Kmart exec leaves corporate world to fight California marriage battle

Bill Stewart, the out chief marketing officer for Kmart, is giving up his executive position for an unpaid job with the Equality for All campaign to defeat a California ballot measure to impose a constitutional marriage ban. The native Californian, now based in Chicago, was inspired to move back to his home state after attending a recent national board meeting of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in Los Angeles and concluding he needed to do "everything possible" to make sure equal marriage rights remain the law there. Washington Blade