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Tonight: Sign Making At The NYC LBGT Center For Tomorrow’s Mormon Protest

In advance to tomorrow’s marriage equality rally at the Mormon temple on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, pre-protest organizing and sign making will take place tonight at the NYC LGBT Center. Via Eric Leven: We need folks to come help and make posters on Tuesday night at the LGBT Center on 13th Street between 7th Avenue and Greenwich. We have room …

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Drew Barrymore Speaks Out On Prop 8

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More Prop 8 Protests in LA and San Diego

Head over to Rex Wockner’s site for his coverage of this weekend’s Prop 8 protests in San Diego and Los Angeles. Rex reports that both cities saw at least 13,000 protesters on the streets.Photos by Rex Wockner and Karen Ocamb.

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Reader Pics: SF Prop 8 Protest

On Friday, San Francisco saw one of the largest Prop 8 protests to date. Crowd estimates run as high as 25,000. These photos are via JMG reader James Loduca. Thanks James!

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Wednesday: Prop 8 Protest In NYC

New York City will see its first Prop 8 protest on Wednesday at the Manhattan Mormon Temple on the Upper West Side. Via Facebook: Tens of thousands of our brothers and sisters are in the streets in California and Salt Lake City and around the country protesting the votes banning same-sex marriage in California. Join them! Make your voices heard …

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More Prop 8 Protests Coming

Prop 8 protests are planned for many California locations tonight and over the weekend. In San Diego: Friday evening at 9pm community activists are urged to meet at Laurel & Sixth, then the group will walk to City Hall. Also, on Saturday at noon, gather at First & University in Hillcrest and march to 30th & University in North Park. …

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Gays Protests At LA Mormon Temple

Via LA Times: More than a thousand gay-rights activists gathered Thursday afternoon outside the Mormon temple in Westwood to protest the role Mormons played in passing Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. It was the latest in an escalating campaign directed against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its role in marshaling millions of dollars …

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Video: Last Night’s Arrests At Prop 8 Protest In West Hollywood

The WOW Report provides this 2-minute clip of the LAPD beating and arresting protesters at last night’s Prop 8 march in West Hollywood. Police clubbed one protester repeatedly on his legs after he broke through their barrier. It’s unclear exactly what was to be gained by breaching the barrier, but clearly the police overreacted.

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WeHo Prop 8 Protest Photos

Japhy Grant has photos from last night’s Prop 8 protest in West Hollywood, where the LAPD responded in riot gear and roughed up at least one protester who wouldn’t leave the street. After a group of 1000 protesters left a planned West Hollywood rally to protest Prop 8., they headed eat along Sunset to the CNN building and later to …

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Today At 2PM: Prop 8 Protest At Los Angeles Mormon Temple

Via the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center: WHAT: Leading supporters of marriage equality will hold a news conference in front of the Los Angeles Mormon Temple in response to the Mormon church’s leading role in the deceptive advertising campaign for Proposition 8. At the urging of church President Thomas Monson, Mormons contributed more than $15 million to fund the …

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Turmoil At WeHo Prop 8 Protests

I’m getting reader emails reporting after the Prop 8 rally in WeHo ended tonight, protesters moved onto Santa Monica Boulevard and blocked traffic. At this writing, police are on the scene and according to one JMG reader, the scene is “escalating and getting ugly.” More on this once news reports emerge. UPDATE: The situation appears to have resolved without notable …

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Olympics Protest In Union Square

Yesterday afternoon, after a nice brunch down in the Bowery with Little David and visiting Chicago blogger Jake and his humpy fiancé, we wandered up to Union Square and ran into an anti-Olympics protest. I walked around to take pictures of the protesters with their signs, but aside from the woman below (I think she’s a nun), most didn’t want …

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4000

The death toll for American soldiers in Iraq has reached 4000. The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year. The American deaths occurred Sunday, the …

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Ashes For The Pope

A gay Catholic group wants to shower the Pope with ashes during his visit to NYC next month. A group that works for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans in the Roman Catholic church is planning a series of protests against Pope Benedict during his visit to the US next month. The Rainbow Sash Movement said it is …

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Kokesh Loses In Tribunal

Cpl. Adam Kokesh, Iraq vet, anti-war activist, UMSC reservist, and AMERICAN HERO, lost his case before the Marine Corps today as a three-member panel recommended that he be involuntarily released from the Individual Ready Reserves and have his honorable discharge from the Marine Corps downgraded to a “general”, or less-than-honorable discharge. Kokesh was brought up on charges that he had …

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Gay Protest At NYC Russian Consulate

With Russian news cameras rolling, rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker and gay activist Brendan Fay poured Stolichnaya vodka into the street in front of New York City’s Russian consulate in protest of the treatment of Russian gays by their government. Under the wary eye of the NYPD (who did NOT want to be photographed) and U.S. State Department operatives (the …

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Russian Embassy Protests Today

UPDATE: This post has been updated above, with photos. Late notice, but there’s a vigil taking place today at the Russian embassies in New York (noon) and San Francisco (4pm) in protest of the treatment of gay pride marchers at last week’s Moscow Pride event. Protesters intend to pour Stolichnaya vodka into the sewers in front of each embassy. Nikolai …

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Spitzer Nixes Parade

New York Governor Elliot Spitzer has announced that he will not march in tomorrow’s NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the first NY governor to skip the parade in over a decade. Although Spitzer doesn’t specifically cite the parade’s ban on gays as his reason, his refusal to participate is consistent with his vigorous support of LGBT rights. Spitzer has promised …

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Grandmothers Against The War

Grandmothers Against The War staked out their weekly lonely afternoon vigil on 5th Avenue in front of Rockefeller Center today, as always largely ignored by both tourists and office workers, who cast them scarcely a glance as they bustled onward to the food court and discount souvenir t-shirts.

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