Brad Pitt Donates $100,000 To Support Same Sex Marriage

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Actor Brad Pitt donated $100,000 to the Human Rights Campaign fund aimed at winning ballot initiatives across the country that would extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. 

From the Los Angeles Times Monday:

Pitt’s contribution represents a rare political donation by the actor, who has generally refrained from giving to candidates and political committees. But he has made an exception on the matter of gay marriage, a cause to which he has lent prominent support: In 2008, he donated $100,000 to the unsuccessful effort to defeat California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. This year, he starred with George Clooney in a Los Angeles production of the play “8,” a dramatization of the legal fight over the ballot measure, now pending before the Supreme Court.

Measures on the ballot in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington would grant same sex couples the right to legally marry in those states. 

 

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