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

In re: Gill

• US News and World Report: Emerging Gay Adoption Fight Shares Battle Lines of Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Arkansas Initiated Act 1

Reacting to the ACLU's unanimous victory at the Arkansas Supreme Court striking down an anti-gay foster care ban in Howard v. Child Welfare Agency Review Board, anti-gay activists managed to get an initiative on the ballot that would ban unmarried couples who live together from serving as adoptive or foster parents in the state of Arkansas.  The ACLU is part of the coalition opposing this needless measure that would only harm children by reducing the pool of potential homes.  Learn more about the Howard case here.  

• Arkansas Times Blog: Bloviating Baptists

RELATIONSHIPS NEWS

• Washington Blade: Proposition 8 fight a nail-biter to the end: Ballot battles in other states also expected to be close
  Mentions not only CA, but FL, AZ, AR, and CT too

• San Francisco Chronicle: Prop. 8 Still Trails, But Margin Narrows
• FiveThirtyEight.com: Field Poll Shows Close Call on Gay Marriage Ban
• Calitics: No on Prop 8 leading by 5
• Good As You: Poll: Majority of voters voters see through costumed bias

• Los Angeles Times: In the Fight Over Prop. 8, Confusion Reigns

• The Wall Street Journal: Gay-Marriage Backers Allege Web Mischief in California
• Calitics: Denial of Service Attack on No on Prop 8: The Rundown
• Threat Level blog (Wired): DDoS Attack Strikes Campaigns Against Same-Sex Marriage Bans - Update
• Calitics: The Face of Yes on 8
• No on Prop 8 press release: Secret Million-Dollar Mormon Donor to Prop 8 Revealed
  Interesting: Ashton is the cofounder of WordPerfect. His fellow cofounder, Bruce Bastian, gave $1 million for our side
• Good As You: Yin and yang: Once-popular software edition
• Joe the Would-Be Plumber Charged with Anti-Gay Hate Crime
• Pam’s House Blend: California pol threated with recall by Yes on 8 supporters
• Gay City News: Warren Driven to Speak Out for Prop 8
• Good As You: Audio: [::Sniff, sniff::] I always cry at anti-weddings
  Audio available at the link above
• Good As You: Fine, you're 'dad.' But your bias is still 'cruel & nasty'
• Bay Area Reporter: Prop 8 briefs: Wedding crashers escorted from City Hall
  Wow. Just wow.
• The Swarm blog (Sacramento Bee): Parents to Prop 8's Frank Schubert: Don't use our kids
• Box Turtle Bulletin: Yes on 8 Refuses to Talk to Parents of the Children Whom they Feature in their Ad

• Salon: OPINION: Proposition 8 vs. black homophobia
• California Majority Report: Prop 8 Campaign Lies About Broad African American Opposition
  The Yes on 8 campaign claims that there is only one major African American leader to endorse marriage equality – so here’s a list of major African American leaders and organizations supporting No on Prop. 8
• The Bilerico Project: Don't blame latinos and blacks if Prop 8 passes

• Bloomberg.com: Obama Backers May Sway Local Votes Over Gay Marriage, Governors
• The Desert Sun: OP-ED: Vote Against Prop. 8 Is a Vote for Equality, Fairness
• Box Turtle Bulletin: Newspapers Supporting and Opposing Proposition 8
  58 opposed, two in favor
• Calitics: Women Against Prop. 8
• Pam’s House Blend: Rosie gave $1000 to Dole, $0 to fight Prop 8
• Pam’s House Blend: The Problem With Prop 8 -- Even An Anti-Gay Parent Gets It
• Pam’s House Blend: Obama's opposition to Prop 8 touted on new section of No On 8's site
• No on Prop. 8 press release: No on Prop 8 Campaign Releases Statement by 300 California Pediatricians
• The Huffington Post: How My Lesbian Boss Makes Me a Better Father
• Washington Blade Blog: Last chance to fight prop 8
• Washington Blade: Local black gay activist weds in Calif.
  Congratulations to Alexander Robinson, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, and his new husband Gregory Merle Satorie!
• Bay Area Reporter: EDITORIAL: This Is It
• Bay Area Reporter: OPINION: Stop Prop 8
• Bay Area Reporter: Young people step up to defeat Prop 8
• Box Turtle Bulletin: The Clear Facts about Proposition 8 and Schools
• Box Turtle Bulletin: Prop 8: The End of the World
• Good As You: Video: 'Snakes in a Campaign' w/ Samuel L. Jackson
  Video available at the link above
• Good As You: If you're going to baselessly, cruelly target us, at least get our names right
• Good As You: Techno-Awesome
• All Things Digital: Silicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group

• Associated Press: Anti-gay marriage groups look for Ariz. Redemption: Voters face gay marriage choice again on ballot
• Box Turtle Bulletin: A Personal Plea Against Prop 102

• Palm Beach Post: Letter to the Editor: Amendment 2 threatens all domestic partners
  Written by a woman who is in a domestic partnership who the ACLU found while doing work to help the campaign
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Blacks Could Tilt State Vote on Gay Marriage Ban, Analysts Say
• The Bilerico Project: FL Amendment 2 Update: Leaked Emails Show More Illegal Campaigning

• Bay Windows: 1913 law petition fails
• Good As You: Well that takes a Mass off our minds

DISCRIMINATION NEWS

• Between The Lines News: Mayor, supporters urge Hamtramck residents to vote 'yes' on human rights ordinance

TRANSGENDER NEWS

• The Bilerico Project: DC Set to Rollback Trans Rights