75+ Straight Celebri Who Fight for Gay Rights

Contents:

• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• 10 CELEBRI WHO STAND UP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• 75+ STRAIGHT CELEBRI WHO FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

The actrs me out as gay durg the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive nference 2014, durg which she gave a powerful 8-mute speech about the ternal turmoil she endured as a closeted actrs Hollywood. Sce her public g out, Page has ma strong efforts to brg LGBT issu to the foreont, servg as host of Vice's upg travel seri Gaytn (for which Page will vis ci around the world and explore different perceptns of LGBT culture) and takg on the role of an out gay woman Freeheld, a romance drama centered on the fight for gay rights.

On the lack of reprentatn of mory groups Hollywood, she said, "I want to see gay stori, of urse, bee I’m gay, and I want to nnect to a reflectn of my life on film. Hathaway, who is sister to a gay brother and has proudly spoken out about her fay's acceptance of his sexualy, was a recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Ally Award 2008.

"There are people who have said that I’m beg brave for beg openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoptn — basilly of gay rights — but wh all due rpect, I humbly dissent, " Hathaway said durg her acceptance speech.

10 CELEBRI WHO STAND UP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

In 2011, the actor was also honored wh the Hero Award by the Trevor Project, a nonprof anizatn that supports sexual mory youth, 2011 for beg an spiratn to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr teens. Durg her acceptance speech, Dunham lled the moment her younger sister me out as gay as a "huge turng pot for me my unrstandg of the issu facg LGBTQ people.

Prr to the Supreme Court's cisn to legalize gay marriage this June, Dunham and boyiend Jack Antonoff had also publicly ma known that they wouldn't be tyg the knot until same-sex marriage was legal all 50 stat. Before the natnwi legalizatn of gay marriage, the actor donated $100, 000 to the Human Rights Campaign 2012 to support the anizatn's same-sex marriage efforts.

The pop sger lnched the Born This Way Foundatn, an anti-bullyg nonprof anizatn, 2012, the name of which plays off of her h sgle "Born This Way" which featur empowerg lyrics such as "No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lbian, transgenered life / I'm on the right track baby / I was born to survive.

75+ STRAIGHT CELEBRI WHO FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

In 2009, the sger told Out magaze that she wanted to "ject gay culture to the mastream, " sayg, "When I started the mastream was the gays that lifted me up. Years after makg history as the first gay lead character on TV, DeGener helped brg a lbian-themed edy, One Big Happy, to NBC 2015 (the short-lived seri was ncelled after one season) and also lnched a Gap Kids clothg le aimed at breakg down genr stereotyp.

In 2014, the Juno star me out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive nference which promot LGBT noted: 'I am tired of hidg and I am tired of lyg by omissn. Bet//Getty ImagBridgerton actor Bailey has long been a proponent for LGBTQ+ rights, and recently opened up about his dream of seeg gay men play their own experience. 'I thk shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of urse there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay men aren't playg straight leadg rol, ' the actor - who is gay and plays a straight character the 2020 Netflix seri - told Digal Spy.

In a vio shared on his social media acunts June 2020, the gay actor spoke out support of black gay and trans people jog the global Black Liv Matter protts. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below6 Josh HutchersonGetty ImagYou might regnise Hutcherson om his role The Hunger Gam but we know him bt for his work as an LGBTQ+ equaly 2013, the Hunger Gam actor and gay rights supporter opened up about beg bisexual, tellg the gay and lbian liftyle magaze Out: 'I would probably list myself as mostly straight. 'The actor also found Straight But Not Narrow, a youth group aimed at fightg homophobia after two of his gay uncl died of 2012, Hutcherson beme the youngt person to receive the prtig Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards Los Angel.

Advertisement - Contue Readg Below7 Ellen DeGenerGetty ImagThe edian and talk show host has worked endlsly to advance gay rights sce the 1990s and me out on natnal televisn 2016, DeGener was award the Printial Medal of Freedom, the hight honour given by the print to a US civilian, for her work to advance LGBTQ+ rights.

The goal now is to e my platform to support emergg Black artists, BIPOC artists, LGBTQ artists [sic], ’ she award-wng wrer prevly admted she wouldn’t get married until gay marriage was legal all 50 stat. 'If you are Black or you are brown or you are gay or you’re a lbian or you are trans — or maybe you’re jt a sissy sgg boy om Tennsee, ' he noted.

Advertisement - Contue Readg Below13 Oprah WeyGetty ImagThe Amerin talk show host is a long supporter of gay rights and has talked out agast the racism she faced after supportg openly gay edian Ellen DeGener' cisn to e out 1997 a s-down terview on Wey's talk show. 'In a public claratn supportg DeGener and the LGBTQ+ muny, spe receivg backlash for dog so, Oprah said on her show: 'The God I serve don't re whether you're tall or short, or whether you were born Black or Asian or gay, so that's jt a difference of belief. From takg part Natnal Equaly March and wearg Alexanr McQueen signs to prott agast Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (a former policy that banned open homosexualy), to makg history wh 'Born This Way' (2011), which Sir Elton John dubbed 'the new gay album', Gaga do her upmost to fight for equal LGBTQ+ rights and regnn.

'On wng the Internatnal Vio of the Year Award 2009, she sent her thanks 'to God and the gays' and her ver terview wh Out magaze the same year she said: 'I very much want to ject gay culture to the mastream.