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Connecticut’s highest court legalizes same-sex marriage after a 4 year legal battle in the state court system.

The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a lower courts ruling by 4-3, allowing full-fledged marriage for same-sex couples.

The supreme court said that a ban on gay marriage is an infringement on the “fundamental right” of same-sex couples.

As you may (or may not already know) prior to this ruling Connecticut allowed civil unions for same-sex couples.

As of November 12, 2008, you can get married in Connecticut.  Please check out the Gay Marriage Guide for details.

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If you’re like me, you don’t want to support businesses that don’t support you.  I feel very strongly about that and if someone makes me aware of a company that is anti-gay then I will no longer support or do business with that company.

I bet a lot of you feel the same way so I figured I’d make the Californians Against Hate website available to you as it lists individuals and organizations that donated to the “Yes on Prop 8″ campaign.  There are even non-California donors on here…so even if you’re not from Cali you might want to check it out.

There is a 2 page list, but of the top 5 donors only 2 of them were from California. The 2 California donors in the top 5 were:

• Howard Ahmanson, Jr., Irvine, Ca.  Howard owns Fieldstone and Co. and he Donated $1,395,000.00
• Terry Caster and Family, San Diego, Ca.  They own A-1 Self Storage and they Donated $693.000.00

The out of staters were:

• Knights of Columbus, New Haven, Ct.  Donated $1,425,000.00  (Catholic Church)
• John and Josephine Templeton, Bryn Mawr, PA.  They own the John Templeton Foundation and they donated $1,100,000.00
• National Organization for Marriage, Princeton, NJ.  Donated $1,041,134.80

I urge you to go through the list and if you find businesses that don’t support you then I guess they don’t support you doing business with them either huh?  At least for me, I know they wouldn’t get my money anymore.  But please be certain that if you see a company name on here that it is either a) the company itself that made the donation or b) the CEO, President or Owner made the donation.   Because you are getting individual donations from folks that state where they work and this does not necessarily mean that the company they work for is against gay marriage, but just that individual person is.

Please be aware of this issue and do your due diligence prior to boycotting any businesses.  Again, here is the website to check out the donations to the “Yes on Prop 8″ campaign.

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Join the protest for GLBT rights.  This is all stemmed from the sad results of the elections in Florida, Arizona, Arkansas and California in which they all voted AGAINST EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL.

Check out where you can find the peaceful protest for GLBT rights in your city here.  Please remember, this is just not a protest for just the 4 states mentioned above.  This protest is taking place Saturday, November 15th, 2008 throughout cities in the ENTIRE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Florida, Arkansas, Arizona and California equal right supporters aren’t the only people pissed off about the passage of these bills.  GLBT and even non-glbt folks across the entire U.S.A. (and even abroad) are equally as upset.

This Saturday, those that support equal rights for all, will join together in their city for a peaceful protest.

Remember t0 check the site to find out where in your city or state you can join the peaceful protest for GLBT rights.

Let us know if you’re going to take a sign and what you’re going to say on your sign.

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I’m sorry it took me so long to post this…was a bit under the weather.  But yes, as unbelievable as it is, Prop 8 passed in California.  This will put discrimination into the states constitution and will not allow gay marriages in California even after the Supreme Court just said that gay marriages are legal.

Californians can’t give up though.  Not now, not ever…and gay and lesbians throughout the WORLD are all outraged at this and we’ll all help make it heard.

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Boy, I was so excited lat night when I heard that Barack Obama had won.  I was sick as a dog and even took Nyquil but something in me wouldn’t let me go to sleep until I knew this man had won.

You know I’ve voted in other elections before but this is the first time ever that I actually volunteered my time and energy for a Presidential candidate.  My partner and I volunteered for the Obama campaign to register voters and to make phone calls and yesterday I volunteered to canvass door-to-door.  I gotta tell you I had a blast!!!!!!  And meeting all of the people I met throught (very conservative and repulican) Chester County was awesome.  There were so many Obama supporters that it was just great.

I honestly feel that all of the volunteers made this election for Mr. Obama.  It feels good to know that our time and energy was well spent!

All I want to say to President Elect Barack Obama is please, please don’t throw the gay and lesbian community “under the bus” as Bill Clinton did (with Do Not Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.)  We supported you along the way and I personally, have respected you for the fact that you were the only Presidential candidate ever that would bring up gay rights and issues no matter who your audience was.  I mean let’s face it, it’s easy to talk about gay rights and gay issues in front of a gay audience, but YOU would talk about gay rights and gay issues in front of non-gay dominated audiences…..I will always respect you for that, but NOW that we put you in office sir, please don’t let us down and please TAKE ACTION and don’t just give us words.  (Btw, my stepfather wasn’t going to vote for anyone this year, but he decided to vote for “his daughter”, aka me, and he voted for Obama, but Mr. Obama he’ll have his eye on you and he’ll be wanting to make sure that you DO actually do something to help gays and lesbians in this world.  Please do it….because if you don’t…..he already told me that he will be on my behind every chance he gets about you!)

I’m just asking that you do the right thing, President Obama, when it comes to gay and lesbian Americans…..and I know you know what the right thing is…..please don’t let us down.

Once again, Congratulations!  And thank you everyone that came out to vote.

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The Ugandan Government said they will prosecute anyone who comes out as being gay or lesbian. Having sex with someone of the same sex in Uganda is punishable by by life imprisonment as it is a criminal offense.

By the way, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said that they had uncovered evidence that the Bush administration has funded groups in Uganda that actively promote violence and discrimination against lesbians and gay men.

I don’t know much about Uganda, but what I do know is that I don’t want to go there!!!!! Anyone from Uganda out there? Heck, I don’t know how safe you’d feel admitting anything on a gay blog anyway…so nevermind. This is just insane. I know I don’t live there and I have no control over what happens there but I’m sorry for what you have to go through there……….if there’s away we can help from here, please let us know.

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Folks, if you live in California, please, please, please take action now in some way, shape or form and get the word out to all of your friends, family, co-wokers, everyone to vote NO on Prop 8.

This is the initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in California. It WILL be on the November ballot and everyone in California will be voting for or against it.

Please urge folks to vote NO to Prop 8. If you can afford it, even a little bit, why don’t you donate to the cause. The Pro Prop 8 people are out numbering us dollar wise big time..so much so that in a recent poll of California people, pro Prop 8 people are winning by 5%!!!

We can’t let this happen to California…please get the word out more. Brad Pitt, graciously donated $100,000 to the say no to Prop 8 campaign………….now I know you ain’t Brad Pitt, but if you or anyone you can know is fortunate enough to have some money to spare, I think this would be a great cause now. You can go here to donate to say No To Prop 8!

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In December, Iowa’s Supreme Court wil hear a case which challenges their state’s ban on marriage equality. Each side of this argument will have 30 minutes to make their arguments.

A Polk County judge, last year, struck down a state law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples stating that it violated constitutional rights of due process and equal protection.

Anybody in Iowa care to comment on this? What’s your feeling on how most of Iowa feels (or at least the gay and straight people in your world that you know.)

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