Dustin Lance Black, the guy who wrote “Milk,” says he’s hopeful that California will name May 22 as Harvey Milk Day.
Here’s how WilshireAndWashington.com reported it:
After he testified on Wednesday before the state Senate’s education committee, the panel voted 7-2 to send the bill to the full Senate.
“We not only won the vote, but we actually got bipartisan support,” he said from San Francisco. “That was very exciting to me. I got a little misty eyed.”
Black told the committee of how, when he was 14 and struggling with being gay in a conservative environment, a theater director in the Bay area told him the story of Milk, the nation’s first openly gay elected official, and how he “stood up to prejudice and bigotry” and “lived openly as who he was.”
“The big point I made is I was one of the lucky kids,” Black said. “But why did it have to happen through luck?”
In a related move fully-supported by the Hollywood community, the writer of “Benjamin Button” proposed that “Old Guy With Young Chick Day” be declared in both May and December.
Source: WilshireAndWashington.com
