Orlando arts advocate and producer, Margaret Nolan, is bringing a pretty fantastic human being to Orlando:
It is my honor and privilege to present the Academy Award winning best documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk, for a special screening on Saturday, December 13th at 12:00 noon at the Enzian Theater.
I'm also bringing in the film's director, two-time Academy Award winning Rob Epstein ("Paragraph 175," "Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt," "The Celluloid Closet") for a Q&A immediately after the film.
Let's show him that Orlando can represent!
With the passages of Florida's Amendment 2 and California's Proposition 8, local and national GLBT communities were mobilized into action with amazing peaceful rallies of protest. These rallies have energized activism in the fight for equal rights especially in the younger population!
There have been many activists and heroes who've paved the way in the fight for where we are now, even if we still have a long way to go. Harvey Milk was one of our gay icons in that fight.
He was the first out politician to be elected to office. On the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, he tackled discrimination by sponsoring civil rights bills that outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Before his assassination in 1978, he helped to fuel the gay rights movement that was being attacked by Anita Bryant's crusade to overturn gay rights ordinances across the United States.
Since the highly acclaimed Gus Van Sant film, MILK, is opening all around the US and will be at the Enzian the weekend of Dec 12th, I thought it would be educational and interesting to present the 1984 documentary in concert to give insight and context to that time in history.
I hope it will help keep the fire lit under all of us to keep activism alive!
See you there....
Margaret Nolan