George Clooney and Brad Pitt have been caught up in a gay battle and thrusted to the front of a campaign to save California's oldest gay bar. Activists trying to save the Laguna Beach Boom Boom Room appealed to the Oceans Thirteen actors with a full-page ad in Monday's edition of the Hollywood trade paper Variety. The ad urges Pitt and Clooney to buy the landmark so it can be preserved as a gay club. The stars were rumoured to have bought the bar in 2005 but although the story proved wrong, the activists hope Pitt and Clooney will step in to preserve the gay haunt. "George and Brad, please help save the Boom!" the ad says "Both of you are true leaders in human and civil rights. Please contact us and we will explain how this could work." Will they buy it? Watch this space!