Dustin Lance-Black
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Queerguru reviews ‘TOM DALEY 1.6 SECONDS’ on becoming a champion diver, and an awesome husband and father
Today June 1st, marks the beginning of Pride Month, which, with the present political unrest, particularly in the US, seems more important than ever we celebrate our community. Of all the likely ways we can do this Queerguru was nevertheless surprised (shocked even) to find ourselves doing this by something which was not only unexpected…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews RUSTIN a biopic about the gay black activist who was the chief architect of 1963 Civil Rights March
It’s Oscars season, and amongst a fairly predictable line-up of nominees is the nomination of Colman Domingo for his role as Bayard Rustin in the Netflix biopic Rustin. Rustin was a gay black activist who was the chief architect of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington which led to the creation of…
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RUSTIN : the story of the most powerful gay and human rights activist who never got the recognition he deserved
It’s been 20 years since the award-winning documentary Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer was on our screens. So this new Netflix feature RUSTIN written by Academy Award Winner Dustin Lance Black and Julian Breece is well overdue. Rustin was an African-American leader…
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Queerguru reviews Dustin Lance Black’s ‘ Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas’ The Film
Mama’s Boy : A Story From Our Americas. I fell in love with Dustin Lance Black in 2009. He was in LA accepting his Academy Award for writing the screenplay for MILK in which he made a promise to all the queer kids watching, that things would get better. The very next day Black’s mother…
