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 LGBT NEWS

California Marriage Case
On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that the state may no longer exclude same-sex couples from marriage. Click here to learn more.

• Official: California Gay Weddings a Go For Some (Associated Press)


• California Gay Marriage Ruling Isn't Seen as Trend (Los Angeles Times)


• Bans on Gay Marriages are Expected to Face Legal Challenges (Los Angeles Times)


• OP-ED: The Times I Didn't Get Married (Los Angeles Times)


• A Week Later in California, What's Next? (Huffington Post)


• Domestic partners can wed without dissolution (San Francisco Chronicle)


• Letters to the Editor: Gay rights ruling comes just in time (Baltimore Sun)
  By the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland.

DISCRIMINATION NEWS

• High Court to Hear Lesbian's Case (Associated Press)
  The ACLU submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in this case.


• Birmingham Mayor Denies Gay Parade Permit (The Birmingham News)
  Mayor of Birmingham pitches a hissyfit over annual pride festival


• GAY HATE: Warren County Man lives in fear and wonders 'who will help?' (Out and About)
  A Tennessee man who has been repeatedly targeted by gutless spray-painting homophobes is at his wits’ end (mentions ACLU LGBT Project attorney Christine Sun)


• Police charge pair with 'crime against nature' (News & Observer)
  Raleigh, SC police charge two men under sodomy law – you know, the type of sodomy law that the Supreme Court struck down like FIVE years ago?

SCHOOLS & YOUTH NEWS

• Rally Backs Students Forming Gay-Straight Club (The State)


• South Carolia Equality calls for Irmo principal to go(Gay Charleston blog, Charleston City Paper)


• SA Radio - Is Being Gay Normal? (The Southern Avenger, Charleston City Paper)


• South Carolina principal quits over Gay-Straight Alliance Club. Good for him. (The Nolan Chart)