In those 50 years, the campaign for lgbt rights has won Landmark Victories in many parts of the world, perhaps best symbolised by the normalisation of gay marriage in a host of countries. My guest today is american filmmaker and screenwriter dustin lance black, who won an oscar for the film milk and has just completed a major series on the struggle for gay rights. Has the time come to declare a famous victory . Dustin lance black, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. To what extent do you think that your experiences from childhood to now as a gay person have come to define your creative output . Oh, boy. Its one of the many things about me that does define me creatively. Certainly, when im teaching my students because i teach some classes in screenwriting sometimes and i say to them, tell me about you, what is it about you thats unique, where do you come from, what are you interested in, tell me about your parents, your background, these are the things that make you
In those 50 years, the campaign for lgbt rights has won Landmark Victories in many parts of the world, perhaps best symbolised by the normalisation of gay marriage in a host of countries. My guest today is american filmmaker and screenwriter dustin lance black, who won an oscar for the film milk and has just completed a major series on the struggle for gay rights. Has the time come to declare a famous victory . Dustin lance black, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. To what extent do you think that your experiences from childhood to now as a gay person have come to define your creative output . Oh, boy. Its one of the many things about me that does define me creatively. Certainly, when im teaching my students because i teach some classes in screenwriting sometimes and i say to them, tell me about you, what is it about you thats unique, where do you come from, what are you interested in, tell me about your parents, your background, these are the things that make you
Welcome back. As she likes to say, Doris Kearns Goodwin has spent most of her Career Writing about dead president s, immersing herself in their papers, diaries, and letters in an attempt to bring them back to life. In her new book, an unfinished love story, she turns that attention to her marriage. Before his death, she opened more than 300 documents and memorabilia with her husband Richard Goodwin who served as a Speech Writer for president john f. Kennedy, a Time Capsule of their life in the 1960s. In her 20s, door was was chosen to be a white House Fellow for president johnson, one of only three women out of the 16 fellows selected and developed a Loyalty And Closeness to president johnson, which has lasted her entire life. I sat down with doris for a
say now is the time to start asking the tough questions and what infrastructure needs to look like in the face of climate change. joining me now is someone who s been working on climate change for nearly three decades, ricardo fonville alvarez, former deputy director the international re-hurricane research center. it s great to have you and i know this is something you spent your career writing and thinking about. how do you see the impact of hurricane ian for the awareness of climate risk along the gulf coast since this is such a fast growing area and has announced something this bad in quite a while? i think every extreme event like in needs to be looked at as a reality check, has an opportunity and i think the west coast of florida of course had quite recently for charlie
climate change. joining me now is someone who s been working on climate change for nearly three decades, ricardo fonville alvarez, former deputy director the international re-hurricane research center. it s great to have you and i know this is something you spent your career writing and thinking about. how do you see the impact of hurricane ian for the awareness of climate risk along the gulf coast since this is such a fast growing area and has announced something this bad in quite a while? i think every extreme event like in needs to be looked at as a reality check, has an opportunity and i think the west coast of florida of course had quite recently for charlie if years back. but nothing of this scale. now is the time to take a hard look at what worked, what didn t work, why and talking about rebuilding is not to