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Gay martyr remembered 30 years on
Hundreds of people gathered in San Francisco last Friday, November 28, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination of activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official elected to public office in the USA.

Milk (pictured in front of his Castro Street camera shop-cum-campaign headquarters in November, 1977) was shot and killed, together with then-Mayor George Moscone, by disgruntled former colleague Dan White in 1978.

Friday’s ceremony on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall was attended by more than 500 people. Speakers included Milk’s nephew, Stuart, who read aloud from a letter Harvey wrote to his family shortly before his death: “My hope is to leave a world ... a place that embraces difference, not with hate, but with love.”

In related news, Gus Van Sant’s new biopic, Milk, which opened in the USA last week, recorded the best three-day release figures for any film opening in 30 to 40 theatres on its opening weekend, making it more successful than movies like Atonement and The Shawshank Redemption according to Focus Features executives.

Milk opens in Australia on January 29, 2009.

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