Hello! As I can see from recent stats, comments and e-mails  it looks like you all are really enjoying the site update to [v-hold.net]. There are lots more changes on the way, too. I am in final talks with some of the guest bloggers who are going to have semi-regular columns. Music, movies, television shows - lots of entertainment news in general is going to be dancing before your eyes along with the regular stories and stuff you expect from this site. And on that topic of movies: I finally got to see “Milk” at the Van Ness 1000 theaters this ...

Casey Selix has a good primer in Minnpost on the Minnesota connections in 'Milk,' the hit movie about assassinated gay activist Harvey Milk. Apparently, the gay Minnesota kid was fictional, but no one knows. Selix has some good info on... ...

The NYT runs some excerpts from Dustin Lance Black's Milk screenplay in conjunction with an article about the recent spate of historical biopics, highlighting Milk, W, and Che, noting the various screenwriters' working processes. According to the NYT, "[Black] ended up talking to some 40 people, including Anne Kronenberg, Milk’s campaign manager (now a San Francisco public health official), and Danny Nicoletta, a photographer who worked in Milk’s camera store. Because his subjects were often recounting decades-old moments that were semi-forgotten or had calcified into myth, Mr. Black developed a strategy of pairing them up, 'so they could ...

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” - Harvey Milk, November 1977 I was probably sleeping at 1:20 a.m. on June, 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, setting off several days and nights of riots now credited with launching the modern gay rights movement. I was four months old. Too young to know what was happening in New York or its significance to me, or that I would be among the beneficiaries of the fight started that night. I was probably more concerned with mastering the art of ...

Today, new year eve, is a bittersweet day for me.Sweet: 1. I got to spend all afternoon with friends that I haven't seen for awhile. They are all (yes you... if you are reading) amazing people.2. I brought a book from B&N and a membership.3. I watched Milk, the movie that is based on the gay's rights activist Harvey Milk.Bitter:1. It's holiday and looking back a year had pass and I am older.2. my wallet is crying. I am spending way too much lately.3. the most important one, I learned that one my my closed friends in high school's dad ...

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion. -Harvey Milk ...