10:09 24th Aug 2010

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Pre-Prop 8, it was easy enough to believe that we were a majority living in San Francisco. If not a demographic majority, we at least felt safe to assume that we were a philosophical majority in a city (and we dared to believe a state) that largely believed in equality for all people, LGBT included.

Post-Prop 8, we know better. While our home of San Francisco voted heavily against Prop 8, our neighbors outside these bridges voted soundly (enough) in favor of the anti-gay measure. Thus, we’ve come to know the power that rests in the hands of our friends—the straight friends who are in a solid position to speak up on our behalf.

This week, our friend Gina Pell, founder and content chief of the style site Splendora.com, spoke up for us and other LGBT couples when she asked to feature the marriage equality–themed video that Frank created in the days leading to the November 2008 election.

“Everything Must Change” remains a poignant depiction of why marriage equality matters—for loving couples and our families and children—and Gina’s inclusion of this piece in her online Personal Weekly Radar, among fashion videos and pictures of Marilyn Monroe, further illustrates the influence that our supportive friends may have among audiences outside our immediate reach. In Gina’s case, the audience is young (often teenage) female fashionistas who are looking to her (a fashion icon) for what’s hot, what’s right, and what’s right now. In Gina’s eyes, marriage equality is all of the above.

Thank you Gina—and to all the other Ginas out there—for your support!

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16:31 12th Aug 2010

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At the courthouse today waiting with the bedrock couples of marriage equality: Stuart and John; Molly and Davina. It was another moving day, moving in our hearts and moving in the right direction. There were couples who had filled out marriage applications and were saddened to not be able to make a legal commitment to each other today. Fingers crossed they can tie the knot next Wednesday.

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10:20

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In one week…

So much positive ground has been made for marriage equality. For those of you just joining us, and wonder why full marriage equality matters, it is simple. All couples who are in love and committed to each other should be respected and protected by society equally. Every child should share the same dream, the wonderful dream of growing up and falling in love, having a wedding surrounded by family and friends and sharing a life with someone else.

This week in marriage equality:

TODAY: U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker will issue a ruling this morning on whether to allow marriages in California to begin again or stay a decision in the Proposition 8 case. We found this story which helps explain why this judge, who last week ruled the heinous prop 8 unconstitutional, might grant a stay and where we go from here.

YESTERDAY:

Video: Bill O’Reilly to Glenn Beck: “Do you believe gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?”
Beck to O’ Reilly “A threat to the country? No, I don’t. Will the gays come and get us?”

Majority support marriage equality for first time: CNN poll

The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates has voted overwhelmingly to allow same-sex couples to marry in the United States.

8/10/2010 Mexico Gay Marriage: Supreme Court Orders All Mexican States To Recognize Weddings Performed In Mexico City

Basketball Star Isiah Thomas appears in ad campaign pro gay marriage

Judge: Same-sex marriage license valid | Santa Fe, New Mexico

8/8/2010 Mexican Supreme Court upholds gay marriage in Mexico City

Conservative republican lawyer on Fox News explaining why the rights of minorities are not determined by popular vote

Unitarian Society backs gay marriage

8/7/2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Let gays and lesbians marry now

Same-sex marriage is currently legal in five US states — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa and New Hampshire — and in the District of Columbia. Outside the US: Argentina. Belgium,Canada, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Mexico City.

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00:00 8th Aug 2010

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Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional - The Moment

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10:30 15th Jul 2010

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“What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity is intolerance.”

Sen. Norma Morandini. Argentina

“It’s very worrisome to hear words like ‘God’s war’ or ‘the devil’s project,[by the opposition]’ things that recall the times of the Inquisition,”

President Cristina Fernandez, Argentina

Evan Wolfson, who runs the U.S. Freedom to Marry lobby said “Today’s historic vote shows how far Catholic Argentina has come, from dictatorship to true democratic values, and how far the freedom to marry movement has come, as twelve countries on four continents now embrace marriage equality.” Read more in the Salt Lake City Tribune…

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21:39 13th Jul 2010

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The Atlantic’s latest story on the federal prop 8 trial has a video of David Boise discussing the trial and how he wishes it would have been televised, so that the people who oppose marriage equality could have seen the questions that the opposition had to answer on the stand and said to themselves, ’How would I have answered those questions?’ Boise states that it is ”easy to have a bumper sticker, a slogan that says marriage is between a man and a woman, but when you begin to think about the issues, you think about the harm that it causes, you think about the gains that allowing people who are in love to marry the person that they love and not forcing them to marry somebody that they don’t love and aren’t attracted to, when you think about the harm that’s done to the children, when you think about the lack of any redeeming social desires that this kind of ban has, it is inevitable that a rational person on the stand faced with those kind of questions is going to admit that.

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14:24 9th Jul 2010

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A TRUE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: A federal judge in Boston declared unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). A law that wrote discrimination into the constitution by baring federal recognition of same-sex marriage.

SO NOW WHAT?

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says in this video from last nights Rachel Maddow Show, that although “Judge Tauro’s decision does not technically apply to other states,’’ it will apply to the approximately 16,000 same-sex married couples in Massachusetts. They will now be eligible for the same 1138 federal rights, benefits and protections extended to married heterosexuals. One small step forward for mankind.

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