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

Strauss, et al. v. Horton, et al

• Los Angeles Times: Gay-rights advocates to challenge Proposition 8 in court
• San Jose Mercury News: Civil rights groups challenge Prop 8 in court
• Los Angeles Times: Gay Rights Backers File 3 Lawsuits Challenging Prop. 8
• USA Today: California same-sex marriage ban faces three lawsuits
• Pam’s House Blend: Coalition Of Organizations Challenging Legality Of Prop 8
• Good As You: Courtin' bias: Anti-gay side scoffs at our search for justice
• KMPH Fox 26 Central San Joaquin Valley: ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Prop 8
  Video available at the above link
• Bay Windows: Legal groups file against Prop. 8
• Whittier Daily News: Prop. 8 opponents rush to courts to overturn measure
• Sacramento Bee: Prop. 8 foes file high court appeal
• Los Angeles Daily News: Gays vow to keep fighting for right to wed
• The Times-Standard: Proposition 8 opponents continue to fight
• Gay City News: Voters Turn Back California Marriage
• The Santa Cruz Sentinel: As We See It: Santa Cruz County goes its own way
  I love this line: “We also find it somewhat ironic that Californians voted to give egg-laying hens the right to more space to flap their wings, but when it came to gays who wish to marry, said again that was going too far.”
• Religious Intelligence: Bishop of Los Angeles says California voters 'ignorant' about homosexuality
  Gets the name of our staff attorney in San Francisco completely wrong – it’s Elizabeth Gill, not Elizabeth Gaff
• UPI: Court challenge for Calif. gay-wedding ban
• PolitickerCA: Lawyers explain state Supreme Court petition seeking to invalidate Prop. 8
• San Diego Union-Tribune: Gay marriage ban foes take fight to the courts
• AlterNet: Gay Marriage Ban Looks to Have Passed in California, but Is It Legal?
• Bloomberg: ACLU Sues to Nullify California's Gay Marriage Ban (Update3)
• CNN: Legal analyst: Same-sex marriage again in limbo

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 placed an initiative on the ballot to 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.   

• KARK NBC 4 Little Rock: Voter Confusion for Act 1?
  Video available at the above link
• Arkansas Times Blog: More vote analysis
• Arkansas Times Blog: Why Act 1 was not defeated
  Includes really annoying gloating by Arkansas Family Council
• Arkansas Times Blog: Do voters know what they're doing?

RELATIONSHIPS NEWS

Multiple states

• New York Times: Bans in 3 States on Gay Marriage
• The Bilerico Project: First Thoughts: Reflection on the 2008 Elections
• Pam’s House Blend: The day after - the bad stuff and a challenge to the lgbt community
• Pam’s House Blend: The religious right promises more amendments, do we have a plan?
• Christian “News” Wire: Christian Coalition of America Applauds Voters in California, Florida and Arizona for Abolishing Homosexual 'Marriages'
• The Bilerico Project: Now Comes the Hard Part
• The Bilerico Project: Bittersweet Victory

• Los Angeles Times: EDITORIAL: After Prop. 8
• Los Angeles Times: OP-ED: Gay Marriage Isn't Over
• Time Magazine: Why Gay Marriage Was Defeated in California
• CTV: Gay couple launches lawsuit after Prop. 8 passes
• Contra Costa Times: Pollsters wonder why Proposition 8 defied expectations By Matt O'Brien
• Associated Press: Gay Couples Disappointed by Calif. Marriage Ban
• Bloomberg: California Gay Couples `Suffering' as Foes Exult in Wedding Ban
• CNN.com: Los Angeles Stops Issuing Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples
• The Bakersfield Californian: County Clerk: No More Marriage Licenses Will Be Issued to Same-Sex Couples
• The Salinas Californian: State, Monterey County gay marriages in limbo
• The Salt Lake Tribune: California's Prop 8: LDS Leader Calls for Healing the Gay-Marriage Rift
  Oh sure, NOW you want to love your neighbors
• The Modesto Bee: Turlock's Mayor Calls for Inquiry
• San Jose Mercury-News: SF City Attorney to file legal challenge to Prop 8
• LA Now (Los Angeles Times blog): How Prop. 8 Was Won – And Lost
• Los Angeles Times: California Voters All Over the Map on Propositions
• San Francisco Chronicle: Newsom Was Central to Same-Sex Marriage Saga
• Bronstein at Large (San Francisco Chronicle blog): Could Newsom have prevented Prop 8's success?
• L.A. Now (Los Angeles Times): One Gay Couple Faces the Post-Prop. 8 Future
• Huffington Post: Why We Lost Prop 8: When Reactive Politics Become Losing Politics
• USA Today: California voters back ban on same-sex marriage
• Daily Kos: Proposition 8
• L.A. Now (Los Angeles Times): 70% of African Americans Backed Prop. 8, Exit Poll Finds
• The Bilerico Project: Holding My Breath on Prop. 8
• Slog (The Stranger blog – Dan Savage): Black Homophobia
  Love Dan, but don’t love this piece
• Joe. My. God.: Homoquotable: Dan Savage
• Obsidian Wings: Prop 8 and the Black Vote
• Good As You: And now we seek justice
• Good As You: Ronald redux: Looking again at George's quip
• Good As You: Video: Reasoned rage
  Videos available at the above link
• Good As You: Video: Partly like it’s 1959
  Inside the Yes on 8 victory party
• Good As You: We will NEVER respect you, Ron Prentice. Never. Not ever. Not possible. No.
• Good As You: Just once we wish a group would say, 'We simply don't accept gay people!'
• E! Online: Ellen DeGeneres on Barack Obama, Prop. 8

• Associated Press: Az voters OK ban on gay marriage, reject payday loan reform

• Tallahassee Democrat: Gay Community Stunned by Passage of Marriage Amendment in Florida

• The New York Times: Celebration, Interrupted: 4 Dissidents Risk Democrats’ Gains in Senate
  Four Democrats in the N.Y. State Senate refused to commit to backing Sen. Malcolm A. Smith, a member of their party, for majority leader, because he supports marriage for same-sex couples