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• Dustin Lance Black is a screenwriter.

  Dustin Lance Black, the dreamy Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, has just been betrayed by someone he knows. Someone has sold sex pics to a photo agency, and now bad old Perez Hilton has found them.

  The photos depict Black in a bed with another gentleman, back in November of 2006 (if the photo timestamps are to be believed). Perez suggests that there may also be video, which of course we would need to see were it to become available, for strictly journalistic purposes.

  He has won awards from Critics Choice, the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards and Hollywood Film Festival screenwriting awards. Black has been nominated for many other awards including from the Writers Guild of America for his work writing Milk. The day before the Oscars, he won a Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

  In 2009, he won Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his film Milk.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: 1979
  2. Raised in San Antonio, Texas
  3. Spent high school years in Salinas, California
  4. Education: UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, graduated cum laude (with honors)Film In Focus: Dustin Lance Black Biography
  5. Previously written for the HBO series Big Love
  6. Nominated for Milk
  7. Wrote/directed short: The Journey of Jared Price

• Background

  Dustin Lance Black was raised as a strict Morman near the U.S. Army town of San Antonio, Texas. He found at a young age he was attracted to other men, yet because of his upbringing felt shame, despair and had even pondered suicide. After moving to California Black discovered theater and was amazed that men could leave an openly gay lifestyle. In college, he was affected watching the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk and was inspired by the politician Harvey Milk as a father figure. He adapted the documentary Milk and won numerous screenwriting awards.Ebar: How He Got Milk (February 21, 2008)

• Quote

  "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."—On being gayEbar: How He Got Milk (February 21, 2008)

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