A Collection of Celebrities for Gay Marriage

Published November 15, 2009 @ 09:23PM PT

Virginia Madsen Equality Turns out that when Shepard Fairey isn't being harangued by the Boston Police Department, or facing the wrath of the Associated Press, he's doing some very cool things for marriage equality. Fairey, the artist behind the iconic Obama image, has joined with a cadre of celebrities to create some artwork for gay marriage.

Maybe the best way to picture it is if a bunch of famous people went to art class. Fairey provided them with the image -- a powerful, fist in the air shot that became synonymous with gay marriage activism last year in the fallout from the passage of Proposition 8 -- and the celebs doctored them up. Some just gave signatures, others added some color and images and funk.

But all of them will be sold to benefit equality, with proceeds going to a southern California-based organization called FAIR. Virginia Madsen's image is there (and pictured here). Renee Zellweger's, too. And Ricki Lake, Robert DeNiro, Pete Wentz, Pamela Anderson, Chris Evans, and Natalie Portman, to name a few more.

Hands down it looks to be the largest collection of celebrities for marriage equality. Sadly, you won't find Jon Voight there. He's too busy hanging around with Rep. Michele Bachmann and accusing President Obama of moving the country toward socialism and causing "civil unrest."

But you will find dozens of other celebrities raising money for a good cause, and sending the message that same-sex marriage is one of the foremost civil rights issues of our time. And that's a sentiment that's easy to unite behind.

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Im glad that many famous people are comming out in support of whats right...Equality.

Posted by Reverend Boony on 11/16/2009 @ 03:29AM PT
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Good for those celebrities that are coming out for our rights.

Posted by Martin Martinez on 11/16/2009 @ 10:21AM PT
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Shepard Fairey has done the correct thing by creating a poster, along with other celebrities, for the LGBT rights movement. It's also good that the money generated by the effort will go to FAIR. The poster is a good one which is a busy one with many stickers around the powerful hand but is a poster which illustrates the importance of the LGBT rights movement. It's always time to defend equality, including Congress.

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