He’s
won
Oscar
after
Oscar.
Now
movie
producer
and
director
Steven
Spielberg
is
proving
to
be
quite
the
gay
marriage
mensch.
This
week,
Spielberg
and
his
wife,
Kate
Capshaw,
donated
$100,000
to
support
the
fight
against
Proposition
8,
the
California
ballot
initiative
that
would
stop
same-sex
marriage
in
the
state.
Last
week,
Brad
Pitt
gave
the
same
amount
to
the
cause.
Movie
stars
—
especially
the
gay
ones
who
have
gotten
married
in
the
Golden
State—
will
hopefully
want
to
keep
up
with
the
Spielbergs
and
the
Pitts
in
that
town
of
fierce
competition
and
earn
their
own
star
on
the
Walk
of
[Gay]
Fame.
FOE
News
broke
this
week
on
blogs
that
Mark
Buse,
chief
of
staff
for
Republican
presidential
candidate
John
McCain’s
Senate
office,
is
gay.
This
despite
McCain’s
support
for
an
anti-gay
marriage
amendment
in
Arizona
and
his
support
of
“Don’t
Ask,
Don’t
Tell,”
which
bans
openly
gay
people
from
serving
in
the
military.
The
gay
Log
Cabin
Republicans
have
endorsed
McCain
for
the
presidency,
so
it’s
not
unheard
of
that
a
gay
person
would
serve
in
a
high-ranking
position
in
the
McCain
camp.
But
to
many,
this
is
outright
hypocrisy.
Michael
Rogers
of
blogactive.com
awarded
Buse
his
Roy
Cohn
Award
“for
working
against
the
interests
of
the
lesbian
and
gay
community
while
living
as
a
gay
man.”
Mike
Signorile
of
Sirius
Satellite
Radio
says
Buse
is
actually
rather
“open
to
those
around
him
and
to
his
family
—
in
a
‘glass
closet’
rather
than
deeply
undercover
or
trying
to
appear
heterosexual.”
Buse
would
do
better
to
shatter
the
glass
closet
and
tell
his
boss
that
he
—
and
other
gay
people
—
deserve
equality
just
like
everyone
else.
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