We just finished watching an older (1984) documentary on Harvey Milk. It’s about the colorful and tragic story of a San Francisco gay activist during the late 1970′s. It’s a very moving story and well worth the rental. It really gives you more background on the gay rights movement–I learned a lot.

(I know I rave alot about Netflix, but this is one of the reasons: It’s got decent suggestions [a la Amazon] so you end up renting stuff you enjoy that you’d normally never think of renting. We’ve seen so many interesting movies because of this. Very cool.)

Also, when you watch this movie you’ll be very pissed off at the end. But remember that this was filmed in 1984 (about 6 years after the incident). After you’re done watching, do a Wikipedia search on Dan White. You’ll find that karma (good and bad) has a way of catching up to you.