ISSUES: Dustin Lance Black says it’s an “outrage” for HRC trying to profit from Harvey [Milk’s] legacy”!

Writer-Director-Activist Dustin Lance Black, who won the Academy Award for the screenplay for Milk, is blasting the Human Rights Campaign after it announced this week that it would move its San Francisco Action Center and store into the space that was once Harvey Milk’s camera shop on Castro Street.

This clearly infuriated Black who has released the following statement: “Harvey Milk spent the last years of his life fighting not only for rights for gays and lesbians across the nation, but also against the idea that the only way to achieve those rights is to lobby the government and financially support so-called ‘straight allies’. Harvey believed the best way to secure our rights was through grassroots action, coalition building and the election of LGBT people to office at all levels of government. He encouraged people to come out of the closet and be vocal about who they were and why they deserved full equality, not partial equality or crumbs. For the HRC leadership, which still advocates a piecemeal, wait-and-see approach to try and co-opt and profit from Harvey’s legacy is an outrage.”