SLASH Talks Gay Marriage
March 24, 2010Toby Cook of The Quietus recently conducted an interview with legendary guitarsit Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES). A couple of excertps from the chat follow below.
On the laws on homosexual marriage in California:
"The thing was that they wanted to pass a law so that one way or the other it was either going to be legal to have gay marriage in California, or illegal. You had to vote on it, and that was Proposition 8 — if you voted for it, it meant that it would become illegal, and if you voted against it meant that gays could get married. Now, I've been in Los Angeles for a lot of years and with West Hollywood being very close — and having lived in West Hollywood — I have a lot of gay friends; my wife especially has a lot of gay friends and when that was all going on we just felt that we should be supportive. At this point it's ridiculous that two people, regardless of their sex, can't get married. It just seems stupid.
"You won't find me at the front of a parade rally, y'know, but there've been things that I've felt strongly about. I remember back in the day when the whole Iraq war was started, I was definitely against that and was part of a political rally against it. I'm not a politician though, and I don't like to go out in a limb and become a ‘big advocate' kind of a guy, it's just not really my style.
On the YouTube video (see below) he made against Proposition 8:
"A friend of ours actually taped that, and in fact it was his idea too! I think at the time my wife was like, 'Do you want to do this?' I said yeah, so we just did it then and there in the rehearsal studio. It's so funny how things can be taken too seriously, especially nowadays; you put stuff out on video and it's there forever and people take them so seriously."
Read the entire interview from The Quietus.
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