Dustin Lance Black

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Dustin Lance Black, 2017
Lance Black as invited speaker at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner 2012
Lance Black at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009

Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974 in Sacramento , California ) is an American filmmaker ( screenwriter , director and film producer ), Oscar winner and political activist especially for LGBT QI * rights.

Black is best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and for his successful political contribution to the nationwide enforcement of marriage for all by the United States Supreme Court with the help of Julian Bond (advisor to Martin Luther King ) and the unexpected collaboration of SCOTUS lawyers Theodore Olson and David Boies (bitter opponents in the Bush v. Gore trial ).

life and career

childhood and education

D. Lance Black was born in Sacramento, the middle of three sons to a Mormon missionary couple, and grew up in San Antonio , Texas . His father, Raul Gerrison, left the family abruptly when Black was six years old and never made contact again. His mother Roseanna "Anne" (February 28, 1948 - June 16, 2014) had suffered from polio from an early age and had to rely on crutches for her entire life. Against all odds, the poor, intelligent young woman had received a scholarship to study medicine - and only a few months before graduation traded that future for a limited-time marriage offer from a Mormon traveling preacher who promised support and security until he was ten years later left the family. As a single mother, she received support from local organizations of the US military, for whose local hospital she did volunteer and community service. Although she did not have any further education after graduating from school, she was able to work her way up in the course of her life with intelligence and commitment from a part-time secretary position in Texas to laboratory technician in the microbiology department of the Walter Reed Military Hospital in the federal capital , where she works with patients and doctors alike was valued and respected. She exceeded her expected life expectancy by a full 60 years and died in 2014 of a heart attack. Black's older brother Marcus Raul Black (April 2, 1970 - January 25, 2012) lived in Virginia until his early death from cancer, his younger brother Todd Bryant Black (born March 4, 1976) lives with his family in Austin (Texas). Black describes fear as the all-embracing feeling of his childhood and youth up to young adulthood, mainly the fear of being different - caused and reinforced by politicians from all factions, teachers, families and churches. From kindergarten onwards, these institutions would have burned him mainly with this one lesson: “And I'm learning what fear is: fear is leadership. Fear is how you get people to do what you need them to do. ”(“ And I learn what fear is: Fear is domination. Fear is how to get other people to do what you want them to do. ")

His mother's second marriage, like her first, was born of necessity and characterized by violence and abuse, for which the Mormon community basically blamed the wife or her “inadequate qualities” and could not point out any alternative courses of action. The first glimmer of hope for Black was his mother's growing love for the much younger soldier Jeff Bisch, which prompted her to leave her husband and move to California with the children (Lance then 13 years old). Black regards Bisch as his father and officially referred to him as such in his engagement advertisement (2015). Anne remarried and was later relocated to Virginia with the family while Black stayed on the West Coast to study. In California he also got to know the story of Harvey Milk - only ten years after his murder.

The recording of a speech by Milks in Black's hometown of San Antonio gave him hope that one day he would be able to live openly: “It gave me the hope to live my life. It gave me the hope one day I could live my life openly as who I am and then maybe I could even fall in love and one day get married. "(" She gave me hope to live my life. She gave me that Hope that one day I can live openly as I am, and maybe even fall in love and one day get married. ") After several failures, Milk had won the elections for the (first openly gay) deputy mayor and later for the city council of San Francisco , by directly addressing and bringing together not only homosexuals but also a large number of minorities with an optimistic message of hope and energy. For Black, this evidence of the possibility of a successful (political) career as a gay man contained another particularly important message:

"When I heard that speech, it was the very first time in my life that I heard someone leading with hope - and not fear. And his brand of hope actually included me . "

“When I heard this speech, it was the first time in my life that I heard someone lead with hope , not fear. And this sign of hope even included me . "

To help him overcome his shyness, his mother signed him up for his school's theater group. While still in high school, Black began working at The Western Stage in Salinas , later he also worked for theater productions such as bare: a pop opera at Hollywood's Hudson Main Stage Theater . During this time Black graduated from the School of Theater, Film and Television ( UCLA ) in Los Angeles as the best of his class. Christmas 1996, while still a student, Black had his involuntary coming-out within his family through his emotional reaction to his mother's tirades of hate about Don't ask, don't tell - a military guideline that his mother detested not because because she repressed homosexuals within the military and forced them into secrecy, "but because, under the guise of secrecy, she gave gays and lesbians, these, as she had learned, broken, dangerous sinners, access to their holy military".

However, his mother was able to completely abandon the homophobia that is deeply anchored in her life just a few months later when she met his many LGBT friends during his graduation ceremony, and from them only through a misunderstanding of their personal suffering in hateful families and with honest ones and concrete stories about their love and emotional life. The all-sudden and so radical change of heart only due to the confrontation with the individual life stories of his friends, who until then had been strangers to them, confirmed Black's desire to face his life as a storyteller.

Beginnings as a filmmaker

After completing his studies, he first worked as a waiter and in other mini-jobs and invested his money in the production of documentary films, “because it costs relatively little to make a documentary, and it does not cost much to register such a film for film festivals and attract viewers these festivals are really attentive. Because they need new talent, especially at the beginning of their careers. ”His film projects caught the attention of the BBC , which became his first permanent employer as a filmmaker .

Black set himself the goal of countering the severe underrepresentation of homosexual partnerships in the English-language media with his film projects. In 2000, Black wrote the screenplay for The Journey of Jared Price , a film about a gay love affair, which he also directed. In the same year he also wrote the screenplay for Something Close to Heaven , a short film with a gay coming-of-age theme, which he also directed. In 2001 he directed the documentary On the Bus about a trip by six gay men to Nevada , where he also stood in front of the camera. Black was also a scriptwriter for the television series Big Love for the broadcaster HBO . He then wrote the script Pedro , which follows the biography of AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. In 2003 Black began work on a script about his role model and hope, Harvey Milk . The result was the film biography Milk , which Gus Van Sant directed. In 2008 the work was released in cinemas worldwide.

Oscar win and switch to politics

On February 22, 2009, Black won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this film . In his acceptance speech, he took the opportunity of one of the largest stages in the world and promised his home country to invest his time and energy in the repeal of the recently enforced Proposition 8 and to bring marriage back for everyone not only in California, but across the country. This earned him strong criticism not so much from conservatives, but especially from his peers, as many dismissed his optimistic goal as arrogance, naivety and further endangerment of the remaining rights.

In the years that followed, Black endeavored with various projects, speeches and pamphlets to raise national awareness of the topic and to carry out his promise at the Academy Awards. In 2011 he wrote the play "8" , which describes the trial over a ban on same-sex marriages in California based on the published trial minutes and using the example of several real LGBT families. Well-known faces from the US film industry came together to cast the play on stages in Los Angeles and New York's Broadway , including George Clooney , Morgan Freeman , George Takei , Kevin Bacon , Brad Pitt , Jane Lynch , Matthew Morrison , Matt Bomer , Jamie Lee Curtis , John Lithgow and many others. In NY, even the successful playwright and activist Larry Kramer ( The Normal Heart ; founder of the organizations GMHC and Act Up ), known for his political development in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, did not miss a guest appearance. Audio and film recordings of individual appearances of the productions were published worldwide.

Subsequently, Black left the film industry for several years in order to devote himself entirely to the political fight for equality of the LGBT community specifically in marriage law. After he was rejected by mentors and friends for his "dangerous optimism", he eventually turned to civil rights activist Julian Bond , a close confidante and supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. in its fight against racial segregation in the United States. Bond pledged his support, recalling that changing the state constitution and changing popular opinion requires allies far outside of one's own minority. On the basis of a rumor, they then approached the ultra-conservative SCOTUS lawyer Theodore Olson and were able to win his support. Olson saw himself so responsible for breaking the boundaries for this topic that he ditched his bitter opponent in the Bush v. Gore , David Boies, and got him on board too. This completely unexpected alliance, as well as the continuous transmission and publication of very personal stories, contributed to gradually completely reversing the results of the popular polls regarding consent to marriage for all in the run-up to the court decision.

In January 2012, less than two weeks before confirming the illegality of Prop 8 by the 9th District Court of Appeals ( Court of Appeal ), Black's older brother succumbed to severe cancer. A few years earlier, Marcus Black had come out completely surprisingly and only to Lance as gay. In his homeland Virginia (with an even more precarious legal situation), however, unlike his brother, who was influenced by California, he saw no chance of ever being able to lead an open life. The fact that Marcus could no longer experience the successful step on the last stage to the Supreme Court and with it "this feeling of liberation" spurred Lance Black on to expand his fight for equality even after the end of Prop 8 on the national level and in to wear the conservative states of the South and Midwest. The unconstitutionality of Proposition 8 was carried to the Supreme Court and accepted there on December 7, 2012. On June 26, 2013, California law was repealed and an hour later the first couples were married. Exactly two years later, on June 26, 2015, the final ruling of the Supreme Court finally came for the invariable opening of marriage in all 50 states of the USA.

Black is still involved in his works and privately as an LGBT activist, but repeatedly calls on the LGBT community to stand up for other minorities together and to take action against prejudice and exclusion within the community. Within the community he is sometimes seen as a troublemaker, as he describes the often self-centered party mood about successes achieved, for example in marriage law, as short-sighted, unreflective and fatal for the future as a minority. He repeatedly calls for the often uncomfortable cooperation with and active commitment to other minorities and often cites Harvey Milks' policy of the “coalition of the uses” (“union of the us ”). In particular, he protested against the Trump administration's dealings with Muslims in a media-effective manner. Most recently, he called on the supporters and members of the Republican Party in his family and acquaintances to recognize their own responsibility for the rule of law in the United States and to work together for the removal of the incumbent president, whom he called " (country) traitor " designated.

Return to film

Black's other scripts include J. Edgar, about FBI director J. Edgar Hoover , directed by Clint Eastwood and released in theaters in November 2011, and the second collaboration with Gus Van Sant ( Milk ), the film adaptation of Tom Wolfes The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test .

On February 27, 2017, Black's major project When We Rise premiered, for which he developed and worked out the idea, put together a team of in many ways very different scriptwriters and took over part of the direction. Even Gus van Sant belonged again to the ranks of directors. The eight-part mini-series tells the story of a number of very different members of the LGBTQ community based on real events over a period of 45 years, who in their own way and against all odds made decisive contributions to the political and social development towards the increasing equality of their respective minorities .

Starting a family

Husband Thomas Daley after the 2012 Summer Olympics

In the spring of 2013 he began his love affair with the English Olympic diver and multiple world champion Tom Daley , who came out in December of the same year and has since been one of only a handful of openly gay athletes in top international sport. They got engaged at the beginning of October 2015, they have been married since May 6, 2017 and live in London. Their first child was born on June 27, 2018, named after Daley's father Robert, who died in 2011. Since then, Black has limited himself to writing from home, Daley took a few months of parental leave after 15 uninterrupted years of competition, but remained in the Olympic squad and resumed training in autumn 2018 and a few months later also taking part in the competition. The two traditionally announced engagement, marriage and the birth of their son via a small newspaper ad in the Times , followed by posts on social media.

Mama's boy

Black's family of origin combines belonging to the most conservative branches of American society: The military, in which a large part of his family, including his parents, see work, home and life; the Mormon Church, which "is arguably the only church that makes the Catholic Church look extremely progressive and open to the world"; rural-village, southern, thoroughly republican Texas; as well as the lower social classes, manifested in low and poor quality educational prospects and low income. Knowing that most of his family were among Donald Trump's voters and that their value system differs in many respects from Blacks, he began work on his first book, the working title The Two Americas , in 2017 , in which he explored the division of his home country based on his own life story and on the basis of his mother's radical change of heart. The increasingly biographical work was finally published on August 30, 2019 by Knopf-Verlag , known for its sophisticated literature, under the title Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas . It was received consistently positively by critics and readership. Black also spoke the audio book version published at the same time.

"A magnificent achievement. I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny, sad, triumphant ... everything. And both a warning and a hope for the times to come. "

- Stephen Fry

"Mama's Boy is a beautifully written, utterly compelling account of growing up poor and gay with a thrice married, physically disabled, deeply religious Mormon mother, and the imprint of this irrepressible woman made on the character of Dustin Lance Black. Their extraordinary bond left me exhilarated — it actually gave me hope for the future of the republic, which is no mean feat, given the dark mood of our current moment. "

- Jon Krakauer

"A memoir of an enduring mother-son bond that transcends even the deepest ideological divides. [... A] heartfelt tribute. "

- USA Today : "5 Books Not to Miss"

"[...] Black's tender and heartfelt love letter to his remarkable mother is an act of courage and reclamation. It's a well-deserved tribute. "

- Michael Nava (The New York Journal of Books)

"Black grew up in the South, surrounded by stories — the telling sometimes fueled by Jack Daniels — that made people stronger. As a result, he fell in love with the magic of storytelling and has himself become a consummate storyteller, as he demonstrates in this beautifully written, vastly entertaining, and moving memoir. The most powerful stories are the most personal, Black believes, and, in that context, the most important figure in his story is his indomitable mother, who, a victim of childhood polio, had no use of her legs but refused to let that stop here. From her tough, stubborn heart, he inherited his own strong will and optimism. [...] Black seems incapable of writing a dull word as he evokes his stirring life and times, ultimately inspiring comity by word and example. His book belongs in every library. "

- Booklist: Starred Reviews 2019

Views

Black housed his Oscar in the guest toilet so that visitors could give their own acceptance speeches and selfies in front of the mirror. He described this in interviews as a kind of tradition in Great Britain , referring to various British award winners such as Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson , who also make their Oscar sculpture available in the guest toilet for this purpose. Any other open display of such awards is frowned upon as aloofness in his adopted country, unlike in the USA. He also thinks it is fundamentally helpful not to have any awards in his field of vision during working hours, so that he can remain fully focused on the creative process while writing.

Black is a regular guest speaker in front of students such as Oxford , Cambridge , and Dublin Universities , politicians, human rights organizations and artists' associations. Black repeatedly focuses on some fundamental visions. He shares his view and life experience that personal life stories alone have the power to change long-term prejudices and fears and have an inestimable potential for improving the living conditions of everyone. As the second essential condition for change, he mentions education and continuous training based on thorough research. Thirdly, following the example of Harvey Milks, Martin Luther King Jr. and other recent revolutionaries, he follows the strategy of uniting seemingly opposing parties through the constant search for common ground. A struggle for equality as a minority of any kind can only be won by forming coalitions with unexpected supporters, but these in turn require a look beyond one's own nose, beyond the boundaries of one's own minority. They required overcoming one's own fear of differences between the minorities. They also required the suppression of one's own anger at the hatred of others - in favor of accommodating them on the basis of curiosity about possible unreflected motives for the hateful behavior. In exploring his own uniqueness, Black sees the potential for a successful career as well as for a better understanding of the similarities beyond the self-imposed boundaries of social groups. He calls on his listeners to stand up for themselves courageously, but also to stand up and stand up for members of minorities who have as little to do with their own otherness as possible. As a filmmaker, he thinks it is essential to surround yourself with creative people with as many different perspectives as possible in order to guarantee an authentic presentation and not have to make assumptions at crucial points. For a narrative portrayed from as many perspectives as When We Rise, it meant hiring an unusually large number of screenwriters and directors who could add contributions to Black's drafts with contributions from their own areas of life (perspectives from women, African-Americans and Latinos from poor and rich families , of lesbians and heterosexuals with and without children, etc.).

"It is much easier to be right. And if you want to change a mind, you better not come at it with that goal. You better come at it with curiosity. Because their belief system is built on something. And so I try my best, and it is difficult to come at these sort of confrontations with curiosity. I want to know where that came from. And I know I have met people in the UK who voted for Brexit and believe in that. And it is not my position but I have to come at it with curiosity. I need to understand where they come from. That is number one. And if you start to create that space, you can start to create some understanding. And to also know, and I say to people who are coming out to their parents: No, it is not gonna necessarily go well at first. Know there is a process. And the most important part of that process is keeping the lines of communication open. And it is tough. This is tough work. So come at it with curiosity, keep the avenues of communication open and always, always try to talk out of story and personal experience. I find when you start to go to law, constitutional law, or science - no matter how right you are, people get defensive. That would be my advice. It does not always work but I find it works more often than not. "

"Every single one of us is a minority in this world in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice that pie. Where you are from. How much money you make. What you believe. These are all ways in which you are different. And they are all ways that make you beautiful. And in sharing your difference and how you feel it is valuable to your country. I urge you to take a piece of yourself and to build a bridge. To build a bridge for a more equal world. "

"The fight for equality by a minority is never over. We constantly have to defend our rights. "

"[After accidentally meeting my friends at our UCLA graduation party] that was the first moment my mom held me - knowing who I was, fully. Loving me for who I am without question. And how did it happen? It didn't happen because my friends came into that room and started debating politics or policy or law or the constitution or science, no matter how right it is. They came to my mom with story. With personal storytelling from their hearts. And that story, those stories were so potent and so powerful that they erased generations of lies and myths and distortions about being an LGBT person. Lies and myths and distortions she heard her entire life from the church and from the government and from folks in the South. It was gone. That quickly. And that is the power of personal story. And the miracle of that is I look around the room as in every single one of you has one of these. And it is equally powerful. It has the power to change hearts. And that is the quickest avenue to the mind. And you change minds, you can start to change a city, and a town, and a state, and a country, and the world, starting with personal story. And I thought, boy, if that is the power of personal story, then that is what I am going to dedicate my life to. "

"You can't really change minds by arguing the truth, by arguing the law, by arguing the facts and the science. Even if you're on the winning side of all that science the thing that changes hearts and minds is story. "

"The work we do in this room to investigate who we are, all of our magnificent differences, all of our diversity, the things that make us unique and special, the ways we are still treated differently under the law and by law enforcement, that is incredibly valuable work. Necessary work. But that work is not sufficient. It is not all we have to do. If we stop there, we are in big trouble. If we stop there, we are divided. And we are weaker. And we will continue in those divisions to allow people like Donald Trump to be elected. The real prize on the other side of understanding our uniqueness is to find our intersections. To find our commonality. To find the bridges. To figure out how we can lock arms even despite our differences to be strong enough to beat back the powers of fear and division. And number 2: Once we have built that coalition of the uses, that important coalition, we gotta […] rise up and resist and fight back. And point out the people who are responsible for stoking fears to create division, stoking fear to push people back down who had been rising up. But if we stop there, that is also not sufficient, is it? [...] Right now what we need isn't just resistance. Right now we need vision and we need vision bad. Because if all we do is resist, again we will be divided and we will continue to fail. The world needs your dreams! The world needs your visions right now. A vision of an equal world where there's enough. Because there's a lot of people out there where I'm from who think: If we give everyone equality, there's not gonna be enough for me anymore. And theres a lot of assholes in Washington DC trying to tell them they are right. And they are not right. But if we are going to prove them wrong we have got to share our vision for an equal world. We gotta tell the world that when we get to a place where all of our brothers and our sisters and our sons and our daughters are treated equally no matter who they love or the color of their skin or their gender or their gender identity, there will still be enough for everybody. Paint that picture for us! Rise up, resist, but paint that picture of a brighter future, please , because right now, I'll tell you, the world needs our anger and the world needs our resistance, but it is thirsty for your vision. Get out there and dream! "

"If you are a writer or a filmmaker, to make yourself invaluable is to be undeniably you . Because there is no-one else like you. So you can go into every single pitch you do and say: 'I am the only person in the world to write this and to make this and here is why.' And if you can make that compelling a pitch, they are going to listen. They are even going to find it marketable. Because the most valuable thing in the world is a unique voice and a new point of view. "

Filmography

year Movie title Medium / form Director script idea development production Managing directors camera cut play Remarks
2000 The Journey of Jared Price motion pictures Yes Yes ( → en )
Something Close to Heaven Short film Yes Yes
2001 On the bus documentary Yes - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
2003 My Life with Count Dracula documentary Yes - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Kiss and Tell Short film Yes
The Singing Forest motion pictures Yes Yes ( → en )
2003-04 Faking It (US version) Television series Yes Yes 4 episodes produced, at least 2 episodes written
2006-09 Big love Television series Yes Yes 5 episodes produced, 5 others written
2008 Pedro TV movie Yes Yes ( → en )
Milk motion pictures Yes
2010 Virginia motion pictures Yes Yes original title: What's Wrong with Virginia ( → en )
2011 8th Theater film Yes Yes Black was a playwright of the stage play
J. Edgar motion pictures Yes
2017 When We Rise Miniseries Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Directed two of the eight parts, script also in collaboration with other authors selected by him

Awards

For Milk (2009):

Further awards (selection):

  • 2001: The President's Memorial Award ( s )
  • 2009: Humanitas Prize (category: outstanding television report, 90 minutes or longer; for Pedro ; nominated)
  • 2009: 61st Writers Guild of America Award (category: feature-length television film; for Pedro ; nominated)
  • 2009: Hollywood Film Festival (Award as screenwriter of the year; especially for Pedro and Milk )
  • 2009: UCLA's Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Award (UCLA Festival 2009: New Creative Work; awarded by his alma mater UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television on June 10, 2009 at the Freud Playhouse)
  • 2009: Distinguished Service to the LGBT Community by a UCLA Alumnus Award (UCLA LGBT Graduation Ceremony on June 13, 2009)
  • 2011: Bonham Center Award (for his contribution to education and awareness of sexual diversity , i.e. the diversity of gender identities and sexual orientations, presented by The Mark S. Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto on September 27, 2011)
  • 2012: Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award (presented by the HRC on September 15, 2012)
  • 2013: The Barry Goldwater Human Rights Individual Award (given by Equality Arizona in September 2013)
  • 2018: 70th Writers Guild of America Award - Special Valentine Davies Award - Out of Competition (for When We Rise and its artistic and political contribution to Marriage for All in the US)

Web links

Commons : Dustin Lance Black  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darren Frei, (June 6, 2006) Polygamy, gays, and TV , The Advocate (964 edition), p. 4
  2. ↑ Chuck Kim, Sex, guys, and videotape: “reality” filmmaker Dustin Lance Black talks about turning the camera on himself — and on five young gay men out for fun — in On the Bus , (June 25, 2002 in The Advocate )
  3. ↑ a b Michael Nava : Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas. Full review. In: The New York Journal of Books. April 30, 2019. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bay Area Reporter: David Lamble: How He Got Milk , Feb. 21, 2008
  5. ↑ Focus Feature: Cast & Crew: Dustin Lance Black ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filminfocus.com
  6. ↑ Embedded photo of the Times engagement advertisement in: Nadia Khomami: Tom Daley announces engagement to film-maker Dustin Lance Black. Guardian article dated October 1, 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ Video: Gay kids - you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value , pinknews.co.uk, February 23, 2009; Speech at the 2009 Academy Awards ceremony
  8. ↑ a b c Dustin Lance Black | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union Speech to the Oxford Union Society on May 23, 2017. Uploaded on their official YouTube channel OxfordUnion on July 7, 2017. Accessed July 3, 2018.
  9. ↑ Metro Weekly: Milk-ing the Silver Screen , November 15, 2008
  10. ^ A b Dustin Lance Black receives the HRC Visibility Award. - Complete recording of the laudatory speech and acceptance speech, uploaded to the official YouTube channel of the Human Rights Campaign on September 21, 2012. Accessed July 1, 2019.
  11. ^ A b Dustin Lance Black at the 2012 HRC National Dinner. - Complete recording of the speech, uploaded to the official YouTube channel of the Human Rights Campaign on October 7, 2012. Accessed July 30, 2018.
  12. ↑ Genre Magazine: Love To Love You, Chloe ( Memento from April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), July 25, 2008
  13. ↑ @DLanceBlack: To my GOP friends, family & neighbors, I know you value the freedom, opportunity & respect for law the US has always aspired to perfect. Our duty is to protect those shared values ​​from any attack or invasion. That work must now include removing this traitorous POTUS from power. Tweet of July 16, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  14. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Nadia Khomami: Tom Daley announces engagement to film-maker Dustin Lance Black . In: theguardian.com . October 1, 2015. Accessed October 12, 2015.
  16. ↑ Instagram post by Tom Daley • May 8, 2017 at 8:41 am. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .
  17. ↑ a b Excerpt from his speech to the College of Law, University of Dublin, Ireland. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  18. ↑ Julie Walters, Kate Winslet and Michael Fassbender discuss awards - The Graham Norton Show - BBC. Uploaded on the BBC's official YouTube channel on November 6, 2015. Accessed June 10, 2019.
  19. ↑ “Don't sigh, don't cry!” Emma Thompson on THAT Love Actually scene, Harry Potter and Late Night. Uploaded on BBC Radio 1's official YouTube channel on June 5, 2019. Accessed July 1, 2019.
  20. ↑ “He likes to keep them out of the way of his creative space so he can focus on the process and not think about the awards. Which, I think, is a really good way to think about work and think about anything that you do, is to focus on the process and the rewards will look after themselves. " ("He [Black] likes to keep them [the awards] away from his creative workspace so he can focus on the process and not think about the awards. Which I think is a really good way of thinking about your work and all that what you do: namely to concentrate on the work process and progress itself; the rewards / success comes by itself. ”) #AskTD • Q&A 11/2017 Uploaded on Tom Daley's YouTube channel on November 12, 2017.
  21. ↑ a b c Excerpt from his speech to the Oxford Union Society ( University of Oxford ). Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  22. ↑ a b c Interview about When We Rise . Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  23. ↑ Excerpt from his speech to the Writers Guild . Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  24. ↑ The Journey of Jared Price: Full Credits in the Internet Movie Database . Archived from the original on February 10, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  25. ↑ Something Close to Heaven in the Internet Movie Database . Archived from the original on May 14, 2006. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  26. ↑ Teri Bond: Oscar-winning 'Milk' screenwriter to be honored at UCLA film festival event , UCLA Newsroom, June 4, 2009
  27. ^ LGBT Graduation 2009 - Distinguished Service Award, Dustin Lance Black, UCLA on YouTube
  28. ↑ Nominees & Winners for the 81st Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences . Oscars.org. August 24, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  29. ↑ Awards Dinner . EchoMag.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved on December 4, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Black, Dustin Lance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacramento , California