#203 Dustin Lance Black: On Storytelling & Building Bridges

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dustin Lance Black is my guest today! Lance has been named as one of the 50 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in America for the last decade. He is an Academy Award® winning filmmaker, writer, and social activist. He won the Oscar and two WGA Awards for his screenplay MILK, the biopic of activist Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn. He was also a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which successfully led the federal cases for marriage equality in California and Virginia. Lance's memoir MAMA’S BOY is out now, an absolutely incredible book, about

growing up in a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. The book is about his relationship with his mother, Anne, who sadly contracted polio when she was two years old and endured many surgeries throughout her life. Lance came out to his mother at twenty-one, and Mama's Boy explores what it took to remain a family despite such division of belief. Mama's Boy is the story of building bridges, of family, foundations, turmoil, tragedy, elation, and love. It is a story needed now more than ever. There is so much more I could say about Lance, but most of all, he was so lovely, and warm and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting him and going to his home in London to record. <3

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1:04.3	Alt Delete. Before I introduce my amazing guest for this episode, I just wanted to
1:09.3	give a little shout out to the fact that I'm doing a live Control Alt Delete show at Underbelly Festival South Bank
1:16.2	with the brilliant comedian Ellie Jane Taylor who is one of my favorite comedians on Live at the Apollo and it's just going to be a really fun evening.
1:25.3	So if you're up for coming, I will put a link in the description on my website and it should come up on any of the
1:31.5	podcast apps. So if you want to come along I'd love to see you there.
1:35.0	And anyway, here is the episode.
1:38.0	And today's guest is Dustin Lance Black, who goes by the name Lance.
1:45.0	Lance has been named as one of the 50 most powerful LGBT-plus people in America for the last decade.
1:52.0	He is also an Academy Award winning filmmaker, writer and social activist.
1:58.0	He won the Oscar and two WGA awards for his screenplay Milk, the biopic of activist Harvey Milk, starring
2:07.1	Sean Penn. He was also a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights which successfully led the federal
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