I didn't go out on Friday night; I spent most of it fretting over my sign for Saturday's Join the Impact march.
(Washington) While many American households cut spending and shift consumer priorities to cope with tough, new economic realities, an online national survey has found marked differences in responses based on gender and sexual orientation.
Rise up.
Fight the power.
But where?
The GLBT community lost big on election day in California, Arkansas, Florida and Arizona.
Many of our readers attended the national Proposition 8 protests today. Here is a round-up of your posts from across 365gay:
Northampton, MA
Rose Said: A friend and I stumbled across a pro marriage equality protest (anti prop 8) in Northampton, MA.
There was torrential rain when I woke up this morning. Rain so hard that I could barely see my front stoop.
Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colors marched, chanted and danced in cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the California vote that banned gay marriage there and urge supporters not to quit the fight for the right to wed.
Protests spread from coast to coast against California's Proposition 8. Drew Levinson reports from the newest demonstration just last night at the Mormon temple in New York City.
Proposition 8 passed, revoking marriage rights for gays and lesbians in California and setting back the gay-rights movement throughout the country.
This Saturday, Nov. 15th at 1:30 p.m. EST/11:30 a.m. PST) there will be a national rally in protest of the passing of Proposition 8.
On Election Day, 70-percent of African Americans voted to take away a gay person’s right to marry primarily based on a book – the Bible - that calls on slaves to obey their masters.
"You know that book, The Tipping Point?" asks the young Internet maven, referring to Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 work exploring cultural shifts and the small things that incite them.
Protests are building around the country to Proposition 8 in California, but we visited the center of a well of anger and hurt feelings, in the mayor's office in San Francisco.
(Charleston, West Virginia) The West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists has joined a socially conservative political action group in calling for an amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
I live in San Francisco just west of Twin Peaks, the hills that hold back the ocean fog and guarantee a remarkably un-San Franciscan number of sunny days in the gay part of town to the east.
Do you ever pull back form a situation and look at it from the outside and think, “What am I doing there? What am I doing in that restaurant/that shark costume/France?!”
That’s how I felt Tuesday night as I stood in Grant Park with 500,000 people, listening to Barack Obama give .
Don't get me wrong: We can be very, very sad about Prop 8.
None of the gay and lesbian couples who have been married in California managed to even reach a 6-month anniversary before this election.
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Updated November 5, 2008 - 2:30 pm ET
(San Francisco, California) At least three lawsuits are are in the works to challenge Proposition 8, a proposed amendment to the California constitution that would ban same-sex marriage.
Hostile nation
by Lisa Neff
Sometimes I say “I hate…”
I say, “I hate peas.” In fact, I’m frightened of them.
Barack Obama tells MTV News that he's against Proposition 8 - but also against gay marriage. Read the full 365gay story.
I could say that I jumped onto a No on Prop 8 phone bank minute I heard about the plan to amend California’s constitution to eliminate same-sex marriage.