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Brad Pitt is once again proving that he’s more than just a star!

Last Wednesday, an announcement came out that the actor is willing to donate a whopping $100,000 for the benefit of the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s biggest gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual civil rights organization. Specifically, he’s donating the money for the group’s marriage equality cause. In an email that he sent to the HRC members, Pitt wrote,

“It’s unbelievable to me that people’s lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days. In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples—our friends and neighbors—are worthy of the same protections as everyone else. But that’s the system we have and I’m not going to back down from the fight of loving and committed couples to have the ability to marry.”

However, this isn’t the first time that the actor has helped efforts to encourage marriage equality. In 2008, he also donated a similar amount of money to the effort of defeating California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. However, the cause was unsuccessful.