London, Dec 15 (ANI): George Clooney has been signed up for an appearance in a play by director Dustin Lance Black which will look at California's brush with the controversial same-sex marriage bill.
Gay unions were made legal for the first time in California in 2008, but state legislation Proposition 8 made same-sex marriages illegal just six months after they were declared valid.
Several celebrities, including Sir Ian McKellen, Lance Bass and Sir Elton John, were outraged at the reversal, and Milk screenwriter Black penned a stage play, entitled 8, about the controversy surrounding the bill.
Clooney has agreed to star in the Los Angeles production on 3 March 2012 to benefit the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
The actor has also called on lawmakers to overturn the ban on same-sex marriages.
"It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.
"I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights," he said. (ANI)
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