Dustin Lance Black (born 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and activist whose screenplay for the 2008 biopic Milk, chronicling the life and death of the San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Black’s first feature film was the gay coming-of-age drama The Journey of Jared Price (2000), which he wrote and directed, and his other work includes Pedro (2008), Virginia (2010) and J Edgar (2011), When We Rise (2017) and Under the Banner of Heaven (2022). At an industry event in 2013, Black was introduced to the Plymouth-born British Olympic diver Tom Daley (born 1994), who later described the encounter as ‘love at first sight’. The couple were married in 2017 at Bovey Castle in Devon, and they are now one of the world’s most high-profile gay couples, hailed as role models for a generation and combining their professional commitments with LGBTQ+ activism. Dustin Lance Black is a co-founder and board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, while Tom Daley is a patron of the Switchboard charity and has used his platform as a global sports star to campaign for the abolition of anti-gay laws in countries around the world. His documentary film Tom Daley: Illegal to Be Me (2022) highlighted the fact that it is against the law to be gay in more than half of the 56 member states of the Commonwealth, and he has declared it his mission to campaign for countries where homosexuality is punishable by death to be banned from competing at the 2024 Olympic Games.

Framed Dimensions: 307mm x 294mm (Unframed: 210mm x 200mm)

Pencil on 150gsm Daler-Rowney drawing paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.

Please note, this is the original artwork by Barnaby. It is unique and not a reproduction.