Brad Pitt donates money to support gay marriage

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-18 17:29

Actor Brad Pitt arrives at the "Burn After Reading" gala during the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, September 5, 2008. [Agencies]

Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, according to AP report.

It's the first time voters will be asked to decide the issue in either California or Massachusetts — the states where gays have won the right to wed.

"Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," Pitt was quoted as saying Wednesday.

Trevor Neilson, Pitt's political and philanthropic adviser, said that Pitt was surprised that his colleagues in the entertainment industry had not donated more money to support the battle against Proposition 8.

Earlier in the week, Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced they donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia.