Portland: Largest US city with openly gay mayor
January 3, 2009 by Gay News
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Speaking into a bullhorn, he urged the protesters to continue pushing for legal same-sex marriage in all 50 states, but he urged them not to embark that day on an unauthorized march.
"This community is watching us, the nation is watching us," he said. "They are going to judge us for what we do today, and today we do not have a permit to march — not because the city won't let us but because this happened so quickly we couldn't get the paperwork in."
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Edith Macefield’s old home to go up for sale
December 27, 2008 by Gay News
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Today the New York Times posted a story about Edith Macefield and her standoff with developers. A little after the fact, but it includes two new tidbits of information. Barry Martin, the construction chief who took care of Edith in her final days and was willed her house, says he plans to sell [...]
LA Times Profiles Pro-8 and Anti-8 Activists
December 21, 2008 by Gay News
Filed under Gay Marriage
The LA Times has profiled two couples involved in the fight over Proposition 8.
Christopher Lewis and Cody Horton are a young gay couple who moved to rural California from Ohio so that they could be married. They are in their early 20’s, not affluent, and passionate about what is happening to them. They [...]
Prop 8 Protests Continue
December 21, 2008 by Gay News
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On Saturday, groups throughout the State of California and across the Country met again to continue the protest over Proposition 8.
Hundreds of people from San Luis Obispo and Palm Springs, to Santa Cruz and Eureka and 39 places throughout the State, carried candles in the cold to remind their neighbors that real people were hurt [...]
Gay marriage debate at Big Bear school over anti-Prop. 8 shirt
Attorneys for the ACLU have sent a letter to Big Bear High School saying that school officials cannot prohibit students from wearing anti-Proposition 8 T-shirts.
Proposition 8, which amended the state Constitution to ban gay marriage, was among the most divisive issues on the November ballot and continues to inspire protests and boycotts.
The day before the election, sophomore class president Mariah Jimenez wore a home-made T-shirt that said “Prop 8 Equals HATE.” Her sixth-period teacher sent her to the office, where the principal told her that she would have to take off the shirt before returning to class because the shirt’s message was divisive.
But attorneys for the ACLU have argued that schools cannot prohibit speech simply because it is controversial; only speech that incites a disturbance can be prohibited, ACLU attorneys said.
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From Gandhi to No on Proposition 8
December 13, 2008 by Change.org
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What do you get if you take the life of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., couple them with the words of Harvey Milk, and top it all of with images from the nationwide protests against California’s Proposition 8? You get one of the latest videos from Causecast that reminds us - by paraphrasing Harvey Milk - that life is not worth living without hope.
The video, “The Life of Harvey Milk: In the Footsteps of Gandhi and King,” is an animated documentary that charts a timeline of the life of the first openly gay man elected to public office in between events in other civil rights struggles.
Check it out below, and perhaps take some nourishment from it that though the struggle continues for equal rights, the foundation has been set by these ground-breaking historical human rights leaders.
