ABC hires gay activist to write 8-hour history of the ‘gay rights’ movement
ABC plans to air an 8-hour miniseries about the history of homosexual activism, penned by a prominent homosexual political activist. Homosexual writer and director Dustin Lance Black will write the miniseries. Its timeline will reportedly begin with the 1969 Stonewall Riots , in which a police raid on a gay bar resulted in several nights of violent demonstrations by homosexuals . Gay activist Dustin Lance Black will pen the 8-hour miniseries. Black, 39, has been active in the homosexual advocacy movement since the beginning of his film career. He made his debut as a director and screenwriter with 2000’s The Journey of Jared Price , a gay romance film, followed closely by Something Close to Heaven , a gay coming-of-age short film. The following year, he made a documentary in which he was also a subject called On the Bus, about six homosexual men on a road trip to the Burning Man music festival. Black, who was raised Mormon, is a co-founder of the American Found