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GET INFORMED: LGBT News for November 10
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: Schwarzenegger Tells Backers of Gay Marriage: Don't Give Up
- EDGE Boston: Marriage battle moves to California Supreme Court
- Orange County Register: O.C. couple pursue same-sex marriage rights in federal court
Mentions our case too
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.
- The New York Times: Antipathy Toward Obama Seen as Helping Arkansas Limit Adoption
- Arkansas Times Blog: Mystery solved re Act 1
Advocacy on Behalf of Gay Men Verbally Abused by McDonald’s Staff
The ACLU filed a complaint Tuesday with the Louisville, KY Human Relations Commission on behalf of two gay men who were called “faggots” by an employee at a McDonald’s. Both the local manager and McDonald’s corporate customer service department have ignored their requests for a refund and apology. Learn more about the case here.
RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
California Prop. 8
Hey, just a note to say that we’ve decided that trying to comprehensively catch all the Prop. 8/post-election gay news is taking up WAYYY too much of my time (not to mention that it’s impossible for me to catch everything and more than you guys are likely to take time to read). From here on out I’m going to try to just get a representative sampling of what’s going on, major media outlet stories, and any particularly good analysis/commentary I find from the blogosphere. I won’t be linking as much from the blogs I usually cover, at least not until the sheer volume of stories on this dies down a bit, but at some point I’ll go back to linking more stuff from the blogs that usually cover our priority area issues. News
- Los Angeles Times: Uncounted Ballots Unlikely to Reverse Proposition 8
- Associated Press: Gay Marriage Supporters March in California
- Pam’s House Blend: National Day of Protest
- Associated Press: Angry Prop 8 opponents urge boycott of Utah ski areas and Sundance Film Festival
- New York Times: OPINION: Frank Rich: It Still Felt Good the Morning After
- San Francisco Chronicle: Why Prop. 8 Confounded Pre-Election Pollsters
By Mark DeCamillo, Director of the Field Poll - San Francisco Chronicle: It's God's fault: The cruel success of Prop. 8? Not Newsom, not gays. Blame You Know Who
- The Bilerico Project: You Can't Take This Away From Me
HRC's Joe Solmonese on Prop. 8 - Good As You: Willful ignorance: The 'pro-family' movement's cash crop
- Good As You: The arc of justice vs. The arch enemies of justice
- People for the American Way: Blaming Black Voters for Prop 8 Loss is Wrong and Destructive
If you just read one thing on the Prop 8/race stuff today, I suggest this - Salt Lake Tribune: Prop 8 critics have little support among minority voters: Seven out of ten blacks, 53 percent of Latinos supported the gay-marriage ban
- Slog (The Stranger blog): “They didn’t do enough work in the communities of color. On the other hand, communities of color demonstrated an awfully bigoted vote.”
Video from MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” at the above link - Daily Kos: Facts Belie the Scapegoating of Black People for Proposition 8
- Pam’s House Blend: The N-bomb is dropped on black passersby at Prop 8 protests
- CNN: Commentary: Latinos should see gay marriage a civil right
- San Francisco Chronicle: Catholics, Mormons Allied to Pass Prop. 8
- San Francisco Chronicle: Church and state: The issue of Prop. 8
- Slog (The Stranger blog): Yes on 8 from the Inside
With the firsthand account by one California Mormon on why she supported Yes on 8 in spite of her family’s vehement opposition to it - Media Matters for America: Absurd View: Hasselbeck, Shepherd suggest clergy could have been jailed without Prop 8
- Tampa Tribune: Churches Pushed Passage Of Marriage Amendment
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Election Day bittersweet for gay couples
- Palm Beach Post: 'Significant other' benefits unaffected
- Pam’s House Blend The Fight in Florida: Where do we go from here?
- The Washington Post: NY Eyes Allowing Gay Marriage; Opponents Vow Fight
- Boston Herald: Group mulls try to ban gay marriage: Calif. decision emboldens opponents