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Happy Birthday to Dustin Lance Black!
I read on Facebook that Dustin Lance Black is celebrating his birthday in San Francisco this weekend.
This still-boyish Oscar winning screenwriter turns 38 today.
He’s accomplished so much writing the feature films Milk, J. Edgar, and Virginia (which he also directed) and the TV film Pedro. He was also a writer for HBO’s Big Love.
Then there is this: In 2011, Black wrote the play 8 which portrays the actual events in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial and the testimony which led to the overturn of California’s Proposition 8.
Lance uses his gifts to advance the fight for marriage equality, is one of the co-founders of American Foundation of Equal Rights (AFER) and is most eloquent and articulate when talking about our civil rights.
Happy birthday to this most inspiring man.
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James says:
Happy Birthday, Dustin! You are a treasure.
Tes Stone says:
Birthday greetings to a talented young man. I read with great relief that you had changed your previous “may sit out” the coming presidential election stance after Mr. Obama changed his equal marriage rights stance. I, like many Americans, have some marked differences with our President. But I remember “sitting out” an election — which gave us George Bush. I encourage the LGBT to consider what your non-support of Mr. Obama will give you: The most repressive turnabout in American history. Continue to fight for your rights, but with an administeration not openly hostile to your rights. Good luck to us all.