I have to confess, as someone who grew up in Hollywood....I was highly doubtful that the film Milk would even come close to capturing Harvey's story... in fact, I was kind of horrified at the thought of Sean Penn playing Harvey....I even felt defensive about it in a weird sort of why-do-I-care-so-much-about-this-kind-of-way. But then I started to really think about it....and realized how much Harvey became like family to me. I was a resident of the Castro for 12 years (and lived one block from where Harvey lived and worked in his camera store back in the 70s). Every day on my way to work, school and frolicking in the neighborhood, I would pass what was his camera store (which was a bubble bath store while I was living there) and the accompanying mural of him looking down from the...