Meet two activists who brought sweepg change to the gay rights movement - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• PLEY PERRETTE, ROB REER & MORE JO ABC’S GAY RIGHTS EVENT SERI ‘WHEN WE RISE’ (EXCLUSIVE)
• ROB REER VOWS NOT TO FILM NORTH CAROLA UNLS ANTI-GAY LAW IS REPEALED
• AL FRANKEN ON ROB REER AND GAY PEDO RGS HOLLYWOOD & JOK ABOUT ROB REER BEG MOLTED BY HIS OWN FATHER & HIS FRIENDS #PEDOWOOD #PEDOWOOD #PIZZAGATE #WALKAWAY
• ROB REER, GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVIST, ‘ELATED’ BY PROP. 8 LG
• GAY MARRIAGE EFFORT ATTRACTS A NOVEL GROUP OF DONORS
• IS ROB REER GAY?
• MEET TWO ACTIVISTS WHO BROUGHT SWEEPG CHANGE TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

PLEY PERRETTE, ROB REER & MORE JO ABC’S GAY RIGHTS EVENT SERI ‘WHEN WE RISE’ (EXCLUSIVE)

In the fourth episo we did on “All the Fay, ” the very first season (1971), there was a gay character. Archie was always makg fun of a iend of my character, llg him “Sweetie Pie, ” and turns out he wasn’t gay, but this ex-football player whom Archie worshipped was gay. Chad Griff (of Human Rights Campaign) said how crazy was that a state like California uld ban gay marriage.

It’s so hearteng to thk young people don’t thk twice about gay marriage. As Griff reached out to the gay muny, Reer ed his Hollywood sir stat to urt a handful of lnair and billnair cludg Norman Lear, Steve Bg and David Geffen, who provid the $3 ln-$5 ln seed money that allowed the foundatn to support the work of high-powered lawyers Ted Olson and David Boi.

Reflectg on the cril role he played what is shapg up as a landmark legal se, which has rtored marriage rights for gays and lbians California and which eventually uld go all the way to the Supreme Court, Reer said an terview wh THR: “I am unbelievably proud to be part of this.

ROB REER VOWS NOT TO FILM NORTH CAROLA UNLS ANTI-GAY LAW IS REPEALED

“I quickly learned that Ted is someone who’d held a view support of gay marriage far before most gay people were even talkg about gay marriage, ” Griff told THR. Other gay groups sisted on takg a state-by-state approach, leery of mountg a feral challenge that uld end up before an unsympathetic Supreme Court, settg a precent nyg gay marriage that uld stand for years.

AL FRANKEN ON ROB REER AND GAY PEDO RGS HOLLYWOOD & JOK ABOUT ROB REER BEG MOLTED BY HIS OWN FATHER & HIS FRIENDS #PEDOWOOD #PEDOWOOD #PIZZAGATE #WALKAWAY

In rponse, ne gay groups, cludg Freedom to Marry and the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights, warned of “filg premature law sus. So pullg other iends and associat cludg producer Bce Cohen and screenwrer Dt Lance Black — who had llaborated on “Milk, ” the Osr-wng bpic about pneerg gay-rights advote Harvey Milk — they cid to create their own anizatn, AFER, strictly dited to pursug the urt se.

Sheldon, a longtime anti-gay-rights activist who heads the Tradnal Valu Coaln. He didn’t know who I was, but we had a very -pth nversatn which he said the problem wh gay people is that they are shovg their liftyle down our throats — rather graphic g om a reverend, ” Black later lghed. The urt’s first major examatn of gay rights 10 years begs Tuday wh a hearg on California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

On Wednday, the jtic will nsir the feral law that prevents legally married gay upl om receivg a range of benefs afford straight married Amerins.

ROB REER, GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVIST, ‘ELATED’ BY PROP. 8 LG

Supporters of gay marriage me wh homema signs cludg on that read “a more perfect unn” and “love is love.

The Obama admistratn has weighed on behalf of the challengers, followg Print Barack Obama’s claratn of support for same-sex marriage last year and his votn of gay rights at his guratn January. Supporters of Proposn 8 say the urt should rpect the verdict of California voters who approved the ban 2008 and let the fast-changg polics of gay marriage evolve on their own, through ballot measur and legislative actn, not judicial cre.

GAY MARRIAGE EFFORT ATTRACTS A NOVEL GROUP OF DONORS

Polls have shown creasg support the untry for gay marriage. Acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center poll nducted mid-March, 49 percent of Amerins now favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, wh 44 percent opposed. He utned the Lawrence se that had nothg to do wh gay marriage, but dissentg Jtice Anton Slia predicted the cisn would lead to the validatn of state laws agast same-sex marriage.

In those stat, gay upl may jo civil unns or bee domtic partners and have all the benefs of marriage but nnot be married. ABC’s gay rights miseri “When We Rise” has filled out s st wh a slew of A-list gut stars, Variety has learned exclively.

IS ROB REER GAY?

The perd piece tells the history of the gay rights movement, startg wh the Stonewall Rts 1969. Pearce will star as LGBT activist Cleve Jon, who joed the gay liberatn movement 1972 and was beiend by pneer gay rights lear Harvey Milk.

Goldberg will play Pat Norman, the first openly gay employee of the San Francis Health Department; O’Donnell will play Del Mart, -founr of the first lbian anizatn the untry; Denis O’Hare will play Foster, openly gay Democratic party anizer; and Pierce will play Cleve’s (Pearce) father, Dr. Is Rob Reer Gay? Reer’s stand uld open up a new flank Hollywood’s efforts to unter anti-gay legislatn emergg var stat around the untry.

And of urse Stand By Me stared another former child actor who keeps threateng to ll out specific gay pedophil who ntrol Hollywood — Corey Feldman, a close iend of Haim’s.

MEET TWO ACTIVISTS WHO BROUGHT SWEEPG CHANGE TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Franken is a liberal Jew who beme famo show bs, so ’s possible he don’t disapprove of such behavr, and is enjoyg the transgrsn on two levels — vlatg the taboo agast ct, pedophilia, and homosexualy, and sharg an earth-shatterg secret public, but one that only the -group realize is tthful. Then aga, he is a do-goor Mnota type, so ’s possible he disapprov of gay pedo rgs Hollywood, and is tryg to shame Reer as openly as possible while matag as much plsible niabily as possible (by swchg Reer’s role om adult kgp to child victim).

That is the far bigger story than Al Franken jokg about a gay pedo rg (pecially if he was only dog that b orr to publicly ht at Reer’s dirty lndry). And of urse Stand By Me stared another former child actor who keeps threateng to ll out specific gay pedophil who ntrol Hollywood -- Corey Feldman, a close iend of Haim's. Franken is a liberal Jew who beme famo show bs, so 's possible he don't disapprove of such behavr, and is enjoyg the transgrsn on two levels -- vlatg the taboo agast ct, pedophilia, and homosexualy, and sharg an earth-shatterg secret public, but one that only the -group realize is tthful.