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===Civil rights=== In 1995, Sarandon was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers interviewed for the documentary ''[[The Celluloid Closet (film)|The Celluloid Closet]],'' which explores how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rooney |first=David |date=September 11, 1995 |title=The Celluloid Closet |url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/the-celluloid-closet-1200442947/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=March 29, 2017}}</ref> Sarandon and Robbins appeared at the 2000 Shadow Convention in Los Angeles to speak about drug offenders being unduly punished.<ref>{{cite news|first=Victoria|last=Looseleaf|url=http://www.ladowntownnews.com/entertainment/out-of-the-shadows/article_dd2c2345-ed74-595f-9262-6a1df50934ed.html|title=Out of the Shadows|publisher=Los Angeles Downtown News|access-date=January 30, 2018|date=August 21, 2000}}</ref> In 2004, she served on the advisory committee for 2004 Racism Watch, an activist group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0331-04.htm|publisher=Common Dreams|title=2004 Racism Watch Calls On Bush-Cheney Campaign to Change or Pull Offensive Ad|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927035344/http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0331-04.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2012}}</ref> Sarandon has become an advocate to end the death penalty and [[mass incarceration]]. She has joined the team of people fighting to save the life of [[Richard Glossip]], a man on death row in Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/article/susan-sarandon-fights-save-death-row-inmate-life|title=Susan Sarandon Fights to Save Death Row Inmate's Life : People.com|work=People}}</ref> In May 2015, Sarandon launched a campaign with fundraising platform [[Represent.com]] to sell T-shirts to help finance the documentary ''Deep Run'', the story of a poor North Carolina teen undergoing a [[Gender transitioning|gender transition]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/susan-sarandon-hollywood-money-not-politics-article-1.2242172 |title=Susan Sarandon: Hollywood's about money, not politics |newspaper=NY Daily News |date=June 1, 2015|access-date=August 17, 2016}}</ref>
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