California voters to be asked to affirm gay marriage on 2024 ballot - Los Angel Tim

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• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• THUNR MAKE FAL RUDY GAY CISN AFTER HAWKS TRA
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: PATRICK DEMPSEY

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola. Gay actor Matt Bomer won a Goln Globe for playg a closeted journalist the TV film adaptatn of Larry Kramer's AIDS epimic-foced play "The Normal Heart. The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly.

THUNR MAKE FAL RUDY GAY CISN AFTER HAWKS TRA

It wasn't until she began watchg sci-fi TV seri "The X-Fil" that the first openly gay woman star of "SNL" Kate McKnon said she realized she was attracted to women. Helpg to change that is former NBA player Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay man to play one of the four major profsnal team sports. "When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet.

" In 2013, he nfirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hidg his LGBTQ+ stat—or his more than 20-year relatnship wh Raer Andreen, for that matter. After g out at a Prop 8 rally 2008, the edian claimed she was subsequently treated like a "unirn, " that most gay or bisexual Ain Amerins don't openly share their LGBTQ+ stat. " Carver has sce been vol about Hollywood's tenncy to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotyp, as well as pigeonholg openly gay actors to playg specific typ of rol.

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CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Bt known for playg Obi-Wan Kenobi the origal "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guns kept his sexual orientatn—and his arrt for a homosexual act 1946—away om the public eye for the entirety of his adult life. Long before directg movi like "Prec" or -creatg Fox's "Empire, " Lee Daniels was a young gay man g to terms wh his homosexualy while growg up Philalphia. Hopg to quash the ntroversy, Banks me out as bisexual that same year, addg that nearly all of her iends are gay and that one of her siblgs is transgenr.

That same month, he donated $1 ln to GLSEN (Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network), which works to create clive and safe environments schools. While his most notable role of the last few years put beg gay ont and center stage, actor Lee Pace was not always as forthg about his own sexualy. While he adms he was never outright srned for beg gay, there have been stanc where he felt was more of a hdrance than jt a fact that shouldn't matter.

He told Variety that while watchg "Love, Simon, " a love story wh a gay protagonist, he realized, "Straight people go to the movi and lerally see themselv all the time. "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years, and all they said was 'we know, '" Schnapp wrote of his g-out story, addg, "I gus I'm more siar to will than I thought.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

Jt last week, Kentucky passed one of the natn's strictt anti-LGBTQ+ bills, banng genr-affirmg re for trans mors, while the Florida Hoe voted to expand s "don't say gay" law to clu further rtrictns on LGBTQ+ topics to 8th Bublé, the way forward is simple: "Jt accept . Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U. Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.

But i don't get i heard Motown artists i love are ''gay' ins and idk i never exactly knew Ray Charl or Stevie Wonr where ''gay'' ins like people tell me.

I Remember i recent episo of South Park where a closeted gay guy was sayg hey i'm not gay or anythg but i thk Depeche Mo is a great band lol.

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: PATRICK DEMPSEY

But say if i like Madonna, or Pet Shop Boys people mock and ll gay mic i don't get what make's that term gay mic lolPistols sound like "Fuck off, " wheras The Clash sound like "Fuck Off, but here's why..

I've been around for a few seasons, and I've absolutely NEVER heard that Ray Charl or Stevie Wonr were nsired Gay ins - never heard (or felt) that my entire life. But if Depeche Mo, New Orr, OMD, The Cure, Talk Talk, Pet Shop Boys, & Blondie are nsired Gay ins at all, 's bee their mic gets heavy play Gay clubs & bars, and has ltle to do wh the sexualy of the artist. I thk many gay men (at least a lot of them i've known my life) mol themselv after the artists, like diana ross, donna summer, jody watley...

Cher is a funny one, bee she has a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE gay followg, and is for gay rights- but when her dghter me out as gay she was PISSED. but the ma gist of the thread is onto somethg, bee i ALSO know gay people go to the clubs and listen to akyele and snoop doogy dogg, and all that crazs. They signed Euroleague star Vasilije Milic, add Jack Whe om the champn Denver Nuggets, brought back Victor Oladipo a tra wh the Miami Heat and brought a tr of players Rudy Gay, TyTy Washgton Jr.