Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer and LGBT rights activist. He has won a Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for the 2008 film Milk.Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and writer of 8, a staged reenactment of the federal trial that led to a federal court's overturn of California's Proposition 8.He was born in Sacramento, California, as Dustin Lance Garrison. His father walked out on his polio-stricken mother, Roseanna, and his two brothers, Marcus and Todd, when he was young. Following his mother's second marriage to Merrill Durant Black in 1981, he and his brothers were adopted by their stepfather and changed their surname to Black. They grew up in a Mormon household, at first in San Antonio, Texas, and later moved to Salinas, California. Wikipedia
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