Dustin Lance Black : (6) " Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass. " - Dustin Lance Black " There has been this resurgence in anti-LGBT language in the U.K. and the U.S., and the rest of the world. In the U.S. we’ve heard it with Trump’s rise. Here, I’ve heard language borrowed from the most conservative anti-gay voices in the U.S. used by some gay and lesbian people against trans people. " - Dustin Lance Black " I grew up in the Mormon Church and I have a very strange relationship with that. " - Dustin Lance Black " I think for too many decades, the politicians have driven a wedge between the gay and lesbian communities and the religious communities for their own benefit, and I think it’s time to start to broach those divides. " - Dustin Lance Black " What’s beautiful about the journey of surrogacy is that relationship you build with your surrogate, when it’s done in places with good law. These aren’t women you stop speaking to once your child is born, this is someone who’s part of your family. " - Dustin Lance Black " My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she’d call and say, ‘I don’t know who this son is.’ " - Dustin Lance Black