Common folk usually look up to celebs and influential faces to bring about a change in the society and break its clichéd norms. Nevertheless, celebrities are ambassadors of change and they have brought about a very optimistic revolutionary transformation in the attitude of the general public towards gays. They are often perceived as different and not normal. Time and again the issue of equal rights for gays has been raised at several platforms, levels and at different enormity however, even today societal acceptance of gay men and women is not very easy to come by. Homosexuality was a taboo until well-known faces such as these came out of the closet and talked about gay rights and their own sexual orientation.
