American screenwriter, director and producer & LGBTQ+ activist
Dustin Lance Black
Black at the Web Summit 2017
Born
(1974-06-10) June 10, 1974 (age 49)[1]
Sacramento County, California, U.S.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles (BA)
Occupation(s)
Screenwriter, film director, film producer
Years active
2000–present
Notable work
Big Love (2006–09) Milk (2008) 8 (2011)
Board member of
American Foundation for Equal Rights
Spouse
Tom Daley
(m. 2017)
Children
2
Signature
Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974)[1] is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBT rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2009. He has also subsequently written the screenplays for the film J. Edgar and the 2022 crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.
Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights[2] and writer of 8, a staged reenactment of the federal trial that led to a federal court's overturn of California's Proposition 8.[3]
^ abBlack 2019, pp. 66–67.
^"About: Board of Directors". American Foundation For Equal Rights. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
^"About "8" the play". "8" official website. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
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