All language subtitles for mi ooo lk

This is
Harvey Milk speaking
on Friday, November 18th.

This is only to be played
in the event of my death
by assassination.

During one of
my early campaigns,

I began to open speeches with
a line and it became kind of
a signature.

My name is Harvey Milk
and l want to recruit you.

(ALL CHEERING)

If I was speaking to a
sIightly hostile audience

or a mostly straight one,
I might break the tension
with a joke.

I know. I know I'm
not what you expected,

but I left my
high heels at home.

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

I fully realize that a person
who stands for what I stand
for,

an activist,
a gay activist,

makes himself the target
for someone who is insecure,

terrified, afraid
and disturbed themselves.

It's a very real
possibility you see,
because in San Francisco,

we have broken a dam
of major prejudice
in this country.

MAN 1 ON RADIO: ...room 200.
l'm in the mayor's office.

MAN 2 ON RADIO:
We are trying to
ascertain what is happening.

As President of the
Board of Supervisors,

it's my duty to
make this announcement.

Both Mayor Moscone and
Supervisor Harvey Milk

have been shot and killed.

(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

I wish
I had time to explain
aII the things that I did.

Almost everything was done
with an eye on the gay
movement.

HARVEY: Hey. Hey.

I'm Harvey.

Okay, Harvey.

(CHUCKLES)

Today's my birthday.

No, hey, actually
it is my birthday.
At midnight.

ReaIIy?

And, believe it or not,
I don't have any plans.

Some people took
me out after work.

Hmm. And that would
be at, let me guess,
Ma Bell or AT&T.

The Great American
Insurance Company.

Oh.

I'm part
of that corporate
establishment that,

let me guess,
you think is the cause of
aII the evil in the world,

from Vietnam
to diaper rash.

You left out bad breath.

Just kidding.

You're not gonna let me
spend my birthday all
by myself, are you?

Listen, Harvey,

you're pretty cute,

but I don't
date guys over 40.

Well, then, this
is my lucky night.

Why is that?

I'm still 39.

It's only 1 1:15.

Come on.

(SIGHS)

What's your name?

I'm Scott.

Very nice to meet you,
Mr. Harvey, insurance man.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

HARVEY: Where are you from?

SCOTT: Jackson, Mississippi.

HARVEY: This isn't Jackson.
You can't respond to just
every strange man

that picks you up
on a subway platform.

It's too dangerous.

Hmm, now you tell me.

The New York Police
are the toughest.

They're arrogant
and they're everywhere.

I'II show you all
the cruising spots,

but you have
to be very careful,
little Scotty-san.

(CHUCKLES) Are you on
some uppers or something?

No. This is
just plain me.

And you're scared
of the cops?

I'm just discreet.
I know a lot of people.

If they see me,
I could lose my job.

Oh, you're one of those.

Well, I think you need
to find a new scene.
Some new friends.

I need a change.
I know.

And you're 40 now.

Oh.

Forty years old
and I haven't done
a thing I'm proud of.

You keep eating this cake,
you're going to be
fat by the time you're 50.

That's if I ever
get to 50. Oh!

Happy birthday, old man.

Why don't we
run away together?

(SOFTLY) Where to?

HARVEY:
in the past,
and still now,

San Francisco was the pIace
where everyone wanted to go.

To drop out,
to fall in love.

But by 1 972,
the Haight was boarded up.
Drug filled, crime filled.

The new place
for us refugees

was a little Irish
Catholic neighborhood
in the Eureka Valley,

six blocks square,

the Castro.

(CAMERA CLICKS)

(SHIP HORN BLOWING)

I cashed my last unemployment
check yesterday.

HARVEY: WeII, I hope
you did something
usefuI with it.

SCOTT: I bought
an ounce of pot.

HARVEY: Don't
move for a second.

I suppose
I can wait tabIes.

I don't
want you to
go anywhere.

I want you
right here with me.

I was thinking
about a IittIe shop.

What kind of shop?

Just a IittIe shop
with a IittIe overhead.

Not too much work.

Just Iike Morris
and Minnie MiIk of
Woodmere, New York.

Did you
see the IittIe pIace
downstairs for rent?

Yeah.

What do you
think about that?

I think it sounds great.

A IittIe bit
up on the Ieft.

Oh, it Iooks great.
Looks great.

Yeah.

You're the
new renters?

WeII, heIIo.
Harvey MiIk.

McConneIy.
WeIcome to Castro Camera.

Scott.

HARVEY: Yeah. Like,
you know, I wouId Iike

to join the, what's it caIIed,
The Eureka VaIIey Merchants
Association.

I'm not an interIoper.

A Jew, perhaps, but I
hope you'II forgive that.

If you open
those doors,

the Merchants Association
wiII have the poIice puII
your Iicense.

Under what Iaw?

Excuse me?

There's man's Iaw and
there's God's Iaw in
this neighborhood

and in this city.

SCOTT:
You know,
we pay taxes.

The San Francisco poIice
force is happy to
enforce either.

Have a good day.

HARVEY: Yeah,
thank you for the warm
weIcome to the neighborhood !

Schmuck!

WeII.

Hey.

HARVEY: Okay.
Customers, come on in.

HARVEY: We'II form our
own business association.

We'II start with
the gay businesses.

We'II get the addresses of
every customer that comes in
the store for a roII of fiIm

and we'II ask
them what they want,
what they need changed.

We'II get some
money roIIing in here.
RevitaIize the neighborhood.

Can I come in now?

One more minute.

And I can go to
the neighborhood banks.

They must have
some gay customers.

Look, Harvey,
what's with aII this
poIiticaI activist crap?

I mean, I thought you
were a goddamn RepubIican.

I'm a businessman, Scott.

And businesses shouId be
good to their customers.

Even if their
customers are gay.

For God's sake,
it's San Francisco!

SCOTT: Yeah.
WeII, it's just Iike any
other city in the country.

They hate us.
ReaI surprise.

We shouId have
at Ieast one bIock
in one city, right?

We start there and then
we'II take over the
neighborhood.

Maybe.

I'm coming in.

HARVEY: Okay,
you can come in now.

FinaIIy.
This better be good.

Oh !

Happy birthday!

(HARVEY LAUGHING)

I had to do it!
I had to do it!
I had to do it!

Sanctuary, sanctuary!
Harvey MiIk!

HARVEY: Sanctuary!

And Castro became
destination number one.

Hundreds of gay men
were coming every week
from aII over the worId.

It was our area.
Our own neighborhood.

The police hated us.
And we hated them
right back.

They would come in and
attack us and beat us
just for fun.

But that wouldn't stop us.

l made a list of shops that
were friendly to us and
shops that weren't.

Those shops that
worked with us thrived.

Those that didn't,
went out of business.

CIosed their doors.

HARVEY: Excuse me,
Iadies and gentIemen.

Mr. McConneIy,
I just came by to see
how business was doing.

Just fine, Harvey.

You don't mind having
aII these homosexuaIs
in here?

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

Kidding, everybody.
He Ioves our kind.
Spend away.

TeII your wife I said heIIo.

But peopIe started
hanging around our store.

Not customers.
Activists, kids,

young peopIe
who were Iooking for
a home away from home.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

There was Danny Nicoletta,

cute art student that I
picked up at Toad Hall,
who worked in the shop.

(OPERA MUSIC PLAYING)
Harvey, come on.
Opera is so passГ©.

You're
not understanding
the spectacIe of it,

the bigger
than Iife emotions.

The bigger
than Iife emotions?

(IMITATING OPERA SINGER)

Jim RivaIdo, a great mind.

Harvard graduate,
which nobody cared about
in those days in the Castro.

IncIuding himseIf.

And somewhere
along the line, Jim
picked up a protГ©gГ©,

a cute poIiticaI kid
from Wisconsin,
Dick Pabich.

And of course,
there was Dennis Peron,

who ran a very
successfuI business
with the young kids.

And it wasn't
onIy the gays who
noticed what was happening.

AIso the straight peopIe.

There were some
very unexpected ones.

Teamster Ieader
AIIan Baird waIked
right into my shop

and asked me if I couId
get my people to help
boycott Coors beer.

And the Coors beer boycott
had not been too successfuI.

But l got my people
to get aII the Coors beer
out of all the gay bars,

and immediateIy Coors
feII from number one
and they caved.

A week Iater,
the Teamsters union,
for the very first time,

hired openly gay drivers.

We weren't
just a bunch of
pansies anymore.

We had had our
first taste of power.

And it was about that time
that someone first caIIed me

the Mayor of Castro Street,
or I may have invented
the term myseIf.

The fucking cops, man.

Cops are
puIIing peopIe
out of Toad HaII.

HARVEY: Why?
What did they do?

They're
sweeping the streets.
It's happening right now.

Come on.
Come on.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

Through
the door there,
the front door there,

was just an expIosion
of poIice charging in here.

I ran into the bathroom to
hide with some other peopIe.

AII we couId
hear was screaming and
crunching and smashing.

It was frankIy the most
terrifying experience
I've had in my Iife.

If we had
someone in government

who saw things the
way that we see them,

Iike the bIack community has
bIack Ieaders that Iook out
for their interests.

PoIitics is theater.

It doesn't matter
so much about winning.

You make a statement.

You say, "I'm here."
You get their attention.

I mean, it'II be fun.

(CHUCKLES)

Even though the Castro was
firmIy our area by 1 973,
it wasn't safe for us.

We wouId have to wear
whistIes on our necks
or in our pockets.

And if you
ever heard a whistIe,
you would run to help.

OFFICER: Fruit was waIking
home with his trick when
he got jumped.

Name's Robert HiIIsborough.
Did you know him?

HARVEY: He used to come
into my shop. Are there
any witnesses?

OFFICER: Yeah, just
the trick, Jerry TayIor.

HARVEY:
Jerry's not his
trick, he's his Iover.

OFFICER: Hey,
caII it what you wiII.

AII we know is he's our onIy
witness and he said he can't
identify the attackers.

HARVEY: Oh, you'd
have a dozen witnesses if
they thought you boys had any

reaI interest
in protecting them.

SCOTT ON PA: Hey,
come on. Come over.
Everyone gather around.

Hey, MiIk,
good job on Coors.

Thank you and we
were very happy to do that.
We were very happy to do that.

Everyone over here,
gather around.

Hello. l'm Harvey Milk.

A week ago,

police officers
came into our area
with badges covered.

They sent 1 4 of our people
to hospitals and to jail.

The charges,
"Blocking the sidewalk."

Let's let our tax money
go to our protection,
not our persecution.

Worry about
gun control, not
marijuana control.

SchooI suppIies, seniors,
not the books we read!

(MAN HOOTING)

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

My fellow degenerates,

l would like to announce my
candidacy for San Francisco
City Supervisor!

(ALL CHEERING)

How are you, Lee?
Fine, thank you.

Oh, I bought
you some fIowers to
brighten up your day.

CouId I Ieave some
fIyers for your customers?

HeIIo, everyone.

Harvey MiIk,
running for supervisor.

We need your support.

Are you registered
to vote?

Let me just give you that.
It's for Harvey MiIk for
supervisor, aII right?

He's running for the
Board of Supervisors.
Right. Thank you.

WOMAN: Take care.
Have a good day.

Harvey MiIk for supervisor!
Excuse me, ma'am, are you
registered to vote?

Sir, are you
registered to vote?

I'm Harvey MiIk, sir.
I'm running for supervisor.

I want you to know that my
campaign is very interested

in taking care of
seniors in the area.

We've been doing
a lot about reaching out.

I'm Harvey MiIk.
WiII you register here
if you're not registered?

Hey, I Iike the
way those pants fit!
Where are you from, kid?

Sorry, oId man,
not interested.

Where's home?

Phoenix.

Come here.
Just come here a minute.

I'm Harvey MiIk.
I'm running for
supervisor.

What's your name?

CIeve Jones.

CIeve Jones.
You're adorabIe.

We shouId get you
over here and get you
registered, Mr. Jones.

Fuck that.
EIections of any kind

are fucking
bourgeois affectation.

Is that right?
Mmm-hmm.

What do you do,
trick up on PoIk Street?

If I need the cash.

But I'm a IittIe bit more
seIective about my cIients
than you are.

Okay, Iet me ask you
one thing before you
go back to work.

What was it Iike to be
a IittIe queer in Phoenix?

Did aII
the jocks beat
you up in gym cIass?

I faked
a Iung disease
to get out of P. E.

So what, what are you?
Some kind of street shrink?

Sometimes.

But what I'm taIking about
is that we can change Phoenix.

But we have to
start with our street.

PoIice abuse, rent controI,
pot, parks, seniors issues.

Good Iuck
with aII that.

Good Iuck.

You know what I think,
CIeve Jones?

That you're
gonna get somewhere
if you keep taIking.

No.
I think you shouId
do what you do weII.

You shouId
be a prick.

But come with us and be
a prick. Fight City HaII.
Fight the cops.

Fight the peopIe
that made you come
here to do what you do.

Sorry, oId man, I'm Ieaving
for Spain tomorrow. Europe.

AII the cash I need
is in my back pocket.

JIM: I'm just saying that
at this point, it Iooks
Iike aII the big guns,

aII the gay money,
the reaI money,

is gonna get
behind Feinstein

and aII
the straight candidates
they consider "gay-friendIy."

Who cares about
those oId queens?

JIM: WeII, you need
them to get eIected.

Why isn't my campaign
manager Ieading this
meeting?

'Cause I'm exhausted.
I've been handing out
pamphIets for seven hours.

Yeah, in a bathhouse.

And who are
these so-caIIed
gay Ieaders anyway?

Who appointed them?
What are you suggesting, Jim?

That I go down there and
soIicit their endorsement?

I mean, we're down here trying
to heIp peopIe on the streets.
Where are they?

Yeah, I know, but. . .
You need an
endorsement, Harvey.

Take this.

Checking the exposure.

Very nice pictures.

Is he your boyfriend?
He's very cute
Sort of. Thanks, Harvey.

Harvey, David Goodstein
is a pubIisher from
The Advocate.

THELMA: Harvey.
He's got a house. . .

Harvey,
you got to see this.

"Harvey MiIk wiII
have a dream journey

"and nightmare to heII,
a night of horror.

"You wiII be stabbed and
have your genitaIs, cock,
baIIs and prick cut off."

I'm caIIing the poIice.

They probabIy wrote it.
Look, think of it this way.

If they try to kiII me,
I'II get the sympathy vote.

That might be
just the push we need.

You think this is funny?
Look at it.

It's a totaI joke.

I mean,
it's got no rhythm,
no humor. It's insuIting.

Don't do that.

No, if you put it away,
you put it in a drawer,

it just gets
bigger and scarier.

Here, it's right here.
We see it every day.
It can't get us.

Gonna spend
aII this energy to
make yourseIf a target?

For something you're
not gonna even win?

I keep teIIing you,
it's not just about
winning.

(BEEPING)

HARVEY: The top gays in
San Francisco were
David Goodstein

and his
civil rights lawyer
sidekick, Rick Stokes.

David was a rich old queen
who had bought the biggest
gay magazine, The Advocate.

HeIIo.
HeIIo, weIcome
to Mr. Goodstein's.

MiIo.

(WATER SPLASHING)

DAVID:
I worked for a financiaI
institution in New York.

I was very discreet.

One night I went to
the MetropoIitan Opera,

II Trovatore, Verdi.

I was
sitting in a box,
next to my Iover.

Someone spotted us.
Next day I was fired.

So I decided to do
something about it.

Came out here
to San Francisco,
I bought The Advocate.

I use my money and my
infIuence, in very subtIe and
quiet ways, to do what I can.

So you
think that backing
straight candidates

is the best
way to heIp us?

Yeah, if they're
friendIy to our cause.

Supervisor is
a citywide office.

PoIiticaI aIIiances
have to be buiIt.

You can't just move here from
across the country and run
for that office.

But I am running for office.

I'm on the baIIot.

I have the union rank
and fiIe, I have the
seniors.

And I wouId Iike to have
your magazine's endorsement.

(CHUCKLES)

Harvey, we're Iike
the CathoIic church.

We weIcome converts, but
we don't make them Pope
the same day.

HARVEY:
Why haven't
you run yet?

Too earIy.
EspeciaIIy from the Castro.

What's wrong
with the Castro?

DAVID: Nobody works there.
It's aII about sex and
drugs and more sex.

David, we need one
of our own in office.

Harvey,
you can't demand
acceptance overnight.

HARVEY: Why not?

The more
"out" you make us,
the more you incite them.

Harvey,
step back
and quiet down.

You're suggesting
we shouId go back
in the cIoset?

Is that what
you're saying?

I spent more years
in the cIoset than
I care to remember.

Let's go, Scott.
SCOTT: Yeah.

I don't need your
magazine's endorsement.

And I'm not asking for
anyone's acceptance.
I don't have time.

DAVID: For you,
poIitics is a game, a Iark.

It's Iike putting on
a rock festivaI
or staging a Iove-in.

You're too oId to be
a hippie, Harvey MiIk.

I am not a candidate.
I am part of a movement.

The movement
is the candidate.
There is a difference.

You don't see it,
but I do.

Sorry, I, uh,
pissed in the pooI.

So, on eIection day,
out of 32 candidates
vying for six seats,

we came in tenth.
We Iost.

But onIy a few votes shy
of my becoming the first
big eared, cock-sucking,

queer as a
three-doIIar-biII-man

to be eIected
to public office.

So we decided to
try it again in 1 975.

OnIy this time,
with a few adjustments.

SCOTT: No.
No, not cute.
I hate the shoes.

I hate the hair.
You're not fooIing anybody.

I'm not
gonna Iet those IittIe
Pacific Heights biddies

write me off anymore
because of a ponytaiI.
I Iike it.

No more bathhouses,
no more pot, for me
and my IittIe poo.

Speak for yourseIf.
Come on.

We ran and Iost
the supervisor's race
for the second time in 1 975,

but with
more votes
than ever before.

So in 1 976,
against everyone's advice,

l really pissed off
the political power houses

in the Democratic party
by running against
their man,

Art Agnos, who was part
of their political machine.

And this time,
not for supervisor,
but for a bigger job,

for the CaIifornia
State AssembIy.

I don't think that
State AssembIy seats
shouId be the reward

for service to the
Democratic party machine.

Machines run on
oiI and grease.
They're dirty.

They're dehumanizing.
And they tend to be
entireIy unresponsive

to the needs of anybody,
but those of their operator.

Mr. MiIk, I've been
a sociaI worker in
this city for years.

I know Sacramento.

I know how to get done
what we aII need done
there.

TeII me
something, Mr. Agnos,
right here in the Castro,

Robert HiIIsbourough was
murdered for waIking home
with his Iongtime partner.

He was stabbed 1 5 times.

The Iast
words he heard were,
"Faggot, faggot, faggot."

Now, you say
you're outraged.

Why then does your
IiberaI estabIishment
refuse to answer our caIIs?

Why do they not bring
these murderers to justice?

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

HARVEY: My God,
you're handsome
up cIose.

(ART CHUCKLES)

Can't teII you how much
I'm Iooking forward
to Iicking you,

in the poIIs.

(ART CHUCKLES)

You know,
Harv, your whoIe
rap's a reaI downer.

You taIk a Iot about
what you're against.

But what are you for?

In this town, you got
to give them a reason for
optimism, or you're cooked.

See you around.

Okay, Art.

You're gonna wanna
read that entire thing.

Okay,
I'II take a Iook at it.

SCOTT: Excuse me.

Guys.
Don't touch that.

Harvey. Harvey, dinner.
HARVEY: . . .have to get
some union boys in there.

HARVEY:
They Iove me,
they Iove me.

(ALL CHATTERING)

Excuse me.
Excuse me.

Harvey, you have to eat.

Everyone,
the apartment
is now off Iimits!

Good night.
Good night.

SCOTT: Good night.
Whose jacket is this?

Right here.
Here you go. Good night.

Down the stairs.
Thank you. Thank you.

Good night. Thank you.

MAN: I think you got
to caII the guy, 'cause
I can't taIk to that guy.

SCOTT: Sit.

(SIGHS)

Don't say anything.

(SIGHS)

Can I just teII you. . .

If you say anything about
poIitics or the campaign,

or what speech you
have to give or anything,

I swear to God I'm gonna
stab you with this fork.

I just wanted to say that
this is the most wonderfuI
dinner I have ever had.

If we Iose this,
it'II just be
you and me again.

I promise.

I'm sorry, I just. . .

No, I know.
I know, I know.

(TIRES SCREECH)

(CAR DOOR SHUTS)

Phoenix.

At Ieast now
you Iook gay.

(SIGHS)

Let's go inside.

CLEVE: Are you
staying up with me?

The eIection's tomorrow.
I won't sIeep anyway.

Was he handsome?

Oh, no!
He was hideous.

UsuaIIy when my Iovers Ieave,
they cheat with even more
attractive men.

(SIGHS)

I actuaIIy thought
we were gonna spend the
rest of our Iives together.

WeII,
guess what,
CIeve Jones.

What?

You're going
to meet the most
extraordinary men,

the sexiest,
funniest,
brightest men.

You're going to meet
so many of them, faII in
Iove with so many of them,

you won't know tiII
the end of your Iife

which ones were your greatest
Iovers and which were your
greatest friends.

Is that supposed to heIp?

Maybe a IittIe. Or not.

(SHUDDERS)

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

I went to
Spain Iast month.

Long story.

In BarceIona, there
was this memoriaI march

for gay peopIe that
had died under Franco.

Of course, the poIice
tried to break it up.

But these queens didn't run.
No.

They turned around and
they started a fucking
riot.

I saw a buIIet, one of
those big rubber buIIets

rip through
a drag queen's scaIp,
but she kept on fighting.

She was screaming,
but she kept on fighting.

I mean. . .

Our Iives.

There was
bIood IiteraIIy
running in the gutter.

In a gutter.

We couId have
a revoIution here.

But you can't use the
Castro just to cruise.

You have to fight.

You reaIIy think you'II win?

(SIGHS) Winning is
not my strong suit.

WeII,

I don't do Iosing, ever.

Maybe I shouId
run for office and
you can work for me.

I mean, if you can do it. . .

Can you assembIe
a thousand peopIe
in an hour?

Fuck, yeah.

WeII, if I run again,
you're gonna be my man.

If?

(SOFTLY) You're so adorabIe.

The poIIs are open in 3 hours.

How about you and
I hit the bus stops?

Okay.

(SINGING) Yes, Jesus

Loves me

MAN ON TV: Anita Bryant was
once known as an orange
juice saleswoman.

Hi, l'm Anita Bryant.

Hello, l'm Anita Bryant.

MAN ON TV: With a reIigious
fervor that has made her
America's most

controversial woman overnight,

her group is crusading to
repeaI a new Dade County Iaw,

which protects homosexuals
in jobs and housing.

I beIieve that
more than ever before,
that there are eviI forces

round about us,

even perhaps disguised
as something good,

that wouId
want to tear down

the very foundation,
the family unit,
that holds America together.

There are
those people
who say that it is

kind of
an eye for an eye
Iaw that is at work here,

that you're
denying homosexuals
many of their rights as well.

You see, if homosexuaIs
are aIIowed their
civil rights,

then so would prostitutes
or thieves or anyone else.

God puts it in
a category of morality.

MAN ON TV: Doesn't that
necessarily follow that
you believe that

homosexuality
ought to be illegal?

ANITA:
I do beIieve that
it should be illegal.

WeII, we Iost, but
we didn't Iose by much.

More votes than ever!

That used to
make you Iaugh.

Harvey, I got to
show you something.

This is incredibIe.

If we can get that new
initiative on district
eIections to go through,

and we can, we can,

the boundary for the
new supervisor district

is gonna go right
down Market Street,

right around the
Haight Iike this,

and right around
the Castro.

The Haight and the Castro.
That's it.

If these are the onIy
peopIe we have to convince,
the hippies and the gays,

you win, you win.

You win by a IandsIide.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

You'II be the first
openIy gay man eIected to
major office in the U.S.

I don't know if I
have another one in me.

Or Scotty.

Yeah, weII.

ReIentIess man.
Oh, you're a reIentIess man.

ANNOUNCER: This is
the CBS Evening News
with WaIter Cronkite.

The battIe over homosexuaI
rights in Dade County,
FIorida.

The battle pitting
singer Anita Bryant

against gay rights activist
comes to a vote there Tuesday.

The issue was whether or not
to repeal a four-month-old
ordinance,

which prohibits job and
housing discrimination
against homosexuals.

REPORTER ON TV:
ln anticipation
of the vote,

the gay community
has staged protests

in New York and other major
cities across the country.

MAN ON TV:
The vote is going
now 1 8,930 for repeal.

Oh, give me
a fucking break.

Eighty eight hundred
sixty nine against repeal.

Virgil, is that enough for
you to make a projection?

Yes, l think very definitely
that the ordinance is going
to be repealed.

With this margin, it's over.

Tonight, the Iaws of God

and the cuIturaI vaIues
of man have been vindicated.

The people
of Dade County,
the normal majority,

have said,
"Enough, enough, enough."

MAN ON TV: Singer
Anita Bryant's
well publicized...

(PHONE RINGING)

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

Scotty?

I'm sorry, sir, I read
about you in the paper.

HARVEY: l'm sorry.
l can't talk right now.

Sir, I think I'm
gonna kiII myseIf.

No. You don't
want to do that.

Where are you caIIing from?

Minnesota.

You saw my picture in
the paper in Minnesota?

How did I Iook?

My folks are gonna take me
to this place tomorrow.
A hospital. To fix me.

There's nothing wrong
with you. Listen to me.

You just get on a bus to
the nearest biggest city.

Los Angeles
or New York or
San Francisco,

it doesn't matter,
you just leave.

And you are not sick,

and you are not wrong
and God does not hate you.

Just Ieave.

I can't.
I can't waIk, sir.

WOMAN: PauI, I need
you to come out here.

HeIIo?

Harvey!

HeIIo?

(DIAL TONE DRONING)

Oh, shit.

Harvey,
you better come down,
there's going to be a riot.

Harvey,
you shouId
get to the stage.

Bring him the stage, guys.

If you can't controI
them, we wiII.

Just get me permission
to march them.

Where?

Anywhere.

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

Out of the bar
and into the streets!

Anita Bryant's
coming for you !

(BLOWS WHISTLE)

Out of the bar
and into the streets!

Anita Bryant's
coming for you !

(ALL CHANTING)
We have vowed
to fight back!

We have vowed
to fight back!

(ALL CHEERING)

l know you are angry.

(CROWD EXCLAIMING)

l am angry!

Let's march the streets
of San Francisco and
share our anger!

(CROWD CHEERING)

(ALL CHANTING)
Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!
Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!
Gay rights now!
Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!
Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!
Gay rights now!

(CROWD CHANTING)
Gay rights now!
Gay rights now!

Gay rights now!
Gay rights now!

(SIREN WAILING)

(CROWD CLAMORING)

My name is Harvey Milk
and l want to recruit you.

(CROWD CHEERING)

l am here tonight to say

that we will no longer
sit quietly in the closet.

We must fight.

And not only
in the Castro,

not only in
San Francisco,

but everywhere
the Anitas go.

Anita Bryant
did not win tonight.

Anita Bryant
brought us together!

(CROWD CHEERS)

She is going to create
a national gay force!

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

And the young people
in Jackson, Mississippi,

in Minnesota,
in the Richmond,

in Woodmere, New York,

who are hearing
her on teIevision,

hearing Anita Bryant
on teIevision,

telling them
they are sick,
they are wrong,

there is no place in
this great country
for them,

no place in this world,

they are looking to us
for something tonight.

And l say

we have got to
give them hope!

(CROWD CHEERING)

Hope!

. . .for a better worId.
Hope for a better tomorrow.

Hope for a better pIace to
come into if the pressures
at home are too great.

Hope for the worker who
awakens from the
American dream

onIy to find that
aII the jobs have
Ieft the country.

We've got to
give them hope.

When San Francisco
changed its voting
ruIes,

so that peopIe couId eIect
peopIe from their own
neighborhood,

so that the bIacks couId eIect
a African-American supervisor,

and in Chinatown, they couId
eIect a Chinese supervisor,

and in the Castro, they couId
choose between myseIf and
Rick Stokes.

But decent art
begs balance, right?

So, IittIe district eight,
two miIes south of the Castro,

still very much the same.
Irish CathoIic, conservative.

And with
just the right
amount of poetry,

they found themselves
a handsome ex-cop.

See, I'm not going to be
forced out of San Francisco

by spIinter groups of sociaI
radicaIs, sociaI deviants,
and incorrigibIes.

Now you must reaIize that
there are thousands upon
thousands of frustrated,

angry peopIe,
such as yourseIves,

just waiting to unIeash
a fury that wiII eradicate

the maIignancies that
bIight our beautifuI city.

Just one more. We can't
Iet Rick Stokes take
this one.

Let Rick Stokes
take it.

(OPERA MUSIC PLAYING)

Sorry.

I can't do another one.

Oh, God damn it.

Bring out the oId,
bring in the new.

This is over. Done.

I don't want to see one more
thing that says fucking
AssembIy on it.

'Cause this
three time faggot Ioser
is running for supervisor.

There she is.
JIM: Who the heck is that?

HARVEY: That's our
new campaign manager.

She caIIed Iast week
to voIunteer and
I asked for her heIp.

HeIp or take over?
What about Scott?

We need new bIood.

GentIemen, Anne Kronenberg.
A woman.

A woman
who Iikes women.
And that's odd, isn't it?

Hi, guys.

Mr. MiIk,
Rick Stokes
isn't puIIing out.

He's officiaIIy fiIed
to run against you.

My friend at The Advocate
says David Goodstein
is backing him.

So, a gay candidate
against a gay candidate.

That's unfortunate.

Let's find out when
they are going to
announce.

DICK:
So you repIaced
Scott with a Iesbian?

Anne worked
on a recycIing
campaign up north.

She's very, very organized.
We need that.

JIM: How do you know she's
not a pIant for Rick Stokes?

Are you guys
aIways this paranoid?

Yes. We take after Harvey.

Don't you have someone's
Iaundry to do?

ShouIdn't you be at
a hairdressing convention?

(EXCLAIMS)

Sir, my girIfriends say
you guys don't Iike women.

I'm just asking.

Is there a pIace for us
in aII this or are you
aII scared of girIs?

Okay, gentIemen,

we've
aIready got a tinker
beII, a Iotus bIossom.

We've got Jim and Dick
in their three-piece suits.

We need someone
to manage things.
A woman this time.

PIus,
she's the right price,

and she's got
bigger baIIs than
anybody eIse in here.

Just give me whatever
is in the register at
the end of the day.

So shouId I caII The Chronicle
about getting us an actuaI
endorsement this time?

No?

Yeah, caII The Chronicle,
sweetheart. TeII them I
said hi.

PIease caII. In fact,
don't drive down there.

You'II scare
the shit out of them.

CaII.

AII right.

Hi, I'm CIeve.

Anne. Good to meet you.

I was teIIing Harvey
we needed some tough
dykes around here, so. . .

WeII, you got one.

(OPERA MUSIC PLAYING)

(DOOR OPENING)

ANNE: AII right.

First ever newspaper
endorsement.

And we got
the Bay Guardian,

The Sentinel and
The Bay Area Reporter.

You are
puIIing your weight.
Oh, this is sensationaI !

They endorsed you for
being a good businessman?

Oh, my gosh,
you reaIIy are
a miracIe worker.

Scott has got to read this.
He's just gonna piss himseIf.

Yeah,
you shouId show him.

You know what
you shouId do,
CIeve,

you shouId get yourseIf
a boy to ceIebrate with,
just in case we win.

Anybody want to
buy me a drink?

Oh, I wiII buy you
a drink.

How about a bottIe
of champagne?

(ANNE LAUGHING)

We are going to The Stud
right fucking now.

Harvey, are
you going to come?
You're gonna miss out?

HARVEY: Go, go, go, go.
I want to be with
my newspaper.

(ANNE GIGGLES)

Come on, Iet's go.
Come on, I'm buying.

You're not buying.
You don't have any money.

Gonna win this time, MiIk?

(MUSIC STOPS)

You Iook more
handsome in the poster.

(CHUCKLES)

Oh, thank you.

You know, paIominos
are my favorite horse.

They're smart.

But they're
compact and fast.

I Iike that.

You think I'm more
Iike a paIomino,

or a staIIion?

You know,
with big baIIs and. . .

Oh, oh, oh, oh !
Here, Iet me heIp you.

You okay?

Yeah, it's. . .
Come in.

Here, just Iean on me.

Thank you.
What happened?

I don't know,
these boots are
too big for me.

HARVEY: Oh, weII,
Iet's get you in and
get those off your feet.

HARVEY: Where you going?

JACK: I have
some things to do.

I got to go and meet
some friends. No, no, no.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(JACK MOANING)

JACK: My father beat
me when he found out.

So, that's
why I came here.

But,
I'm Iiving with this
guy that. . . I don't know.

I don't Iike him.

Nobody wiII
ever beat you again.

I Iove you.
I Iove you.

Do you even
remember my name?

(JACK CHUCKLES)

No.

Harvey.

I'm Harvey.

(SOFTLY)
Harvey, I Iove you.

Thanks.

Thank you.

HARVEY:
For the first time,
it all came together.

The union boys, women,
the seniors, the gays
and minorities.

AII of the "us's"
showed up.

MAN ON TV: We can hear it,
we can't really see too much,

but it Iooks and sounds
to you and to me

Iike New Year's Eve
on Market Street.

We did it!

I Iove you aII !

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

(ALL CHATTERING)

We are the movement.
We are the movement.
Thank you so much.

Come on,
we just want to
congratuIate him.

No, I understand, but
right now we're aII fuII.

Harvey!

JACK: Harvey!
Harvey!

JACK: Hey, Harvey!

Hey.

Sorry, it's just so crowded.

Come in, sorry, sorry.

It's so crowded.
It's just so crowded.

MAN: Harvey, man !

(ALL CHEERING)

Scotty!

Is this aII for you, Harvey?
Are you this famous, baby?

No, we do this aII the time.
You Iike it?

Yeah.

The new Mrs. MiIk.
I give it a week.

Gordon Lau, CaroI Ruth SiIver.
It's the most IiberaI board
in years. In history!

What about Dan White?
Did he win?

We'II deaI
with him tomorrow.
Oh, God.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

WOMAN ON TV:
Does this mean, as many
straights are concerned,

maybe the gays are taking
over San Francisco?

Are you going
to be a supervisor
for all the people?

WeII, I have to be.
That's what I was
eIected for.

I have to be there to
open for the dialog,

for the sensitivities
of all people and all
their problems.

The problems
that affect this
city, affect us all.

Okay, weII,
congratulations.

Thank you.
Thank you, San Francisco!

And that's Harvey Milk,

celebrating his election to
the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors.

For ChanneI Five news,
l'm Mary Dilts.

GEORGE:
l, Harvey Milk,
do solemnly swear...

HARVEY:
l, Harvey Milk,
do solemnly swear...

GEORGE: That I wiII support
and defend the Constitution
of the United States...

HARVEY: That l will support
and defend the Constitution
of the United States...

GEORGE: During such time as I
hold the office of supervisor,

City and County
of San Francisco.

During such time as I
hoId the office of
supervisor,

City and County
of San Francisco.

CongratuIations, Harvey.
Thank you, Mayor.

(PEOPLE WHOOPING)

Anita Bryant said that it
was gay people that brought
the drought to CaIifornia.

WeII, it Iooks
to me as though it's
finally started raining.

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

WOMAN ON TV: This wiII be
the first time in many years

that we've seen
so many new faces on
the Board of Supervisors.

Do you
think such diversity
wiII crippIe the board?

WeII, the name of the
game is six votes to
get anything passed.

So,
whether you
Iike it or not,

Dan and I are
in bed together.

PoIiticaIIy speaking.

DAN:
You see, I've assured
Harvey here that, uh,

my brochure's comments
about sociaI deviants

referred more to junkies
than to his people.

See, I'm about to
have my first child

and I had to make sure that
this city remains a decent
place to raise him.

WOMAN: WeII, thank you
so much for coming on
the show, gentlemen,

and we'll see what happens.

HARVEY: That's it?
It's over? We're finished?

Yes.

That was quick.
Thank you.

HARVEY:
How Iong were
you a fireman, Dan?

A coupIe of years.

And you were a poIice
officer before that?

You got something
against cops, Harv?

No, no. They tend
to against me though.

But firefighters,
they're the true heroes.

They supported me
on my Iast campaign.
I fuIIy support them.

I appreciate that.

I meant what I said.
I'd Iike to work together.

Me, too.
I'II see you Iater.

Okay.

Oh.
What do you think
of my new theater?

A bit over the top.

HARVEY: You're
wearing a suit?

I got it
from a friend.

HARVEY:
No, no, no, no.

Anytime you come here,
I want you to wear the
tightest jeans possibIe.

Never bIend in.
And never take
the eIevator.

AIways use
the stairs.

You can make such
a grand entrance by
taking these stairs.

HeIIo.

CaroI, friend.

Dan White.

HeIIo, Dianne.

And then this is
Gordon Lau's office.

Anne,
can you set
CIeve up on maiI?

WiII do.

(CLEVE WHISTLES)

HARVEY: Okay,

first order of business
to come out of this office

is a citywide
Gay Rights Ordinance,

just Iike the one that
Anita shot down in
Dade County.

What do you think,
Lotus BIossom?

I think it's good.
It's not great.

Okay, so make it briIIiant.
We want Anita's attention
here in San Francisco.

I want
her to bring
her fight to us.

We need
a unanimous vote,
we need headIines.

Dan White is not
gonna vote for this.

Dan White wiII be fine.

Dan White is
just uneducated.
We'II teach him.

Hey, Harv,
committee meets at 9:30.

Hey, you guys.

Say, did you
get the invitation
to my son's christening?

I invited a few of
the other Supes, too.

HARVEY: Oh, I'II be there.

Great! Thanks.

(SOFTLY)
Did he hear you?
What the fuck!

ANNE: Are you going?

I wouId Iet him christen me
if it means he's gonna vote
for the Gay Rights Ordinance.

We need aIIies.
We need everyone.

I don't think
he heard you.

Is it just me
or is he cute?

(KNOCK ON WINDOW)

HARVEY: Jack?

WeIcome home, Harvey.
I hope you're hungry.

I just know how
to cook one thing,
but I make it good.

Come.

Jack,
did you break in?

No, no, no.
I asked the IittIe boy
downstairs to Iet me in.

Danny?
Yeah.

He wouIdn't Iet me,
so I came in this way.

You know, your friends
aren't very nice to me,
Harvey.

HARVEY: I have a Town HaII
meeting tonight.

Sit down.
Come, five minutes.
That's it. Come, pIease.

There you go.

I watched TV here
today, aII day.

I saw AII My ChiIdren.

And they kiIIed Margo.
But I knew it was
going to happen.

You know, they aIways
try and trick you but
it never works.

You aIways
see it coming.

What? KiIIing the bIonde?
Yeah, I'm good with that.

(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING SOFTLY)

Jack.
What?

If I make you a key,

wiII you
promise never
to break in again?

That's right.

(JACK CHUCKLES)

Is it your wiII that CharIes
shouId be baptized in the
faith of the church

which we have aII
professed with you?

It is.
It is.

CharIes, I baptize you
in the name of the Father

and of the Son and
of the HoIy Spirit.

God, the father of
our Lord Jesus Christ
has freed you from sin. . .

HARVEY: I'm proposing
a citywide ordinance

which wouId ensure that any
person who aIready has a job

cannot be fired on the
basis of sexuaI orientation.

I don't think
my constituents
wouId favor that, Harvey.

Is there anyone eIse here
from the board today, Dan?

You're the onIy one
who showed, I think.

Were you
christened here?

I was.
Right here,
same parish.

My grandma immigrated
here when this was an
Irish CathoIic city,

the City of Saint Francis.

But a Iot's changed here
since then, you know.

You're more Iike one
of us now, an outsider.

You're not Iike
most homosexuaIs,
are you, Harvey?

Do you know a Iot
of homosexuaIs, Dan?

Hey, where do you stand
on the Psychiatric Center

that the city's been
pushing into my district?

WeII, I'd have
to study it. . .

It was a key
piece on my pIatform.
Getting it out of my district.

It onIy attracts arsonists,
rapists, that sort of thing,
you know.

A campaign promise.

A big one.
Sure.

What do you say we watch out
for each other's interests?
I wouId reaIIy Iike that.

I'd Iike that too, Dan.
Good.

Sorry, hon,
we just sIipped
into some shop taIk.

The Gay Rights Ordinance.
My fauIt.

Seems Iike
an inappropriate
subject, don't you think?

Oh, don't knock it
tiII you've tried it.

(CRYING)

HeIIo.
Oh, oh, but you had
such a beautifuI christening.

DICK: Supervisors SiIver
and Lau are asking you
to vote

to keep this Psychiatric
Center in Dan's district.

It'II go down six to five
if you vote to get rid of it.

MICHAEL:
It's a youth
campus, Harvey.

And these
are kids that wouId
be dispIaced from famiIies.

I can't just dump Dan.
He's got nothing
going for him.

No friends. . .

CLEVE: Oh, God, oh, God !
Here we go, here we go.
Harvey to the rescue.

Isn't it enough that we
have to put up with Jack?

AII right, Iay off.
He registered 1 20
voters Iast week.

Okay, so do any
of your voIunteers,

but you don't go and
make them aII first Iady.

Harvey, what does
Dan White do for you?

ReaIIy, poIiticaIIy.

HARVEY: He intrigues me.
I think he may be one of us.

No, no.

It's just a theory.

DICK: You just
think he's cute.

No, no.
I know what it's
Iike to Iive that Iife.

That Iie. I can
see it in Dan's eyes.
That fear, the pressure.

(ANNE CLEARS THROAT)

HARVEY: Good or bad?
Not great.

State Senator John Briggs
is Anita Bryant's go-to guy
in CaIifornia for sure.

He fiIed a petition for
a statewide referendum

to fire aII gay teachers
and anyone who supports them.

HARVEY: How many signatures
does he need to get on the
baIIot?

Oh, whatever. He can get them
in two Sundays at church in
Orange fucking County.

So, this means that
the fight is coming here,

where we can do
something about it.

HEIDI ON TV:
The issue in CaIifornia
is whether schooI boards

shouId be aIIowed
to fire teachers who
are known homosexuaIs.

The courts have
ruled they cannot.

Boards must prove
a teacher's homosexuality
adversely affects children

and makes them unfit
for the cIassroom.

State Senator John Briggs
wants to change that.

My proposition promises to
protect our chiIdren from
these gay perverts and. . .

(PEOPLE EXCLAIM)

These gay perverts
and pedophiIes who
recruit our chiIdren

to participate in their
deviant IifestyIe,

incIuding the ones who do
it in our pubIic schooIs.

The time has come
for us to root them out.

(CROWD BOOING)

How are you going
to determine
who's homosexuaI?

JOHN: I'm sorry, sir, what?

How are you going
to determine
who's homosexuaI?

Sir, my biII has procedures
for identifying homosexuaIs.

Oh, yeah, how?
WiII you be sucking
them off, Briggs?

Excuse me.
You know what,
you can argue with me,

you cannot
argue with God.

(ALL BOOING)

Harvey, I can't beIieve it.

No, he wants my job.
You want my job,
you prick!

MAN ON TV: Sir, you were
here when State Senator
Briggs was on the steps.

What do you
think about that?

Well, l think what you saw,
you saw some very committed
opposition to his proposition.

And I think that's
only going to continue.

People have
very emotional
reactions to this.

This is their Iives
that are on the Iine.

MAN: What's going to happen?

WeII, Iook what
happened in Germany.

l mean, Anita Bryant has
already said that the Jews
and Muslims are going to hell.

So, you know she
has a shopping list.

And we are not going to let
the John Briggs' or
the Anita Bryants

legislate bigotry
in this state.

HeIIo, Harvey,
running Iate?

Your boyfriend
is in the cIoset.

Excuse me, David.

The Latino has Iocked
himseIf in the cIoset
upstairs.

Harvey, Harvey,
PhiI Burton is here.

He's IikeIy the next
Speaker of the House

and a very
important aIIy
against Proposition 6.

So, pIease,
no scenes, aII right?

You're right.
I was Iate by
20 minutes.

So come on out, Jack.

JACK: Who were you with?
Scott? Or with a new boy
you were trying to save?

I was at work.
Come on out,
sweet pea.

You embarrassed me,
Harvey.

I didn't know anyone down
there and they're bad peopIe.

I just want to go, okay?

Then you shouId go home.

No, I want to stay.
I want to stay here.

So, you go away, okay?
Go away!

DAVID: The Briggs
initiative is poIIing at
75% for approvaI statewide.

80% in other poIIs.
Some even have us
Iosing San Francisco.

DAVID: We deceive peopIe
into thinking we can
beat this,

we'II have
riots and onIy
increase the backIash.

That's a good point, David.

Maybe we shouId just roII over
and make it easier for Briggs
to fuck us in the ass.

We're taking this very
seriousIy in my office.

We want to send one of these
to every home in CaIifornia
and that takes money.

"Proposition 6 is
an affront to human rights.

"An invasion of the state
into the private Iives of
CaIifornia citizens."

Without a singIe mention
of the word gay on the
entire fIyer.

By design, Harvey.

RICK: Corey Wares is an out gay teacher. . .
Rick. . .

With the heat bearing down
on your movement right now,

we feeI it's best
to dodge the gay buIIet.
Go for the human rights angIe.

PeopIe need to know
who it is that's
being affected.

You need at Ieast one
oId queer on this fIyer.

Excuse me, yeah.
Maybe you shouId
voIunteer for that, David.

This is shit. This is
shit and masturbation.

It's just
a coward's response
to a dangerous threat.

Come on, Jack.
It's time to go.

(WHISPERING) Get everyone
together at your pIace.

I want young peopIe,
I want women,
I want fresh heads.

Get organizers and fighters,
not poIiticians.
Come on, Jack.

(SOFTLY)
What about S-C-O-T-T?

Yeah.

Jack, come on.

We have to
fight the machine.

They don't want to change,
they want to stay in the past.

MAN 1 : Stop and be
reaIistic about it.

ReaIistic? We're not
interested in staying in
the cIoset, Iosing Prop 6.

MAN 2: We're aII
on the same side, man,
we're on the same side.

(ALL CHATTERING)

HARVEY: Hey, is anybody
gonna pay the pizza guy or
we're just gonna stare?

MAN 3: How couId
we not stare?

Here, put out your hand.

You are shameIess.
You are shameIess.

I mean,
I'm proud of you
but you're just terribIe.

Hey.

We're going to
convince the 90%

to give a shit
about us 1 0%.

We have to Iet them
know who we are.

Everybody has to come out.

Across the entire state,
no matter where they Iive.

Come out, come out,
wherever you are.

If we're going to beat Prop 6,
we teII aII of them to
come out.

Every
gay Iawyer, teacher,
doctor, dog catcher.

We have to
Ieave the ghetto.

We have to Iet aII those
peopIe out there know
that they know one of us.

And if
somebody doesn't want
to step out of the cIoset,

we open the door for them.

ANNE: Jesus.

The whoIe state isn't
San Francisco, Harvey.

CIearIy, Scott.

JIM: Harvey, that couId
be reaIIy, reaIIy dangerous.

I mean,
there's such a thing
as a right to privacy.

Privacy.

In this movement,
at this time,

I'm not saying this
as a supervisor,
privacy is the enemy.

And if you want
reaI poIiticaI power,
if that's what you want,

try teIIing the truth
for a change.

AII right? Starting here.

If there's anyone in
this room, right now,

who hasn't toId
their famiIies,

their friends,
their empIoyers,

do it now.

My foIks know aIready.

My dad doesn't know yet.

They vote for us
two to one.

If they know,
they know one of us.

DICK:
As much as I'm sure
you'd aII Iike to watch,

I don't think
that's such a good idea.

CIeve, couId you show Dick
where there's a phone where
he couId speak in private?

CLEVE: There's
one in the bedroom.

I just found
myseIf cIawing over him,
IiteraIIy running to get him.

Oh, good night.
Good night.

Ciao, gang.
CLEVE: SIeep tight.

HARVEY: I thought
you got out of poIitics.

SCOTT: PoIitics.
Not the movement.

What the heII
was that in there?

HARVEY: The movement
needs peopIe to be
upfront.

Why were you
fighting me in there?

Those are kids in there.
You're asking them to
Iose their famiIies.

If their famiIies don't
Iove them for who they are,

who they reaIIy are,
then they shouId
Iose them.

That's fucking insane.

You were the biggest
cIoset case in New York.

You asked me and
aII your boyfriends
to keep our traps shut.

I mean,
you're being
the hypocrite.

My parents are gone.
My brother knew.
I'm sure they knew.

How many times did I
have to Iisten to
caIIs to Mom,

where you
denied my existence?

And you want to be
normaI Iike anybody.
More than anybody.

Who's he?
You Iive together?

Someone I'm seeing.

Keeps me
out of troubIe,
out of the bars.

I miss you.

Harvey,

what's that about?

JACK: Harvey.

He needs me.

DAN: If there is an air
of dishonesty with this
board and its members,

that is repugnant. . .

I have toId no Iies today
or to Supervisor White
in the past.

DIANNE: Supervisor MiIk,
you wiII come to order.

HARVEY: I wouId Iike it
noted that I never promised

to back moving any
mentaI heaIth centers.

And that with great respect
to Supervisor White, I wouId
Iike his remarks stricken.

DuIy noted. We wiII
take a 1 0 minute recess
before recording the vote.

CAROL: Thank you, Harvey.

Can I have
a moment with Harvey?
AIone, pIease, CaroI?

Why? Why are you
turning on me Iike this?

At the Iast minute?
What did I do?

I never
got the detaiIs.

Dan, if you want
me to heIp you draft
another version of it

that doesn't shanghai every
troubIed kid in your area,
I'II be happy to.

Harvey, I can't go back
to my famiIy, to my foIks,
to my district without this.

Don't do this.
WeII, I have a Iot
of pressure on me.

So, you're just
stringing me aIong

and then you're just gonna
throw me to the woIves,
is that it?

Dan,
you onIy need
one more vote.

You've got five
other supervisors you
can convince besides me.

I'm gonna vote against your
queer Iaw and I'm gonna get
Quentin against it, too.

Oh, it's gonna pass anyway and
you can't keep aIienating
yourseIf here, Dan.

I gave you a chance, Harvey,
okay? I gave you a chance
and you bIew it!

You bIew it.

The city council in
St. PauI, Minnesota

passed a law guaranteeing,
among other things,

equal rights in housing,
employment and education,

regardless of
sexual preference.

Now, voters in that city have
made their disapproval clear.

Homosexuality is a question
facing the voters of Eugene,
Oregon tomorrow.

A referendum to repeal
gay rights protection.

HARVEY: So, whiIe we
were fighting Proposition
6 and Briggs in CaIifornia,

I needed to put
a show on the road.

And our next stop,
Wichita, Kansas.

Voters of Wichita, Kansas
have overwhelmingly repealed

a city law
protecting homosexuals

against discrimination
in jobs and housing.

MAN ON TV:
OnIy two hours
after the polls closed,

the church organization that
started the repeal action
was celebrating victory.

Hey, Lawrence, it's CIeve.

Hey, we're Iosing Wichita.

So raIIy tonight sundown
at Market and Castro, okay?

Okay, bye.

(PHONE RINGING)

HeIIo?

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(PHONES RINGING)

CLEVE: Jerry. Hey,
we're Iosing Wichita. . .

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

CLEVE:
They're moving.
I don't know where.

Did Jim caII the press?
You get out there with
your camera.

Press is covered.
But we don't have
a permit to march.

Hurry up.

When I got Coors
beer out of the bars,
the union boys gave me this.

I want you
to take it now.

What am I supposed
to do with this?

You're an activist now,
you're gonna march them.

I want you to march
them right up to the
front doors of City HaII.

When things start
to Iook reaIIy bad,

the city's first
gay supervisor wiII come
out and pIay peacemaker.

Do it with me.

HeIIo.

Forty years ago, tonight,

the gay citizens of Germany
found out they no longer
had civil rights.

(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

Tomorrow morning,
the gay citizens of
Wichita wiII aIso awaken

to find that they too
have lost their civil rights!

You have whistIes.
You use them when we
have been attacked.

Tonight we have been attacked.

MAN: Come on, the crowd
is Ieaving without us!

Shit!

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

Get the press
to the marquee.

Move Ieft! Move Ieft!

JIM: What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Where's Harvey?

We're shutting down traffic,
both directions.

MAN: Cameras are roIIing.

Okay, disconnect
the power arm !

CiviI rights
or civiI war!
Gay rights now!

ALL: (CHANTING) CiviI rights
or civiI war! Gay rights now!

CiviI rights or civiI war!
Gay rights now!

Anita!

Anita, you're a liar!
We'll set your hair on fire!

ALL: Anita, you're a Iiar!

Anita, you're a Iiar!
We'II set your hair on fire!

HARVEY: Okay, okay!

My name is Harvey Milk
and l'm here to recruit you.

(CROWD CHEERING)

They're caIIing it
a successfuI mediation.

You're a goddamn hero. Fuck,
we came this cIose to a riot.

Next time
put down the note cards.

You got to keep taIking into
that buIIhorn and teII them
what they're feeIing.

CLEVE: Oh,
you're just jeaIous
it wasn't you out there.

HARVEY: We're Iosing
Proposition 6 by 60%,

and you're over there
ceIebrating a riot.

What we need is exposure.

If we're gonna
beat this thing,

we got to get Briggs
to acknowIedge it.

ANNE: Every paper's
caIIing Prop 6
the main event now.

We Iose this,
we'II have anti-gay
Iaws in aII 50 states,

and Briggs won't answer our
caIIs for a pubIic debate.

DICK: He's trying
to ignore us to death.

HARVEY: We need
something popuIist.

What's the number one
probIem in this city?

CLEVE: The fucking piss
smeII in the TenderIoin.

HARVEY: CIose.

FRANK: Dog shit.

If you cIean up the
dog shit in this town,
you're the next mayor.

MAN ON TV:
Supervisor MiIk
took to the grassy lawn

at Duboce Park
this afternoon to
publicize the new law.

Dog mess is a hazard
and on top of that,
it's disgusting.

So under the new ordinance,
aII dog owners who don't
cIean up their mess

wiII be fined.

MAN ON TV: MiIk put his
foot down to emphasize that
the city intends to enforce,

and you guessed it.

In Supervisor MiIk's words,
"This really is the
bottom Iine."

GORDON: Aye.

CLERK: Lau, aye.
Supervisor Hutch?

Aye.

CLERK: Hutch, aye.
Supervisor White?

No.

CLERK: White, no.
Supervisor SiIver?

Aye.

CLERK:
SiIver, aye.
Supervisor MiIk?

Aye.

CLERK: MiIk, aye.

Madam President,
I have ten ayes
and one no.

DIANNE:
The San Francisco
Gay Rights Ordinance

sponsored by Supervisors
MiIk and SiIver is passed.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

GEORGE: I can't get
my stories on page ten,
you're getting page one?

Doggy-doo is a
reaI issue, George.

A powder bIue pen
to sign the city's
first gay rights Iaw.

(ALL LAUGHING)

I don't do this enough,
taking swift
and unambiguous action

on a substantive
move for civiI rights.

CongratuIations.

George,
we need your
heIp with Briggs.

The gay community
wiII have your back on
every issue from now on.

We hope you'II have ours.

HARVEY:
What are you
working on, Dan?

If you have something
to discuss, Harvey,

you can have your aide make
an appointment with my aide.

Dan, I know you're upset
about the psychiatric center.

What eIse do you
have coming up?

Now you need
something from me.

(SCOFFS)

What do you want,
me to support the queers
against Prop 6, is that it?

We prefer the term gay, Dan.

Just as I'm sure you prefer
the term Irish-American
instead of mick.

Harvey, a society can't
exist without the famiIy.

We're not against that.
You're not?

What, can two men reproduce?

No.

But God knows
we keep trying.

(CHUCKLES)

This isn't you, Dan.

It's Iike
you're channeIing
Anita and Briggs.

We got to
be abIe to work
together on something.

Okay, MiIk,

introduce an initiative
for supervisor pay raises.

Dan, we both have
eIections coming up.
We can't do that.

No, you asked for something.

Introduce pay raises,
'cause I can't take care
of my famiIy on our saIaries.

You don't have that
probIem, do you?

MAN ON TV:
Senator John Briggs
apparently has not flinched

in the face of statewide
criticism of his anti-gay
crusade.

He says polls show
most of the people
are stiII on his side.

Especially those concerned
with the preservation of
the American family.

lf these people are going
to Iive a Iife of such
open homosexuality,

that they want a 21 gun salute
every time somebody walks
by them,

those people are going
to be in danger of being
removed from their job.

ALL: (SINGING)
Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday, dear Harvey

Happy birthday to you

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

What's wrong, taco?

It's just that
CIeve and Anne,

they tried to cut me
out of your tabIe, baby.

I'm so sick of that bitch.
You shouId fire them.

I'II take it
under consideration.

WouId you go
get us some cake?

Cake?
Yeah.

Whatever you want.

Don't Iet Cesar Chavez
hear you caIIing him taco.

He's getting much better.
He's enroIIing in cIasses
on Monday, I hope.

You know, I remember
when your birthdays were

a Iot Iess Iavish and
a IittIe more intimate.

Who invited you? Anne?

No, my boyfriend.
I'm his pIus one.

WeII, congratuIations.
It was a very hard
ticket to get.

CongratuIations to you.
Looks Iike you're part
of the machine now.

By the way,
you can do better.

When I come home to Jack,
I don't have to taIk
poIitics,

I don't have
to taIk inteIIigentIy.
I don't have to taIk at aII.

And besides, where's an ugIy
oId man Iike me gonna find a
handsome young man Iike that?

You're not that oId
and you Iook handsome.

Happy 48. Looks
Iike you're gonna make it
to 50 after aII, Mr. MiIk.

Harvey!

(EXCLAIMS)

DAN: Harvey, Harvey!

Is your birthday party
over?

WeII, it's just
winding down. Hi.

Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I missed
your birthday party.

No, it's no probIem.
It's good to see you, Dan.

I'm sorry. It's good
to see you too, Harvey.

Oh, I wanted to ask
you about the dog poop.

Yeah.

That's good.
It's a reaIIy good one.

(CHUCKLES)
It's a good one.

Hey, I got you
a IittIe something.

You didn't have to.

I knew you were
going to say that.

Why do peopIe
aIways say that?

"You didn't have to."
I mean, of course,
right?

But that's what
they aIways say.

They aIways say
things Iike that.

AIways.

Are you okay, Dan?

Yeah.

Are you okay, Harvey?

Are we okay?
Okay.

I've Iearned
a Iot from watching you.
I doubt that.

No, I have. I've reaIized
you just gotta get out there.

You gotta be noticed,
'cause that's how
it aII works.

But you have an issue.
See, that's your advantage.

That's an advantage.

Dan,
it's more than an issue.

What?
I. . .

Dan, I have had four
reIationships in my Iife.

And three of them have
tried to commit suicide.
And that's my fauIt,

because I kept them hidden
and quiet, because I was
cIoseted and weak.

You see what I'm saying?
Yes.

You do?
Mmm-hmm.

This is not just jobs
or issues, this is our
Iives we're fighting for.

Okay?
AII right.

Okay, Dan. . .
I've Iearned a Iot
from you, Harvey.

I'm getting back
to my party now.

I'm going to get my
picture in the papers, too.

Why are you even here?
Why did you just show
up from somewhere?

I've got my own issues. Okay?
HARVEY: Okay.

I've got my own issues.
JACK: Thank you.

"Thank you." Whatever.

I don't even know who you are.
You just showed up out of
nowhere, Latino man.

Dan White's got an issue!

John Briggs said this morning
that Dade County, OkIahoma,
and St. PauI, Minnesota

were only preliminary battles.

He caIIed his CaIifornia
campaign against homosexual
teachers the main event.

What it's doing,
what these people
are doing is

changing our morals from
our religious background.
And I don't want that.

This came in
the maiI today.

"You get the first buIIet
the minute you stand
at the microphone."

MAN ON MICROPHONE:
...Supervisor Harvey MiIk.

WeII, pubIicity's working.

You don't have
to go up there.

The whoIe nation is watching.
I have to go.

My name is Harvey Milk
and l'm here to recruit you!

l want to recruit you for
the fight to preserve
your democracy!

Brothers and sisters,
you must come out!

Come out to your parents,

come out to your friends,
if indeed they are your
friends.

Come out to your neighbors,
come out to your fellow
workers.

Once and for aII,
Iet's break down
the myths

and destroy the lies
and distortions.

(ALL CHEERING)

For your sake,
for their sake.

For the sake of
all the youngsters
who've been scared

by the votes
from Dade to
Eugene.

On the Statue of Liberty,
it says,

"Give me your tired,
your poor, your huddled
masses yearning to be free."

(ALL CHEERING)

In the DecIaration of
lndependence it is written,

"AII men are created
equal and endowed with
certain inalienable rights."

So, for Mr. Briggs,

(ALL BOOING)

and Mrs. Bryant,

(ALL BOOING)

and all the bigots
out there,

no matter how hard you try,

you can never erase
those words from the
Declaration of lndependence!

No matter how hard you try,
you can never chip those words

from the base of
the Statue of Liberty!

That is where America is!

Love it or Ieave it!

Okay, the mayor says Briggs
is on his way here and that
he couId intercept him for us.

We couId get him face to face.
Go get the press.

AII right.

WeII, I see
naked men waIking around,
naked women waIking around,

which doesn't bother me
as far as my personaI
standards of nudity,

but it's not proper.
It wouIdn't be aIIowed for any
other parade in San Francisco,

and it shouId not be
aIIowed for the Gay Parade.

I have a right to be at
this parade, Mr. Mayor.

I'm afraid it's not in
the interest of your
safety,

or my pubIic's safety
to Iet you into these
parade grounds.

I'm Harvey MiIk.
It's an honor to
meet you, Mr. Briggs.

Yeah, no, I'm aware.

You know, it's sad, Mr. MiIk,
that you're afraid to fight
this out in pubIic.

Oh, that's not true.

I'd very
much Iike to have
a pubIic debate with you.

I'm very interested
in the detaiIs of
your argument.

Oh, weII, you know,
you know the detaiIs.

I mean, just Iook at the
votes across this nation.
The pubIic is with me.

They are today.

Which is why
with my city's mayor

and the San Francisco
press as my witnesses,

I'd Iike to chaIIenge
you to a pubIic debate.

Oh, I think
that's a yes.

You know, Mr. MiIk,
we don't allow people
who practice bestiality

(CROWD EXCLAIMING)
to teach our chiIdren,
and... Excuse me,

and the reason we don't
is because it is illegal.

lt is not illegal
to be a homosexuaI
in CaIifornia.

And your law goes
even further.

Any school employee
who even supports a gay
person will be fired.

WeII, that's true.
But gay people don't have
any children of their own.

And if they don't
recruit our chiIdren,
they'd all just die away.

(CROWD EXCLAIMS)

You know? And that's why
they're all so interested
in becoming teachers,

because they
want to encourage
our children to join them.

And how do you
teach homosexuality?

It's Iike French?

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

I was born of
heterosexual parents,

taught by
heterosexuaI teachers

in a fiercely
heterosexual society.

So why then
am I homosexuaI?

And no offense meant,

but if it were true that
chiIdren mimicked their
teachers,

we'd have a heII of a Iot
more nuns running around.

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

(PEOPLE WHOOPING)

We were
reaIIy, genuineIy
frightened by Proposition 6.

And with Anita and
Briggs gaining strength,
we were very pessimistic.

We didn't think that
there was any chance
that we couId beat it.

But what we did hope for

is that we couId
organize enough,

so that when we did Iose,
aII heII wouId break Ioose.

We're stiII Iosing 60-30.
We got to take this show
on the road.

Put out a press reIease.

CaII Briggs' office,
teII him he can pick
the audience, the town.

I'II teII my supporters
to stay away.

Harvey, his audiences
are intenseIy devout.
You'II get kiIIed.

Get me Orange County.

ln your statements here
and all these newspapers
and tonight,

you say that child
moIestation is not
an issue.

If it's not an issue,

why do you put out
Iiterature that
hammers it home?

(CROWD JEERING)
Why do you play on
this myth and fear?

Same thing with VD, Harvey,
we put out publications...

This is campaign
Iiterature.

Well, we put out
publications about
VD so you can avoid it.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

You yourself had said that
there's more moIestation
in the heterosexual group,

(CROWD BOOING)
so why not get rid of
the heterosexuaI teachers?

We are not
talking about homosex...
About chiId moIestation.

Nearly... The fact is,
nearly 95 percent of the
people are heterosexual,

so, if we took
the heterosexuaIs out
and the homosexuaIs out,

you know what,
we'd have no teachers.

We'd have no teachers,
no more moIestation.

So you're saying that
the percentage of
the population

is equal to
the percentage
of chiId moIestation?

No, no, no,
l'm not saying that, no.

That's what
you just said.

No, no, no. l'm not saying
that at all. l am saying
that we can't prevent

chiId moIestation,
so let's just cut
our odds down

by taking out the
homosexuals and keeping
in the heterosexual groups.

(APPLAUSE)

Sir, in your drive
for personal power,

how many careers are you
willing to see destroyed?

How many lives, in your lust
for power, will you destroy
and when will it stop?

(CROWD EXCLAIMING)

(RINGING)

Jack, what is it?

JACK: Nothing.
Just wondering
when you'll be home.

You just had them puII me
out of my big vote on the
dog shit ordinance for this?

What, do you do
this on purpose?

Fuck, Harvey,
it's poop, okay?

I just hope I'm more
important than poop.

Look, it's...
l just... l don't know
what time I'II be home.

6:00 or 6: 1 5.

Okay.
Okay?

I'm aII right.
I'II see you then.

(SNIFFLES) Okay.
6: 1 5, then.

HARVEY: Dan, how's the baby?

DAN:
You didn't bring up
supervisor pay raises?

In fact, I heard that you
pIan to pubIicIy oppose them.

HARVEY: WeII,
I heard that you pIanned
to vote against them, too.

Were you setting me up?

DAN: It's not
a good time for me,
poIiticaIIy speaking.

Dan, there's a vote on
the PoIice Desegregation
SettIement.

You give me that
and I'II consider
backing pay raises.

I don't trade votes.

UnIike you,
the way I was raised,

we beIieve in
right and wrong.
MoraI and immoraI.

BIack skin and white
in the poIice department.

Dan, even RonaId Reagan
is opposed to Proposition 6.

You're Iooking more
and more out of touch.

Okay, if I come out against
Prop 6, it's onIy going
to be for the invasion

of state's rights issue,
that's it.

And the potentiaI
witch hunt against
you straight peopIe.

You can't humiIiate
me, okay?

You wiII not demean me.

ANNE: Harvey, we're
doing the finaI vote.
We need to get you back.

Jack?

(CLATTERING)

Oh !

No, Jack. Jack, no!

No, no, no. Jack, no.

Jack!

No, no, no, no!
Oh, no!

(SOBBING)

Hope!

SCOTT: Harvey,

Iook at me.

Hey, Iook at me.

You did everything
that you couId.

No, I didn't.

What more couId
you have done?

I couId have come back
at 6:00 instead of 6: 1 5.

(SOBBING)

SCOTT: Shh.

Jack was gone.
I didn't have
any time to mourn.

There was no choice.

I had to keep on. . .
Keep on fighting.

FEMALE ANNOUNCER:
Most CaIifornia
political leaders,

from Governor Jerry Brown to
former Governor RonaId Reagan,

say there are already enough
laws on the books to protect
chiIdren.

lf you allow one,
just one human being

to be aIIowed to have his
rights taken away from him,

as a human being
then, pal,

you don't have any right
when they come to
take away your rights!

You do what you want in
the privacy of your own home.

But don't teII me
l got to accept
it in mine.

(PHONES RINGING)

San Bernadino is coming in.
Not good.

Of course not.
How not good?

60% for Briggs.
Same in Fresno.

Oh, dear God,
Lotus BIossom.

ImperiaI is
69% for so far.

Put it on the board.

I Iove homosexuaIs,
if you can believe that.

l love them enough
to teII them the truth.

I think that if it were
passed, it would be just
what some people would need

to conduct a very
severe witch hunt.

Want to ask everybody to
vote against Proposition 6.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

The whoIe worId is watching.
This is San Francisco we're
Iosing. You ready?

I can have 1 5,000
peopIe here in an hour,

but there's
gonna be riots
if this thing passes.

There goddamn
weII better be.

What are you teIIing me?

I can't
say this because
I'm a pubIic officiaI,

but if
this thing passes,
fight the heII back.

WOMAN ON TV:
It was fundamentaIist
Christians who heIped Briggs

gather most of the signatures
to put Proposition 6 on
today's ballot.

WOMAN:
The Christian community
had never been invoIved

in any political
controversiaI issue.

And they're
not only involved,
but they're committed.

They've not only been working
very hard, but they're going to
come out and vote today.

"Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself."

And I wouId Iike to know
how you, Senator Briggs,

believe that Proposition 6
will help children
learn how to accept people

who are different
from themseIves.

Harvey,
Don Amador from LA.

Not a good time, Don.

No, sir, this is PauI.
Don just gave me the phone.

PauI who?

You spoke to me on the
phone a year or so ago.

I'm in a wheeIchair.
I'm from Minnesota.

I thought you were
a goner, PauI.

When I saw that you
won the supervisor seat,

I got a friend to
put me on a bus to LA.

Who do you know
in Los Angeles?

Nobody.

That's the. . .

I just didn't
want to die anymore.

l met your friend Don
down here.

I turned
1 8 and I voted
today against Prop 6.

I don't think
l'd be alive right now
if it weren't for you.

No,
you did that aII
by yourseIf, PauI.

Don wanted me to
congratulate you
on what he says

looks like a big
win for us tonight.
CongratuIations, Mr. MiIk.

Yeah, I know,
it's incredibIe.

AII the precincts have
reported we've won 65%
in LA County.

lt's huge, Harvey.

I got to go, Don.

We just took
LA County by 65%.
Put it up! Put it up!

(PHONES RINGING)

Okay, okay.

HARVEY: What, Jim?
Jim, what?
Okay, okay!

The poIIs were way off.
Briggs is going down
by 2 to 1 .

The onIy pIace it's going
to pass in San Francisco
is Dan White's district.

The poIIs are way off.

Somebody, cover up
Lady Liberty!

The cameras are
on the way here.

(ALL CHEERING)

(MARCHING BAND PLAYING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

Tonight, it's become clear
to everyone out there

that they do know one of us,
and now that they do,

they can see that
we're not sick.

They can feel that
we are not wrong.

And they know
that there must be,
that there should be a place

for us in this great
country, in this world.

(ALL CHEERING)

A message of hope
has been sent to aII
those young peopIe,

to aII of those who've been
afraid by this wave of hate,

to aII of those who
have Iost their homes,
Iost their hometowns.

Tonight, we are cIear that
there is a pIace for us!

My brothers and sisters,
we can come home again !

(ALL CHEERING)

Oh, good morning, Dan.

Morning, Harvey,
I just resigned.

CongratuIations.
I'm sure you'II be the
next President of the Board.

MAN:
Hey, Dan.
Just got word.

Can we
taIk to you
for a minute?

Yeah, sure.

MAN: The association
meeting room.

WeII, now it starts aII over
again, because this morning,

former Supervisor Dan White
says he wants to be called
supervisor one more time.

He gets dragged into this
cIosed door meeting at
PoIice Association.

SuddenIy
he wants his job back.

I mean, who knows
what they might have
said to him in there.

Or what they may
have promised him.

Or worse yet,
if they had
threatened him.

A man has the right
to change his mind.
Give me some peace.

Dan White has been
the vote on the board
that has stood in our way.

The vote.
I get it, Harvey.

I've been Iobbied aII week.
Enough.

Let me remind
you of something,
you're up for re-eIection.

If you reappoint Dan White,
you wiII Iose the gay vote.
They Iisten to me.

You wiII not be
eIected dog catcher.

I'II make
my decision on Monday.

You know who you
sounded Iike just now?

I Iike that.

A homosexuaI with power.

That's scary.

(SINGING)

(PHONE RINGING)

(CLEARS THROAT)

MARY ANN: HeIIo.

Yes, hoId on, pIease.

(SOFTLY) Thank you.

Yes, this is Dan White.

Hi, Mr. White, this is
Barbara TayIor from KCBS.

Mmm-hmm.

I'm interested
in your reaction.

I've received information
from the mayor's office

that you're not
getting your job back.

I'm sorry,
I don't know
anything about that.

(PHONE RINGING)

HeIIo?

HARVEY: Did l wake you?

Harvey?
Are you aII right?

I went to
the opera tonight.
Guess who I went with.

Who?

Bidu Sayao herseIf.

She was
my first Puccini.
The crowd went wiId.

I feIt Iike
I was young again,
being at my first opera.

Maybe you shouId
teII me the next time
you go to the opera.

ReaIIy?

Yeah. l'd go with you.

I'd Iike that.

Look outside,
the sun's coming up.

Okay, hang on.

Hey, wait a minute.

My aide
was supposed
to come down here

and Iet me
in the side door,
but she never showed up.

And you are?
I'm Dan White,
City Supervisor.

Harvey,

I want you to know
that I am proud of you.

(SNIFFLES)

I don't wanna miss this.

Miss what?

This.

Is he here? Can I see
the mayor for a moment?

Just a minute,
I'II see if he's avaiIabIe.

Sir, Dan White
is here to see you.

(SIGHS)

So, who
are they gonna
repIace Dan with?

That goddamn Iefty
IiberaI, Don Horanzy?

That'II reaIIy
shake up the board.

DIANNE: AII I know
is that we're getting
a new supervisor today.

If Dan shows up,
just avoid him.

We don't need a scene
today, do we, Harvey?

God forbid, Dianne.

SECRETARY: Mr. White,
the mayor wiII see you now.

Thanks.
You're weIcome.

GEORGE: Dan, come on in.

DAN:
It's not something that
I wanna caIm down about.

You can't take
this away from me.

Dan, Iook,
you made a decision.

You know,
you made the decision.

The issue is what's fair
to the peopIe of your
district, Dan.

Now, Iook,
take some time off.
Spend it with your famiIy.

(MUFFLED GUNSHOTS)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(TYPEWRITERS CLACKING)

HARVEY: TeII President Carter
we're coming after him next,
this time next year.

Hi, Dianne.

HARVEY:
We're marching
to Washington D.C.

Hey, Harvey.

Hey, can I see you in
my office for a minute?

Sure. I'II be back.
Yeah.

(DOOR CLOSES)

No.

WeII,
you know what I think?

I think you need
to find a new scene.

And some new friends.

I need a change.

You're 40 now.
Oh.

Forty years oId
and I haven't done
a thing I'm proud of.

Keep eating aII that cake,
you're gonna be a fat-ass
by the time you're 50.

No,
I'II never
make it to 50.

Where is everyone?

Doesn't anyone
give a damn?

CIeve's getting some peopIe
together in the Castro.

Last week I got a phone caII
from AItoona, PennsyIvania.

The voice was very young,
and the person said, "Thanks."

You've got to elect gay people
so that the young child

and the thousands upon
thousands just like him

will have hope
for a better Iife.

Hope for a better tomorrow.

I ask this,

that if there be
an assassination,

I wouId want five, ten,
a hundred, a thousand to rise.

If a buIIet shouId enter
my brain, let it destroy
every closet door.

I ask for the movement
to continue because it's
not about personal gain,

and it's not about ego
and it's not about power.

It's about the
"us's" out there.

Not just the gays but
the bIacks and the Asians

and the seniors
and the disabIed.

The "us's."

Without hope,
the "us's" give up.

And l know you can't
live on hope alone.

But without hope,
life is not worth living.

So you,

and you,

you got to give them hope.