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Via press release from AFER: On Saturday night, the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact presented the West Coast premiere reading of the play “8” before a sold-out crowd in Los Angeles and a worldwide audience watching on YouTube. “8” is an unprecedented account of the Federal District Court trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. …

From last night: Featuring an all-star cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Kevin Bacon and others, “8” is a play written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner. It is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal …

American Foundation for Equal Rights co-founder Chad Griffin has been hired to succeed Joe Solmonese as president of the Human Rights Campaign. Via press release: Chad H. Griffin was appointed today as the next president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, by the organization’s Board of Directors. Griffin, …

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Maryland and marriage equality will certainly make a lovely couple. Maryland is the Free State, after all. To be able to share and celebrate one’s love and commitment both publicly and legally is a lifelong dream for thousands of same-sex couples and their families. It’s thrilling that Maryland is poised to make this a …

Scheduled start is 10:30AM Los Angeles time. UPDATE: It looks like AFER is having some problem with their UStream feed. Stand by…

In case you missed yesterday’s posts, here today’s reminder from AFER.

Chris Geidner explains at Metro Weekly: The long anticipated ruling is expected to address three issues: (1) whether former U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself from hearing the case because he is gay and had a long-time partner with whom he was not married; (2) whether the proponents of Proposition 8 have the right to appeal …

Clip description: “Another crazy week, with news in the Prop 8 case and major advances in Washington, New Jersey, and Maryland. And yet another court has slapped down NOM’s attempts to evade financial disclosure laws.”

As expected the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the videotapes of the Prop 8 trial will remain unreleased. Hit the link for the full 24-page decision. (PDF)

2012 is already look like a big year for marriage.

Civil unions and fishy polling!

Below is the full hearing from Thursday. The first clip covers the argument against releasing the trial tapes. The second clip covers the argument that Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself for being gay. Both clips are highly instructive as to the vitriolic lengths our enemies are willing to go in their campaign of oppression.

Lambda Legal “The Court raked the lawyer for Prop 8’s proponents over the coals for their argument that gay judges alone have special obligations to prove their impartiality that no other judge must bear. From the start, this motion was an offensive ploy by the proponents of Prop 8 to distract attention from the unconstitutionality of Prop 8 and the …

The final (probably) Prop 8 hearing before the Ninth Circuit Court begins at 2:30pm PST. It appears that there will be no streaming video from the court house, but San Francisco’s KQED will be providing live audio. I’m told the stream will be internet only, so if you regularly listen to KQED broadcasts online, you’ll need a different link. Supporters …

The final arguments begin at 2:30PM San Francisco time.

The Ninth Circuit Court will today hear final arguments on why the Prop 8 trial tapes should be made public. More importantly, they will hear arguments regarding the motion to vacate Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling because he is gay. I’ll be live-tweeting the proceedings and will (hopefully) have live video here on JMG.