Voice for Equality: Tyne Daly

Actress Tyne Daly is best known for her portrayal as detective Mary Beth Lacey in the television show Cagney and Lacey, Tyne Daly is a strong feminist who uses the same force in her acting roles as she does when taking on opponents to marriage equality.

Last fall Daly appeared with several other notable straight allies (such as Amy Brenneman and Dolores Huerta) in a series of public service announcements entitled "Stop the Hate, Vote No on Prop 8", concerning the notorious Proposition 8 on California's ballot that would rescind marrying rights for gays and lesbians. Besides serving as a strong, can-do role model for women and feminists alike, Daly proves that you do not have to be gay to support marriage equality.

On one of her stops during the "Stop the Hate, Vote No on Prop 8" campaign, Daly recalled her former marriage to her a husband (an African American) and told of her own experiences with marital discrimination, thus bolstering her support for marriage equality: "When I got married," Tyne Daly recalls of her marriage to African-American actor Georg Stanford Brown, "my marriage was illegal in seven states in this country...Government can't dictate hearts and minds. But it can decide law, and when laws [change], other things change."

Freedom to Marry thanks Chaya Himelfarb for nominating Tyne Daly as a Voice for Equality!

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