Even with this video in their arsenal, Prop 8 supporters didn't manage to edge out the Mormon church last month in California. My theory? I've seen Mormons. And those dudes don't look nearly Mormon enough.
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Next time: try stiffer, less overtly evil.
* Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone on why Prop 8 failed. (Hint: It wasn't Mormon or black voters, but it might have been you).
* The Gay Recluse reports on the shielded statues in Union Station (photo above), indicates that behind the shield are uncircumcised Roman penises, calls it "the biggest scandal in the history of [...]
George Washington University student Andew Clark wrote an opinion piece in campus newspaper The Hatchet this week explaining why he voted for California's Prop 8 on Nov. 4 (full disclosure: I wrote for the Hatchet as a student). Yesterday, Travis Helwig of G.W. blog The Colonialist published a rebuttal to the piece, calling Clark's argument [...]
The District of Columbia may be a few Senators short of statehood, but it's close to securing some other rights for its citizens, D.C. Council member David Catania says. At Saturday's 2008 GLBT Economic Development Summit, Catania "reaffirmed that a same-sex marriage bill will be introduced to the Council in January, and that he is [...]
The Evil Slut Clique over at Evil Slutopia has conjured up some more advice on how to fight back against Prop 8 and anti-gay legislation like it. Click on to find some practical—and for the armchair gay activists in the crowd, easy—avenues for signing petitions, voicing opinion, and showing support.
John over at The New Gay has outlined a plan of attack for responding to the passage of Prop 8 and anti-gay legislation like it. In "Prop 8: WTF Do We Do Now?" John lays out a guide to staying on message, appointing successful leadership, and out-organizing the Mormons.
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* Admittedly: Even I am unsure how long the podcast is this time. You know, when City Paper's resident libertarian and I get to talkin', it's anyone's guess how long it will take us both to tire of speaking directly to the other. And yet, Mike Riggs and I brave the conversational waters again today [...]
Local news footage of one aspect of the Prop 8 aftermath: Violent protest. A Palm Springs protest leads to loud opposition to "Phyllis," a Prop 8 supporter who arrives on the scene to "express her views" to the news crew. Phyllis is met by screams from protesters before she even speaks to the cameras. The [...]
Former City Paper editor Kara Swisher writes for the Daily Beast about her insatiable desire to be married to another woman. Swisher has been gay married four times so far: the non-legal romantic, traditional, family wedding; the rushed, Niagara Falls parking lot Canadian wedding; the voided San Francisco sham wedding; and the final, in-at-the-buzzer, right-before-polls-close-legalizing-Prop-8 [...]
Slate's Kenji Yoshino has a great roundup of Prop 8's effect on gay couples in California and around the country, detailing the legislation's ramifications for California's gay couples who are looking to marry, those who have already been married in the state, and couples across the country mounting their own legislative fights.
