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■ FILM
■ POLITICS
The Political Clashing,
Meaning of Meshing
Harvey Milk Over
BY STEVE ERICKSON
Marriage
“M
ilk” follows the
rules of the politi- BY ANDY HUMM
cal biopic faith-

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fully, complete with its hero n the wake of two New
finding his voice, leading his York City demonstrations
community, and then dying against California’s Prop 8
tragically young. that turned out 10,000 protes-
Were it released last spring tors each, the first floor meeting
or in a climate where anti-gay room at the LGBT Community
ballot initiatives went down Center was packed for a panel
in flames, it might have been on marriage equality nation-
easy to write off as a mere his- ally and in New York State. The
tory lesson. The passage of November 24 meeting attracted
Proposition 8 in California has a mix of old and new activists,
changed all that. those who wanted to ventilate
“Milk” now has more bite. about the losing campaign to
save same-sex marriage in Cali-
FULL REVIEW, P. 15 fornia, and people determined
to open marriage to gay couples
■ EDITORIAL in New York and to repeal the
On the streets and federal Defense of Marriage Act
down the road (DOMA).
■ 10 “I’m 79 and I can’t wait,”
—————————————— said Edie Windsor, there with
her spouse Thea Spyer, whom
■ OUT OF THE CLOSET she married in Canada. The
Ad watchdogging couple’s marriage is recognized
without Mike Wilke here in New York, but they who
■2 have no federal marriage rights.
—————————————— Despite President-elect
■ LOVE GOES COLD Barack Obama’s opposition to
DOMA, repealing the 1996 law
Searching for sex and
FOCUS FEATURES

anytime soon is a long shot,

meaning in “Antarctica” according to leaders such as
■ 25 Marty Rouse of the Washing-
—————————————— ton-based Human Rights Cam-
SEAN PENN AS HARVEY MILK, CASTRO CAMERA SHOP OWNER & THE CITY’S FIRST GAY POWER BROKER
■ THERE’S A CATCH paign (HRC), who was on the

The Castro’s
Joseph Heller’s lone panel. What’s more, the right-
wing Alliance for Marriage just
soldier cry
■ 27 announced that preserving
—————————————— DOMA — especially by lobbying
newly elected members of Con-

First Hero
gress from people of color com-
munities — is one of their top
priorities right now.
At a time when the commu-
nity has been rubbed raw by a

Gus Van Sant Goes debate over the percentage of

people of color who voted for
Prop 8 and the failure of the No

PENIS22SONGS Mainstream & Political on 8 campaign to feature people

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