Is Harvey Milk still a force for change?

[Sequoia]

Months before he was slain in San Francisco, Supervisor Harvey Milk passionately argued that unless gays and lesbians left the closet, they never would change the attitudes of the straight majority.

"Invisible, we remain in limbo - a myth, a person with no parents, no brothers, no sisters, no friends who are straight, no important positions in employment," Milk proclaimed in his famous "Hope" speech in 1978.

Now, 30 years after the gay leader's assassination, a national audience will be introduced to his message through Gus Van Sant's star-studded biopic "Milk," which opens in the Bay Area tonight. In the wake of national protests and boycotts over California voters' passage of Proposition 8 - which bans same-sex marriage - a question arises: Can the dramatized Milk make the same kind of political impact as his real-life counterpart?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/MN9V144SKH.DTL

[msongs]

1. sorry, a majority of voters has voted to outlaw this movie, 52 to 48 nt

[EFerrari]

2. "I'm Harvey Milk, and I'm here to recruit you."

LOL! Just in time for The War on Christmas!

:applause:

[JackBeck]

3. My first role model. n/t