Dustin Lance Black on why tomorrow’s SCOTUS rulings on Prop. 8 and DOMA are so personal to him

Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar winning screenwriter (Milk), is one of the LGBT activists behind the formation of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) in order to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court.

He writes in a blog post on Huffington Post that it ‘has been the honor of my life to be involved with this case.’

But it is also very personal because between the time he began to fight to defeat Prop. 8 and tomorrow’s ruling, Black lost his brother to cancer – a brother who had come out to him during the filming of Milk.

Lance writes:

My big brother is with me still in this fight. I know it. And regardless of the decision tomorrow, I know that together we will soon be equal in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states. Because this is personal. I know we as a people will not stop fighting until we live in a nation where we no longer leave a single one of our brothers or sisters behind, no matter whom they love or what state they call home.

For so many of us, for so many reasons and for so long now, tomorrow is, was and has always been about family… those we’ve loved, those we’ve lost, those we were born to, the families we’ve built and the families we still dream of building.

And for me, tomorrow is about my big brother.