got milk?

Aaaand the award for cheesiest title to a blog post ever goes to: me.

I wouldn't say I have a place in my heart for gay rights ... I'd safely say my heart beats solely for gay rights. There's nothing that gets me going more than equal rights for all, and it's within that line of reasoning that the beautifully written and elegantly acted film Milk was a piece of art that moved me to tears - not even just at the sad parts!

Yes, that may be in due part to the entourage of gay men I was viewing it with (... or the fact that the movie theatre had vegan cookies; heaven?) but it truly was an inspirational movie.

Harvey Milk, portrayed by Sean Penn, was an unbelievable man and someone that stirs up a desire deep down inside of me to stop at no ends to make a difference as he did. While that might not be entirely possible, I will not stop trying for as long as I have to capability to kick some ass - at the rate my mom is going, that will end sometime around never. Maybe on my death bed ... but probably not. 

The reason for this rant is, drum roll ... Sean Penn just was awarded an Oscar for best actor in Milk and the appropriately placed recognition was enough to bring tears to my eyes yet again. So, as any other normal human being would do (or at least one that was a press intern for Obama and had to transcribe interviews, aka type really fast...) I transcribed his acceptance speech so that I would have it to read. Here it is, sorry I missed a couple sentences which just happened to be at the climax of his speech - of course:

You commie, homo-loving sons of guns. I did not expect this but I, I wanted to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me often. But I am touched by the appreciation and I hope for enough that I did want to scribble down some, so I had the names in case you were commie homo-loving sons of guns. So, I wanted to thank: my best friend (didn’t catch the name), my circle of long time support (insert lots of names here), the great Cleave Jones, our wonderful writer Lance Black, the producers (names here) and particularly, as all us actors know, our director either has the patience, talent and restraint to grant us a voice, or they don’t and it goes from the beginning of the meeting throughout the cutting room and there is no finer hands to be in than Gus Van Sant, and finally for those – well, two last finallys, for those that saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight and I think that it is a good …(missed some here, sadly) time for those that voted for the ban against gay marriage to reflect (missed some here) shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue in that way. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone and there are these last two things: I um, I’m very, very proud to live in a country that’s willing to elect an elegant man for President and a country who for all its toughness, creates courageous artists and this is in great due respect to all the nominees. Courageous artists who despite a sensitivity that sometimes has brought enormous challenge, Mickey Rourke rises again and he's my brother. Thank you all very much.

“If a bullet should go through my head let that bullet go through every closet door.”

“Hope will never be silent”

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