Provincetown Art House Theater :: Milk

Milk. His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Milk is playing at the Provincetown Art House Theater Dec. 19 - 25. Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in New York where he acknowledged his homosexuality as an adolescent, but chose to pursue sexual relationships with secrecy and discretion well into his adult years. His experience in the counterculture of the 1960s caused him to shed many of his conservative views about individual freedom and the expression of sexuality.Harvey Milk has become an icon in San Francisco and "a martyr for gay rights". While established political organizers in the city insisted gays work with liberal politicians and use restraint in reaching their objectives, Milk encouraged gays to use their growing power in the city and support each other. His goal was to give hope to disenfranchised gays around the country. In 2002, he was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States". Writer John Cloud remarked on his influence, "After he defied the governing class of San Francisco in 1977 to become a member of its board of supervisors, many people—straight and gay—had to adjust to a new reality he embodied: that a gay person could live an honest life and succeed."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. Daily 5:30 & 8 p.m. Saturday 3, 5:30 & 8 p.m. Sunday: 3 & 5:30 p.m. Read more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk