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I went to a meeting last night for the Los Angeles rally that will be this Saturday the 15th. I am on the outreach/branding team. It seems like the closed fist in a rainbow isn't being favored. I then went onto the site, Join the Impact, which has all the information for all the States, and now, International countries, joining the protest, someone wrote on there that they are not too happy with "H8".

Ok, people, I have one question to ask: What is the opposite of love? Is taking away a right a demonstration of love? Is saying: your family isn't worthy of this love, a demonstration of love? Marriage, to us gays, signifies LOVE. It means that we are making our LOVE concrete. Since this LOVE was not allowed, for whatever reason, what is the opposite?

Let's continue this fight. Let's keep marching and spreading the word.

On Saturday the 15th we are working on a protest on a national level. Join the impact and find your state.

I will be here:

City Hall Saturday, November 15th @ 10:30AM 200 N. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/Los+Angeles

Find your State, if you don't find one for your State then start one.

Anti-gay rapper Trick Trick uses vile and homophobic language and tells queers not to buy his album.

"The birth of a new Marriage Equality Movement -- the civil rights movement of the 21st Century -- is unfolding before our eyes.

While there's anger and recriminations in California's gay-rights movement after voters there banned same-sex marriage, gay couples in Connecticut are at the opposite extreme: They're getting ready to pick up marriage license forms.

Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert has scheduled a hearing Wednesday morning to enter the final judgment in the case that allows same-sex marriages in Connecticut. Once entered, couples can pick up marriage license forms at town and city clerk's offices. READ MORE

It's called Pink Money. It's the money that flows into and out of the LGBTI community, and it has power. Pink Money is a weapon that all of us can wield to support those who support us, or to tear down those who oppose us.

It is called a boycott.

Yesterday on Lez Get Real we reported that New York and New Jersey were on the Christian Agenda. Today we are letting you know that West Virginia is on the "hit" list. The West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists, which consist of 200 churches, has joined a socially conservative political action group in calling for an amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage

Last week in Florida Amendment 2 passed and since then there has been silence.

Is everyone in Florida asleep? I did everything I could to help spread the "Vote No on 2" message. I blogged, emailed, talked to strangers, attended special candidate forums, twittered, instant messaged, and joined groups to support a"No" vote. Still we were defeated. But does that mean give up?

This past weekend I wrote an article titled the Answer I Got.

In that article I said that because of the passage of Prop 8 in California, people in less enlightened places like where I live in North Carolina, were going to take that vote as a mandate to do more to gays then just vote against their rights to marry and that I was now loading my gun...

Yesterday A fire that destroyed a home in Newton, North Carolina may have been started by someone targeting its owner because he is gay, county and state investigators say.

Firefighters found homophobic and racist slurs spray painted on the back of the building.

A CALL TO ARMS

This piece is written by Robin Tyler. She was the original plaintiff, along with Diane Olson, in Tyler vs. the County of Los Angeles, which gave lesbians and gays the right to marry in California when the state Supreme Court ruled in their favor. On June 16, 2008, they became the first and only gay couple to wed in Los Angeles County.

The recent victory in California of Proposition 8, which overturned the state Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage, has revived one of the most contentious cultural and religious issues in American politics. Legal scholars on both sides of the gay marriage issue foresee and irreconcilable clash between the civil rights claims of homosexuals, and the religious liberty claims of traditionalist churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious institutions.

Some days you just wake up full of gratitude.

A special thank you to our veterans today for bravely shouldering the burdens of inhuman brutality to ensure our safety and rights. We owe it to you to pressure our elected officials to preserve your legacy of noble heroism by treating our current warriors with dignity and forthright intention.

Another special thank you to our straight allies on Prop 8. Out of all this filth, I've been able to draw solace from a couple of things:

Number one, the 4-point margin by which it passed pales in comparison to the 22-point lead by which its equivalent Prop 22 passed eight years ago. Polls indicate that people tend to support our side the younger they are, so perhaps eight years of old prejudice died in between now and then, or maybe even hard hearts softened....Read the full story

The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease.

The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.

Our supporters are speaking up... and they are joining us in the streets

See who "Came Out" for us... Read More

Keith Olbermann of the MSNBC show Countdown has given six and a half minutes of air time to express his true remorse for proposition 8 passing.

More than one-third of California's lawmakers added their voices Monday to the chorus calling on the state's highest court to overturn the prohibition on same-sex marriage approved by voters last week.

Because we're doing it again.

Today is the 70th anniversary of the end of the two-day race riot known as Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," when Nazi brownshirts and the Aryan equivalent of the KKK destroyed 276 synagogues across Germany, along with hundreds of Jewish businesses, with 91 Jews being killed in the process. This was in 1938, eight years into Hitler's consolidation of power and mounting propaganda effort to blame all of Germany's ills on the Jews (with lesser roles for Gypsies, Communists, leftists, homosexuals, labor union leaders and "race traitors".

Two years earlier, Hitler's regime instituted the Nuremburg Laws, stripping German Jews of their citizenship, banning them from political participation of any kind, and prohibiting Jews from marrying German citizens.

While nothing on this scale has happened in the U.S. since the decimation of Native Americans in the 19th century, Californians took a step toward their own Nuremburg laws last Tuesday, stripping a select portion of residents of one of the rights most important to human beings: the right to bind oneself, with the legal recognition of the state, to the individual of one's choosing.

This is the first time in U.S. history that any government has stripped existing rights away from citizens who have done nothing to forfeit those rights.

Seeing silver in the cloud of controversy surrounding the recent passage of California Proposition 8, a group of Utah lawmakers unveiled five pieces of proposed legislation aimed at securing rights for gay couples...

How, one asks, wiping a drip of spittle from lips slackened in disbelief, do American voters simultaneously elect a black dude president and ban gay marriage in a single swipe of the always-reliable electronic voting machine? Well, I am the world's foremost authority, so I've got a couple of theories.

Yes we can. These three words sent surges of fervor and optimism through the spines of millions of Americans last Tuesday night. Despite the excitement and celebration, anxiety lingered in the minds of many, especially the gay population in California.

It was made official early last Wednesday morning that Proposition 8 - an amendment to the constitution that defines marriage as legal only between one man and one woman - had passed. Within hours, petitions were being signed and lawyers were preparing arguments for lawsuits in defense of their gay, married clients. The next day, protests drew thousands into the streets of both San Francisco and Los Angeles in response to the constitutional injustice of the proposition's passage.