Harvey Bernard Milk, Politician and Gay Activist
"The research for "Milk" was an unusually productive example of how archives and scholarship can influence Hollywood and popular culture, participants said."
The movie, starring Sean Penn, is timely, with Prop 8 in the news of late and gay activism at a high.
It will no doubt be controversial, but it will be based on fact, right down to the suit San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk was wearing when he was gunned down, assassinated, in 1978.
"Reporting from San Francisco -- The sight may be a little shocking, Paul Boneberg warned a visitor. And it was.
There, removed from tissue-paper wrappings in a storage box, were the wingtip shoes, striped suit and white shirt that gay activist and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk wore Nov. 27, 1978, the day he was assassinated. Dark bloodstains remained visible around the shirt collar, and small holes -- from bullets -- could be seen in the suit's blue and gray material."
Read the article from the
Los Angeles Times," A Picture Full of Milk"
HERE
