This week, buckle up babies... The Unusual Creature featured is the ultimate multi-hyphenate. He is a writer, actor, producer, fitness guru, activist and all around fantastic humanitarian. In this PRIDE spotlight series we are humbled to shine a light on him. He has survived and brilliantly thrived through everything life has had to throw. And he is the epitome and proof of how art can save us all. Humans, creatures meet ... Eston Robert Dunn.

Eston began his Entertainment career when, at the age of 7, he appeared as a butterfly in a grammar school play; from there, his career took flight landing him in musicals, comedies, as well as dramatic roles on stage, in film, and on TV. Under the pen name E. Robert Dunn, he has penned three plays; two of which have been seen in Off-Broadway festivals, and one in Fringe of the Fringe Festival in Toronto, Canada. Born in the Midwest, raised in the Northeast, he began writing at the age of 14 and continued through his higher education in the Southeast where he currently resides. In addition to penning the science fiction series “Echelon’s End”, he has also written two off-Broadway plays, “LipSync” and “A Dragged Out Haunting”, and solo-penned the short-play entitled “VOiCES”. He was a contributing writer to the online STAR TREK: Odyssey’s Season One Finale webisode [featured in STARLOG Magazine, January 2008, “Beyond Hidden Frontiers”, p.89]. Besides being a produced playwright and published author, he has had articles printed in local newspapers as well as medical newsletters

He is the founder of the nonprofit organization, artsUnited, Inc (www.artsunitedonline.org). A recent project is founding another nonprofit, online webcasting charity to educate while entertaining through programming that unites those that were separated by the walls of stereotyping, prejudice, and bigotry (www.watchoutweb.org).

This week is not just a spotlight on creativity and PRIDE. Through Eston, take a look back at how far we've come. PRIDE is built on the souls we've lost. Eston was a soldier in a war that took too many. But got us to where we are. As an out and proud gay artist he has never allowed fear to dictate his journey. Let's take a lesson and join him.

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