Each weekday, Get Busy, Get Equal brings you a sampling of national and regional LGBT and HIV legal and legislative 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.

RELATIONSHIPS NEWS

California Prop. 8:

• COLUMN: Extra Help for California's Prop. 8 (Los Angeles Times)
• State's Gay Marriage Battle Crosses Borders (The Times-Herald)
• Many Gay Couples Not Taking Chances, Marrying Before Prop. 8 Showdown (San Jose Mercury News)
• O.C. Donors Give $1.6 Million for Ban on Gay Marriage (The Orange County Register)
• To Boldly Go Where No Californians Have Gone Before (The Huffington Post)
• California Dreamin' (The Bilerico Project)
• Fundies adrift over Pacific Gas & Electric's donation to No on 8 (Pam’s House Blend)
• Newt Gingrich on Proposition 8: 'Protect marriage' from 'activist judges' (PageOneQ)
  The YouTube video mentioned in this story can be seen here

• 160 Donors Back State Marriage Measure (The Arizona Republic)
• EDITORIAL: Our Opinion: Vote no on gay marriage ban (The Tucson Citizen)
• OP-ED: Discriminatory Gay Marriage Ban has No Place in AZ (The Tucson Citizen)
• Few Enroll in State's Same-Sex Health Care (The Ithaca Journal)
• Poll: Not enough support to pass gay marriage ban (WTSP Tampa Bay’s 10)
• Brandon Man Leads Charge Against Gay Marriage (St. Petersburg Times)
• Same-sex marriage: election issue (The Maneater)
  Quotes Dan Winter of the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri. Don’t get too worked up about the publication name – it’s the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

PARENTING NEWS

• The Bachelor Life Includes a Family (The New York Times)

YOUTH AND SCHOOLS NEWS

• Stories from the Helpline (The Bilerico Project)

TRANSGENDER NEWS

• Court Weighs Transgender Law Referendum (Associated Press)
• The Sex Change Capital of The U.S.: A Small Rocky Mountain Town Is Home To A Cottage Industry Helping Transgender People (CBS News)  
  Video also available at the above link
• YE-SHE-VA: UNIVERSITY IS RATTLED BY TRANSGENDER PROF (The New York Post)
  You stay classy, New York Post!

DISCRIMINATION NEWS

• Ban on Political Endorsements by Pastors Targeted (The Washington Post)
• Subway Fires Gay Porn Star (BGay.com)

HIV NEWS

• HIV-infected man sues Dyersville McDonald's: Carver claims he was punched by a manager in the stomach and was unlawfully fired (The Telegraph-Herald)
  !!!: According to the former employee, “A manager punched him in the stomach and a fellow employee called him a ‘faggot rat’ and slapped him with a piece of cheese”!!!