How “story” is the most effective way to change hearts and minds | Dustin Lance Black
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Milk” and “J. Edgar”, Dustin Lance Black honoured by UCD Law Society
Academy Award winning screenwriter and LGBT rights campaigner, Dustin Lance Black has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of UCD Law Society, University College Dublin.
Black, the writer of "Milk" and "J Edgar", is also a co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) which was pivotal in the abolition of Proposition 8 in California.
He was awarded the honour at University College Dublin in recognition of his storytelling achievements and his active campaigning for LGBT rights.
"It was an incredible honour to welcome Dustin Lance Black and Tom Daley to the UCD Law Society. Lance has been a leading advocate for same-sex marriage and equality in the United States over the last decade. His screenwriting works promote the right to equality that millions of LGBT men and women dream of achieving," said Ian Fahey, Auditor of the UCD Law Society, University College Dublin.
“This award recognises his pioneering and inspiring campaigning for equal rights for all minority groups."
In his acceptance address at University College Dublin, Black explained how “story” is the most effective way to change hearts and minds. He continued to tell his own story and how he got to this place.
In the inspiring and personal story that followed, Black, who grew up in Texas in the beliefs of the Mormon Church, described how he first told his mom he was gay and her earliest reaction to this.
“Loud and clear, what I heard in that silence was that it wasn’t OK,” he said. “That she was afraid for her son. What had she done wrong to break her precious boy and how could she fix this horrible problem.
That’s what that silence said, because that’s what she’d learned, all of those years growing up the way she did.”
Black’s boyfriend, British Diving Champion, Tom Daley attended the award event at University College Dublin.
Previous recipients of the UCD Law Society Honorary Life Membership Award include: Martin Sheen, Patrick J. Adams, and Judge Judy.
Every time I hear DLB speak, I am floored as to how articulate he is.
WOW!!! Lance is so intelligent and at the same time such a delight to listen to...such an intelligent, truthful speech
Well, now I see why Tom fell in love with him.....
Lance is an excellent speaker.
Yes there is definately something about his voice that is well soothing i suppose!
He's so smart and articulate. I never knew he wrote the screenplay for Milk and J Edgar. I just knew he was Tom Daley's partner, and he seemed so young! :P It doesn't hurt that he's got the loveliest blue eyes as well
PrincessRamsha999 Yes, he is smart and eloquent and won an Oscar and is dating Tom Daley and has blue eyes to die for.
I like this guy so much. He is so generous to invest his time and money to fight for everybody's rights. I've been following him since his historic speech accepting his Oscar and he never disappointed.
Dan Blackwoods I'd watched Milk years ago and absolutely loved it, as a straight ally. But I didn't know he was the guy behind it. He's having the conversation *everybody* needs to hear. His speeches apply to all persecuted minorities, and that's so amazing. I can't believe he's forty - he looks like he's just entered his twenties!
Have you watched his Oxford speech? ua-cam.com/video/v-Wik2fDVBk/v-deo.html
That speech was excellent! I am LDS and although I am not part of the LGBT community I know many LDS who are LGBT. Some have come out and many haven't. I'm happy your mother came to accept you for you. A young family friend who is 14 now has decided he's bisexual. He's LDS and said he was going to Sacrament to pass the sacrament. I asked if he had told his Mom he was bisexual and he said no. I told he needed to before they left for church. He told her and she was fine with it which I knew she would be. She told him that he needed to talk to one of the Bishopric to explain why he was not worthy to pass the sacrament. He did. No one made a big deal about it. I hope your talks reach many people. Thanks for sharing your speech.
I can't even express how brilliant he is.
Great speech, DLB is a great guy.
Magnificent speech - thank you
This is such a huge and fabulous lesson in story telling. Fabulous job.
Lance Black you are a great speaker so articulate
he is perfect i hope tom daley knows hes with a great man
sometimes a trouble maker but he adores you
That was great !
What a lovely guy, he is a really good speaker,
This was absolutely incredible.
It's still sad to think that someone has the power over whether you can or can't marry someone you love.
When will you post the Q&A part?
Awesome truths... wonderfully delivered
Fantastic!
He is absolutely awesome~
Lance is worth listening to at every opportunity.
such a good speech and speaker.
Great speech!
Ohhh LANCE... I wanna be YOURS😘😍 your speech touch my heart.
WOW!! I LOVE this Lance. So absolutely brilliant. Lance and Tom are lucky to have each other.
Dustin Lance Black - Myth Breaker
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. - JFK
I wish I had the technical ability to build a website for every citizen of a nation to voice their opinion on an issue as well as vote on issues online.
So inspirational
wow
#tomdaley supportive husband ❤
❤
I do love so much ❤️
Lucky Tom 😍
Taboos emerge for a reason. Maybe they're overcompensations, but they didn't materialize from the aether.
Um... yeah they do. Moses believed that 100% of what made a baby cummed from a man. Nobody bats 1.000. They hadn't had the opportunity to do the science yet. Taboos only work until they don't.
@@thomthom6268 bs
Great Speech. I disagree with his interpretation of democratic vote vs a court of law argument though. Laws are made by people for people so its better in my view that the people vote to change and enshrine something in their Constitution rather than just introduce something through a court of law alone.
Constitutionally, Ireland differs from say the UK for example in that under the Irish Constitution the people are sovereign. In the UK or the US, the parliament is sovereign. That's why those governments only needed an act of parliament to amend their constitution and introduce same sex marriage. I think its better the people decide any changes to their Constitution.
+Tonyo1221
The US federal government cannot introduce same-sex marriage through an act of Congress because its constitution limits powers to the federal government. Any power not under the jurisdiction of the federal government is left for each individual state. Unlike the UK and Ireland which are unitary countries, the US is a federation and it has one federal constitution with 50 separate state constitutions. (Canada and Australia are federations as well.) State constitutions are subordinate to the federal constitution. Marriage laws are not covered by the federal constitution, so those laws are left under the jurisdiction of state law. The state of California has a constitution that can be changed by democratic vote or by the legislature. So under the California Constitution, the people of California are sovereign to that state. This may or may not be similar for the remaining 49 states. It depends on the constitutions of each state.
But when you have people deciding on changes to the constitution, you have the potential of the tyranny of the majority over the minority. This is what happened in 2008 when same-sex marriage opponents gathered enough signatures to place a ballot initiative to amend the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriage that was declared legal by the California Supreme Court in May 2008.. The people of California passed Proposition 8 by 52.2% out of 13.7 million votes in November 2008 and that put a stop to same-sex marriage. It was speculated that advertising campaigns spreading lies about allowing same-sex marriage led to Proposition 8's victory at the polls. Proposition 8 was challenged in the California state court system, but the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 for the proponents of Proposition 8 and was unable to overturn it.
But, the US has a federal Constitution and Bill of Rights that both provide protections from majority rule. When the majority in a legislature or a popular vote take away rights of individuals that are protected by the Bill of Rights, then there is an independent judiciary, the US Federal Court system headed by the US Supreme Court, to rectify that situation. A federal district court judge struck down Proposition 8 in 2010 ruling that it was unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the US Constitution because no compelling state interest justifies denying same-sex couples the fundamental right to marry and that Proposition 8 violated the Equal Protection Clause because there is no rational basis for limiting the designation of 'marriage' to opposite-sex couples. The US Supreme Court let the ruling stand in June 2013 and same-sex marriage in California resumed after that.
The US Constitution is very extremely difficult to change. An amendment to the US Constitution requires two-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the US Congress *plus* ratification from the legislatures of three-fourths (presently 38) of the states, within the stipulated time period if any. The US Constitution has been amended only 27 times. The most recent two amendments were made in 1992 and 1971.
What would happen if there were a referendum in Ireland that took away rights from a group of people and that referendum were approved by democratic vote? What legal recourse is there?
I still hate him
Hate is an ugly thing to have in your body. Hate is actually fear as there are only 2 emotions - love and fear. Where one is, the other cannot be there also.