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Robert Redford considers it to be ‘un-American’ to discriminate against gay people

Screen icon Robert Redford is making clear that he supports gay marriage and wants it to become legal in Utah where he holds his annual Sundance Film Festival.

‘I’m here for the same reason you are – equal rights for all,’ Redford said this week at an event for Equality Utah, the state’s largest LGBT rights advocacy group.

‘Like you, I believe there’s no place in our world for discrimination. None. I think it is un-American,’ he said. ‘If we change discriminatory laws in Utah, it sets a benchmark for people in other states; it allows people to see what can be done.’

‘Utah is changing,’ Redford added. ‘There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them.People should be able to marry whomever they love.’

Redford is the Oscar winning director of Ordinary People and the star of such classic films as The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were, All the Presidents Men and Three Days of the Condor.

His more recent movies include The Horse Whisperer, The Clearing, Lions for Lambs and the upcoming All is Lost.

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  1. Greg: Thanks for running that classic photo from “The Way We Were” before I scrolled down I wondered if you were going to mention the film and low and behold you ran that great photo.
    The farewell scene in TWWW never fails to bring great emotion to the engaged viewer. Streisand and Redford were pure magic. That film will remain a classic love story for all time.

    Sydney Pollack did a remarkable job with the film but it is a bit flawed in it’s structure. Not sure if it was the script or what but don’t get me wrong it is wonderful that is was made.

    It’s really the rare chemistry between Redford and Streisand that makes the film work. And Barbra’s performance, she is really acting here, in fact I think that as wonderful as she was in “Funny Girl” here polished acting really shines brighter in TWWW. She was robbed of an Oscar but Hollywood would never give her two so close together.

    Bravo to Redford too, he is terrific and we thank him for is solid stance on Equality for Utah!

  2. September 21st, 2013 at 2:38 pm
    Gaspar Marino says:

    Good for You Mr. Robert Redford!

  3. I wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times Book Review, dated March 10, 1991, and headlined, “The Real Sebastian Flyte.” In this short letter, I expressed a common view of the friendship of Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder, the two heroes of “Brideshead Revisited,” Evelyn Waugh’s famous 1944 novel. I said that the boys’ friendship could be interpreted either as erotic or platonic. Some years later, when I brought up my own leter on my computer screen, I saw that next to it had been placed the Sundance Film Festival’s seal of approval! i’d be very glad to think this meant my letter came to the attenton of Mr. Redford, himself, at some point. Did it? I applaud Mr. Redford’s guts in dealing so forthrightly with the whole gay issue, when that might make a man like him, with his famous good looks, “suspect” in the eyes of some provincial people–and probably because they were just as jealous as they were provincial. Yours sincerely, David Bittner, Omaha, NE.

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