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As to the areas that voted for Prop 8 in San Francisco:
1. The gay community has to go there, represented by people who can relate to the people who live in those precincts, and teach the workingclass precincts that an injury to one is an injury to all, labor's slogan, and that Prop 8 was all about putting discrimination into the state constitution, and once that starts, the non-whites are certainly next. That will convince most of them to support gay marriage. HARVEY MILK UNDERSTOOD THIS PRINCIPLE VERY WELL, AND THAT IS WHY FASCIST EX-COP DAN WHITE KILLED HIM. He always did what he could to unite the workingclass areas of town with the gay liberation movement, a sure guarantee of victory for both the workingclass and the gay community, some of whom are workingclass too.
2. The Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, the Tenderloin and Chinatown have very few voters comparatively. Yes, the gay community must reach all of these areas as these are natural allies for any liberation struggle, but they are not the biggest problem.
3. The biggest problem was the Sunset and the Richmond, not just around Lake Merced, but all of these two heavy voting property owner areas. You will see on the chart that they voted mostly 50-70% No on 8, which in San Francisco is a sign of confusion on the civli right to marry for all. Most people do not understand that concept and it has to be explained. About half the people in the Sunset and Richmond districts are Asian-American and can be reached on the discrimination issue.
4. The white non-Hispanic European descendants can be reached on the civil right to marry must apply to all. The biggest problem among property owners is of course the high percentage of old people in that group, the most difficult to change.
5. We must push as many young people, ages 18 to 29, to vote and teach them that they do not have to vote on everything on the ballot, but there are some things that are very important. We must also send people who can relate to the young into the high schools and colleges to teach gay liberation, civil marriage for all, and non-discrimination concepts and the history of the marriage laws, namely it took until 1948 for California to eliminate its ban on interracial marriages (despite the fact that California was admitted to the Union in 1850 as a free state!) and until 1967 for the US Supreme Court to eliminate bans on interracial marriages nationwide, and these bans existed in most if not all of the Old Confederacy and other states. We must also teach the history of racism toward Mexican-Americans, Chinese-Americans and many other nationalities so that the young understand the importance of opposing discrimination against anyone, including gay people.