Harvey would have been very proud. I still find that the documentary produced in 1984 “The Life And Times Of Harvey Milk” is the best in accurately telling of his life.

The first time I arrived to San Francisco you would think that the city that this man fought so hard to have our voices heard and as the staging ground and a face for our civil rights would have dedicated more towards him and his memory right?
I was disappointed when my friend Dom took me to the Castro to where there was only a plaque at the entrance/exit of the Muni subway under the city.

Harvey deserved so much more than that. Hopefully this film will remind this selfish, self-serving, cowardly generation of why we must continue to fight on.

It’s not about “ME ME ME” or “getting what I need”.

It’s about all of us.

Tom in Long Beach who wants to stay married to his partner of 14 years.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today announced support of measures before the California legislature challenging Proposition 8, which altered the California Constitution to deny same-sex couples the freedom to marry and equal protection under the law.

In a letter to legislative leaders, NAACP national board chair Julian Bond and President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous urged passage of House Resolution 5 and Senate Resolution 7 to put the legislature on record calling for invalidation of Prop. 8 as an improper and dangerous alteration of the California Constitution.

“The NAACP’s mission is to help create a society where all Americans have equal protection and opportunity under the law,” said President Jealous. “Our Mission Statement calls for the ‘equality of rights of all persons.’ Prop. 8 strips same-sex couples of a fundamental freedom, as defined by the California State Supreme Court. In so doing, it poses a serious threat to all Americans. Prop. 8 is a discriminatory, unprecedented change to the California Constitution that, if allowed to stand, would undermine the very purpose of a constitution and courts – assuring equal protection and opportunity for all and safeguarding minorities from the tyranny of the majority.”

This was tried in NJ and they found that many business and organizations continue to discriminate against couples by not giving the same benefits to civil unions as they do to marriages. NJ is now likely going to change to marriage rather than civil unions.

RE: Dictionary definition; Definitions change as new occasions teach new meanings. The language is not static; any language which does not change is ‘dead.’ Don’t be limited by archaic definitions as their accuracy is easily eroded by time and usage. The definition of marriage will soon change too as it has over the centuries. It once meant a social and economic contract to exchange chattel. The current definition is only a couple of centuries old and will gradually pass away too.

Do not be fooled by the so-called-christian’s claims that marriage as we now know it was instituted in holy scripture — it’s simply not true. Do the research. It’s a convenient lie.