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In the 1970s San Francisco resident Cleve Jones helped gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk get elected to that city's board of supervisors.

What would appear to be one prerequisite for scoring a membership in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences? Working with Judd Apatow.

Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City Hall through a window and fatally shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk .

Hugh Jackman attends a celebration for the release of '1.3 - Images From My Phone' at Michael's on June 3, 2009 in New York City Access Hollywood Seth Rogen Anne Hathaway glows in gold at the Shakespeare in the Park opening night performance of 'Twelfth Night' in New York City on June 25, 2009 June 30, 2009 8:22 PM EDT June 30, 2009 8:26 PM EDT ...

Oscar statues are pictured on the red carpet in front of the Kodak Theature as the final... Oscar statues are pictured on the red carpet in front of the Kodak Theature as the final preparations go on for the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood, California on February 21, 2009.

THIS WEEK: If you've never seen the documentary that preceded Gus Van Sant 's " Milk ," you're in luck.

A couple of well-tressed guys: Hair 's Will Swenson and Dustin Lance Black. The Academy Awards may have been four months ago, but we still get misty when we recall Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's moving acceptance speech: "To all the gay and lesbian kids out there...you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and...very soon, I promise ...

Now YouTube has the entire documentary available for viewing. Check it out !

Long-time activist Cleve Jones, who interned with assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk in the 1970s, spoke with EDGE about the purpose of Pride, his call for a March on Washington and how he feels equality for LGBT Americans can be achieved-at the federal level.

Every few years, a director comes along to show us how biopics should be done Bennett Miller did it with Capote, and Gus Van Sant does it with Milk, his remarkably joyful film about California's first openly gay elected official and all-round homosexual saint.

Old letters from Gay Civil Rights leader may prove he was discharged from the Navy for being gay.

Michael Cera has made a career of playing the sweet, goofy, absent-minded "she doesn't even know who I am" teenage geek.

Sean Penn arrives at the 81st Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

"There is a false assumption, a grossly false assumption, that libertarianism is some sort of Right-wing philosophy.

With a second Academy Award for the mantle and two films already wrapped, actor Sean Penn is taking a break from show business.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie character, an Austrian fashionista called Bruno, drew gasps and some cheers as he appeared dressed as a bull in front of Spain's main bullring.

WINNING actor Sean Penn is putting his Hollywood career on hold to spend more time with his family and could be out of action for up to a year.

BRITISH satirist Sacha Baron Cohen has brought London's theatre-land to a standstill at the premiere of his new film Bruno - and jokingly rapped his former hit character Borat for fuelling stereotypes.

Sean Penn Cancels Projects Less than a month after Sean Penn withdrew separation papers in regard to his marriage with Robin Wright Penn , he's pulling out of two films.

On May 21, we reported that the Ramona school district in San Diego County told sixth grader Natalie Jones that she could not give her oral report on openly gay politician Harvey Milk before the class because her fellow students did not have signed permission slips from their parents.