Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist. She has won the Writers Guild of America Award and the Academy Award for the 2008 film Milk.
Black was a founding member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and author of 8 , a gradual re-examination of a federal trial that led the federal court to nullify California Proposition 8.
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He was born in Sacramento County, California as Dustin Lance Garrison. Her father walked over her polio-infested mother, Roseanna, and her two brothers, Marcus and Todd, when she was young. After her mother's second marriage to Merrill Durant Black in 1981, she and her siblings were adopted by their stepfather and changed their surname to Black. They grew up in Mormon households, first in San Antonio, Texas, and then moved to Salinas, California.
Growing surrounded by Mormon culture and military bases, Black worries about his sexuality. When he finds himself attracted to a boy in his neighborhood at the age of six or seven, he says to himself "I'm going to hell, and if I admit it, I'll get hurt, and I'll be dropped." He said that his "acute consciousness" about his sexuality made him dark, shy and sometimes suicidal. He came out in his final year of college.
While attending Salinas North High School, Black began working at the theater at The Western Stage in Salinas-Monterey, California, and later worked on productions including Bare at the Hudson Main Stage Theater in Hollywood. Black attended the University of California, Los Angeles, the School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA) while apprenticing on stage, taking acting work and working in a theater lighting crew. She graduated with honors from the UCLA Theater, Film and Television School in 1996.
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Careers
In 2000, Black wrote and directed The Journey of Jared Price, a gay love movie, and Something Close to Heaven, a gay short film coming of age. In 2001, he directed and became a subject in the On the Bus documentary about the Nevada journey and the adventure in Burning Man taken by six gay men. Raised as a Mormon, she was hired as the only such writer in the HBO drama series Big Love about polygamous families. He has written for all seasons, serving in season one as a staff writer, executive story editor in season two, and promoted again, to co-producer, for season three.
Black first visited San Francisco in the early 1990s, while AIDS destroyed the city's gay community. Black says that, "Hearing about Harvey is about the only hopeful story at the time." He first saw Rob Epstein's documentary The Times of Harvey Milk while he was in college, and thought, "I just want to do something with this, why has not anyone done something with this yet?" Examining Milk's life for three years, Black meets with former Milk aides Cleve Jones and Anne Kronenberg, as well as former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, and begins to write a screenplay that includes the events of Milk's life. The scenario was written with spec, but Black showed his script to Jones, who gave it to his friend, Gus Van Sant, who signed to direct the feature. Black is an old friend of producer Dan Jinks, who signed to biopic after he called Black to congratulate him and find that the project does not have a confirmed producer.
The movie Black Pedro , the life profile of AIDS activist and reality television personality Pedro Zamora, aired at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Coming, Paris Barclay is scheduled to direct her scenario of A Life Like Mine > and Gus Van Sant is set to direct his film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Black directs his own script Virginia , starring Jennifer Connelly.
On February 22, 2009, Black won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Milk at the 81st Academy Awards. He wore the White Knot to the ceremony as a symbol of solidarity with the marital equality movement.
On October 11, 2009, Black marched on National Equality March and delivered a speech in front of the United States Capitol to some 200,000 LGBT rights activists.
In 2010, Black narrated 8: Mormon Proposition , a documentary about the involvement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in California Proposition 8. Black received the award for best documentary for < i> 8: Mormon Proposition at the GLAAD Media award in San Francisco and talked about discrimination in the LDS Church and met with the church to make it more LGBT inclusive.
Black wrote the screenplay for J. Edgar, a biopic drama released November 11, 2011, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
In 2011, Black wrote the drama 8 , which described the actual events in the Hollingsworth v. Trial. Perry and testimonies that led to the reversal of California's Proposition 8. He created the drama in response to federal court rejection to allow the release of videotapes of the trials and to give the public the actual report of what happened in the courtroom. It was written and done using the original transcripts of court records and journalists, along with direct interviews of the people involved. 8 first opened at Eugene O'Neill Theater in New York City on September 19, 2011, and then broadcasted to a worldwide audience on YouTube from Ebell of Los Angeles Theater on March 3, 2012.
The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, sponsors of "8" , have now released and licensed games for national readings on campuses and in community theaters for free.
Black appears as himself in the Hollywood to Dollywood (2012) documentary.
Personal life
Black is the top entry on the list of gay openly influential people in the The Advocate s "Forty-under 40" edition of June/July 2009. He is featured on the front cover from the magazine. He is one of the Official Grand Marshals at NYC LGBT Pride March 2009, produced by Heritage of Pride joining Anne Kronenberg and Cleve Jones.
On January 24, 2012, Black's brother, Marcus, died of cancer.
Black has been in contact with British Olympic diver Tom Daley since 2013. They live together in London. In October 2015, it was announced that Black and Daley were engaged, They married on May 6, 2017 at Bovey Castle in Devon. On February 14, 2018, Black and Daley announced that they were expecting their first child by 2018.
By 2014, Black is one of eight potential speakers invited by Pasadena City College, and he accepted it. After school officials learned naked photographs of Black were stolen and leaked online five years earlier, the college announced Black had not been officially invited and the unofficial invitation was "an honest mistake". After talks between Black and PCC lawyers, the college board apologized and formally invited him.
Movieography
More awards
- Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Movie of 2009
- UCLA's outstanding achievements in Screenwriting award, "UCLA Festival 2009: New Creative Work," Theater, Film and Television School, June 10, 2009, Freud Playhouse
- Distributed Services to LGBT Communities through UCLA Alumnus Award, LGLT UCLA Graduation Ceremony 2009, June 13, 2009
- Bonham Center Award, for contributions to awareness and education on issues of sexual diversity [1], Mark S. Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Study, University of Toronto, 27 September 2011
- Human Rights Campaign, Speech Award September 15, 2012
- Arizona Equality, The Barry Goldwater Human Rights Individual Award September 2013
References
External links
- Official website
- Dustin Lance Black on IMDb
- American Foundation for Equal Rights
- "8" (drama) Official website
- "8": A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality on YouTube
- Dustin Lance Black: Telling the Story 'J. Edgar ': radio interview on Fresh Air (21 min: 2012)
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