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Fri 12 Dec 2008Listen carefully: we gays will not go away
The film 'Milk'is a reminder of the distance gays have come - and how far there is still to go, writes Quentin Fottrell
THERE COULD not have been a worse - or, given recent events, better - time for Gus Van Sant's Milk, a heartbreaking and powerful biopic of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to major public office in the United States, who was assassinated on November 27th, 1978, by a discontented fellow city supervisor.
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