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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