Dustin Lance Black talks about STAND UP

Grabbed the news issue of Frontiers IN LA last night while out in West Hollywood and was glad to see a new interview with Oscar winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black who I greatly admire.

Lance talks to Lawrence Ferber about next month’s National Equality March scheduled for Oct. 10-11 in Washington, D.C. You can read about that by clicking HERE. I wanted to highlight something else he talked about for the first time:  an education campaign called STAND UP.

Here’s what he says about it: STAND UP is a campaign of outreach and education. We’re making a national call for LGBT people’s stories [through] the Courage Campaign (couragecampaign.org). Once we get all of these stories I’m going to take some of the best filmmakers on the road and document those stories and 8-12 of them will be turned into 30- and 60-second ads, which will be aired nationally. In this commercial campaign, LGBT people—in their own voices—will introduce themselves to America and to the people in America who need to hear their stories the most—those who don’t know LGBT people personally, because those are the people who vote against equality. We know that seventy percent of Americans who have changed from voting against LGBT people to voting for equality do so because they’ve come to know a real LGBT person. The campaign will be impactful, memorable and personal, of a ‘Rock the Vote’ scale, with a significant viral video and online component. Also, in California we have the federal case against Proposition 8, which I’m on the board of.

Earlier posts:

** Dustin Lance Black at LifeWorks event: “It took a turn of luck to discover I had someone I could look up to, and a turn of luck to save my life.”

**Dustin Lance Black gives Greg nice shout-out inside Oscar interview room

** Saturday Morning Man: Dustin Lance Black!

** Dustin Lance Black stays on the front lines for LGBT equality