Van Sant and Singer Race to Harvey Milk

Truman Capote had both Capote and Infamous made about him, and now it looks like another queer legend is going to be the subject of dueling biopics.

Gay director Gus Van Sant has announced his intentions to make a movie about former San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, an outspoken champion of gay rights before he was assassinated by a rival politician in 1978.

Van Sant's project will go head-to-head with gay director Bryan Singer's adaptation of the Randy Shilts biography The Mayor of Castro Street - a project, ironically, to which Van Sant was once attached and which Romeo has been covering for years.

No production date has been set for either film, but Singer's already committed to a WWII drama with Tom Cruise, shooting this summer.