Daily Archive for October 28th, 2008

My evening was spent down in The Cas­tro, where they were host­ing the pre­miere of Gus Van Sant’s new film Milk over at the Cas­tro The­atre. The film is a bio-pic fea­tur­ing Sean Penn (and James Franco) about gay-rights icon Har­vey Milk.

Since I was unable to get a ticket to the show­ing, I hung around on the block for awhile to peo­ple watch. I even­tu­ally sta­tioned myself across the street from the the­ater, along­side the crowd of sup­port­ers of “No on 8″, where we chanted against the ridicu­lous propo­si­tion. We even got thumbs up from the arriv­ing cast, which of course set every­one off into loud cheers. While I’m sure some in atten­dance were there more for the gawk­ing of the celebri­ties who walked the car­pet, it also felt that a major­ity were present to honor Harvey’s mem­ory, as well. There were even points that I felt over­whelmed with joy as I observed the inter­ac­tions of the peo­ple; strangers befriend­ing other strangers, friend gath­er­ings on rooftops, and cou­ples (of all pref­er­ences) hold­ing one another while shout­ing in sync…it was wonderful.

And my two cents for the night: NEXT WEEK — PLEASE VOTE NO ON 8!