Milk

My recent trip to Southern California gave me the opportunity to see the movie Milk. Eager for its release and knowing Fresno would not be showing the movie I jumped at the opportunity to include it in my weekend getaway. Sean Penn's portrayal of Harvey Milk, The Mayor of Castro, was exceptional! As a student of History, I studied numerous documentaries pertaining to the gay rights movement and Harvey Milk being a key activist needed to have his story told.

This year Californian's voted on Prop 8 and by a narrow margin it passed. Therefore denying gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. This years proposition is reminiscent of the mid 70s Prop 6 that denied Gays housing and employment. The same fear tactics by Christian fundementalists such as Anita Bryants vocal opposition was used in the Prop 8 campaigns funded by the LDS. Who says History does not repeat itself!?