Dustin Lance Black Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has ripped into the Australian edition of GQ magazine over a question posed in an interview with Taylor Lautner. GQ asked the Twilight actor whether Black and director Gus Van Sant, who is also gay, had come on to him at a recent dinner. Lautner responded: “No, definitely not. I think they know I'm straight. But they're great guys. They're a lot of fun.” In response Black wrote: “I'm curious, will you be asking all of the handsome actors I've ever had the privilege of working with or meeting if I made passes at them as well? I'd love to be there when you ask Sean Penn that same question.” The screenwriter continued: “Above and beyond this clear attack on my character, I'm shocked that GQ would allow their writer to lean on the scurrilous, outdated stereotype that gay men are by nature sexual predators. I mean, would you have asked this same question if it were Diablo Cody and Kathryn Bigelow at dinner with Mr Lautner?” Black said leaning on lies, myths and stereotypes about gay people is hateful, harmful and outdated. “It's not the 1950s anymore, GQ, it's 2011 and it's time to grow up.”
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First published: Tuesday, 18th October 2011 - 2:54pm