Land of ‘Milk’ and irony: Sean Penn (center) plays the late gay activist Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s “Milk”—another instance of a straight male actor playing the role of a gay character in a major motion picture. On Nov. 27, 1978, Harvey Milk,...

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With the recent passage of California's Prop 8 disallowing gay marriage, Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, a chronicle of the last eight years in the life of San Francisco gay activist Harvey Milk -- who was assassinated alongside mayor George...