Dustin Lance Black

Dustin Lance Black is an openly gay American screenwriter and activist known for Milk (2008, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay) — his biographical portrait of Harvey Milk — and for the miniseries When We Rise (ABC, 2017), a sweeping account of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement from Stonewall to marriage equality. He was deeply involved in the legal and political campaign against Proposition 8 and wrote the stage adaptation 8, which dramatized the federal trial. He is married to British Olympic swimmer and diver Tom Daley. Black has been a tireless advocate for LGBTQ+ civil rights and LGBTQ+ visibility in mainstream media.