the dominant paradigm, to act out and all of this looking forward with a great dose offing a nose gholamreza -- --ing a nottickism. have have you seen the film knick? we see a young man at the age of 40 dvding he must become an activist, and as the credits are going by you see documentary footage of the arrests of gay men in bars, the shaming and humiliation of gay men in bars and it's hard to believe that that was the 60s and 70s. wasn't the 30s or the dark ages. that was the dark ages of the 60s and 70s and then you remember that being homosexual in america was a crime until recently and interesting a homosexual in america until 1974 was to be crazy, according to the american psychiatric association. what changed that? well, the activism of harvey milk and many like him who stood up and in the film this what you see. he stood up and was knocked down herm stood up and was knocked down. he stood up again and was shot. that's why it's a film worth supporting because we see there the power of activism. we life in a very different world. it's not the gl rights aren't doing being debated. but it