“If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.”

American playwright, author, and screenwriter

Tony Kushner is an American playwright, author, and screenwriter. He is best known for Angels in America, the stage work that brought him both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, and later became an acclaimed HBO miniseries. His career also includes a series of film collaborations with Steven Spielberg at the turn of the 21st century. In 2013, he received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. He is also among the few writers to have been nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award.