Known for their anti-war efforts, ANSWER LA is organizing an emergency Prop 8 rally tomorrow on Nov. 8 at 6 p.m. to protest the recent passage to ban same-sex marriage in California.
From the ANSWER LA website:
The well-funded forces of bigotry and discrimination think they have turned back the clock of history. Wrong! The struggle for full equality for the LGBT people will continue until the right to marry is won—in California and under federal law throughout the U.S.
Supporters of equal rights are asked to gather at the corner of Sunset and Santa Monica Blvds.
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you all will look like fools at the gayest intersetion in silverlake
Right in my 'hood. I am so there. lahipster, Sunset Junction, although it has gentrified greatly over the past decade or so, is still a really diverse neighborhood, FYI.
If the ANSWER group moves any distance east or west, suddenly we're in neighborhoods densely populated by minorities. And I can tell you, too, that there are a ton of latino evangelical/LDS churches & meeting spaces up and down Virgil between Sunset and Melrose.
Let's keep it peaceful.
(I almost started crying driving home last night when I saw the big peace sign brightly lit up above the marquee at Rita Flora on La Brea @ 6th St.)
I can't wait to be a part of this. And yes, agreed, we MUST keep it peaceful folks! Or else we get branded as "no better" than those who forced this upon us.
lahipster, as I'm sure someone has said before, your name is such an oxymoron (intended or unintended I don't know) because you sure don't know anything about LA and you sure as hell are not a hipster.
the only question here is what my sign will say.
"lahipster, as I'm sure someone has said before, your name is such an oxymoron"
I suggest lashitster
Where was all of this activity 2 weeks ago when it could have made a difference? I'm pissed prop 8 passed, but be honest... where was all this support before???
I wonder if the gay community at large was being rather apathetic towards the whole issue?
Just saying. Hopefully it works out... i cant stand religion and fear-based bullshit making its way into our governmental policy.
twoonline:
a lot of us were doing "visibility" in WeHo and in Silver Lake (at this very location) in the weeks leading up to the election. In addition, we were making phone calls to registered Democrats, asking them to vote no on Prop 8 and clarifying for them, if they were confused, the content of the proposition.
There really was an effort made. Sadly, it was not enough to combat the lies and ignorance on Nov. 4th.
It's still not "too late" or "over" though - not by a long shot!
twonine - I don't think we were being apathetic. I think a lot of the voters were rather apathetic about learning what it was that they were voting on.
More than that though, there was a bunch of activity in the weeks leading up to the vote, particularly the weekend and day before - i.e., rallies, get out the vote drives, phone banking.
I think that the level of activity we're seeing now is something that could have come only after such an explicit display of discrimination from a little over half of those who voted in support of the proposition. It's a cathartic anger that, really, has been a long time coming. After decades of being the target of isolated instances of subtle and not-so-subtle acts of discrimination and funny what's-wrong-with-you glances, I think the proposition's passage just was the straw that broke the camel's back. The simmering anger of systematic disparate treatment is finally, finally boiling over.
About time!!
LAShitster!!!
I'll see you all there!
how can any of us really be "free" if our freedoms are at the mercy and whim of a simple 50% of the population? Traditional marriage used to be defined as marrying within one's race. Barack Obama's parents would have been committing a crime in any number of southern states when they had Mr. Obama. All this is just a repetition of what anyone with a brain knows, inequality for some is inequality for all.
I'll be there, this will be my first protest ever (embarassing I know). Gay or straight, everyone has an investment in this cause. Gay bashing is seemingly the last societally approved form of bigotry and hatred. It needs to stop. Not in two years when we can vote again, but now. Patience is an overrated virtue.
see you there...don't let fear be the guide! Stay peaceful, without malice or anger. Love our neighbors, even when we don't agree. Let's show the fearful "they have nothing to fear but fear itself!"