‘Milk’ screenwriter Dustin Lance Black wins Oscar.

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From Think Progress:

At tonight’s Academy Awards, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for “Milk,” the story of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk. Black — who was wearing a White Knot for marriage equality — spoke about how Milk inspired him:

BLACK: When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas, to California, and I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life; it gave me the hope that one day I could live my life openly as who I am and that maybe even I could fall in love and one day get married. <…>

Most of all, if Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he’d want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by their churches, or by the government, or by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value. And that no matter what everyone tells you, God does love you, and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights federally across this great nation of ours.

Black’s speech was greeted by loud applause

To watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/22/milk-oscar/

[PDJane]

1. Thank you!

Wonderful moment........

[Occam Bandage]

2. That's great news. He deserves it.

[Triana]

3. http://www.whiteknot.org

http://www.whiteknot.org

W00t! :fistbump: :woohoo:

[Zuiderelle]

4. That speech was worth sitting through all the other drivel.

Made me cry.

[bluedawg12]

5. Great news and wonderful acceptance speech!

[dsc]

6. an interview he gave to the San Fran Chronicle

http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=462

Childhood for Lance Black meant growing up in San Antonio, Texas, surrounded by military bases. "I had my first crushes on a boy neighbor when I was like six, seven. I knew what was going on, I knew I liked him, but what Texas did and what the culture of growing up Mormon, growing up military , was, the very second thought I had, 'I really like that boy, and it's not just as a friend,' the very second thought was, 'I'm sick, I'm wrong, I'm going to hell. And if I ever admit it, I'll be hurt, and I'll be brought down.'"

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Through the travail of draft after draft, as the Milk script was winnowed down to the core beats about the man, Black never forgot the little boy from San Antonio whose Texas childhood shadowed his dreams. "Texas kept me very quiet. I became intensely shy, I had thoughts of suicide. I was a pretty dark kid, because I had an acute awareness of my sexuality, and was absolutely convinced that I was wrong. In his Hope Speech, Harvey Milk says, 'There's that kid in San Antonio, and he heard tonight that a gay man was elected to public office, and that will give him hope.' And when I first heard that speech, it really did that. It really, really gave me hope, for the first time."

[Triana]

7. your link goes to...

....Designing the Emperor's new clothes

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Fiddle!

[dsc]

8. It should work now

[Triana]

9. THANKS!

:hug:

[RetiredTrotskyite]

10. Great News!

Congratulations, Dustin!

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

11. Best acceptance speech EVER

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. Best speech of the nite. Rec # 5

[tbyg52]

13. I was just gushing tears. It was wonderful. nt