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• GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY DUE TO 'NAKED MEN' POSTERS
• GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE HE WAS ‘SO ANGRY’ AT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
• GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘I WAS SO ANGRY’ AT HIM
• EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTERS PLAYED BY ARNIE AND JET LI ARE GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR
• SCHWARZENEGGER VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER APPLDS SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE RULG: ‘THE RIGHT WAY TO GO’THE GOVERNATORTHE MAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS ‘THE GOVERNATOR’ SPOKE ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT’S LG FAVOR OF MARRIAGE EQUALY ON FRIDAY. JEN YAMATOUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:34AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 26, 2015 2:42PM EDT HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/RTERS“I THK THAT GAY MARRIAGE IS SOMETHG THAT SHOULD BE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN.”Y, BACK 2003, ACTOR TURNED GOP POLICIAN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER MA THE AFOREMENTNED VERBAL BLUNR.HE SPOKE A LOT MORE ELOQUENTLY ON THE ISSUE ON FRIDAY LOS ANGEL. PROMOTG HIS RETURN AS THE T-800 TERMATOR: GENISYS, FORMER CALIFORNIA GOVERNATOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER VOICED HIS APPROVAL OF THE NATNWI LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE—WHILE SNEAKG A JAB AT THE EPTU OF SOME POLICIANS TO EFFECT CHANGE.ASKED TO MENT ON THE LG DURG A PRS NFERENCE FOR THE UPG ACTN SEQUEL, SCHWARZENEGGER SPENT PRECISELY 40 SENDS ADDRSG TODAY’S LANDMARK URT LG. “I’M VERY HAPPY THAT THEY MA THE RIGHT CISN BEE WE CALIFORNIA OF URSE ARE ALWAYS A STEP AHEAD,” HE SAID, GIVG A SELF-NGRATULATORY SHOUT-OUT TO THE 2008 LEGALIZATN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE STATE PASSED DURG HIS SEND TERM OFFICE. “WE MA THAT CISN ALREADY, A LONG TIME AGO. OUR SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA CID THAT ’S UNNSTUTNAL TO NY GAY OR SAME-SEX UPL MARRIAGE.”“EVERYONE HAS EQUAL RIGHTS,” NTUED THE FORMER REPUBLIN ERNOR, WHO TWICE VETOED GAY MARRIAGE LEGISLATN DURG HIS TENURE BEFORE SOFTENG HIS STANCE ON SAME-SEX UNNS. “SO THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO GO, AND I THK ’S A GREAT CELEBRATN FOR AMERI.”SCHWARZENEGGER MIGHT HAVE HAD SUPREME COURT JTICE ANTON “CALIFORNIA DON’T UNT” SLIA MD WHEN HE ADD ONE LAST ASI CHEERG THE URT’S 5-4 CISN:“SOMETIM, I HAVE TO SAY, JUDG AND THE JUDICIARY SYSTEM MAKE BETTER CISNS THAN THE POLICIANS,” HE SAID. “SADLY, THEY ARE NOT REALLY HAVG THE BALLS SOMETIM TO LEAD AND WORK TOGETHER ON THE ISSU.” JEN YAMATO
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REVEALS FATHER BEAT HIM BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY

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

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. 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.

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

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.

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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. [Source]Gee Takei recently revealed that he me out as gay rponse to former California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cisn to veto the bill that legalized same-sex marriage the state almost two s an terview wh the Brish weekly newspaper The Stage, the 85-year-old “Star Trek” actor explaed that he had to rema closeted while workg the movie dtry as was difficult to fd employment for an openly gay and Asian Amerin man at that time.

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

I learned at a young age that you uldn’t be an openly gay actor and hope to be employed.

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

To this day, there are big Hollywood actors who are not out orr to protect their me out as gay at the age of 68 an issue of Frontiers, a Los Angel magaze that vers news the gay and lbian muny, om NextShark: Law Firm Claims Attorney Who Posted Racist LkedIn Comment About ‘Wuhan Lab’ Was ‘Hacked’Takei's announcement me after Schwarzenegger, who served as the 38th ernor of California between 2003 and 2011, vetoed a bill created by Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno that would have legalized gay marriage the did I e out when I did?

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

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Asked about homosexualy, Schwarzenegger ma clear his sexual tert was women, but said homosexualy didn't bother him. The actor is known for speakg out agast thgs that he don’t agree wh, and turns out, that’s the reason he cid to e out as gay 2005. In a new terview wh The Stage, the Star Trek actor explaed the “guilt” that he felt livg as a closeted gay man for most of his life.

SCHWARZENEGGER VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILL

But Takei didn’t want to be silent any longer when California ernor Arnold Schwarzenegger lled to veto a bill that would’ve legalized gay marriage 2005 California. I was so angry that I spoke to the prs for the first time as a gay man at the age of 68.

” Eventually, Schwarzenegger voted to legalize gay marriage two years later. As Republin ernor of California he had a mixed stance on the matter, sayg 2004 that he supported gay rights and civil unns – while also tellg the state’s attorney general to take “immediate steps” to stop same-sex marriage beg passed. He’s also the reason why Californians celebrate Harvey Milk Day, thanks to a bill he signed requirg the ernor to honour the gay polil pneer each year.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER APPLDS SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE RULG: ‘THE RIGHT WAY TO GO’THE GOVERNATORTHE MAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS ‘THE GOVERNATOR’ SPOKE ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT’S LG FAVOR OF MARRIAGE EQUALY ON FRIDAY. JEN YAMATOUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:34AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 26, 2015 2:42PM EDT HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/RTERS“I THK THAT GAY MARRIAGE IS SOMETHG THAT SHOULD BE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN.”Y, BACK 2003, ACTOR TURNED GOP POLICIAN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER MA THE AFOREMENTNED VERBAL BLUNR.HE SPOKE A LOT MORE ELOQUENTLY ON THE ISSUE ON FRIDAY LOS ANGEL. PROMOTG HIS RETURN AS THE T-800 TERMATOR: GENISYS, FORMER CALIFORNIA GOVERNATOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER VOICED HIS APPROVAL OF THE NATNWI LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE—WHILE SNEAKG A JAB AT THE EPTU OF SOME POLICIANS TO EFFECT CHANGE.ASKED TO MENT ON THE LG DURG A PRS NFERENCE FOR THE UPG ACTN SEQUEL, SCHWARZENEGGER SPENT PRECISELY 40 SENDS ADDRSG TODAY’S LANDMARK URT LG. “I’M VERY HAPPY THAT THEY MA THE RIGHT CISN BEE WE CALIFORNIA OF URSE ARE ALWAYS A STEP AHEAD,” HE SAID, GIVG A SELF-NGRATULATORY SHOUT-OUT TO THE 2008 LEGALIZATN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE STATE PASSED DURG HIS SEND TERM OFFICE. “WE MA THAT CISN ALREADY, A LONG TIME AGO. OUR SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA CID THAT ’S UNNSTUTNAL TO NY GAY OR SAME-SEX UPL MARRIAGE.”“EVERYONE HAS EQUAL RIGHTS,” NTUED THE FORMER REPUBLIN ERNOR, WHO TWICE VETOED GAY MARRIAGE LEGISLATN DURG HIS TENURE BEFORE SOFTENG HIS STANCE ON SAME-SEX UNNS. “SO THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO GO, AND I THK ’S A GREAT CELEBRATN FOR AMERI.”SCHWARZENEGGER MIGHT HAVE HAD SUPREME COURT JTICE ANTON “CALIFORNIA DON’T UNT” SLIA MD WHEN HE ADD ONE LAST ASI CHEERG THE URT’S 5-4 CISN:“SOMETIM, I HAVE TO SAY, JUDG AND THE JUDICIARY SYSTEM MAKE BETTER CISNS THAN THE POLICIANS,” HE SAID. “SADLY, THEY ARE NOT REALLY HAVG THE BALLS SOMETIM TO LEAD AND WORK TOGETHER ON THE ISSU.” JEN YAMATO

Perhaps his biggt achievement was repealg a law that stcted the State Department of Mental Health to nduct rearch to the “ and cur” of homosexualy. He later revealed that his own parents had beaten him and tried to “cure” him of homosexualy, believg that his obssn wh male bodybuilrs was a sign he was gay.

Schwarzenegger praised the gay Apple CEO Tim Cook for speakg out agast the law and chastised his fellow Republins who chose “the polics of divisn over polici that improve the liv of all of ”. In recent years his socially-liberal leangs have seen him pted agast Tmp, wh Schwarzenegger bterly opposg the homophobe--chief throughout his princy.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REVEALS FATHER BEAT HIM BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY

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.

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