Craig Bettendorf

Writer and creator of Treading Yesterday, Craig Bettendorf, no novice to LGBT subject matter spent the better part of the 1990s organizing, promoting and finding common ground and understanding necessary to form acceptance and inclusivity for members of the LGBT community. This work led him to be among the principle signatories of 1996's National Freedom to Marry Resolution (predecessor to Marriage Equality) denouncing the Federal Defense of Marriage act as well as the honor of presenting to the students and faculty of the Harvard Divinity School in 1999. The series clearly benefits from Bettendorf's personal experience as both a gay man and former LGBT community activist as the story line juxtaposes 1988's intolerance of Gays with present day acceptance while at the same time revealing the inherent challenges existing in both environments.