Hugh Hefner speaks out for LGBT equality

At the 2003 premiere of Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle in Hollywood, I remember seeing Hugh Hefner walk into the after-party across from Grauman’s Chinese Theater five 5-6 young blond women who all kind of looked the same and apparently were all his girlfriends.

I thought the whole situation was kind of strange and that I had no use for the man.

Fast-forward nine years and suddenly I’m a fan. In a column published by Politico today, Hefner writes that gay rights are ‘under assault’ in the US by conservatives.

Conservatives continue ‘to assault the right of gays, whether by denying them to right to marry or, as in Kansas, by attempting to empower landlords, business owners and employers to discriminate against gays on religious grounds,’ Hefner writes in the Politico piece.

Hefner, 86, also writes that the fight for marriage equality in the US is, in reality, ‘a fight for all of our rights.’

‘Without it, we will turn back the sexual revolution and return to an earlier, puritanical time,’ he predicts. ‘Today, in every instance of sexual rights falling under attack, you’ll find legislation forced into place by people who practice discrimination disguised as religious freedom. Their goal is to dehumanize everyone’s sexuality and reduce us to using sex for the sole purpose of perpetuating our species. To that end, they will criminalize your entire sex life.’