After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk,
became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt,
he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making
him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA.
The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were
shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his
former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his
resignation from the board.
Mr. Milk had been the subject of
several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The
Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional
feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and
career.
Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr
Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated
in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.
