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Brett Ratner Settles Riff With GLAAD

By | Published on February 15, 2012
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Brett Ratner is taking steps in a direction to make things right with GLAAD.

The “Rush Hour” director has committed to direct a video campaign for the organization.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation pressured the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to fire Ratner as a producer of the 84th Academy Awards after he used an offensive gay-slur during a press conference for movie “Tower Heist.”

Over the weekend, Ratner and GLAAD members met to discuss how they could produce the video together.

“Working together with GLAAD has been a very positive and enlightening experience for me, and I could not be more pleased to be developing this crucial campaign to help educate people that we all share the same humanity,” Ratner said. “I am excited to get to work on this program and hope that minds and hearts are opened by what we create.”

The video campaign will feature a different Hollywood celebrities, athletes, musicians and politicians “coming out of the closet” as supporters of equality. They will talk about how they support the lesbian, gay, transgendered and bisexual community and will encourage Americans to do the same.

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