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• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY DUE TO 'NAKED MEN' POSTERS
• EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTERS PLAYED BY ARNIE AND JET LI ARE GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR
• ACTOR'S OLD FLAME SAYS HE'S A GREAT GUY / SHE SAYS HE HAD GAY IENDS, JT DIDN'T LIKE GAY PROSTUTN SCENE
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER SAYS DAD H HIM BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY
• GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68
• GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘I WAS SO ANGRY’ AT HIM
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: GAY PORN STAR?
• GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68
• SCHWARZENEGGER VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GEE TAKEI CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED MARRIAGE EQUALY BILL
• GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE HE WAS ‘SO ANGRY’ AT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S LATT REVELATNS: MORE AFFAIRS, GAY WEDDGS AND A SON HE COULDN'T DENY
• 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 ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY DUE TO 'NAKED MEN' POSTERS

Arnold Schwarzenegger's mother thought he was gay. "I don't know if mum thought I was gay, or if she jt thought there was somethg off, and 'let's tch early, '" Schwarzenegger said. 1686154238From Your Se ArticlPatrick Schwarzenegger Jos Gagas Born This Way Foundatn ›Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Aidg Gay Youth ›Arnold Schwarzenegger Celebrat Gay Strongman Rob Kearney's Weddg ›Gee Takei Came Out Bee He Was Angry at Arnold Schwarzenegger ›.

EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTERS PLAYED BY ARNIE AND JET LI ARE GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR

The director of The Expendabl 3, Patrick Hugh, has nfirmed ter speculatn that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jet Li play gay lovers the actn sequel. Homosexual characters have started to appear more regularly Hollywood films. In May, How to Tra Your Dragon 2 director Dean DeBlois revealed that Gobber the vikg om the animated film seri prefers same-sex relatnships, while Harry Potter creator JK Rowlg announced 2007 that wizard Dumbledore is gay.

Schwarzenegger had a mixed rerd on gay rights while office as ernor of California. As ernor, he performed two marriage ceremoni for gay upl durg his eight years latt Expendabl stalment opened fifth place at the US box office at the weekend wh a hl of jt $16. In an terview last week, Barbara Outland Baker, who dated Schwarzenegger the years when he rose to fame, ntend that the Republin ndidate for ernor has been unfairly cricized for referrg to gay people as "fags" Oui.

ACTOR'S OLD FLAME SAYS HE'S A GREAT GUY / SHE SAYS HE HAD GAY IENDS, JT DIDN'T LIKE GAY PROSTUTN SCENE

Schwarzenegger had many gay iends the 1970s, she says, although he did object to the gay prostutn scene that had spng up around his sport. "Gay men would try to sce body builrs" and offer them money exchange for sex, she said. Baker also relled Schwarzenegger's displeasure when a iend spliced some vio of his bodybuildg pos to a gay porno film whout permissn.

"He asked Arnold to e his posg footage a documentary, but (Schwarzenegger) found out he had ed a porno film, a homosexual movie, " she said. Gay groups lled on Schwarzenegger to apologize for the e of "fag, " which they said was meang. While we're by ntemplatg what an awful human beg Arnold Schwarzenegger is for fatherg a child out of wedlock and lyg to his wife about for 14 years, let's not fet all the other horrible thgs about Ameri's favore gay-porn-molg, serial lady-gropg, Nazi polician/statutory rapist.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER SAYS DAD H HIM BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY

"Arnold Schwarzenegger Was a Gay Porn MolThis isn't strictly horrible unls you later prent yourself, as Schwarzenegger did, as a paragon of wholome, mascule, Republin uprightns and veto two gay marriage bills.

In 1977, he sat for an terview and 22-page nu photo spread for the gay magaze After Dark. )He also sat for Robert Mapplethorpe, and was given to more up-close-and-personal molg: Spy reported that 1975 he enjoyed a weekend vis to the tate of Spanish lnaire and gay playboy Pa Arce Gomez.

Schwarzenegger's bgrapher Wendy Leigh told Radar that Schwarzenegger also sought out the affectns of wealthy gay Brish patron John Dixey, a "well-known aficnado of mcle boys" who "was very, very kd to Arnold" the late 1960s. "You have to unrstand, " Leigh told Radar, "before Arnold me on the scene, was mon currency that bodybuilrs were ls than macho— was absolutely given and accepted that they supported themselv by terg to the tast of wealthy gay men. Origally nceived as a rad drama, the pellg two hanr is set the visg room of a high secury prison where Asian Amerin Claire (Elizabeth Sun) meets wh allegedly repentant Trevor (Doug Harris), the whe man who murred her gay brother when he heard him speakg Che le at an ATM.

GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68

Actor and activist Gee Takei recently spoke out about why he me out as gay at age 68 ― and how former California Gov. Bee Schwarzenegger prented himself as a movie star who had worked and was iends wh gays and lbians, many of whom voted for him, but then vetoed that bill, ” Takei said.

“I was so angry that I spoke to the prs for the first time as a gay man at the age of 68. “I learned at a young age that you uldn’t be an openly gay actor and hope to be employed, ” Takei said. Bowg to weeks of cricism, Arnold Schwarzenegger spelled out his views on abortn, gay marriage, tax and other issu.

GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘I WAS SO ANGRY’ AT HIM

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- California gubernatorial ndidate Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about sex, dgs, bodybuildg and homosexualy a 1977 terview wh an adult magaze that's now makg the rounds on the Inter. Asked about homosexualy, Schwarzenegger ma clear his sexual tert was women, but said homosexualy didn't bother him.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: GAY PORN STAR?

(Schwarzenegger appeared on Sunday night’s 60 Mut premiere; the segment about gay marriage was posted onle as a 60 Mut Web Extra. When Stahl asked if Schwarzenegger was favor of gay marriage, he replied: “I always said that I have nothg agast people dog what they want to do. Prsed by Stahl aga if he is for gay marriage, Schwarzenegger replied: “I don’t have to be for gay marriage.

At the time, the sport was wily nigrated, nsired an extreme and unsavory activy for homosexuals and eaks.

Gee Takei revealed a new terview wh The Stage that he publicly me out as gay 2005 out of anger over Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cisn to veto a bill that would’ve legalized gay marriage California. Takei me out as gay California’s Frontiers magaze, and the “Star Trek” veteran had already been a relatnship wh his hband for 18 years by that time. I learned at a young age that you uldn’t be an openly gay actor and hope to be employed.

GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68

Bee Schwarzenegger prented himself as a movie star who had worked and was iends wh gays and lbians, many of whom voted for him, but then vetoed that bill. I was so angry that I spoke to the prs for the first time as a gay man at the age of 68.

Schwarzenegger rejected a bill to legalize gay marriage that was troduced by Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno.

SCHWARZENEGGER VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILL

"Arnold's mother also lled the doctor for help bee she was worried that "somethg was off" TO VIEW GALLERY© Photo: Getty ImagArnold Schwarzenegger revealed that his father ed to beat him"I don't know if mum thought I was gay, or if she jt thought there was somethg off. Mickey Hargay the well- received TV. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Gay porn star?

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

As a gay man, he said, he also felt bigotry over his sexual Lerhandler/Associated PrsChris Dickerson, who as the first Black man to w the Mr. Universe petn, was also gay, which was known bodybuildg circl but which he did not often publicly discs at the height of his reer. ”The paper’s thor, John Fair, then a historian at Geia College & State Universy, wrote: “Dickerson, who was short, Black and gay, was a diametril oppose to the kd of image Arnold reprented.

GEE TAKEI CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED MARRIAGE EQUALY BILL

New York the 1970s, he moled nu for Jim French, a photographer who specialized gay eroti. Dickerson peted only sporadilly for the next 10 years and was a gut poser bodybuildg events, cludg The Natnal Lbian and Gay Bodybuildg Champnships 1990.

And a discsn of bodybuilrs, he referred to gay people as "fags, " sayg, "I have absolutely no hang-ups about the fag bs; though may bother some bodybuilrs, don't affect me at all.

GAY RIGHTS ADVOCATES JUMP IN. Meanwhile, advot of gay rights cricized Schwarzenegger for his e of the word "fag.

GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE HE WAS ‘SO ANGRY’ AT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

"I thk he's got a problem, borrg on a fixatn" about gays, said Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francis.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S LATT REVELATNS: MORE AFFAIRS, GAY WEDDGS AND A SON HE COULDN'T DENY

Michael Andraychak, print of Los Angel' Stonewall Democratic Club, which oppos the rell, lled on the actor to apologize, sayg gays react to "fag" much as Ain Amerins react to "the n-- word. Toni Broadd, program director for Equaly California, the statewi gay- rights group, said she was troubled by Schwarzenegger's scriptn of group sex the gym.

Schwarzenegger's ments on gays me when Manso asked him if he got "eaked out by beg such close ntact wh men" while liftg weights. The bodybuilr portrayed himself as tolerant of gays. "Another thg: recently I posed for a gay magaze, which ed much ment.

Gay people are fightg the same stereotypg that bodybuilrs are: People have certa misnceptns about them jt as they do about .

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

Candid talk of sex, dgs and gay men. Another thg: Recently I posed for a gay magaze, which ed much ment. Gay people are fightg the same kd of stereotypg that bodybuilrs are.

7, a day after the Legislature beme the first the untry to approve a bill allowg gays and lbians to wed. The ernor said the state nstutn bars the Legislature om enactg a law allowg gay marriage whout another vote by the public and that Leno's bill wouldn't provi for that vote. Issue probably will go to state Supreme CourtSchwarzenegger noted that a state appeals urt was nsirg whether the state's ban on gay marriage is nstutnal and that the issue would likely be cid by the California Supreme Court.

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

" Leno, who is openly gay, said Schwarzenegger had missed a historic opportuny to stand up for civil rights. Eddie Gutierrez, a spokman for Equaly California, a gay rights group that supported the bill, said Schwarzenegger had merely layed the day when gay marriage is legal.

While publicly opposed, Schwarzenegger says he performed gay marriag.

He said, for example, that he performed two same-sex weddgs while office, even though he publicly supported fg marriage as beg between a man and a woman and vetoed legislatn September 2005 that would have legalized gay marriage the state. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.