A True Blood Celebrity for Marriage Equality

by Michael Jones · 2009-09-15 04:12:00 UTC
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Mechad Brooks

Mechad Brooks, also known as Benedict "Eggs" Talley from the HBO show True Blood, is taking a page out of the Brad Pitt book when it comes to the issue of marriage. For Brooks, he'd rather wait until every person -- gay or straight -- has access to marriage before getting hitched himself.

Huh, does that make him a good candidate for the National Marriage Boycott?

Sure sounds like it. Brooks told Honeymag.com that he was offended by Proposition 8 last year in California, and the destruction that the initiative caused in the lives of so many gays and lesbians. As a sign of solidarity, he'd rather not take any vows until laws like Prop 8 are overturned and buried (to use another HBO reference) six feet under.

"I haven’t even gotten that far (thinking about settling down). But yeah, I want a wife, I want kids. The whole thing. But I’m also not even concerned with marrying somebody until it’s legal for everybody to get married. And what I mean by that is the whole Prop 8 thing. I find it really offensive," said Brooks. "I just find it really problematic when you start throwing people’s rights away. Until we get our gay brothers and sisters back into a realm of consciousness that everyone else is in, it’s just not right. A woman who’s getting married — it’s probably going to be a gay man who made her dress, and a gay man who’s doing her hair and makeup, but he can’t get married. How messed up is that?"

Pretty damn messed up. Just ask the folks in Maine who are living through their own version of Prop 8 right now, in the form of Question 1. Bigoted ballot measures know no state borders.

(Photo courtesy of Daylife.)

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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