KRON 4: Sean Penn and Sen. Mark Leno (D-CA) Reintroduce Bill to Establish Harvey Milk Day in California
by Danny Fisher
KRON 4 reports that actor/activist Sean Penn and California State Senator Mark Leno yesterday announced the reintroduction of a bill proposing the establishment of “Harvey Milk Day” in California.
San Francisco City Supervisor Milk was, according to Time Magazine, “the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet.” The effects of his life and work on the gay rights movement in this country were, as you can imagine, enormous. Sadly, in 1978, he and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White.
Last week, Penn deservedly won his second Oscar for portraying the man in Gus Van Sant’s film Milk. KRON 4 captured his comments to the audience for the reintroduction of the bill:
