Arnold Schwarzenegger Applds SCOTUS Gay Marriage Rulg: ‘The Right Way to Go’

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
PUMPG IRON: EXCLIVE, RARELY SEEN PHOTOS AND STORI OF THE FILM THAT BUILT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERCELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MCLE-BOUND DOCUDRAMA THAT STARTED ALL.BY JOANNA ROBSONJUNE 16, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPUMPG IRON: 20 RARELY SEEN PHOTOS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRON© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.ARNOLD ALWAYS WORKED ON HIS POS AND THOUGHT ABOUT PETG. HERE HE IS PRACTICG ON THE ROOF OF HIS NDO. SANTA MONI, CALIFORNIA, 1973.IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE THE GLISTENG, FLEXG BICEPS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, LOU FERRIGNO, AND THE RT OF THE GIANTS OF THE PROFSNAL BODYBUILDG SCENE BURST TO THE POP CULTURE NVERSATN VIA DIRECTOR GEE BUTLER’S DOCUDRAMA PUMPG IRON. THE FILM WAS THE ULTIMATE UNRDOG STORY, NOT BEE OF THE WAY THE PETN PLAYS OUT ON-SCREEN (SPOILER ALERT, SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS THE FILM AS A BODYBUILDG STAR AND ENDS THE FILM AN EVEN BIGGER BODYBUILDG STAR), BUT BEE OF THE GREAT LENGTHS BUTLER WENT TO TO GET MA. IN THE BURGEONG DAYS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKG, NOBODY WANTED TO BACK BUTLER AND HIS PARTNER, ROBERT FRE, TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT A NICHE SPORT STARRG A HANDSOME ATRIAN WHOM NO ONE OUTSI THE BODYBUILDG WORLD HAD EVER HEARD OF.BUT BUTLER AND FRE PRSED, ON AND THE RT IS FILM HISTORY. BOTH SCHWARZENEGGER AND LOU FERRIGNO WOULD GO ON TO BEE HOEHOLD NAM, AND FOR THOSE CUR TO SEE HOW AN ATRIAN BODYBUILR ULD NQUER NOT ONLY HOLLYWOOD BUT THE WORLD OF POLICS TOO, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE NAKED AMBN, CLEVER LCULATN, AND TANIC WORK ETHIC SCHWARZENEGGER PUTS ON DISPLAY PUMPG IRON. GEE BUTLER—WHO, ALONGSI CHARL GA, SHOT THE 1974 BOOK OF THE SAME NAME—HAS SHARED SOME NDID, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OM SCHWARZENEGGER’S PUMPG IRON DAYS LLECTED THE GALLERY ABOVE. HE’S ALSO ANSWERED A FEW OF OUR QUTNS ABOUT SOME OF THE LEGACI AND MYTHS THAT HAVE SPNG UP AROUND THE FILM THE PAST 40 YEARS. PUMPG IRON WILL PLAY AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER'S WALTER REA THEATER ON AUGT 17 AS PART OF A 40TH ANNIVERSARY SERI CELEBRATG THE CEMA OF 1977.VANY FAIR: BEFORE PUMPG IRON, THERE WAS A STIGMA AROUND BODYBUILDG THAT ONLY GAY MEN PARTICIPATED THE SPORT. WAS THAT SOMETHG THE MACHISMO OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND SCHWARZENEGGER’S BEHAVR AROUND WOMEN SPECIFILLY TRIED TO ADDRS?GEE BUTLER: Y, THERE WAS A STIGMA THOSE DAYS. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO E ACROSS AS THEMSELV— AND WH ARNOLD ONT AND CENTER, THE FILM TOOK ON A CERTA CHARACTER. IT WAS CLEAR THIS WAS A TOUGH SPORT.YOU MENTN THE 2002 DOCUMENTARY RAW IRON THAT THE 1975 I.F.B.B. MR. UNIVERSE AND MR. OLYMPIA NTTS WERE THE FIRST TERRACIAL PETNS TO BE HELD SOUTH AI. PUMPG IRON DON’T REALLY TOUCH ON THAT EVEN THOUGH SERGE NUBRET OUT OF NOWHERE TO GRAB SEND PLACE BEHD SCHWARZENEGGER. WAS THERE EVER AN IA TO EXPLORE THAT ASPECT OF THE BODYBUILDG SCENE?I WAS TERTED DIVIDUAL CHARACTER; A GROUP OF GUYS G THEIR WS AND BODI TO PETE AND W. SO I WAS LS TERTED RACIAL TEGORI THAN DIVIDUALS.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.YOU’VE SAID THAT IALLY THE IA WAS TO PRENT LOU FERRIGNO AS THE VILLA OPPOSN TO SCHWARZENEGGER’S HERO. BUT SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SAID THAT EVENTUALLY HE REALIZED THAT FERRIGNO WAS TOO “VULNERABLE” TO BE THE BAD GUY. AT WHAT POT DID YOU REALIZE THIS AS WELL?MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHLOUIE IS A TOUCHG CHARACTER. I KNEW EARLY ON THAT HE ULDN'T BE A VILLA, BUT THAT HE HAD A CENTRAL PART. LOUIE WAS PERFECT AS THE MOCK VILLA, HOWEVER. ARNOLD WORKED OUT ON THE BEACH, OUTDOORS SUNSHE, LOUIE THE GYM, THE SHADOWS—WHICH IS THE FILM, WAS SO PERFECT—LOUIE WAS BIGGER, DARKER, HE WAS EVERYTHG OPPOSE OF ARNOLD. HE ALSO GREW STATURE DURG THE NTT AND HIS TRAG. PEOPLE WHO WATCH THE MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW ARE AMAZED TO SEE THAT ARNOLD IS NOT THE UNEQUIVOL STAR OF THE FILM.BEE FERRIGNO ULDN’T FILL THE CLASSIC VILLA ROLE, PARTWAY THROUGH THE FILM SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS PLAYG THE HEEL AND BOASTG ABOUT HIS ABILY TO MENTALLY MANIPULATE HIS PETN. HOW MUCH OF THIS WAS FABRITED FOR THE SAKE OF TELLG A GOOD STORY? SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SCE SAID WAS ALMOST ALL FABRITED.NOT TE. WE DIDN'T FABRITE SCEN THE SENSE OF VENTG SUATNS OUT OF TH AIR. WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD DIRECTLY REVEAL CHARACTER. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT I HAD DONE THE BOOK PUMPG IRON (WH WRER CHARL GA) BEFORE THE MOVIE, AND I KNEW ARNOLD AND THE OTHERS VERY, VERY WELL. SO WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PLAY THEMSELV, SO TO SPEAK.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.THERE ARE SO MANY HEARTWARMG SCEN THE PHOTOS WE’RE FEATURG HERE, LIKE SCHWARZENEGGER POSG WH THE OLR WOMEN. HOW MANY OF HIS MORE CHARMG TERACTNS WERE CUT ORR TO CREATE A CERTA NARRATIVE?I DON'T THK WE PAID ANY ATTENTN TO THAT. WE WERE FOLLOWG A DRAMATIC ACTN—THE PETN—AND SO WE HAD TO FOLLOW THAT, NOT DILUTE THAT.SCHWARZENEGGER IS REFUL TO LL THE FILM A “DOCUDRAMA” BASED ON THE HEIGHTENED DRAMATIC ELEMENTS. DO BOTHER YOU AT ALL THAT SOME PEOPLE MISTAKENLY INTIFY PUMPG IRON AS A DOCUMENTARY?MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHY, I WHDREW OM THE 1977 AMY AWARDS BEE I DID NOT THK WAS PURELY, STRICTLY A DOCUMENTARY—A DOCUMENTARY THOSE DAYS WAS MORE LIKE AN STERE HISTORY BOOK. TODAY WOULD BE DIFFERENT—CREATIVE LIBERTI ARE ROUTELY TAKEN TO GET TO THE TTH. BUT WE WERE AT THE ABSOLUTE BEGNG OF A GENRE, MAKG A KD OF NONFICTN MOVIE NOVEL.WHAT’S A SCHWARZENEGGER STORY OM THE PUMPG IRON DAYS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE?Y, I HAVE A GREAT ONE. ARNOLD THE OAK ED TO GET LUNCH AT THE BROWN BAGGER VENICE. HE’D S AT A TABLE WH ALL THE BIG BODY BUILRS. IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT TO ARNOLD TO GET A TAN AFTER LUNCH, SO HE’D BE AT THE BEACH SCENE, LYG ON A LTLE PATCH OF GRASS WH THE OTHER BODY BUILRS, LIKE LOU FERRIGNO AND EDDIE GUILLIANI, WHO WAS A GREAT TRICKSTER BY THE WAY. ARNOLD WALKED UP TO A U.C.L.A .CHEERLEAR AND ASKED HOW’D SHE LIKE TO POSE WH THE BT BODY BUILRS THE WORLD, AND THAT SHE SHOULD GET TO KNOW THEM. HE SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS BI HER AND PRETEND TO GO TO SLEEP, FAVORG THE U.C.L.A. CHEERLEAR OVER HIS BODY-BUILR IENDS. SUDNLY SHE WAS AWARE WE WERE FILMG. HER EY BRIGHTENED, SHE LOOKED AT HIM AND ASKED, “ARE YOU SHOOTG 16MM FILM?” ARNIE, KNOWG A LTLE ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS ASKG, SAID “Y,” TO WHICH SHE RPOND, “UH UH, WELL, I ONLY DO 35MM.”YOU HAD TO GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET THIS FILM FUND. YOU WERE LGHED OUT OF PCH MEETGS BUT, OF URSE, YOU HAD THE LAST LGH. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ENURAGE STGGLG FILMMAKERS OUT THERE?ONWARD. ALWAYS ONWARD. YOU’LL N TO EVERYTHG YOU NEED, IF YOU JT KEEP MOMENTUM.JOANNA ROBSON
EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTERS PLAYED BY ARNIE AND JET LI ARE GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR
GEE TAKEI CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED MARRIAGE EQUALY BILL
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER KARIJE JE ZAPOčEO U GAY MAGAZU, A DUGO JE B GUVERNER KALIFORNIJE
GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘I WAS SO ANGRY’ AT HIM
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
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

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

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 is gay *

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.

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

Gee Takei says he me out as gay at 68 bee he was so angry that Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected a marriage equaly bill. * arnold schwarzenegger is gay *

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. 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.

PUMPG IRON: EXCLIVE, RARELY SEEN PHOTOS AND STORI OF THE FILM THAT BUILT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERCELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MCLE-BOUND DOCUDRAMA THAT STARTED ALL.BY JOANNA ROBSONJUNE 16, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPUMPG IRON: 20 RARELY SEEN PHOTOS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRON© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.ARNOLD ALWAYS WORKED ON HIS POS AND THOUGHT ABOUT PETG. HERE HE IS PRACTICG ON THE ROOF OF HIS NDO. SANTA MONI, CALIFORNIA, 1973.IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE THE GLISTENG, FLEXG BICEPS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, LOU FERRIGNO, AND THE RT OF THE GIANTS OF THE PROFSNAL BODYBUILDG SCENE BURST TO THE POP CULTURE NVERSATN VIA DIRECTOR GEE BUTLER’S DOCUDRAMA PUMPG IRON. THE FILM WAS THE ULTIMATE UNRDOG STORY, NOT BEE OF THE WAY THE PETN PLAYS OUT ON-SCREEN (SPOILER ALERT, SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS THE FILM AS A BODYBUILDG STAR AND ENDS THE FILM AN EVEN BIGGER BODYBUILDG STAR), BUT BEE OF THE GREAT LENGTHS BUTLER WENT TO TO GET MA. IN THE BURGEONG DAYS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKG, NOBODY WANTED TO BACK BUTLER AND HIS PARTNER, ROBERT FRE, TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT A NICHE SPORT STARRG A HANDSOME ATRIAN WHOM NO ONE OUTSI THE BODYBUILDG WORLD HAD EVER HEARD OF.BUT BUTLER AND FRE PRSED, ON AND THE RT IS FILM HISTORY. BOTH SCHWARZENEGGER AND LOU FERRIGNO WOULD GO ON TO BEE HOEHOLD NAM, AND FOR THOSE CUR TO SEE HOW AN ATRIAN BODYBUILR ULD NQUER NOT ONLY HOLLYWOOD BUT THE WORLD OF POLICS TOO, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE NAKED AMBN, CLEVER LCULATN, AND TANIC WORK ETHIC SCHWARZENEGGER PUTS ON DISPLAY PUMPG IRON. GEE BUTLER—WHO, ALONGSI CHARL GA, SHOT THE 1974 BOOK OF THE SAME NAME—HAS SHARED SOME NDID, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OM SCHWARZENEGGER’S PUMPG IRON DAYS LLECTED THE GALLERY ABOVE. HE’S ALSO ANSWERED A FEW OF OUR QUTNS ABOUT SOME OF THE LEGACI AND MYTHS THAT HAVE SPNG UP AROUND THE FILM THE PAST 40 YEARS. PUMPG IRON WILL PLAY AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER'S WALTER REA THEATER ON AUGT 17 AS PART OF A 40TH ANNIVERSARY SERI CELEBRATG THE CEMA OF 1977.VANY FAIR: BEFORE PUMPG IRON, THERE WAS A STIGMA AROUND BODYBUILDG THAT ONLY GAY MEN PARTICIPATED THE SPORT. WAS THAT SOMETHG THE MACHISMO OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND SCHWARZENEGGER’S BEHAVR AROUND WOMEN SPECIFILLY TRIED TO ADDRS?GEE BUTLER: Y, THERE WAS A STIGMA THOSE DAYS. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO E ACROSS AS THEMSELV— AND WH ARNOLD ONT AND CENTER, THE FILM TOOK ON A CERTA CHARACTER. IT WAS CLEAR THIS WAS A TOUGH SPORT.YOU MENTN THE 2002 DOCUMENTARY RAW IRON THAT THE 1975 I.F.B.B. MR. UNIVERSE AND MR. OLYMPIA NTTS WERE THE FIRST TERRACIAL PETNS TO BE HELD SOUTH AI. PUMPG IRON DON’T REALLY TOUCH ON THAT EVEN THOUGH SERGE NUBRET OUT OF NOWHERE TO GRAB SEND PLACE BEHD SCHWARZENEGGER. WAS THERE EVER AN IA TO EXPLORE THAT ASPECT OF THE BODYBUILDG SCENE?I WAS TERTED DIVIDUAL CHARACTER; A GROUP OF GUYS G THEIR WS AND BODI TO PETE AND W. SO I WAS LS TERTED RACIAL TEGORI THAN DIVIDUALS.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.YOU’VE SAID THAT IALLY THE IA WAS TO PRENT LOU FERRIGNO AS THE VILLA OPPOSN TO SCHWARZENEGGER’S HERO. BUT SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SAID THAT EVENTUALLY HE REALIZED THAT FERRIGNO WAS TOO “VULNERABLE” TO BE THE BAD GUY. AT WHAT POT DID YOU REALIZE THIS AS WELL?MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHLOUIE IS A TOUCHG CHARACTER. I KNEW EARLY ON THAT HE ULDN'T BE A VILLA, BUT THAT HE HAD A CENTRAL PART. LOUIE WAS PERFECT AS THE MOCK VILLA, HOWEVER. ARNOLD WORKED OUT ON THE BEACH, OUTDOORS SUNSHE, LOUIE THE GYM, THE SHADOWS—WHICH IS THE FILM, WAS SO PERFECT—LOUIE WAS BIGGER, DARKER, HE WAS EVERYTHG OPPOSE OF ARNOLD. HE ALSO GREW STATURE DURG THE NTT AND HIS TRAG. PEOPLE WHO WATCH THE MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW ARE AMAZED TO SEE THAT ARNOLD IS NOT THE UNEQUIVOL STAR OF THE FILM.BEE FERRIGNO ULDN’T FILL THE CLASSIC VILLA ROLE, PARTWAY THROUGH THE FILM SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS PLAYG THE HEEL AND BOASTG ABOUT HIS ABILY TO MENTALLY MANIPULATE HIS PETN. HOW MUCH OF THIS WAS FABRITED FOR THE SAKE OF TELLG A GOOD STORY? SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SCE SAID WAS ALMOST ALL FABRITED.NOT TE. WE DIDN'T FABRITE SCEN THE SENSE OF VENTG SUATNS OUT OF TH AIR. WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD DIRECTLY REVEAL CHARACTER. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT I HAD DONE THE BOOK PUMPG IRON (WH WRER CHARL GA) BEFORE THE MOVIE, AND I KNEW ARNOLD AND THE OTHERS VERY, VERY WELL. SO WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PLAY THEMSELV, SO TO SPEAK.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.THERE ARE SO MANY HEARTWARMG SCEN THE PHOTOS WE’RE FEATURG HERE, LIKE SCHWARZENEGGER POSG WH THE OLR WOMEN. HOW MANY OF HIS MORE CHARMG TERACTNS WERE CUT ORR TO CREATE A CERTA NARRATIVE?I DON'T THK WE PAID ANY ATTENTN TO THAT. WE WERE FOLLOWG A DRAMATIC ACTN—THE PETN—AND SO WE HAD TO FOLLOW THAT, NOT DILUTE THAT.SCHWARZENEGGER IS REFUL TO LL THE FILM A “DOCUDRAMA” BASED ON THE HEIGHTENED DRAMATIC ELEMENTS. DO BOTHER YOU AT ALL THAT SOME PEOPLE MISTAKENLY INTIFY PUMPG IRON AS A DOCUMENTARY?MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHY, I WHDREW OM THE 1977 AMY AWARDS BEE I DID NOT THK WAS PURELY, STRICTLY A DOCUMENTARY—A DOCUMENTARY THOSE DAYS WAS MORE LIKE AN STERE HISTORY BOOK. TODAY WOULD BE DIFFERENT—CREATIVE LIBERTI ARE ROUTELY TAKEN TO GET TO THE TTH. BUT WE WERE AT THE ABSOLUTE BEGNG OF A GENRE, MAKG A KD OF NONFICTN MOVIE NOVEL.WHAT’S A SCHWARZENEGGER STORY OM THE PUMPG IRON DAYS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE?Y, I HAVE A GREAT ONE. ARNOLD THE OAK ED TO GET LUNCH AT THE BROWN BAGGER VENICE. HE’D S AT A TABLE WH ALL THE BIG BODY BUILRS. IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT TO ARNOLD TO GET A TAN AFTER LUNCH, SO HE’D BE AT THE BEACH SCENE, LYG ON A LTLE PATCH OF GRASS WH THE OTHER BODY BUILRS, LIKE LOU FERRIGNO AND EDDIE GUILLIANI, WHO WAS A GREAT TRICKSTER BY THE WAY. ARNOLD WALKED UP TO A U.C.L.A .CHEERLEAR AND ASKED HOW’D SHE LIKE TO POSE WH THE BT BODY BUILRS THE WORLD, AND THAT SHE SHOULD GET TO KNOW THEM. HE SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS BI HER AND PRETEND TO GO TO SLEEP, FAVORG THE U.C.L.A. CHEERLEAR OVER HIS BODY-BUILR IENDS. SUDNLY SHE WAS AWARE WE WERE FILMG. HER EY BRIGHTENED, SHE LOOKED AT HIM AND ASKED, “ARE YOU SHOOTG 16MM FILM?” ARNIE, KNOWG A LTLE ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS ASKG, SAID “Y,” TO WHICH SHE RPOND, “UH UH, WELL, I ONLY DO 35MM.”YOU HAD TO GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET THIS FILM FUND. YOU WERE LGHED OUT OF PCH MEETGS BUT, OF URSE, YOU HAD THE LAST LGH. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ENURAGE STGGLG FILMMAKERS OUT THERE?ONWARD. ALWAYS ONWARD. YOU’LL N TO EVERYTHG YOU NEED, IF YOU JT KEEP MOMENTUM.JOANNA ROBSON

Gee Takei said he publicly me out as gay bee Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected a bill to legalize gay marriage California. * arnold schwarzenegger is 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.

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

* arnold schwarzenegger is gay *

"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. 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 ›.

Pumpg Iron will play at the Film Society of Lln Center's Walter Rea Theater on Augt 17 as part of a 40th anniversary seri celebratg the cema of Fair: Before Pumpg Iron, there was a stigma around bodybuildg that only gay men participated the sport. 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.

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

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.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER KARIJE JE ZAPOčEO U GAY MAGAZU, A DUGO JE B GUVERNER KALIFORNIJE

Bowg to weeks of cricism, Arnold Schwarzenegger spelled out his views on abortn, gay marriage, tax and other issu.

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. (Schwarzenegger appeared on Sunday night’s 60 Mut premiere; the segment about gay marriage was posted onle as a 60 Mut Web Extra.

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

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.

THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE

Gee Takei, known to several generatns of science fictn fans as Star Trek's Mr Sulu, famoly me out as a gay man 2005, and has been an out-and-proud LGBTQ+ advote ever sce.

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

Za razliku od Sylvtera Stallonea, koji priznaje da je karije započeo u pornićima, bivši guverner Kalifornije srami se čjenice da je, kao mladić, pozirao za gay časopis 'After dark'. 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.