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History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!

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Stephen Colbert
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 13
Actor
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Television Producer
Washington
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Stephen Tyrone Colbert
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