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airamerica.com - 11/21/2008
Movie: Milk
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Maybe director Gus Van Sant, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, actor Sean Penn, and everyone involved with Milk thought they were making a nice little tribute to gay activist Harvey Milk, something to remind us that the dark days of Dade County and the "Twinkie defense" are no more. ...
article.nationalreview.com - 11/24/2008
Editors: Legislating Immorality
— article.nationalreview.com — First the Mormons, then the rest. (more) Editors: Legislating Immorality

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Liberal Hollywood ponders next step in fight for same-sex marriage - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 11/23/2008
Liberal Hollywood ponders next step in fight for same-sex marriage - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Should there be boycotts, blacklists, firings or de facto shunning of those who supported Proposition 8? That's... the issue consuming many in liberal Hollywood who fought to defeat the initiative banning same-sex marriage and are now reeling with ... (more) Liberal Hollywood ponders next step in fight for ...

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statesman.com - 11/29/2008
Prop. 8 backlash reaches to Texas
— statesman.com — Austin Web site has 'blacklist' for businesses linked to money that supported gay marriage ban. Tuesday, November... 25, 2008 By Bob Keefe West Coast bureau SAN DIEGO Gay marriage activists who lost at the ballot box in California are now lashing out at ... (more) Prop. 8 backlash reaches to Texas

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Milk — The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
The tidiness of Harvey Milk's martyrdom gave the Gus van Sant movie a shape and a narrative. And within that tight frame, he let this life breathe a little with its contradictions and complexities. I remembered that Milk understood two things: that organizing a gay community from the ...
Hollywood’s Closet Still Closed for Business — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” is the first major Hollywood “gay themed” film since “Brokeback Mountain,” and moreover (unlike “Brokeback”), this one is about openly gay activists, not tortured closet cases. Yet, once again, the lead gay roles couldn’t be filled by ...
Get Milk — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” is a movie to be thankful for. Go see it, tonight if you can, and in a crowded theater. Then open up some merlot and watch the documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk,” by Robert Epstein—because these two films belong together. READ THE ...
Milk Anniversary Launches Equality, Visibility Campaign — Firedoglake
image: lavenderliberal.com November 27 marks the thirtieth anniversary of activist Harvey Milk's assassination and it's the day after his Gus van Sant-directed biopic opens in theatres, some of which are owned by Cinemark Corp, whose CEO Alan Stock donated $9,900 to help pass ...
"Milk" Review: Sean Penn Performance "Glorious" — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Gus Van Sant has spent the past few years making dreamy, amorphous meditations on life and death that seemingly were intended for his hardcore fans, himself, and no one else. "Gerry," "Elephant," "Last Days," "Paranoid Park" _ all beautifully, defiantly languid works of art that most ...
Owner of Cinemark gives $9,999 to Prop 8, and now stands to profit from ‘Milk’ — pandagon.net - we are the public option
by Pam Spaulding How many ways of wrong is this ? CEO of Cinemark, Alan Stock, who gave $9999 to Yes on 8, be allowed to earn one dime on the back of Harvey Milk’s legacy by running Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” in his theaters (it opens wide on Nov. 26)? If 1,000 of us commit ...