After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk,became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt,he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, makinghim the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA.The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, wereshot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed hisformer colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind hisresignation from the board.

Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the AcademyAward-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); butMilk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspectsof the man's personal life and career.
Milk was filmed onlocation in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life survivingfriends and former associates participated in the making of this film,several appearing on camera.