Milk Page #4

fit! Where are you from, kid?

Sorry, old man,

not interested.

Where's home?

Phoenix.

Come here.

Just come here a minute.

I'm Harvey Milk.

I'm running for supervisor.

What's your name?

Cleve Jones.

Cleve Jones.

You're adorable.

We should get you over here and

get you registered, Mr. Jones.

F*** that.

Elections of any kind

are f***ing

bourgeois affectation.

Is that right?

- Mmm-hmm.

What do you do,

trick up on Polk Street?

If I need the cash.

But I'm a little bit more selective

about my clients than you are.

Okay, let me ask you one thing

before you go back to work.

What was it like to be

a little queer in Phoenix?

Did all the jocks beat

you up in gym class?

I faked a lung disease

to get out of P.E.

So what, what are you?

Some kind of street shrink?

Sometimes.

But what I'm talking about

is that we can change Phoenix.

But we have to

start with our street.

Police abuse, rent control,

pot, parks, seniors issues.

Good luck

with all that.

Good luck.

You know what I think,

Cleve Jones?

That you're gonna get

somewhere if you keep talking.

No. I think you should

do what you do well.

You should

be a prick.

But come with us and be a prick.

Fight City Hall. Fight the cops.

Fight the people that made you

come here to do what you do.

Sorry, old man, I'm leaving

for Spain tomorrow. Europe.

All the cash I need

is in my back pocket.

I'm just saying that at this

point, it looks like all the big guns,

all the gay money,

the real money,

is gonna get

behind Feinstein

and all the straight candidates

they consider "gay-friendly."

Who cares about

those old queens?

Well, you need

them to get elected.

Why isn't my campaign

manager leading this meeting?

'Cause I'm exhausted. I've been

handing out pamphlets for seven hours.

Yeah, in a bathhouse.

And who are these so-called

gay leaders anyway?

Who appointed them?

What are you suggesting, Jim?

That I go down there and

solicit their endorsement?

I mean, we're down here trying to help

people on the streets. Where are they?

Yeah, I know, but...

You need an endorsement, Harvey.

Take this.

Checking the exposure.

They're nice pictures.

Is he your boyfriend?

- Sort of.

Harvey, David Goodstein is a

publisher from The Advocate.

Harvey.

- He's got a house...

Harvey, I think

you got to see this.

"Harvey Milk will

have a dream journey

"and nightmare to hell,

a night of horror.

"You will be stabbed and have your

genitals, cock, balls and prick cut off."

I'm calling the police.

They probably wrote it.

Look, think of it this way.

If they try to kill me,

I'll get the sympathy vote.

That might be

just the push we need.

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