Milk It!

*photo courtesy of Thaindian.com

A day after the biggest night in the film industry concluded for this year, an anti-gay protest was held against the film “Milk”, especially after Sean Penn ended up with the Best Actor award for his performance in the movie. During the awarding ceremony, Sean Penn, fully realizing the negative feedbacks produced by his film amongst anti-gay communities, delivered one of Academy Awards history’s best acceptance speech.

Sean Penn’s retort was very touching, not just for people (gays or not) who are proponents of gay rights, but for anyone in search of and fighting for their own individual rights.

“It’s very sad in a way, because it’s a demonstration of such emotional cowardice, to be so afraid of extending the same rights to your fellow man as you would want for yourself.“