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News Archive: November 2008
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Mormon Involvement Was Early and Deep Sunday, 11/30/08
Stop the Mormons

I decided to start a project to try to put together a timeline with details about Mormon church involvement in Prop 8.

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Urge Vermont Governor to Support Marriage Equality Sunday, 11/30/08
Queers United

...lawmakers have been challenging the civil unions law, which does not provide full equal benefits to gay and lesbian couples.

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Shopping With My Pink Dollars...How Much Research Do I Need To Do? Sunday, 11/30/08
Pam's House Blend

Basically in my opinion, the HRC has set the bar way too low regarding progressive policies for trans employees for companies to get the 100% rating, and be listed as Best Places To Work. In other words, the CEI's percentage based rating system doesn't help me at all as a trans consumer who wants to spend my pink dollars at businesses that have progressive policies for their trans employees.

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Monroe County Drops Gay Marriage Challenge Sunday, 11/30/08

Patricia Martinez, a word processing supervisor at the college, brought a suit against the school in 2005, because they had granted benefits to heterosexual married couples but denied them to Martinez and her partner, Lisa Ann Golden.


Prop. 8 financial supporters named on Web site Sunday, 11/30/08
Long Beach Press-Telegram

"People at the grass-roots level are being more aggressive and confrontational, using tactics like demonstrations in the streets and publishing the names of people who contributed to the Yes on 8 campaign, rather than being passive like the No on 8 campaign," Gross said. "But many social movements, the ones for civil rights and the one against the Vietnam war, have worked by, at some point, not being polite."

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N.H. gay marriage bill on the way Sunday, 11/30/08
Foster's Daily Democrat

According to Splaine, the major problem with the civil union law is that there is "no way" a civil union will give same-gendered couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples in all circumstances because of a gray area in the law that's up for interpretation. For instance, individual businesses don't need to provide the same benefits and contracts for civil union couples that they do with married couples.

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The Honor Roll Sunday, 11/30/08
Queers United

These are famous individuals and organizations who deserve recognition for their contributions and efforts to preserve marriage for all.

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Another Cause, Another Ribbon Sunday, 11/30/08
NY Times

We needed a symbol, something to keep the conversation going.

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The Effort Effect Sunday, 11/30/08
Stanford Magazine

People who attributed their failures to lack of ability ... would become discouraged even in areas where they were capable. Those who thought they simply hadn't tried hard enough, on the other hand, would be fueled by setbacks.

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NH civil union sponsor will push for gay marriage Saturday, 11/29/08
Boston Globe

Portsmouth Democrat Jim Splaine will face a fight, as those opposed to civil unions vow to try to pare the law down.

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Meet our Families Day Saturday, 11/29/08
Pam's House Blend

How do people meet same-sex couples? We came up with Meet our Families Day. Anyone have any input on this idea?

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Gay Marriage and a Moral Minority Saturday, 11/29/08
NY Times

...make it part of a broader discussion about the perils of rigidly applying yesterday's sexual morality to today's sexual mores. Show black women that it backfires. The stigma doesn't erase the behavior, it pushes it into the shadows where, devoid of information and acceptance, it become more risky.

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The Prop 8 Campaign Money Saturday, 11/29/08
NY Times

Churches, which risk their tax-exempt status if they endorse candidates, have more leeway in referendum campaigns. Still, when they enter the political fray, they have the same obligation to follow the rules that nonreligious groups do.

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Moving Forward, Part 5: One Final Critique of No on 8 Saturday, 11/29/08
Liberty Hill

There was one standout model of effective grassroots community organizing in the LGBT community this year; it was part of the No on 8 campaign, but it began autonomously and was a three-year effort: "API Equality."

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Moving Forward, Part 4: Why We Should Have Won - We Know How To Beat The Right Saturday, 11/29/08
Liberty Hill

We came from a 25-point deficit to beat Briggs because we did exactly in 1978 what Barack Obama did this year to win the presidency: Build BOTH a professionally run, disciplined, topnotch top-down campaign AND an inclusive huge grassroots movement that engaged every single person possible in activist support.

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Moving Forward, Part 3: Hallelujah! We Are Not Alone - At Last! Saturday, 11/29/08
Liberty Hill

Today, we have an army of straight allies who are just as outraged as we are and who have vowed to help us reverse this decision.

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Moving Forward, Part 2: Why We Will Win Next Time Saturday, 11/29/08
Liberty Hill

Equality and justice is on the ascendancy and we will win.

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Moving Forward, Part 1: An Indictment Saturday, 11/29/08
Liberty Hill

Nobody has accepted responsibility for failure and stepped up to lead a coherent, community- wide discussion of where to from here. As a result there is too much finger pointing, and a startling loss of credibility for established LGBT organizations and leaders.

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Brush up on your Harvey: A prequel Saturday, 11/29/08
Good As You

a roundup of some of the news-making events that led up to Harvey's time in office

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El Pollo Loco's Statement on Proposition 8 Saturday, 11/29/08
Press Release

I voted against Prop 8. On a personal level, I not only understand your anger, I share it.

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Day Without Gay: The Wrong Direction Saturday, 11/29/08
Pam's House Blend

I know UNC lgbt groups have done things like public kissing (with straight & gay couples alike participating) which certainly got plenty of local coverage. A statewide hand-holding day might be an interesting variation on this. Arranging groups to meet at various malls across the state to walk around holding hands, which is certainly something our allies could get involved with, seeing gay & straight couples holding hands and showing the similarity in that small public display of affection would project a good image.

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Harvey Milk Lives Saturday, 11/29/08
365Gay

Harvey defied the cautious gay leadership of the day who wanted to fight Prop 6 without mentioning the word "gay" or putting the faces and stories of gay or lesbian teachers into the public eye. They wanted to do it by letting our straight liberal allies speak for us instead. And they wanted a top-down, politics-as-usual campaign.

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Coming Soon: Day Without a Gay Friday, 11/28/08
SF Weekly

...rather than just staging a polarizing protest, the gay community could boost society as well as their own image by volunteering, especially in those communities that supported Prop. 8.

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New York Democrats May Skip Gay Marriage Vote Friday, 11/28/08
NY Times

"We want to get there, but we want to get there the right way or else we risk setting ourselves back another decade," said Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat who represents the Upper East Side.

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Two women walk from L.A. to San Francisco in an effort to revoke Prop 8 Friday, 11/28/08
KSBY

The couple started walking since November 18, and so far the journey has allowed them to collect hundreds of signatures for a "Revoke Prop 8" petition.

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FACTBOX - U.S. laws on gay marriage and civil unions Friday, 11/28/08
Reuters

The patchwork of laws has caused some unusual complications.

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Hey, Mormons! Your Yes on 8 Pals Don't Like You! Friday, 11/28/08
Huffington Post

A number of religious groups don't consider Mormons to be Christians ... But many denominations are more than willing to overlook these divergences of faith and use the "non-Christian" LDS for money and manpower to suppress gays.

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NY Dems: Thanks for the Money but Forget the Promises Friday, 11/28/08
Box Turtle Bulletin

Democrats in New York have taken the State Senate for the first time in 40 years, to a significant extent due to a flood of contributions from gays and lesbians wanting marriage equality. Now it looks as though this was not money well spent.

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HRC - Buying for Equality 2009 Friday, 11/28/08
Queers United

According to a Witeck-Combs/Market Research.com study, the buying power of the LGBT community is estimated to be $759 billion in 2009.

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Dissecting Prop 8, Part One: Alphabet Soup Friday, 11/28/08
Rainbow Mittens

Our movement has become so fractured, with so many people speaking with so many disparate voices, that our message has become muddled.

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