SF News Prop 8: State Equally Divided on Inequality According to a Field Poll of 761 registered voters, "48 percent of those surveyed would support a new ballot initiative repealing Proposition 8, while 47 percent would favor keeping the ban in place,
SF News Equality California Debuts New Vidzzzzzzzzzzzzz Check out the above-embedded video -- it's fantastic stuff, produced a few months ago by Causecast. It elicits goosebumps. It's inspiring. It's upbeat without being sugary; and it's intense without being angry. It
SF News Courage Campaign Working on Something Big to Fix This Prop 8 Situation One of the big criticisms (and there are many) of the No On Prop 8 campaign was that there wasn't enough person-to-person canvassing. According to the folks managing the campaign, they had to
SF News Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW "Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW," said Kate Kendall (Exective Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and one of the architects of the No On Prop 8
SF News The Eve of Justice: Prop 8 Vigils Planned for Prop. 8 Supreme Court Ruling Next Wednesday, March 4, vigils all over the country will take place the day before the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the validity of Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban that
SF News Judiciary Committee Passes Resolution Opposing Prop 8 California is one step closer to getting Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban that passed in November, overturned. Hopefully. A judiciary committee passed House Resolution 5 today (care of one Tom Ammiano, D-San
SF News Prop 8's Forced-Divorces Will Break Our Hearts "Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo. We dare you to watch the Courage Campaign's Fidelity video and not get all weepy. We were able to keep it together until it got
SF News Branching out on Behalf of Gay Marriage: A Good Thing, Bad Thing, or Somewhere in Between? Just about everyone agrees: gays can win more support for civil equality by partering with ally-communities. This is a nice-sounding idea, particularly in the San Francisco bubble. But what does it mean --
SF News Prop 8 Backers Admit That They Don't Really Believe Their Own Arguments Oh this Prop 8 stuff just gets hairier and hairier. We were thumbing through some articles about the people who backed Prop 8; that includes groups like the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty,
Arts & Entertainment Stopping Prop 8 Starts With You (and Continues on February 17) So, you've got nothing to do on a Tuesday? Well, Equality California has just the thing. Head on over to Sacramento to participate in 2009 Marriage Lobby Day, an opportunity for concerned citizens
misc Brave ABC Affiliate Protects Los Angeles from Televised Homosexual Menace Remember the other day, we told you about a bunch of new TV ads about how gay families can actually be pleasant and likable? Well, you'll be glad to hear that the spots
misc Get This On Television Now With this week's slew of court filings, the post-Prop-8 fight for civil equality is still hot hot hot. And even though some of the 15-minutes-of-fame organizers may be losing focus, the pros aren't
SF News Map of Prop 8 Donors Oh dear. Get ready to freak out. Somebody has gone and created a mash-up of Google Maps and Prop 8 Donors. Which you can see right here. Proposition 8, if you recall, changed
Arts & Entertainment Finally, Some Prop 8 Leaders Who Aren't Afraid of a Little Fight Back in October, the Yes on 8 "people" challenged California's Superintendent of Schools, Jack O'Connell, to a debate about gay marriage. According to Yes, even the remotest possibility of learning anything about gay
Arts & Entertainment Notes on Equality Camp Equality Camp happens January third at Citizen Space. It's an opportunity for everyone who cares about civil marriage equality to get together, toss around ideas, and fuel the grassroots organizing for the next
SF News No More Postcards to Repeal DOMA Remember that "write a postcard to Obama, asking him to repeal Defense of Marriage Act" campaign? Well, oddly enough, Obama's office has decided that they will no longer accept postcards. Moving forward, only
SF News <i>Milk</i> + Love on 12/20 What a smashing idea. Courage Campaign, an organizing network that connects 300,000+ grassroots and "netroots" activists to push for progressive change in California to get Prop 8 overturned, is getting people to
SF News Day Without a Gay Protest Photos, San Francisco, 12/10 Tonight's Day Without a Gay protest seemed peaceful compared to those just over a month ago when Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban, passed. Although cops in riot gear gathered on Market and
SF News Heterosexual Alert Photo by Matt Baume/SFist The image above has a smattering of aimless queers all hot and bothered, and not in a good way. It seems at last week's Marriage Equality Community Forum,
SF News Post-Mortem on Last Night's Prop 8 Post-Mortem Last night's Marriage Equality Community Forum was neat! It started with a brief hello from former New Paltz mayor Jason West. We tried to get a picture, but as you can see, he
SF News Marriage Equality Community Forum Tomorrow, 12/4 Apologies for coming at you at the last minute with this, but there's an important town hall meeting on the California gay marriage ban. Happening tomorrow. And we were only given two days'
SF News Legislators Plan to Introduce Prop 8 Repeal Measures Senator Mark Leno and (new!) Assemblymember Tom Ammiano will introduce measures that prove Proposition 8 is "an improper revision of the California State Constitution," according to reports. The measure, which should be announced
SF News Could <i>Milk</i> Have Helped Defeat Prop 8? A new theory is percolating about Gus Van Sant's , the biopic about slain SF City Supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, and Prop. 8, the same-sex marriage ban. It's this: Could an
SF News Mormon Church Investigated for Role in Prop 8 A complaint filed by civil rights organization Californians Against Hate prompted the the California Fair Political Practices Commission to investigate the LDS Church and their work in supporting Proposition 8. It seems the
SF News Take It To Sacramento: Prop 8 Protest Today Today there's yet another Prop 8 protest planned. Which is great news. This time it's in Sacramento at the State Capitol Building scheduled to start at 2 p.m. Are you going? Care
