Movie premiere
As promised, here is our entry about the world premiere of Gus Van Sant’s movie “Milk,” starring Sean Penn, 
Josh Brolin and Emile Hirsch. I caught a glimpse or two of Sean Penn earlier in the year while they were shooting on location in the Castro, having transformed some of the stores back into their 1970s ancestors. They actually filmed the campaign scenes in the same store that used to be Harvey Milk’s camera shop. And now, to attend the premiere in a grand theater that anchors the neighborhood where the entire story is set with some of Milk’s old friends and today’s mayor and city supervisors in attendance … it was a bit surreal –to say nothing of the after-party in City Hall, where Milk and the mayor were assassinated– though we didn’t make that anyway. Look for the actual release at Thanksgiving. We hung out at the red carpet gaping at the actors and local politicians (senator, mayor, DA, supes, state reps, Donna Sachet) before the cold drove us inside to our nosebleed seats. I was excited to score a retro, stylish “No 8″ pin fashioned like the “No 6″ pins from the movie. Not to give too much away, but the plot includes Milk’s successful fight against the Briggs Initiative (Prop 6) in 1978. I remember learning about Prop 6 in church as a child across the bay. Talk about coming full circle …. Here are a few shots from the evening.
Our supervisor, Ross Mirkarimi, arrives
No 8
The view from the back
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Tags: Briggs Initiative, castro theater, Milk, Proposition 8, Ross Mirkarimi, Sean Penn
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