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November 13, 2008
More videos after the jump.
Next, the Chron has a fine write-up of the event, and excellent photo coverage:
‘Milk’ world premiere benefit at Castro Theatre The guests came to the Castro Theatre on Tuesday dressed in Levi’s and designer dresses, ’70s-chic velvet jackets and drag-queen heels and glitter. It looked like a glamorous early start on Halloween, but actually it was a Hollywood affair complete with a red carpet and a who’s-who invitation list. …
History came back home to where it started three decades ago. The Castro Theatre vibrated with gay rights past and present. As the creators and stars of the film and local politicians ran the red-carpet press gantlet, a throng of people across the street waved “Vote No on Prop. 8″ signs and shouted at every passing car that honked. The measure will eliminate the right to same-sex marriage in California if it passes next week.
“Harvey Milk gave his life for the struggle for human rights,” said San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. “It’s a continuing battle that’s not over.”
State Assemblyman Mark Leno, sporting a “Harvey Milk for Assembly” button on his lapel, connected “the exciting and tumultuous time” of Milk’s gay rights activism to the “ill-conceived measure facing voters on the ballot next week.” …
The feature, directed by Gus Van Sant, opens in theaters Nov. 26. [Sean] Penn, a Marin County resident, plays the title role in a richly textured performance sure to evoke visceral memories of one of the first openly gay people to win major elective office in the country. …
The film tells its story in fatefully somber, operatically enhanced flashback, with Milk speaking into a tape recorder in eerie anticipation of his possible assassination. …
Tuesday’s premiere was a heady mingling of then-and-now. Various real-life participants in Milk’s career showed up, along with the actors who portray them onscreen. Milk confidant Cleve Jones, who later founded the NAMES project AIDS Memorial Quilt, was there. His onscreen embodiment, “Into the Wild” star Emile Hirsch, was expected. Photographer Danny Nicoletta, doubled by Lucas Grabeel in the movie, attended.
In an interview on Monday, Milk’s campaign manager Anne Kronenberg, who is now a San Francisco public heath administrator, said, “I just saw the movie yesterday, and I still haven’t recovered from it. Gus (Van Sant) and the production team caught the era exactly. It’s very accurate. What really comes across is that feeling of compatriots and being family that we felt.” …
The screening was a benefit for the Hetrick Martin Institute, home of Harvey Milk High School; Larkin Street Youth Services; the Point Foundation; and the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center. Tickets ran from $50 for the screening to $15,000 for 12 prime seats at the movie and a post-premiere dinner and party at City Hall. …
Location shooting for “Milk” began on Castro Street in January. Street signs and window displays were refashioned to appear as they did at the time. The Castro Theatre marquee was backdated to its colored-confetti look of the 1970s. Filming wrapped in March, shortly after a big crowd scene was shot on the steps of City Hall. …
On Tuesday, back in a Castro neighborhood that seemed to pulse with his memory 30 years later on a cool October night, many in the crowd seemed ready to sign on for the cause all over again.
Much more at the link.
Next up, videos:
Quick (11-second) clip of crowd across from the Castro,
chanting “No on 8!”
Emile Hirsch interview:
Also:
See also all Milk posts on:
The Lavender Newswire
The Gaytheist Agenda
“I think there’s gonna be riots if this thing passes.”— Cleve Jones on the Briggs Initiative, 1978
I’m kind of amazed at myself, and not in a good way.
It just dawned on me that it’s very, very strange that, in the five months since the California Supreme Court decision, and with all the feces flung at us by the forces of anti-equality, I don’t think I’ve once mentioned the Briggs Initiative.
Californians of a certain age will remember Briggs, a.k.a. Proposition 6, all too well. I was a junior in high school, and among my electives was Film Analysis, and—
Before I go on, and before the haters start screaming, “See?! You were indoctrinated in school!” let’s get one thing straight: I wasn’t. I’m one of those ReaLesbians® who knew I was queer as a three-dollar bill before I knew there was word for it, or could even speak it. At the time of my little story here, I’d already been shagging my steady girlfriend for months — an impossibly tall, impossibly beautiful blonde who looked a lot like Cameron Diaz (and who, I’ll have you know, was a straight-A grind, a devout, completely virginal Christian who still went to Maranatha camp every summer until she left for college, and who taught me what it was all about, not the other way around).
That said…
Film Analysis was a little less interesting than I’d hoped; our teacher was extremely knowledgeable and loved his subject, but, frankly, he had the personality of a houseplant.
Things changed one day when he told us he had something to talk to us about besides the significance of the Battleship Potemkin steps scene. He told us about Proposition 6, which proposed to bar gay men and lesbians from teaching in California schools — and, in fact, proposed to sack any teacher for saying anything remotely positive about homosexuality.
He told us about it every day, in fact, until Election Day, 1978 — I don’t think we once looked at another film.
I’m glad he did. I got a civics lesson I never forgot.
Mr. Houseplant didn’t try to sway us one way or the other on the issue (and why try anyway, as we were all too young to vote), but brought the details of the latest developments to class each day for discussion. He never got into the issue of homosexuality itself — whether it was “right” or “wrong” — his take was solely as a teacher, and as an American deeply concerned by what amounted to a modern-day McCarthy witch hunt. The message I took away — and have held close to my heart every single day for the past thirty years — was: If they can do it to one group, they can do it to any group.
And that was wrong.
Was he gay? I have no idea. But does it matter? Mr. Houseplant (I swear to you, I forgot his name years ago, ‘though not his lessons) taught me that discrimination in any form was wrong. Such a simple lesson it was, but invaluable, especially for a 16-year-old who would rather be doing anything besides sitting in a classroom.
Considering the stunning parallels between the witch-hunting Briggs Initiative and the current Anti-Marriage Initiative, Proposition 8, I’m truly amazed at myself that I haven’t gone into this before. I’m even more amazed when I consider the freezing-cold nights (and one lovely Sunday) Buffy and I spent as extras in Milk (more about that shortly; the world premiere was last night), and the impact of the wave of anti-gay amendments in addition to Briggs had on the era we were re-creating.
While Buffy was certainly already aware of Harvey Milk, she was just a little tyke when all this was going on, and, raised on the East Coast, was even further removed from the revolution taking place in San Francisco in the 1970s. Being in Milk gave her a nearly firsthand experience of the events of 1978. Just being in the Castro, made over to look as it did in the days my friends and I would hang out there on weekends as teenagers, brought up a lot of memories I hadn’t thought about in decades, which I compulsively passed along to Buffy as soon as they entered my mind. “Harvey’s, that used to be The Elephant Walk… and up across the street, there was Headquarters, which was strictly men — but they didn’t mind if lesbians came in… Lesbian territory was the Mission — you could have dinner at the vegetarian Artemis Café, where there was usually live music, and then head over to Amelia’s, which had a gorgeous, huge, wooden bar downstairs, and great dancing upstairs… I learned from one of Amelia’s bartenders that coffee filters work even better than newspaper when you’re cleaning glass… Of course, Artemis and Amelia’s have been gone for years, so the lesbians sort of took over the Café San Marcos — that’s the club you see at the corner of Market — which is just called the Café now…”
And on and on Chatty Cathy would go.
But the real lessons came from other extras, as we chatted to pass time between takes. There was the 70-year-old gay man who had dug his motorcycle jacket out of mothballs (and still cut a dashing, sexy look), a true survivor of his generation, who had a front-row seat at the White Night Riots. There was the retired schoolteacher, who sported the “NO ON 6″ button she had kept since 1978. There were many others.
Re-living those days, even if it was all pretend, was bittersweet — but the one thing I didn’t know was how I would see those days anew, through Buffy’s eyes. In February — with no inkling that just three months later we would face the fight of our lives — Buffy reflected after the candlelight march we had re-enacted two nights earlier:
There is still the work left unfinished in the wake of Milk’s death. As I’d mentioned previously it seems despite the passage of 30 years so little has been accomplished. Back then some Gay Rights legislation had been passed only to be met with a backlash by RRRW activists who enacted their own laws. History has been repeating itself with George W. Bush and his “Family Values” crowd. Every attempt we make to get LGBT rights legislation passed is met with equal opposition from them, and they work across the nation to put in place laws that will restrict our human rights in every way possible.We must fight harder than ever before to ensure that Harvey Milk’s death was not in vain. To ensure that his vision for LGBT equality comes to pass. If it means taking to the streets over and over again we must do it. Bigotry and narrow-mindedness cannot — must not — be allowed to prevail.
That’s practically prescient.
Last night, Buffy and I were talking about violence against No On 8 supporters, and how my mom is worrying that I’ll get hurt — but how I can’t not be on the streets Election Day. Still, I told Buffy, I feel like I could have done more. She disagreed with me, telling me I’ve gone above and beyond the call — and while Buffy’s opinion is more important to me than anyone else’s, I still feel I could have done more… can do more, even with just six short days to go before November 4th.
In failing to recount the Briggs milestone, I feel I’ve missed a teaching opportunity — a lesson in Santayana’s Aphorism on Repetitive Consequences (”Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it”).
With everything else in front of me — in addition to contributing to two marriage projects, I’m working on Part 3 of my “Salute to Traditional Marriage” video series (see Part 1 here and Part 2 here) — I don’t know how much time I can devote to taking us all back to the ugly days of Briggs, and the devastating assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. But I’ll start you out with the Edge article by Roger Brigham that inspired this post in the first place:
Back to Briggs: Latest No on 8 Ad With Sen. Diane Feinstein Brings Back Memories of Another Referendum As Yogi Berra so memorably said, it’s deja vu all over again. In this case, it’s specifically 1978 all over again in California.
Yes, right wing extremists are describing their efforts to abolish marriage rights for queers in terms of Armageddon. But longtime Californians need only reach into recent history to get a sense of perspective on the importance of next Tuesday’s vote on state Proposition 8.
Political leaders view this referendum on gay marriage as a kind of Briggs Initiative revisited. As the most recent high-profile politician to weigh in on the matter, Sen. Diane Feinstein stars in the latest TV ad urging folks to vote “No.” Feinstein, by the way, was a rising local politician in San Francisco City Hall when the Briggs Initiative was defeated and shot into national prominence when she assumed the mayoralty on the assassination of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
The parallels between this year’s Prop 8 and 1978’s Briggs Initiative “resonate because we are yet again at a watershed moment,” commented Kate Kendall, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and a member of the No On 8 campaign. “When ’Briggs’ was defeated, it changed the landscape in the entire country for LGBT people. If we defeat Prop 8, clearly we’re in a different place than we were 30 years ago.”
The Briggs Initiative, more properly known as California Proposition 6, was pushed onto the 1978 ballot by a prominent Orange County conservative gadfly, John Briggs, who depended on it as part of his futile effort to rise from the State Senate to the governor’s mansion.
His amendment would have allowed the firing of teachers for ever mentioning anything positive about homosexuals. It ended up galvanizing the LGBT community; after polls showed it leading by huge margins, it ended up losing in a landslide — after it was denounced by former Gov. Ronald Reagan, no less.
“Defeating the Briggs Initiative created opportunities that have nothing to do with teachers in school, and Proposition 8 would would affect things that have nothing to do with marriage,” Kendall said. “There was not an issue that the defeat of Briggs did not enhance when it came for greater inclusion.” …
More at the link.
(And here’s a little something to get you fired up: Former Log Cabin head, and now head of the Gill Action Fund, Patrick Guerriero offered this tantalizing glimpse into the very-near future: “‘Even though we’re optimistic,’ said Guerriero, ‘we are about to see something unleashed by the other side.’ As to what the No On Prop 8 plans in response, organizers were close-mouthed. ‘It’s going to be exciting and aggressive.’”)
As for Briggs vis-à-vis Proposition 8, I can’t think of any better resource for setting the stage than the Harvey Milk Pages at the venerable Uncle Donald’s Castro Street, followed by the excellent CAMP Rehoboth article, “PAST Out: What was the Briggs Initiative?.”
If you weren’t around in 1978, read it. And if you were, read it anyway — and then stop for just a moment, pull aside one of our youth, and share our history. You will add a richness, a dimension, a passing of our legacy that may be the one thing to push one young person into action.
We — you and I of a certain age — aren’t going to be around forever, you know. If we don’t help our younger brothers and sisters understand exactly what it is they are fighting for, how can we expect them to fight at all?
Oh, and one more thing about the Briggs Initiative: About a week before the election, polls showed Prop 6 passing, by 61% to 31%.
It was, of course, defeated.
IFP also announces initiative with Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk HS, to support emerging LGBT filmmakers
NEW YORK — September 10, 2008 — In recognition of his pioneering career which has helped break down the barriers between independent and mainstream film, IFP announced today that director Gus Van Sant will be presented with a Gotham Awards Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on Tuesday, December 2, in New York.
Presented by IFP, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, the Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and the first major honors of the film awards season. The awards provide critical early recognition for worthy independent films, such as past winners Juno (2007), Half Nelson (2006), and Junebug (2005), all of which went on to earn numerous awards and Oscar® nominations for their stars Ellen Page, Ryan Gosling, and Amy Adams, respectively.
This year, Van Sant has directed the highly anticipated film Milk, about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office in the United States. Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, and James Franco, the film will be released by Focus Features in select cities on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 and then expand in December.
In recognition of Van Sant’s fearlessness in using film to explore LGBT issues, IFP announced a new initiative aimed at inspiring the next generation of LGBT filmmakers. IFP is teaming with the The Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School in New York City. IFP, courtesy of Deloitte Financial Services LLP, is donating 45 video cameras to the school. IFP hopes to work with the producers of NewFest, The New York LGBT Film Festival, to create a series of training and mentoring sessions. Select works by youth members from The Hetrick-Martin Institute and students from Harvey Milk School will be invited to screen during the next edition of NewFest (June 4 - 14, 2009). Additionally, school administrators and students will be on hand for a Q&A following a special screening of The Times of Harvey Milk, Rob Epstein’s Academy Award-winning 1984 documentary that received early support from IFP. The documentary will be screened as part of To Save and Protect: The 6th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation on Thursday, November 6th.
As part of its tribute to Van Sant, IFP will also team with the Museum of Modern Art to present a public screening of Milk at the Museum on Wednesday, December 3rd.
“Gus is that rare director who has achieved a steady balance between his independent roots and mainstream filmmaking, excelling at both while continuing to push the envelope with the same boundless creativity, curiosity, and passion on display in his earliest films,” said Michelle Byrd, executive director of IFP.
Van Sant first earned critical acclaim with his 1985 feature film debut, Mala Noche, which won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for Best Independent/Experimental Film. Since then, he has directed some of the most acclaimed independent films of the past two decades, including Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Elephant, and Paranoid Park. In 1998, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director for Good Will Hunting, which received eight other Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. His major studio credits include Finding Forrester and a controversial shot-for-shot remake of Psycho.
IFP announced last month that Penélope Cruz will also receive a Gotham Awards Tribute. Additional honorees will be announced in the coming weeks.
Nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Awards will be announced on October 20, 2008, and winners will be honored at a star-studded ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on December 2nd. Submissions are now being accepted in five of the six competitive categories, including: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Actor, Breakthrough Director and Best Ensemble Cast. Applications are available at http://gotham.ifp.org. The deadline for submissions is 5pm EST on Monday, September 22, 2008.
Sponsors of the 18th Annual Gotham Awards include Premiere sponsors The New York Times and Nokia and Presenting sponsors A Diamond is Forever and Stella Artois. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times this November.
About IFP
After debuting with a program in the 1979 New York Film Festival, the nonprofit IFP has evolved into the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, and also the premier advocate for them. Since its start, IFP has supported the production of 7,000 films and provided resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers–voices that otherwise might not have been heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has fostered early work by leading filmmakers including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair, and Kevin Smith. For more information: www.ifp.org.
About the Gotham Awards
The Gotham Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, a home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
About The Hetrick-Martin Institute
The Hetrick-Martin Institute, Home of the Harvey Milk High School, believes all young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. Hetrick- Martin creates this environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth between the ages of 12 and 21 and their families. Through a comprehensive package of direct services and referrals, Hetrick-Martin seeks to foster healthy youth development. Hetrick-Martin’s staff promotes excellence in the delivery of youth services and uses its expertise to create innovative programs that other organizations may use as models. For more info: http://www.hmi.org
You may remember Buffy and I spent some long, cold nights (and one sunny Sunday) last winter as extras in the upcoming Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn. Well, the trailer is finally out! (H/T to my wife!)
And yes, I see all the crowd scenes we were in — I just haven’t gone through the trailer frame by frame to see if we’re in them. LOL But as I said some time ago, I’ll be very surprised if we’re not glimpse-able, especially as I kept tripping over Emile Hirsch in one night scene.
The trailer will get your heart pumping! It gave me chills — and not because we’re in it, either. Enjoy!
Related:
Inspired Casting for Harvey Milk Biopic
September 10, 2007
Harvey Milk Biopic Starts Lensing in Castro; Damon’s Out, But Spinella, Garber, Luna & Others Are In
January 22, 2008
Sign Up to Be An Extra in the Harvey Milk Biopic (We Did!)
January 23, 2008
“Civil Rights or Civil War, Gay Rights Now!”
Gaytheist Agenda, February 5, 2008
A Sea of Candles and the Sound of Silence
Gaytheist Agenda, February 10, 2008
Our Second and Final Night as Harvey Milk Extras
Lavender Newswire, February 10, 2008
Yes, We Got Milk.
Gaytheist Agenda, March 10, 2008
My much-better half has blogged our cinematic swansong in “A Sea of Candles and the Sound of Silence.”
I’ll add only this: A shout-out to our faithful Lucas Grabeel fans, who’ve been watching the Lavender Newswire for Lucas news. I hate to disappoint you, but Lucas was not there Friday night, as far as I know… but his name was indeed mentioned by the “extras wranglers.” That’s the best I can give ya! But there’s something you can do that I know will be important to Lucas, and to everyone involved in this film: Spread the word about what an important film this is. Tell your friends that in addition to watching Lucas, they’re going to get a “history lesson” that’s way more interesting, and intense, than that dusty old crap they try to teach you from books all year.
Trust me, Lucas fans: There is no way to be connected with this film and not get how important it is. I don’t know Lucas myself, but I’d bet any amount of money he is as deadly serious and devoted to the meaning of this film as anyone.
So spread the word, not just in Lucas’s name, but in Harvey’s. OK?
My much-better other half Buffy blogged our night out as extras in the upcoming Harvey Milk biopic, Milk — and I’m glad she did, as my arms are tired from punching the air while chanting “Civil Rights or Civil War, Gay Rights Now!“
Hit the link. There are even pictures!
BE IN A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE AND HELP RE-CREATE A PART OF SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY
On Monday night, February 4th and Friday night, February 8th, the feature film MILK (directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk) will be re-creating three 1970’s marches through the Castro.
We are looking for volunteers to appear in the these marches in the film. THERE ARE NO AUDITIONS. IF YOU SIGN-UP ON THIS SITE AND SHOW UP, YOU WILL BE USED. All ages, races and genders are welcome. But, you MUST be 18 or over to participate.
Filming will take place from 7pm - midnight on Monday night at Castro & Market and from 9pm - 3am on Friday night at Market & Franklin. Come either or both nights.
As a thank you for participating, we will host a screening for the marchers of the documentary THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK on Monday, February 4th at the Castro Theater at 4:30pm, with introductions by the filmmaker, Rob Epstein, Cleve Jones, Gus Van Sant, and members of the cast. The filming will begin immediately after the screening.
Buffy and I will be there… and I expect to have no trouble finding appropriate “70s wardrobe”; the old corduroys and tobacco Adidas are the only things left in my closet from the 1970s. 
Mind you, we have no illusions about the “glamour” of being extras in a movie; it’s going to consist of a lot of long, torturous waiting around. It’s that we want very much, to contribute to this movie, in whatever way we can. I can’t began to describe to anyone who didn’t live through the horror (especially in the San Francisco Bay Area) just how devastating a milestone Harvey’s death and its aftermath was — or, more importantly, how uplifting and motivational Harvey’s legacy is.
By the way, it’s easy to see why they’re putting out an open call like this, and telling you to tell your friends — do you remember just how huge those marches were? I do:
I’m also hoping they’ll need lots of warm bodies to recreate the White Night riots, too:
See also:
Inspired Casting for Harvey Milk Biopic
Harvey Milk Biopic Starts Lensing in Castro; Damon’s Out, But Spinella, Garber, Luna & Others Are In
At least I avoided using the word “shooting” in the title of this entry, unlike SFist, which, despite the unfortunate word choice in its headline, “Penn to Hit Castro Bars as Milk Shooting Starts,” reports some great news about Gus Van Sant’s upcoming Milk:
Undergoing a procedure to erase 30 years from its face, the Castro neighborhood is going retro, circa 1978, for the filming of Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, which starts shooting this week. Already the Castro Theatre … and boutique shop Given, formerly Milk’s camera store / campaign headquarters, are being renovated to get that ’70s vibe.
This deb-u-lesbian-te of the Golden Age of Coming Out (that’s the late 1970s for you young-uns) in the Gay Mecca (San Francisco, for those who have been living under a rock for the past few decades) says: Cool!
Well, sort of cool. As welcome a 70s-flashback as it will be to see the Castro as I remember it in those heady pre-AIDS days when my best gay boyfriend Gary and I used to hang out around the grown-up gays in The City (we were about 17 at the time), seeing even a block of the neighborhood as it was will probably send a sharp pang of grief and loss through my heart. It will probably feel like looking at pictures of the World Trade Center.
But enough about me (what do you think of my new outfit?). Other news about Milk (starring, in case you haven’t heard, Sean Penn as the doomed supervisor), due for release sometime in 2009:
Matt Damon isn’t playing Dan “Twinkie Defense” White — now slated is Josh Brolin (who we can’t wait to see metamorphose into Oliver Stone’s Bush).
Also onboard:
• Out-and-proud family member Stephen Spinella, who has played numerous gay roles ever since starring in — and winning Tony Awards for — Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. Onscreen (small and big), you may know him best from And the Band Played On (1993) or Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997).
• The wonderful Victor Garber, who’s come a long, long way from playing a New York City Jesus in 1973’s Godspell. (After Titanic, we can’t help but think of him as Sid Luft opposite Judy Davis’ amazing portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 made-for-TV movie, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.)
• The mesmerisingly beautiful Diego Luna, star of Y Tu Mama Tambien, who, alongside his Y Tu co-star and now business partner, Gael Garcia Bernal, has emerged as a dedicated human-rights activist in the actors’ native Mexico.
• The very busy Denis O’Hare (who appeared in at least half a dozen movies in 2007, in addition to a recurring role on ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters“).
• “Freaks and Geeks” brooding-James-Dean-type (who eventually portrayed Dean in 2001) James Franco.
• Last but certainly not least, San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano, as — surprise! — San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano.
