While we are still on the heights of excitement from watching the best Oscar show ever, I would like to point your attention to the best speech of the evening bellow on video. Dustin Lance Black who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for writing Milk said some great things that should be heard all over this country. My boyfriend called me the night after the awards were given and mentioned that I had to find and watch the VDO of this Lance guy. The speech that it shook up all the anti gay marriage to the core. Also hope-giving to the people in LGBT to have something to look up for and keep believing that one of these days our rights to be equal in marriage will soon be arriving. I then searched his speech and found and not to my surprise of what MILK's success in many awards. I watched this film a while ago and certainly agreed with all its success.
The VDO was one of the tearjerkers of the night but his speech especially one of the best that I had ever heard.... GO LANCE!
In openly gay writer Dustin Lance Black's moving acceptance speech he called for LGBT equality:
"If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he'd want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches or by the government or by their families that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours." Black explained that he was 13 years old from a conservative Texas family when he first heard the story of Harvey Milk and that the story gave him the courage to be himself and to believe that he could live an open life, be accepted and even fall in love and get married.
Black's wedding ring glowed in the bright lights and he wore a white knot. In the crowd, the Milk producers also wore white knot, a symbol of support for marriage equality. During Sean Penn's acceptance speech he also called attention to LGBT equality.
"I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone,”
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