A few of us bookclub wimmin went to Milk on Fri night (after panning The Secret Life Of Bees, and deciding that anything the Kinsale bookclub has read is not for us!).
So... 'Milk', in summary: moving, got the blood boiling at so many injustices, finally understood how awful, and insidious, Anita Bryant was - all that mom-and-apple-pie masking hate-filled homophobia.
(And the Briggs' sponsored Prop 6 designed to ban gay teachers from schools. Little has changed with the bigots, some of the arguments I've heard against civil partnerships / gay marriage in Ireland centre on the protection / rights of children - it's such a cod, they just hate the gays! -- rant over.)
Anyway, Sean Penn was terrific at playing the charming, charismatic Harvey Milk, deserves the Oscar (Michael Dwyer on RTE Radio 1 pointed out last week that wearing a false nose for a role can increase an actor's chance in the the Oscar stakes: Nicole Kidman in 'The Hours', Jose Ferrer in 'Cyrano de Bergerac' :)
A lecturer in women's studies, who's familiar with the era, has expressed disappointment at how the influence of feminism and the role of the many lesbian activists (a token one allowed in) involved in his campaigns was written out - misogynism or just the victim of Hollywood biopic storytelling?
Do try to see the documentary, The Times Of Harvey Milk, it's even better.
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