Movie on the Martin Luther King of gay civil rights dodges the bullet

To be young and realise you were gay in 1970s America — or 1980s Ireland — was to await an adulthood encumbered with dim career prospects, fake wedding rings and darkened bar windows. No one person could change all that, and not all the changes are complete, here or in America

IT’S not hard to find fault with Gus Van Sant’s film Milk, which opened here at the weekend. Biopics, no matter how acutely observed, have a dated feel about them.