Ashlee Simpson & Pete Wentz Join The Fight For Marriage Equality
Happily married couple Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are the latest celebs to join the NO H8 campaign to fight for marriage equality for same-sex couples in this country. Ashl33n were on hand to participate in a photoshoot here in LA yesterday to add their starpower to the cause … here is a pic of the pair on the set of their photoshoot:
Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz are keeping their mouths shut for gay marriage. The couple are the latest celebs to take part in NOH8, a campaign supporting efforts to overturn Proposition 8. They were shot by photographer Adam Bouska on Monday with the campaign’s signature look: “NOH8″ painted on their cheeks and duct tape over their mouths as a symbol of the pro-gay voices not being heard. Ashlee also holds a wedding veil in the pic. Which other rocker was in the studio with them? Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus also posed for NOH8. Like the Wentzes, Hoppus took part in the big Hollywood rally and protest shortly after the California Supreme Court upheld the ban on same-sex unions. “My son asked me one time, ‘Some guys have girlfriends and some girls have boyfriends, but do boys sometimes have boyfriends?’ ” Hoppus told us at the rally. “I said, ‘Yeah, all kinds of people love different kinds of people. And that’s the world we live in.’ ” Bouska launched NOH8 with his partner Jeff Parshley in November after the passage of Prop 8. Shanna Moakler and a gaggle of other former beauty queen titleholders posed for the campaign shortly after the Miss California Carrie Prejean controversy erupted in April.
Click HERE to see the impressive collection of photos that have been already taken for the No H8 campaign. I think it says a lot that so many straight allies are standing up for the rights of same-sex couples to marry in this country. While there has been much progress in the fight for marriage equality thus far (particularly in the New England States and Iowa), there is still so much work to be done. Much love and respect goes out to Ashlee, Pete, Mark and the rest of the folks who have stepped up to fight the H8.
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Tags: Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Pete Wentz, Proposition 8, Same-Sex Marriage
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June 11th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
awesome!
June 11th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
the best one so far! http://www.bouska.net/noh8/gallery/0331.jpg
June 11th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I think the campaign needs more straight allies to get the message across that its a civil rights issue not a gay/straight issue.
My husband and I talked about not getting married until everyone had the right to marry, but regardless we will ALWAYS be advocates for our GLBT friends’ right to marry.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
What a couple of tools! Although I agree they should remain taped until hell freezes over. Never hearing them sing again, would make the world a better place for everyone! Yay.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Actually, the people who should really be posing for photo opps with tape over their mouths are people who oppose gay marriage, who basically aren’t allowed to hold an opinion anymore.
Same-sex couples in CA already have the rights of being spouses; they just want to use the word “marriage,” which I don’t agree with. Marriage is a heterosexual word and institution.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Im glad that so many people are apart of the fight for marriage equality and while I love you trent, I can’t stand Pete and Ashlee, after that bitch fit ashlee had over michelle trachtenberg a few weeks ago I think she’s a nut bag and the day her marriage falls apart she’ll just end up being the next courtney love. All crazy and incoherent. And to think I actually liked Ashlee during the days of her first album and even after the nose job and lipsync on snl thing, not any more though. She should never touch an alcoholic bev again, but I’m sure she will and does( is a coke head too if you didn’t already know it)
June 12th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Are you posing together for Prop 8 cause he’s bi?
June 12th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Who cares what actors and singers think about anything other than acting and singing? Can’t people find something more important to whine about than gays not being able to do something most of them don’t want to do? Perhaps being rich they haven’t noticed there’s a recession going on.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:37 am
“Are you posing together for Prop 8 cause he’s bi?”
Yes, and because everyone else on Earth is.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:07 am
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