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Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Tim Gunn: "Just vote no!"

In a new ad, the "Project Runway" fashion guru denounces California's Proposition 8.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008 03:06 PM

Correction

Tim misstates the website, although the onscreen text is correct -- it's www.noonprop8.com, not "No on eight dot com"

Thursday, October 23, 2008 03:35 PM

oh my god

max headroom is gay?!!?

Thursday, October 23, 2008 03:50 PM

Who doesn't love Tim Gunn?

He's so completely the voice of reason. It always drives me crazy when a Project Runway contestant blows him off, like Kenley did this season, for example. Has she never watched the show? The guy knows what he's talking about and is trying to help her stay on the show. On Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, he's so great with all the women; so positive and supportive. All his criticisms are constructive. He's not like the harridans on What Not to Wear (British version) or the snarky people on almost all other reality shows.

And good for him for his anti-Prop 8 ad.

Thursday, October 23, 2008 03:53 PM

Weird to suggest

that he wouldn't necessarily support marriage rights because he is not looking for marriage personally.

Equality under the law and socially requires that we all look beyond our narrow self interest.

I'd think a feminist would get that.

When one person has their rights inhibited or taken away we are all diminished.

Thursday, October 23, 2008 04:23 PM

I love Tim Gunn

He is urbane, literate, gentle, and has the greatest accent. Of course he would oppose injustice. He is Tim Gunn.

Thursday, October 23, 2008 04:37 PM

Tim Gunn as Sec of the Interior!

(your decorating joke here).

Thursday, October 23, 2008 04:57 PM

My ironclad "No on 8" argument.

I've been married for almost 50 years. I've raised two bright, successful and attractive children. My two young Mormon neighbors in their mid-20s love us, and think my wife and I represent the ideal in conservative family-hood. The catch? My wife is Asian. That used to be against the law in California. Turns out that not too long ago people were certain that co-mingling with yellow blood would pollute the white race, corrupt Western society and violate natural law. In fact, the bible makes a better case against racial mixing than it does with gay marriage. Obviously the majority of Californians in 1910 approved of the marriage ban so it became law. So I tell this to my Mormon neighbors, after they've gently suggested that I should vote for Prop 8, and ask them "Surely you would have never supported something forbidding my marriage back then, would you"? I put my arm around my wife and say with beseeching, wide-eyed innocence, "You know, on moral grounds". They're left speechless.

Friday, October 24, 2008 08:30 AM

I'm pretty jaded

Or maybe worried that I'll be left feeling cheated after this election, like I have in the past 3 presidential elections.

But, I can't wait to vote no on 8. I'm so glad I'm living in California while this is going on. I cannot wait to use my vote to say yes to civil rights.

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