QUEERTY REPORTS — "A new step" in gay cinema is how director Gus Van Sant described his Harvey Milk biopic last night at a Q&A following a screening at the the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Queerty attended, if only to see if Van Sant was as charmingly handsome as he seemed in his Entourage cameo. (Answer: He most certainly is.) Fielding a handful of questions after Milk's credits rolled, Van Sant was lauded by the audience. A 25-year-old blonde New York transplant, who says he is still harassed daily, even in New York, and saw new hope in the film, gave the director a tearful "thank you." An executive from the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home to New York's gay-friendly Harvey Milk High School, attended with some of his students, and commended Van Sant for perfectly capturing Milk's "legacy." And of course, somebody asked the director how he felt the film could have impacted Proposition 8, if only it came out before the election. And that's where he surprised us:
There is a scene of the chortle-worthy Tropic Thunder, where Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. discuss Sean Penn's Oscar-baiting performance in I Am Sam as "going full retard."
Unfortunately, Penn already booked his new role playing revolutionary gay icon Harvey Milk by the time TT came out, so now you're going to have to survive a couple of months with hearing the term "going full homo" thrown around a lot. Milk trailer, after the jump:
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