Hollywood Raises Money for Maine

Flashbacks to 2008: Almost to the day of a Hollywood fund-raiser to raise money to beat back Proposition 8, some of the same organizers are staging another event to raise money for a similar effort to defeat an anti-same sex marriage ballot initiative in Maine.

Bruce Cohen and Chad Griffin are hosting a $250-per-person fund-raiser at Cohen and Gabriel Catone's Los Angeles home on Tuesday, with co-host levels at $1,000 per person and co-chairs at $5,000 per person. Also on the host committee are Katie and J.J. Abrams, David Bohnett, Wilson Cruz, Dana Delany, Michael Lombardo, Helen Hunt, Michele and Rob Reiner and Max Mutchnik and Erik Hyman, among others.

Griffin and Cohen organized a fund-raiser at the home of Ron Burkle last year that raised millions for the campaign to defeat Proposition 8. But it's been a challenge to raise money for Maine, both because of the proximity and the fact that it's an off-year election.

The campaign there has gained the support of Belinda Carlisle, who appears in this YouTube video where she urges contributions in honor of her son.