryant Story These folks can tell their side of the '70s gay rights...
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02/22/2009
Video: Sean.
As a kid, Penn as Spicoli inspired this gay writer to not take life so seriously. Tonight, Penn as an Oscar winner inspired millions of other gay kids to not take life in a form that's limited by others' biased...
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Video: Winning words beget winning words
And he's wearing a white knot, too! **UPDATE: GLAAD has a transcript: Dustin Lance Black’s Moving Acceptance Speech [GLAADBlog] **More thankful thoughts from Lance, these from the official Oscars website:
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02/16/2009
Crying? Maybe there's no use. But as for debating 'Spilled Milk'...
The LGBT community has been largely united in its praise for Milk. However, there are those who feel that the biopic's 128 minute assessment of the slain gay rights leader's life and influence unfairly slighted some of Harvey's friends and...
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02/06/2009
Get in Sean's pants
They've yet to manufacture Milk: The Home Game. However, for those wanting to recreate Gus Van Sant's opus in the privacy of their own abodes, this might be the next best thing. From BroadwayWorld.com: Commemorating both a memorable movie moment...
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02/04/2009
Harvey, Jack, & Ennis to get a B-Ray
If you're a queer cinema buff with a Hi-Def fetish, schedule a wad-blowing for March 10. On that day, not only will Milk be released on Blu-Ray (and reg. DVD), but Brokeback Mountain will also be put out in the...
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01/26/2009
'Milk's award hopes are SAGging
More awards for Milk. At last night's SAG Awards, Sean Penn won a best actor honor for his portrayal as the slain gay rights icon: Sean Penn, Meryl Streep win at SAG awards [Rotten Tomatoes] Sweet vindication for Harvey, a...
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01/22/2009
Repackaging old Milk: Will Arnold swallow it?
Last year, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have set aside a special day of significance honoring slain gay rights icon Harvey Milk. But now it's 2009. Change is in the air. Milk has been nominated for eight...
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Oscar loves Harvey
Oscar nominations were announced this morn', and Milk did pretty okay. Josh Brolin and Sean Penn both received acting nods, Gus van Sant received a directing nomination, Dustin Lance Black got an original screenplay nod, and the film itself is...
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01/15/2009
Dols claims (A) that he was 'Milk' boy, (B) that he's no longer buying the cow
A man by the name of Gerard Dols (pic.) has popped up in connection with Harvey Milk before. A few months back, he did a chat with the Concerned Women for America wherein he talked about his friendship with the...
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01/02/2009
'Milk', as seen by Anita's modern ilk
After weighing all of the elements of the film, Focus on the Family's "Plugged In Online" movie review site sums up Milk with the following terse wrap up: "In a sentence or two, Milk presents hurting people thrashing about for...
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12/29/2008
Video: Catch up with 'The Times'
In the run up to the release of Milk, we showed you several clips from the fantastic Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. But now our bloggy buddy Andy Towle has tipped us off to the fact that the...
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12/15/2008
AFI list: 1 in 10 are gay
Powerful gay-centric flick Milk has been named one of the American Film Institute's 10 best films of 2008: 'Milk' make AFI film list [AP via Yahoo!] But given that the ruling was made by an American body of judges, forgive...
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12/11/2008
Disappointing
Milk was shut out of the Golden Globe best picture nominees. In fact, the Harvey biopic only got one nomination, for Sean Penn's lead acting role. But hey, what did Harvey ever know about grabbing bulbous orbs?
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12/10/2008
Milk and ilk earn Empire State critics' crowns
Another award for Milk. This time it's the NY Film Critics who have not only named the Harvey biopic best film, but also looked to Sean Penn for best actor and Josh Brolin for best supporting actor: `Milk' named best...
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12/08/2008
Producing social worth: Guild finds value in 'Milk'
Awards season may still be a few months away, but Milk has already managed to pull in some honors. The film's most recent prize? Well, just today it was announced that the Harvey biopic has won the Producers Guild of...
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Milk's second serving: Box office bones still being fortified
In its first week, we saw Milk haul in a huge per screen average. This weekend the flick expanded from 36 to 99 theaters, and it's estimated grosses show that the Harvey biopic is holding on to its hefty take:...
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12/02/2008
Selling snake oil '70s style: A look at a Milk era marriage ban
As we continue our recognition of Harvey Milk and the fabulous flick that bears his name, we want to show you more of the kinds of headlines and sentiments that fueled his '70s era activism. This time we'll take a...
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12/01/2008
Video: Timely tribute
In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Harvey Milk and George Moscone's assassinations, San Franciscans gathered over the holiday weekend to honor the legacies of the fallen leaders. These fantastic videos from Sean Chapin: **SEE ALSO: Our MILK timeline: PART...
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Major markets got 'Milk'; will it play in Red-merica?
It was a HUGE weekend for the barely-unveiled Milk. Playing on just 36 screens in its first five days of limited release, it's estimated that the Harvey biopic came in with a whopping $51,833 per screen average, $1,866,000 gross: November...
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11/26/2008
Video: We're now gonna douse you with more Milk
365Gay News Special: Harvey Milk, Part 1 [365Gay] UPDATE: PART 2 is now up: **SEE ALSO: Our MILK timeline: PART 1: Brush up on your Harvey: A prequel [G-A-Y] PART 2: 31 years, one million thank yous [G-A-Y]
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Brush up on your Harvey: A prequel
On Monday, we gave you a sort of timeline spanning the period between Harvey Milk's successful 1977 election and the Milk movie that hits some theaters tonight (with a nationwide rollout Friday, 12/5). Well in the dual interests of giving...
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11/25/2008
Lactose tolerant: Early 'Milk' reviews are really good
There are still many, many reviews left to come in. But as of now, Milk is sitting pretty on Rotten Tomatoes' trusted critics meter: Also, Entertainment Weekly has just given the film a highly respectable A-: "the rare liberal message-movie...
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11/23/2008
31 years, one million thank yous
47 years go by. Harvey lives and he loves. He has successes and he has failures. He galvanizes San Francisco's Castro Street area, raising the consciousnesses of both gay and straight residents. Here are some of those early developments: [Brush...
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11/21/2008
We've seen 'Milk'
It's good. It's really, really good. When watching the film, the gay community will surely be struck by how incredibly relevant the work is in today's political climate. Here's hoping the American public as a whole will pinpoint the pertinence,...
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11/13/2008
Video: His story ain't just history
Milk stars sit down with MTV News to talk Harvey, protests, and Prop 8: Interesting. Much better than hearing cast members from a workshop production of Anita Bryant: A Rock Opera explain why leisure suits may die, but the anti-intellectual,...
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10/29/2008
Video: Milk doesn't expire
Excellent work from Kip Williams, who was on hand at the Castro Milk premiere: The Legacy of Harvey Milk [Castro in the Streets]
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10/28/2008
Half and half: 'Milk' predictions vary
Today, two different blogs use the same basic source material to draw two different 'Milk' conclusions: Andy, the optimist: EXCERPT: Reuters reports: "At a recent Vegas test-screening for a middle-class, straight audience, several senior citizens tried to leave after a...
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10/01/2008
Arnold skims Milk
In an almost unbelievably shortsighted stroke of the pen, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has honored the wishes of the gay community's most fringe foes by vetoing the bill that would have set aside a special day of significance honoring slain civil...
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09/25/2008
Karen on Harvey: Eh, he was just another gay
It's one thing to be opposed to a late political figure's positions. It's quite another to trivialize his entire life as being about nothing more than his sexuality. But the latter is exactly what anti-gay activist Karen England is now...
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09/03/2008
Time for a Milk break
Milk. The trailer. Now online: Chills. **Download it in standard or HD to your computer, iPod, Phone: Milk Trailer [Apple] (H/t: Towle)
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08/18/2008
Getting pumped for 'Milk'
In their annual Fall Movie Preview, the Entertainment Weekly staff is running a new photo and a promising write-up of the eagerly anticipated Milk film (which opens 11/26 in select cities). Their piece isn't online yet, but since (a) we've...
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08/07/2008
Thomasson: School 'Milk' will turn your kids gay
Randy Thomasson, whose Campaign For Children and Families organization (in a piece likely written by Randy himself) once compared those CA county clerks who have to perform same-sex marriages with those Nazi officers who were once forced to "gas the...
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08/06/2008
A Milk event even vegans can get behind
Joining their friends in the Assembly, the California Senate yesterday approved the measure that would designate May 22 as "Harvey Milk Day": State leg backs May 22 as "Harvey Milk Day" [LA Times] In a funny-yet-sad development, the vote was...
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08/04/2008
Wow, shocking -- anti-gays trivialize he who wouldn't put up with it
Speaking about AB 2567, a proposed California state measure that would observe Harvey Milk's birthday (5/22) as an honor to the slain gay rights pioneer, the Traditional Values Coalition's Benjamin Lopez offers the following quotes to the Sacramento Bee: "What...
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