A Prop 8 challenge for swankers

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm just blown away that the protest is still going on.
Wow!

[BarTopDancer]

I don't have any details beyond this - there will be a protest in LB tomorrow night. Hopefully someone can get more info

[innerSpaceman]

I checked the KCAL link in this thread just before I left work, but they didn't zoom out and I had NO IDEA where they were ... or i might have tried to hook up with the moving protest zone again.

Turns out I likes protestin'. It's some kind of release, and positive action in response to something that's clearly gnawing at me in unfathomable ways of dangerous potential.

[Not Afraid]

I got visited by Baptists at home today. A giant bus pulled up in ront of my house and a load of people hopped out and started dispersing through the hood. They knocked on my door to give me a flyer. I returned it to them. They told me that there was important questions on the back that would answer whether or not I was going to heaven. I said, I'm not worried about that because I believe I'm going to "heaven".

The rest of the convo went like this M=me B=Bigot

B: Oh really? What church do you go to?
M; I don't attend a church.
B: We'd love to have you join ours
M: What's your position on Prop 8?
B: I believe marriage should be between a man and a women.
M: Well, I don't hang with bigots
B: So, you think it's OK if a mother wants to marry her daughter?
M: What does THAT have to do with it? I'm know many a happy, long term same sex couple and not ONE is a Mother Daugher combo. My next doof neighbours have been together longer than I have with my husband. They are a FAMILY. They don't have the same civil rights as me? That's wrong
B: Have a nice day.

I yelled BIGOTS after them.

Then I went and pit my No on 8 sign back up in my front yard.

I was PISSED OFF. There are so many more things I could've said and I'm mad I didn't say them.

The is the 5tth time since Halloween that church people have been canvassing the neighborhood. We have a HUGE gay population here (the neighborhood nickname is Lavender Heights). Plus, we're all satanic because we LOVE Halloween.

Idiot bigots.

[Not Afraid]

If anyone know more about a Long Beach protest, please post.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

If anyone know more about a Long Beach protest, please post.

Just recieved this, actually:
"MARCH DOWN BROADWAY TO PROTEST PROP 8 OUTCOME" tomorrow.

Event: MARCH DOWN BROADWAY TO PROTEST PROP 8 OUTCOME
"Voice Your Disgust With The Prop. 8 Outcome"
What: Protest
Host: The LGBT Community of Long Beach
Start Time: Tomorrow, November 7 at 6:45pm
End Time: Tomorrow, November 7 at 9:00pm
Where: Broadway and Redondo

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

If anyone know more about a Long Beach protest, please post.

I found this on the interwebs
which lines up with what my friend has been hearing.

Friday night (tomorrow) we plan to march down Broadway in the city of Long Beach in 3 stages. For those who cannot walk the entire route, we welcome your support on the sidelines.

FRIDAY NIGHT - 7pm Intersection of Broadway and Redondo (near the Library CoffeeHouse) in Belmont Heights. We need a large amount of people to completely blocks the intersection and start marching down Broadway to completely CLOSE DOWN the street. Contact your list, email, text, telephone, etc...let each other know WE WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS INJUSTICE! Find parking ahead of time either down the route, or in the neighborhoods that stage starts in. I recommend the Broadway bus Route 111/112 if you're starting with us, The little Red bus down Ocean and off at Redondo, then walk three blocks north.

FRIDAY NIGHT (Second Stage) - 7:30-7:45pm Intersection of Broadway and Junipero in Bluff Heights. Come join us and walk with us to the next rallying point. Show your peers that they need to join in on the struggle for EQUAL RIGHTS. We will continue to March down Broadway and pull people from the bars to march with us. We will encourage people shopping and dining to join us in our statement to the State of California that THIS IS WRONG! Again, parking will be tight, so arrive EARLY. The park is a great spot to ditch the car while you walk. The OCean little red bus works too, as does the 4th Street bus.

FRIDAY NIGHT (Third and Final Stage) - 8:15 - 8:30pm Intersection of Broadway and Alamitos in Bluff Heights (near Hamburger Marys) We will start the last leg of our march to PIne Ave and down to Ocean Blvd. WE WILL BE HEARD TOMORROW NIGHT. Bring signs, candles, comfortable shoes to march in. Encourage friends and family, gay and straight alike to join us. WE NEED TO MAKE A POWERFUL PRESENCE tomorrow night. All bus routes apply here. Parking IS a bear downtown, but we're on a mission....find a way!

The organizers of NO ON PROP 8 have been notified, and we need WAY MORE PEOPLE!! THANK YOU ALL for joining in our efforts to hear our loud voices heard. Please please please be peaceful. No altercations our vandalism during the march. We're marching through OUR main neighborhoods, we wish to make a positive statement, not an unruly one.

Copy and paste this to your friends, families, blog it, broadcast it, text it, email it, just get the word out.

[Disneyphile]

If there are any weekend evening protests, I'd love to get involved.

[Isaac]

Ooh! I'm in!

I'll try to get out of work early to make sure I get there on time.

[Gemini Cricket]

A picture of yesterday's protest at the Mormon Temple on Santa Monica Blvd made the front page of the LA Times this morning. It was above the fold. I think that's wonderful.

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