Craig Bettendorf
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Writer and creator of Treading Yesterday, Craig Bettendorf, no novice to LGBTQ subject matter spent the better part of the 1990s organizing, promoting and finding common ground and understanding necessary to form acceptance and inclusion for members of the LGBTQ community. This work led him to be among the principal signatories of 1996's National Freedom to Marry Resolution (predecessor to Marriage Equality) denouncing the Federal Defense of Marriage Act as well as to the honor of presenting to the students and faculties of the Harvard Divinity School, the College of William & Mary, and Yale University. Each of his projects clearly benefited from his personal experience as a gay man and former LGBTQ community activist as they have juxtaposed societies intolerance of LGBTQ people in the past with present day acceptance while at the same time revealing the inherent challenges existing in both environments.