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"IMMENSELY MOVING.
COMBINES REAL EMOTIONAL URGENCY
WITH A MOST COMPELLING GRASP
OF THE FILMMAKING CRAFT."
- Stephen Harvey, Village Voice

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 1984

"Once they realize that we are, indeed, their children, and we are, indeed, everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and for all."
(1984, Robert Epstein & Richard Schmiechen) A charismatic visionary and fierce political activist, San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk was the first openly gay candidate ever elected to political office in California. But, after serving only eleven months, he - and popular mayor George Moscone - were assassinated by deranged ex-supervisor Dan White, whose "Twinkie defense" (that the murderous rampage was fueled by junk food) and stunningly lenient sentence (a five-and-one-half year prison stretch without psychiatric treatment) provoked violence and rioting from an outraged public. Epstein & Schmiechen's portrait of Long Island native Milk, narrated by Harvey Fierstein, traces his journey from naval cadet, stock analyst and theatrical producer through his West Coast re-location and rise from community activist (he was dubbed "The Mayor of Castro Street") to city leadership. Milk's politics were populist and inclusive; his efforts to unite and empower labor, feminists, ethnic minorities and gays made him a hero to some and a dangerous enemy to others - he had, in fact, prepared a will eerily predicting his own murder.

A New Yorker Films Release.

For more information about THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK, go to www.tellingpix.com/films/2.html.

Rob Epstein's latest film, PARAGRAPH 175, (co-directed with Jeffrey Friedman), a documentary about Nazi persecution of homosexuals, plays concurrently on our premiere screen, Wed, September 13 - Tues, September 26.

Links:

• GIRLS ON Website
  Chicks, Flicks, Politicks. Plus Music, TV, and more. One of the best film sites around.
• PLANETOUT Website
• New York Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center
  Home to over 300 groups servicing the Gay & Lesbian community of New York City.
• GLAAD Website
• Gender Issues
• Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Page
• QueerNet

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

Trailblazers: Profiles of America's Gay and Lesbian Elected Officials by Ken Yeager

On The Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics by David Rayside

(NOT SHOWN) A Letter to Harvey Milk: Short Stories by Leslea Newman

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