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

Our lawsuit, filed in conjunction with our friends at Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, asking the California Supreme Court to invalidate Prop. 8.  We just learned yesterday that the California Supreme Court WILL hear the case! More info in our press release.

• 365Gay: Video: Prop 8 Legal Strategies
  Video available at the link above; not specifically about our case but explains the legal theory in a pretty basic fashion
• Los Angeles Times: Prop. 8 Gay Marriage Ban Goes to Supreme Court
• Los Angeles Times: EDITORIAL: The Courts and Prop. 8
• Associated Press: Calif. Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage Ban
• San Francisco Chronicle: State Supreme Court Rejoins Prop. 8 Battle
• Sacramento Bee: State high court to take up Prop. 8 challenge
• Box Turtle Bulletin: CA Supremes to Hear Challenge to Prop 8 - No Stay

RELATIONSHIPS NEWS

California Prop. 8

• 365Gay: Video: Prop 8 Legal Strategies
  Video available at the link above
• San Jose Mercury News: Prop. 8 battle enters new stage
• 365Gay: OPINION: The raw energy of post-Prop 8
• 365Gay: Report from California: Meeting the (gay marriage) opposition
• Media Matters for America: O'Reilly suggested that without Prop 8, "a man can have 27 wives"; CA Supreme Court disagrees
• Washington Blade: Newsom criticizes Obama, Schwarzenegger over Prop 8: San Francisco mayor calls for greater outreach to black voters
• Pam’s House Blend: Simulation Techniques: Prop 8, Acts of Omission, Racial Scapegoating
  An interesting new take on the numbers of yes voters

• 365Gay.com: APA: Gay marriage bans harm mental health
• Stateline.org: Massachusetts leads in `new economy'
  Show this to the next person who tells you that allowing gay people to get married will ruin your state
• EDGE Boston: Celebrating Goodridge’s social innovation

YOUTH AND SCHOOLS NEWS

• Associated Press: Gay Advocates Upset at Shelving of Chicago School

DISCRIMINATION NEWS

• Wall Street Journal: EHarmony Settles Dispute Over Gay
Matches
• Salt Lake Tribune: Legislative Panel Approves First Gay-Rights Bill
• Box Turtle Bulletin: Today In History: Lawrence vs. Texas Begins Its Journey Through The Courts

TRANSGENDER NEWS

Today is the 10th International Transgender Day of Remembrance; we also have a blog post from Diane Schroer about this here.

• Santa Cruz Sentinel: Transgender Community Seeks End to Violence, Discrimination
• Times-Standard: A day of remembrance
• The Bilerico Project: Trans Day of Remembrance
• The Bilerico Project: The Value of a Life
• The Bilerico Project: A Gender Primer
• The Bilerico Project: HRC Observes Trans Day of Remembrance
  Video available at the above link
• MyFoxMemphis.com [WHBQ-13]: Former Memphis Cop Indicted for Duanna Johnson Beating

HIV NEWS

• Box Turtle Bulletin: “The Chilling Effect”: Did GOP Politics Stiffle (sic) AIDS Prevention Research?
• PLoS Medicine: The Chilling Effect: How Do Researchers React to Controversy?
  This is the article referenced in the above blog post