Oscar Winning Screenwriter Headline’s ACLU Benefit in Royal Oak Home

Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will speak at the Royal Oak home of Michael Chetcuti and Kyle Evans on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 1. The $1,000 per person dinner will benefit the American Civil Liberties Union.

The evening will include a lively discussion of current events, Hollywood, and design, and will include a tour of the award-winning Chetcuti/Evans home, a converted industrial building. Dinner will be catered by four-star Bacco Ristorante with beer and wine supplied by Royal Oak’s Cloverleaf Fine Wine.

Keynote speaker Black won the Oscar for his screenplay for the 2008 film Milk, the biopic of the late civil rights activist Harvey Milk. Having grown up in the Mormon community, Black was next inspired to write and co-produce HBO’s Emmy and Golden Globe nominated polygamist drama, Big Love.  Other writing credits include the 2011 film J. Edgar. Black is currently promoting 8, an original play based on the heated battle of the Proposition 8 trial deciding the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. 

“We are proud to support the ACLU’s efforts on behalf of the LGBT community, women’s reproductive rights, education equity, and all those whose rights have been violated in one way or another,” Chetcuti said. “The ACLU works daily through education, legislation, and litigation to ensure that people’s rights are protected.”

“We look forward to an electric evening of conversation with Dustin.”

For more information contact the ACLU’s David Moss at dmoss@aclumich.org or call 313-578-6827.

Correction: The fundraiser takes place on Thursday, Nov. 1.