The Times of Harvey Milk - fantastic doco

Friday, November 26, 2010 - 19:00 to 21:00

Entry by donation (recommended $5 conc / $8 full). Ph Will 0425 329 963 for more info. Presented by friends of Green Left Weekly.

Thirroul Railway Institute, Railway Parade, Thirroul.

One of the very best films of the 1980s, The Times of Harvey Milk is an absolutely gripping documentary that works on every level. Informative and balanced, it's also funny and exciting, tragic yet ultimately hopeful. It's one of those tiny handful of movies that's undoubtedly changed many lives.

Harvey Milk sat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and was California's first openly gay elected official. The movie opens on November 27, 1978 when Dianne Feinstein, then president of the city's council, made public the chilling news that Milk, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, had been brutally assassinated in their City Hall offices by disgraced former supervisor Dan White.