Gays won’t accept California’s bigotry

Since Californians have dealt gays a stinging blow by voting in Proposition 8, to ban gay marriage, many young gays are realizing the kind of bigotry they are up against in this country:

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PROPOSITION 8
A Generation Wakes Up

For many the passing of Prop. 8 is the first time anything of significance has gone so wrong for gays and lesbians -- we've had no other choice but to stand up and fight. This weekend 12,000 people-plus descended on Los Angeles's Silver Lake district, proving that when faced with discrimination, if the gays have to choose between equal rights and a rum and diet Coke, they may fill up a flask -- but they’ll march.
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By Ross von Metzke
An Advocate.com exclusive posted November 10, 2008

Maybe it was the sign of a half dozen patients at Los Angeles’s Children’s Hospital banging on the windows, flashing the peace sign, and waving at the crowd. Maybe it was the hundreds of gay people who sat down in the middle of Sunset Boulevard on Saturday night to demand that police officers stand down and allow the march to move west into Hollywood’s heavily trafficked nightlife district. Maybe it was simply that I’d never seen 12,000-plus gay people stand so strongly behind the fight for civil rights before.”

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