“We have to move past singling out transgender, LGBTQ, Black, white, Jewish, Muslim, Latino. We have to get way past that and start accepting the idea that we’re all human beings. We’re all human beings, we all share the same planet, and we should have the same rights, period.”

Rob Reiner (1947-2025)

The legendary actor, filmmaker and activist spoke these words at the 2019 Human Rights Campaign Dinner. The Los Angeles

native was a longtime advocate for marriage equality and was instrumental in the fight to overturn California’s Proposition 8.

*source: hrc.org.