Charlize Theron opens up about gay marriage. Charlize and Stuart Townsend have been together for years and years, but won’t marry until everyone in the United States has the legal right. Well, actually, Theron says this isn’t the entire reason she and Stuart haven’t made it legal, but the U.S.’s reactionary views on marriage, she says, remind her of South Africa’s apartheid.

more photos of Charlize after the hop…

Charlize says (via MSNBC):

I don’t like living in an elitist world, it bothers me. I don’t want to be part of an elitist sexual preference. It bothers me, maybe it’s because I come from a country where I lived under apartheid but this is a form of apartheid and I don’t want to be a part of that. ‘It’s not the reason I’m not getting married but it’s maybe a part of it. My ability to get married is a piece of me that I wish I could give to somebody who it would mean so much to. We should all have the chance. It’s just so caveman, I can’t believe we’re still talking about it.’