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Contents:

• HOLLYWOOD DISCRIMAT AGAST GAY ACTORS, CLAIMS LGBT THKTANK REPORT
• 12 TIM CELEBS MA ANTI-GAY OR ANTI-TRANS COMMENTS IN THE LAST YEAR
• 14 CELEBRI WHO DON'T REALLY LIKE GAY PEOPLE
• FORMERLY ANTI-GAY CELEBS WHO SWCHED SIS
• 10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• CELEBRY HOMOPHOBIC RANTS: 14 STARS WHO'VE EXPRSED ANTI-GAY SENTIMENTS IN PUBLIC (PHOTOS)
• AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR
• GAY DISCRIMATN ENTERTAMENT DTRY HAS NOT GONE AWAY, FDS SURVEY

HOLLYWOOD DISCRIMAT AGAST GAY ACTORS, CLAIMS LGBT THKTANK REPORT

"Anyone who's followed my mic knows I'm agast bulli — that's why I hate that f---g bully Tmp — and I hate the ia that a kid who's gay might get s--- for .

People such as Ellen DeGener, Ellen Page, and Neil Patrick Harris have helped to shift the ti om rantg about anti-gay ments towards beg more clive and tolerant of others. The realy is that homosexual men and women are ls likely to e protectn, and that is why there is a much higher cince of HIV/AIDS and other STDs among them. Still, Robertson stood by his beliefs and perspective and was even removed om Duck Dynasty for a time bee his anti-gay and lbian remarks were so offensive.

12 TIM CELEBS MA ANTI-GAY OR ANTI-TRANS COMMENTS IN THE LAST YEAR

” 50 Cent also exprsed his distst around gay men bee he thks that all they are thkg about is gettg another guy’s pants, even if the other guy is straight.

When he was terviewed and asked about how he felt towards gays, Mel stood up, poted to his butt, and said that gays “Take up” then he proceed to say “This is only for takg a s--t.

The edic actor was left to ny any accatns that he was homophobic, and he claimed that any hateful or offensive rhetoric related to the LGBTQ muny was not a direct reflectn of his own beliefs and opns, but the damage was done. More than half of gay actors Hollywood believe film-makers are biased agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) performers, acrdg to a new study (pdf) report om the Williams Instute, a thktank on gay issu at UCLA, also found that more than 50% of rponnts had heard directors and producers make anti-gay ments about actors. A third of gay rponnts said they had wnsed disrpectful treatment of LGBT performers on set, while one eight non-LGBT performers had seen gay actors treated 53% of lbian and gay actors were “out” to all or most of their fellow actors, the report found that only 36% had revealed to agents they were gay, and only 13% had told dtry executiv.

14 CELEBRI WHO DON'T REALLY LIKE GAY PEOPLE

However, 72% of gay or lbian performers who had openly disclosed their sexualy said had not affected their reers and would enurage others to do the report, nducted tumn 2012 and fund by the Screen Actors Guild producers dtry advancement and operative fund, is based on terviews wh 5, 700 members of the Screen Actors Guild‐Amerin Feratn of Televisn and Rad Artists. Not all of them, are some stars whose anti-gay views and ments have ed a n only image how they feel about the fact that gay marriage is now legal all 50 stat, urty of the Supreme Court cidg so June of 2015. The actor got to hot water wh homophobic tweets towards wrer Gee Stark, then a separate cint, lled a photographer a “c–ks–kg f–got” which he somehow said was not a gay slur.

FORMERLY ANTI-GAY CELEBS WHO SWCHED SIS

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After his openly gay dghter, Mary, beme pregnant, Cheney said that he was for gay marriage, but should be up to each state to make the Wikimedia Commons / CC-BYMt Romney has a reputatn of beg a b of a flip-flopper when to social issu.

Wh more and more openly gay celebri gracg the stag at the annual award ceremoni, seems that the old fashned views of the lik of Walt Disney and Charlton Hton are buried along wh them.

10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

This is not the se, however, and many the Hollywood ele still like to steal the limelight by ocsnally shockg their terviewers wh some anti-gay sentiments. Not all of the celebri on this list are explicly “anti-gay”, but they have all at some pot ma clear that they are opposed to the marriage of two people of the same sex. There are many lists out there that claim to have done the same thg, but they ually nfe homophobia wh right-wg views on marriage: the two are not necsarily synonymo.

Neverthels, opposg gay marriage is nsired ntroversial due to the large numbers of people affects, wh an timated 6% of the populatn intifyg as LGBT.

This list is certaly not exhstive – there are many other celebri who have shocked the world wh vrlic ments directed towards gay people - but the celebri on this list are the most proment to openly oppose, what many people nsir, a legimate form of love servg of legal regnn. A rather nfg aspect of Donald Tmp’s posn is that he has been heard fendg the gay-marriage laws of the USA (note that fense of a law is not fense of a prciple).

CELEBRY HOMOPHOBIC RANTS: 14 STARS WHO'VE EXPRSED ANTI-GAY SENTIMENTS IN PUBLIC (PHOTOS)

Ined, Tmp jumped to the fense of a judge who sentenced a man for refg to issue a gay marriage license, notg that “gay marriage is the law of the land.

AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR

The star of Duck Dynasty, a show that shadows the Robertson fay while they n their bs that mak duck lls, Phil Robertson was actually recently rponsible for the spensn of the show followg some rather ntroversial remarks about gay people. His show probably won’t suffer a signifint drop viewership – homosexuals are not renowned for their love of redneck republins – but has st the Robertson’s a signifint amount of advertisg revenue.

Once scribed by Sarah Pal as her “favore Baldw brother”, Stephen Baldw is not exactly anti gay unn – he agre civil unns should be allowed – but he jt thks that gays should not be allowed to be married “his” church. One mt wonr what “his” church is, bee the church is supposed to belong to all members, but is clear that he is not keen on the ia of gay marriage licens beg granted. His views on gay marriage are not the only thg that Voight has ma the headl for: he has also arntly fend Israeli foreign policy and acced other celebri, cludg his former Comg Home -star Jane Fonda, of supportg those who yearn for the stctn of the middle-eastern natn.

GAY DISCRIMATN ENTERTAMENT DTRY HAS NOT GONE AWAY, FDS SURVEY

Other than the fact that she recently bought her granddghter a fairy stume, much to the annoyance of Angela, she has also exprsed rather homophobic views on Twter. Last weekend, Kirk Cameron's ntroversial remarks on homosexualy sparked a firtorm of bate among media officials, celebri and fans who wonred if the "Growg Pas" star had gone too far. " Though the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) nmned the actor's claims as beg "out of step" and "even more dated than his 1980s TV character, " Cameron is hardly the first celebry to tch heat for makg statements largely perceived as anti-gay.