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Anna Wintour, Editor-In-Chief of Vogue magazine, is the latest personality to take a stance for marriage equality, recording a video for the Human Rights Campaign’s “New Yorkers for Marriage Equality” initiative.

Desperate Housewives star and Grammy-winner Vanessa Williams is the newest star to join HRC's New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Campaign. She joins a list of celebrities that includes Barbara Bush, daughter of former president George W. Bush, U.S. senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Joan Rivers, Whoopi Goldberg, Anna Wintour, Lucy Liu, Larry King, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, Russell Simmons, Julianne Moore, Christopher Meloni, Moby, Fran Drescher, former Miss New York Claire Buffie, Julianna Margulies, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and Daphne Rubin-Vega just to name a few.

s the New York state senate deliberates whether to vote on the marriage equality bill, Uma Thurman turns up the star power with the latest video in the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality series from the Human Rights Campaign. “What we’re fighting for is a conservative value, the right to make a life-long commitment to someone you love,” says the star of Kill Bill and many other films. So far, HRC has released videos from Harold Ford, Jr., Michael Strahan, Ben & Jerry, Broadway Actors, Vanessa Williams, Anna Wintour, Larry King, Sean Avery, Julianna Margulies, Bill T. Jones, Sam Waterston, World War II veteran Edward Hinz, Christopher Meloni, Mario Batali, David Chang, Tom Colicchio, Lucy Liu, Bill Bratton & Rikki Klieman, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Former New York City Mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins, Russell Simmons, Mark & Sunrise Ruffalo, John Slattery, Joan Rivers, Barbara Bush, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon, Fran Drescher, Moby, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Julianne Moore, and Kenneth Cole.

It girl Carey Mulligan has landed the coveted role of Daisy Buchanan in director Baz Luhrmann’s re-imagining of The Great Gatsby. It was only recently that the An Education Oscar nominee Mulligan threw her hat in the ring for the role among others including Michelle Williams, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson.Luhrmann, of Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge fame, is taking it on with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, which Robert Redford played in the original, and Tobey Maguire as Gatsby’s friend Nick Carraway.

Celebrity spinner Samantha Ronson came to her girlfriend Lindsay Lohan’s defense, ranting against PETA on her blog after a PETA member doused Lohan for with flour for sporting a fur stole to a Paris nightclub Friday night.

The latest video in the Human Rights Campaign series takes the spotlight off high-profile New Yorkers and puts the focus on everyday people as a new Quinnipiac University poll finds support for marriage equality in the state at a record high of 58%.

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