Kathleen Archambeau Author

From Tony Kushner to Adrienne Rich, Kathleen Archambeau has connected LGBTQ luminaries in the movement for equal rights since 1992. An award-winning nonfiction writer and journalist, Archambeau wrote a regular column profiling icons for one of the oldest queer newspapers in the country. Her first book was endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and Leslie Blodgett and featured twice in Forbes. Her essay, “Seized,” one of only two Lesbian essays in a collection of 21 authors that included Jane Smiley, The Other Woman edited by Victoria Zackheim was lauded by Publishers Weekly for its “top-drawer writers” and featured on The Today Show, People, L.A. Sunday Weekly and O magazines. A founding supporter of the LGBT wing of the SF Public Library and the Dance of America Foundation Board, VP and Co-Chair of Fundraising for one of the first mental health agencies dedicated to services for the LGBT community, Archambeau has worked tirelessly to extend equal access to all LGBTQ persons. Along with her wife, Archambeau is winner of numerous first place ribbons and 2 bronze medals in same-sex ballroom dancing at the Gay Games in Cologne and featured in The Trevor Project video It Gets Better series aimed at preventing gay youth suicide, “Come Dance with Us,” filmed and produced by Robert Cortlandt. Kathleen lives in the SF Bay Area with her Beloved and their Guide Dog Career Change Puppy. Academy Award, Best Original Screenplay, Milk ABC Television Miniseries Writer and Director, When We Rise Dustin Lance Black won an Academy Award in his 30s for Best Original Screenplay for the Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, starring Sean Penn. On Feb. 27, 2017, he launched the ABC Television eight-hour miniseries, When We Rise, chronicling the gay rights movement in America. The show spotlights three prominent gay activists—Roma Guy, a women’s and LGBT rights activist and one of the co-founders of the Women’s Building and La Casa de las Madres; Ken Jones, an African American Vietnam Veteran and LGBT activist and Cleve Jones, the originator of The Names Project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Variety has praised the show, saying it “champions intersectionality…the arc of history is a case study in how movements towards justice that cut out or silence a marginalized minority are doomed to fail…it is a bottled teachable moment for queer history…” (Sonia Saraiya, Variety, Feb. 20, 2017) A social activist for LGBTQ rights, Dustin Lance Black founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) which successfully led the federal case for marriage equality in California, putting an end to California’s discriminatory Proposition 8. His 2012 play, “8”, with an LA cast that included George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly was broadcast live and has been staged in eight countries and fifty states. Black is an honors graduate of UCLA’s School of Film and Television and has taught in the MFA Screenwriting program at UCLA. Dustin Lance Black is engaged to British Olympic diver Tom Daley and lives in London