At a crowded movie premiere in Midtown recently, The Observer witnessed a young movie and TV star—a dashing young man who’s been involved with several starlets despite whispers about his close relationships with other men—sitting for the entire party in close conversation with a well-groomed gent, even as his co-stars circulated. As we passed, the Read More
Milk’s Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black told The Observer that he was opposed to President Obama’s recent declaration of support for same-sex marriage. “Well, because I think marriage is between a man and a woman, I was incredibly upset,” Mr. Black said, biting a nail. He was joking, though in a quiet, grave tone–the premiere Read More
Dustin Lance Black’s 8, a staged reading on Broadway depicting the legal battle over Proposition 8, is to star Morgan Freeman, Cheyenne Jackson, Anthony Edwards (of ER), Christine Lahti (of Chicago Hope), Rob Reiner, Marisa Tomei, and Yeardley Smith (little Lisa Simpson–or her voice, at least), the American Foundation for Legal Rights announced today. (AFER Read More
Dustin Lance Black’s 8, a play based on the Proposition 8 anti-gay marriage law in California and subsequent legal battle, is to play at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on September 19 to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the organization that filed a lawsuit against the state of California to overturn the Read More
On the night of June 26, two days before the gay pride parade would overtake Manhattan in honor of the 40th birthday of the Stonewall riots that are popularly imagined as the birth of the gay rights movement, a group numbering a couple of dozen mostly gay men and women found themselves crammed into the Read More
