Screenwriter/Activist/Producer, 38
A tireless activist and advocate for LGBT rights, the writer best known for bringing queer stories to the masses (Milk, J. Edgar) has written 8, a staged re-enactment of a federal trial that led to an appellate court's overturning of California's Prop. 8, enlisting Hollywood's elite to aid in spreading the message and raise funds. Now that the law will be up for review at the Supreme Court, we'll see how effective his creative efforts have been.
The racist, homophobic, and frightening arrest of Don Lemon
Opinion: It’s not a coincidence or an accident that Lemon, and other Black journalists were targeted by the Trump Justice Department, writes John Casey.