was Dan White gay?
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Brandos_Bitch — 10 years ago(May 07, 2015 11:24 AM)
I doubt it. Just because in the movie, Milk alludes to it, doesnt make it true. Milk seemed to be pretty obsessed with getting everyone out of the closet and seems the type that would confuse homophobia with homosexual self loathing. They sometimes go hand in hand, but not always.
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Petronius Arbiter II — 10 years ago(May 29, 2015 04:01 PM)
"That man is dangerous."
Harvey and Doug were walking up the grand marble stairway beneath the city hall rotunda when Harvey nudged Doug and pointed to the handsome young man walking stiffly toward them. []
"Who's that?" Doug asked.
"That's Dan White," Harvey said, "He's a real closet case, someone fighting that inside of himself. He's that much more hostile to anyone who is open."
Randy Shilts, "The Mayor of Castro Street", 2008 paperback edition (originally published 1982), page 257
Now, for all I know,
Randy Shilts
may have misrepresented the facts of what Harvey said or didn't say, but the idea definitely didn't originate with the screenwriters.
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Mattfinbell — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 09:39 AM)
wouldnt surprise me
CaliCurmudgeon
Typical lame commiecrat crap. The facts are that Dan White didn't kill Milk because he was gay; he might have loathed him for that, but ultimately he killed Milk (and Moscone) because they stabbed him in the back politically.
thats the other impression I got from the movie
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chas437 — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 10:58 AM)
I don't think there is concrete evidence either way.
I think Dan White was envious of Milk's organic political skill. He wanted an issue, like Harvey had. He never seemed to understand that Harvey Milk and his like were literally fighting for their lives, it wasn't just another political 'issue'. -
Mattfinbell — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 05:24 PM)
chas437
I don't think there is concrete evidence either way.
I think Dan White was envious of Milk's organic political skill. He wanted an issue, like Harvey had. He never seemed to understand that Harvey Milk and his like were literally fighting for their lives, it wasn't just another political 'issue'.
I think your right
Maybe something that was a little bit of both
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Mattfinbell — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 04:27 PM)
wouldnt surprise me
CaliCurmudgeon
Typical lame commiecrat crap. The facts are that Dan White didn't kill Milk because he was gay; he might have loathed him for that, but ultimately he killed Milk (and Moscone) because they stabbed him in the back politically.
thats the other impression I got from the movie
Look like Tarzan talk like Jane! HAHA