Milk Man

The Bay Area Reporter runs an interview this week with Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter of Milk, the new Gus Van Sant biopic about slain civil rights supervisor Harvey Milk. Black, you may recall, was also the star of World of Wonder's show Gay Hollywood back in 2003. Says Black of why he was inspired to tackle the project:

In college, when I first saw a copy of the documentary [The Times of Harvey Milk], I remember just breaking down into tears. I thought, 'I just want to do something with this, why hasn't someone done something with this?'...Texas kept me very quiet. I became intensely shy, I had thoughts of suicide. I was a pretty dark kid, because I had an acute awareness of my sexuality, and was absolutely convinced that I was wrong. In his Hope Speech, Harvey Milk says, 'There's that kid in San Antonio, and he heard tonight that a gay man was elected to public office, and that will give him hope.' And when I first heard that speech, it really did that. It really, really gave me hope, for the first time.

– Steven Corfe (via Towleroad)

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