Each weekday, Get Busy, Get Equal brings you a sampling of national and regional LGBT news, the latest on what's new in LGBT relationships, and new developments in ACLU work. We're making progress, but since every step forward is met with resistance, we've got to fight smart to win. Get informed.

ACLU NEWS

• The Bilerico Project: Why ENDA Matters: True Stories of Anti-LGBT Employment Discrimination from the ACLU
• Argus-Press: Corunna School Board to rescind anti-gay, lesbian decision
  Quotes Jay Kaplan of the ACLU of Michigan, who reminded the school of its legal obligations to its students
• California Ripple Effect - Equality California: From the field: ACLU teams up with EQCA to win marriage back
  By Ashley Morris, field organizer for ACLU of Northern California
• Pam's House Blend: VIDEO - Transitory Psychosis: The debate that Yes on 1 doesn't want you to see!
  WOW. Check out the guy that Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, had to debate.
• Pam's House Blend: VIDEO - Jill Wants to Marry Diane
  By our colleagues at MCLU
• The Takeaway - WNYC/Public Radio International: AUDIO - To Revoke or Not? Maine Voters to Decide Gay Marriage Law
  With Shenna Bellows of the MCLU

Wesson, MS School Dress Code Discrimination

Ceara Sturgis, an openly lesbian student at Wesson Attendance Center, wore a tux in her senior class photo, and her school is refusing to print the photo in the yearbook. The ACLU of Mississippi is assisting Ceara.

• San Francisco Bay Times: Lesbian Banned From Wearing Tux In High-School Yearbook Photo

RELATIONSHIPS NEWS

California

• Desert Sun: Coachella Valley couple may sue SkyWest
• San Francisco Chronicle: SkyWest accused of bias against gay couples

Maine

• FiveThirtyEight: 2009 Elections Preview: Maine Question 1 (Gay Marriage)
• The Atlantic Wire: Ways to Break the Dead Heat Over Gay Marriage in Maine
• No on 1: VIDEO - Clear
  Final No on 1 campaign ad
• Bangor Daily News: Get-out-the-vote effort in high gear
• Bangor Daily News: GUEST COLUMN: Don’t teach children that gays are worth less
• Bangor Daily News: EDITORIAL: Election 2009
• Bangor Daily News: Maine marriage law has nation engaged
• Bangor Daily News: GUEST COLUMN: Considering the future of marriage
• Seacoast Online: OPINION: Say 'no' to discrimination on Tuesday
• The Advocate: Maine Poll: 51% Yes, 47% No on 1
• Pam's House Blend: Bulletin Board Time: Monday Events in Maine
• The Bilerico Project: Down To the Wire
• Good As You: VIDEO - DPs: They were against them before they were [secretly still against] them
• FiveThirtyEight: Despite Claims, Anti-Gay Group in Maine More Dependent on Out-of-State Funds
• Towleroad: Last-Minute Attacks in Maine as Final Marriage Polling is Released

Maryland

• Washington Blade: Black Marylanders back LGBT rights in film

New York

• Joe. My. God.: VIDEO - Marriage Activists Vs. Maggie Gallagher

Washington

• The New York Times: Referendum Would Extend Protections to Gay Couples
• The New York Times: Privacy Looms Over Gay Rights Vote
• Associated Press: Wash. voters get final say on gay partnerships
• Pam's House Blend: Voices for Equality from Across Washington State
• The Daily News Online: Dozens at rally urge rejection of Referendum 71

Multiple locales

• The New York Times: EDITORIAL: Six Tests for Equality and Fairness
• USA Today: State Ballots Tackle Controversial Issues Tuesday

Federal

• Associated Press: US: Mass. can't force gay marriage benefits
• The Berkshire Eagle: U.S. fights benefits for gay couples
• Queerty: Obama Lawyers: Massachusetts Can't Force Us To Give a Damn About Gay Marriages

YOUTH AND SCHOOLS NEWS

• Queerty: The 3-Letter Word That Will Keep Schools From Teaching Kids about Queers

DISCRIMINATION NEWS

Illinois

• WALB NBC 10: Teacher may face punishment for homosexuality assignment
• Pam's House Blend: Illinois Teacher Suspended Over "Gay Animal' Article

Michigan Several of these Kalamazoo stories are also listed under Transgender, since they're focused on transfolk

• The New York Times: EDITORIAL: Six Tests for Equality and Fairness
• Michigan Messenger: ‘Shocking’ campaign tactic in Kalamzoo won’t acknowledge transgender identity
  Quotes Jay Kaplan of the ACLU of Michigan
• USA Today: State Ballots Tackle Controversial Issues Tuesday
• The Kalamazoo Gazette: Kalamazoo's Gay-Rights Vote Doesn't Address 'Bathroom Issue'
• The Advocate: VIDEO - Kalamazoo Ordinance Foes Target Transwomen
  With video of the woman the bad guys have been parading around who wrings her hands over the "trauma" of finding out a transwoman used the same bathroom she did
• Pam's House Blend: VIDEO - Comparing Gainesville, Florida to Kalamazoo, Michigan Bathroom Ads

Federal Hate Crimes

• Pam's House Blend: Helen Boyd: Law And The Objects Of Hate
• Joe. My. God.: VIDEO - GLAAD On Hate Crimes Act Passage
  Video from CNN

ENDA

• The Bilerico Project: Weekly ENDA Update: Senate Hearings!

TRANSGENDER NEWS

• The Kalamazoo Gazette: Kalamazoo's Gay-Rights Vote Doesn't Address 'Bathroom Issue'
• Pam's House Blend: VIDEO - Comparing Gainesville, Florida to Kalamazoo, Michigan Bathroom Ads
• Michigan Messenger: ‘Shocking’ campaign tactic in Kalamzoo won’t acknowledge transgender identity
  Quotes Jay Kaplan of the ACLU of Michigan
• The Advocate: VIDEO - Kalamazoo Ordinance Foes Target Transwomen
  With video of the woman the bad guys have been parading around who wrings her hands over the "trauma" of finding out a transwoman used the same bathroom she did
• Pam's House Blend: Helen Boyd: Law And The Objects Of Hate

HIV NEWS

• Law Dork: Obama Acts on HIV/AIDS
• Towleroad: VIDEO - Watch: Obama Signs Ryan White Act, Lifts 'Fear'-Based Ban on Travel and Immigration for People with HIV