Charlize Theron compares current US marriage laws to apartheid in her native South Africa

Charlize Theron has been a n LGBT ally since well before she won an Oscar for playing a lesbian serial killer in Monster. A few years ago, she got a rapturous ovation at the GLAAD Medua Awards in Los Angeles when she stepped on stage to accept the Vangaard Award.

The South African-born actress spoke of her support for LGBT equal rights then and did so again the other day when in an interview she branded the current US laws on same-sex marriage “a form of apartheid” and has vowed she will not marry longtime partner, actor Stuart Townsend, until the laws are changed.

“I don’t like living in an elitist world, it bothers me,” she said. “I don’t want to be part of an elitist sexual preference. It bothers me, maybe it’s because I come from a country where I lived under apartheid but this is a form of apartheid and I don’t want to be a part of that.”

“My ability to get married is a piece of me that I wish I could give to somebody who it would mean so much to. We should all have the chance. It’s just so caveman, I can’t believe we’re still talking about it.”