Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on Risking Career for LGBT Rights
Feb 16, 2018 The Academy Award-winning screenwriter, producer and activist speaks to Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer about the risky but necessary decision to pause his career in pursuit of LGBT equality.
Dustin Lance Black on the Orlando Massacre: ‘It Is Time to Disarm Hate’
Jun 22, 2016 The "Milk" screenwriter offered his reasons to pause and consider the ongoing stories behind the LGBT nightclub tragedy.
Truthdig Wins National Award for Coverage of Pasadena College’s Commencement Debacle
Nov 25, 2014 Congratulations to Kasia Anderson, who won a 2014 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for her story on Pasadena City College's awkward and offensive treatment of one of its most famous alumni, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.
Politics
Dustin Lance Black Speaks: Pasadena City College Officials Created ‘Toxic and Dishonest’ Atmosphere
Apr 30, 2014 The president and board of trustees at Pasadena City College thrust their school into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently with a political and public relations debacle involving PCC alumnus and Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.2014 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award: Online News
Clooney, Pitt, Sheen, Lynch & Co. Make a Play for Marriage Equality
Mar 5, 2012 On March 3, director Rob Reiner led an all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jane Lynch, Kevin Bacon, Martin Sheen and Jamie Lee Curtis, through Dustin Lance Black's play "8," about the court battle over marriage equality in California that was set in motion by the passage of Proposition 8 in 2008.
The Best (and the Rest) of 2011
Jan 7, 2012 Sorry about this—a 10-best list dragging along in the wake of all the others, which began appearing around Halloween And it isn’t even a nice round 10 in number I could come up with only six movies this year I have my excuses [Pictured above, Werner Herzog, director of "Into the Abyss"]Sorry about this—a 10-best list dragging along in the wake of all the others, which began appearing around Halloween [Above, Werner Herzog, director of "Into the Abyss"].
‘J. Edgar’: Hoover’s Hubris Writ Large
Nov 9, 2011 This is a brave film. There was a time when J. Edgar Hoover was among the most prominent Americans and there was no way to make a reasonably honest movie about him. Now there is a tendency to ask, J. Edgar Who?Even by Clint Eastwood's austere standards, "J. Edgar" is a very plain movie. And all the more powerful being so.