111508 – A National Day of Proposition 8 Protests
(No Ratings Yet)Last Saturday, November 15th 2008 was a National Day of Protest about Proposition 8. Queerty and Towleroad has a great gallery of Marriage Equality protests from cities all over the United States. be sure to check it out and upload any photos of your own.
The photos below are some of the multitude of protest signs held aloft proudly in front of San Francisco’s City Hall… courtesy of my favorite guy, popapathy.
I love that here in San Francisco when there is a Prop 8 protest at City Hall as part of a National Day of Protest it is with the blessing of the city. Although the crowd was estimated at around 7500 people, I saw none of the racial hate speech or out of control rowdy types or overzealous police that I’ve read about at previous protests in other locations.
It was a beautiful and peaceful event with inspirational chorus of supportive speaking voices of all creeds and racial backgrounds.
Wednesday November 19th, from 7-9pm, at the SF LGBT Community Center (1800 Market – at Octavia) a “Community Forum is being held to address the issue “How can we better build bridges between the LGBT Community and communities of color.”
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More than 4,000 people showed up in Manhattan for what gay-rights activists were calling a national day of protest, with other rallies taking place across California and in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Fargo, N.D., and other cities, most put together by person-to-person efforts across the Internet.
In San Diego, a crowd estimated by police at 20,000 and by organizers at 25,000 demonstrated against Prop. 8, while in Los Angeles police said between 10,000 and 12,000 people marched peacefully though the downtown area. Smaller protests were held in cities and towns across the state.
Another high point was comedian Wanda Sykes coming out as a pissed off gay-married lesbian Saturday at a the Las Vegas Protest… and without arranging for the customary “Yep I’m gay” People Magazine cover. She announced they pissed off the wrong group of people and she is damn right.
This appears to be the season of Prop 8 protests so in case you are looking for some nifty signs YOU could hold up high while chanting or taunting some magic underwear clad Mormons out to impose their religious judgment on a neighboring state…
visit protest8sf.wordpress’s publicity gallery for a variety of stylish downloadable fliers and signs
Another gallery of some really great no on Prop 8 signs can be found at against8.blogspot.com
via SFGate, Queerty and Towleroad
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