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Dustin Lance Black agrees to be Pasadena City College commencement speaker after invite decacle
Pasadena City College has secured a speaker for its graduation ceremony this week and it is Dustin Lance Black.
No doubt the speech the Oscar winning screenwriter and respected LGBT activist gives will be a powerful one.
Who can forget his speech on the night he won the Academy Award for Milk and told gay kids out there that they are beautiful and they are loved just as they are?
I sure can’t.
Lance is flying from London (today I think) to make the speech at the college he attended before going on to UCLA then worldwide success and fame.
I’ll be curious about the seating arrangements for this event. Where will the college officials who invited then uninvited then re-invited Lance be sitting? Especially the one who said he might give the school a “bad name” because photos of him having sex with a boyfriend were leaked onto the internet five years ago.
Anyway, I’ve posted a story over at Gay Star News about Lance accepting the school’s second invitation.
Comments
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Jim Steele says:
How gracious of him and what a great opportunity to tell HIS OWN STORY, rather than others doing it for him and getting it wrong.
RichB in PS says:
As you mentioned earlier today where the author of letter ‘rescinding’ invite to DLB will be seated, here’s website noting that author’s name, http://www.refinery29.com/2014/04/66539/dustin-lance-black-letter
Dislike giving recognition to the negative but to name this person I consider ‘just desserts’. Hope someone will photo or take detailed notes observing DLB’s positive speech.
RichB in PS says:
If you have not seen or read this website, please do
http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-dustin-lance-black-pcc-commencement-speech-20140503-column.html
including paragraphs 10 and 11.
RichB in PS says:
For those that haven’t heard, Happy Mother’s Day and for those that have heard – “”Hoo!” Dustin Lance Black told the graduating class of Pasadena City College. “I made it!”” http://www.latimes.com/la-me-ra-dustin-lance-black-speech-20140511-column.html#page=1