With Sean Penn’s new movie Milk out now and getting great reviews, this video on the life of Harvey Milk seems appropriate. The video, entitled The Life of Harvey Milk: In the Footsteps of Gandhi and King, is a short documentary that interweaves the life of Harvey Milk with the human rights efforts of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Produced by Causecast (www.causecast.org) for Focus Features, the piece chronicles the timeline of the late San Francisco city supervisor’s fight for gay rights and highlights the historical struggle for human equality. continue reading...
Milk, based on the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California, and gay rights activist opens in theaters this November. Sean Penn stars in this momentous film, along with James Franco, Josh Brolin, and Emile Hirsch. Check out the trailer: continue reading...