So, the trailer for 'Milk', the Harvey Milk biopic, came out:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/milk/If you don't know who Harvey Milk was and you're queer, you're a bad queer. If you're straight ... well, you should be gay anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_MilkThis guy is one of our historical figures.
A part of me thinks a film like this kinda signals our real arrival as a civil rights movement ... when they start making biographical pictures around figures from your movement's history as mainstream films, looking back with all the typical narratives of human rights, then it's possibly an indication that you're making it.
Course, they're still killing us out there. Just like they did Milk. And still passing laws against us.
And to that, I do have one complaint. The referendum on Proposition 8 in California (the proposition to enshrine bigotry, hate and discrimination in the Californian Constitution by classifying marriage as being only between a man and a woman) gets voted on the day of the US national election ... November 4th.
This film gets released November 26th.
Would it have been that difficult to perhaps have released this film come mid-October? I mean, in Milk's memory of what he stood for. What he died for. What he had the courage for. Would it have been too much to ask? California is the biggest state in the nation population-wise, and where it goes, the rest of the nation follows ... eventually.
*sigh* but maybe I'm just too much of a politics wonk.
I'll still be lining up to see this on opening night though.
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