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UNRELATED SHALLOWNESS: Takei’s voice is just ridiculously sexy.

About 200 gay activists appeared outside the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles tonight to protest President Obama’s perceived inaction on LGBT rights. The president was inside attending a DNC fundraising dinner. During the protest, the crowd chanted, “Out of the court, into the streets, we are ready to fight, we won’t be beat.” It was a reference to Tuesday’s state …

Several dozen gay activists are occupying the San Diego County Clerk’s office, saying they won’t leave until they get a marriage license. The event, organized in response to the state Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to uphold the state’s gay marriage ban, began around noon at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego. Michael Anderson, 27, and Brian Baumgardner, 26, …

Levi Strauss, perhaps the strongest corporate supporter of LGBT rights, is dressing mannequins in their store windows nationwide with the White Knot – the symbol of marriage equality. Store employees have been trained to discuss the issue with inquisitive customers. In Levi’s-owned stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, that means more than just marking the passing …

A broad coalition of LGBT rights organizations have expressed opposition to the planned federal lawsuit for marriage equality announced yesterday by lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies. From Freedom To Marry: In response to the California Supreme Court decision allowing Prop 8 to stand, four LGBT legal organizations and five other leading national LGBT groups are reminding the LGBT community …

Schwarzenegger tells Jay Leno that Prop 8 will “eventually be overturned.” If only he hadn’t vetoed same-sex marriage those TWO times the legislature sent it to him. (Via – Towleroad)

The Courage Campaign and a coalition of other progressive groups will protest Barack Obama’s continuing silence on marriage equality when he appears at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser dinner tonight at the Beverly Hills Hilton. President Barack Obama, the most LGBT-friendly president in history, will be at the Beverly Hilton the evening of Wednesday, May 27th, for a DNC fundraiser. …

Good Magazine provides the above timeline of constitutional bans on same-sex marriage and when our victories have occurred. Massive version here. (Via – Jockohomo)

All eyes turn to central California this Saturday for the giant Meet In The Middle 4 Equality march, in which activists take the battle to the heart of “the enemy” in Fresno. Starting with a 14.5-mile march in Selma – the Fresno County town with the same name as the Alabama city iconic to the 1960s civil rights movement – …

NYC Comptroller William Thompson has issued a report declaring that marriage equality for LGBT couples would garner the state an additional $210M in revenue in the first three years. “New York State and New York City stand to benefit economically if marriage equality is passed in our State,” Comptroller Thompson said. “Legalizing marriage for same-sex couples is not only good …

Two very well-known lawyers that once fought each other over the Bush-Gore election result have announced that they will join forces to file a federal challenge to yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling on Proposition 8. Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, who represented then-Vice President Al Gore in the contested election, have joined forces to tackle …

The deep thinkers at the Maine Marriage Alliance point to a survey about monogamy among gay male couples and come to this conclusion: Legal recognition for openly non-monogamous gay unions would effectively destroy the taboo on adultery. The result is a continual downfall of families and society. Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at Stanford University explains: “What we need to …

At yesterday’s Prop 8 protest in SF: San Francisco police arrested about 175 protesters who were part of a group that blocked a major intersection for hours today in response to the state Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. Hundreds of people filled the intersection of Grove Street and Van Ness Avenue late this …

I shot this just as the march stepped off for Union Square, so folks were just getting their chants going. If you hang on to the end, you may spot a couple of Gotham celebrities.

Undeterred by and in defiance of Proposition 8, thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets tonight for a march from the West Village to Union Square, where a now-familiar roster of speakers rallied the crowd, warning everybody that only 24 days remain in the New York Senate’s current session. A second rally will take place this Sunday in Astoria, …

Matt Coles is the director of the ACLU LGBT Project.

Maybe I spoke too soon when I predicted scant public disruptions over this widely-expected verdict. San Diego Pride says: “San Diego Pride and its many supporters will continue focusing on public education and coalition-building in a newly energized movement determined to achieve marriage equality for scores of same-sex couples who are unfairly denied the privilege. That means forging the most …