From his Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk to the epic, eight-hour ABC miniseries When We Rise, Dustin Lance Black has made a career of documenting queer history on film. However, the critically-lauded writer and director insists his passion for the LGBTQ communitys past is not based in nostalgia but rather empowerment, especially in the current political environment.

Certainly right now our history is about drawing strength, locking arms with our brothers and sisters in other social justice movements, and learning our history and its lessons to beat the backlash thats being led by this Cheetoh-colored bigot in the White House, Black told Party Foul Radio with Pollo & Pearl .