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Monday, December 1, 2008 : “You can kill the messenger, but you can’t kill the message,” shouted Tom Ammiano at a November 28 rally to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Harvey Milk’s assassination. “Harvey Milk’s message was hope,” said nephew Stuart Milk, “and its expression was courage.” For thirty years, activists have marched each year to Harvey Milk’s camera store in the Castro – although it’s usually been a brief low-key affair, with a handful of people marching just two blocks....

The resistance movement to Proposition 8 is bringing forward a new generation of Queer community leaders who are rejecting the "safe" strategies of their elders and the namby-pamby losing campaign against it. Young activists are organizing demonstrations on the Internet and giving speeches that remind author Leo Laurence — who founded the first Gay-liberation group in San Francisco in January 1969, five months before Stonewall — of the radical Queers of the late 1960's and early 1970's....

March on Sacramento! Demand that Marriage Licenses Continue to Be Issued in All Counties in California! Demand the Immediate Overturn of Prop. 8!...

Thursday, November 20, 2008 : Yesterday, the California Supreme Court announced it would take up the legal challenges to Proposition 8. But while lawyers debate the future of marriage equality, activists are planning next steps regardless of the outcome. There’s a lot of grass-roots energy emanating from the recent protests, and now is the time to channel that activism into tangible results....

(San Francisco, California, November 19, 2008)—Today the California Supreme Court granted review in the legal challenges to Proposition 8, which passed by a narrow margin of 52 percent on November 4. In an order issued today, the Court agreed to hear the case and set an expedited briefing schedule. The Court also denied an immediate stay....

They rage against injustices and they dance with younger men and women at their children's and grandchildren's weddings. *Cougars for Justice!* Top Photo by Justin Miel: Three members of the Raging Grannies Action League at the No on 8 Rally of November 15 in Mountain View, California sing out *against* Proposition 8 and *for* equal rights for gay and lesbians....

Part street theater, part ceremony of recognition, these protesters on the San Francisco peninsula said it in drama, song and signs: *Will Your Marriage be Next?* *Protect Us from Tyranny of the Majority* *If anyone has reason why these two should not be wed...move back to Utah!* All Photos copyrighted by Justin Miel except second to last photo by bdu under Creative Commons License....

At least 1000 people rallied at the steps of the Santa Cruz County Courthouse on Saturday morning in support of equal rights and marriage equality for all. From there, folks carried signs and flags along Water Street from Ocean Street to the Clock Tower at Pacific....

More than ten thousand demonstrated in San Francisco on November 15 against Proposition 8....

Rainbow Rainbow! UCSC multicultural student-facilitated organization Rainbow presents 'The Underground,' an interpretive look at the lives of strangers intersecting at a subway station. Come to Stevenson Event Center November 21-22 to see the show. Tickets are seven dollars at the door, well worth the cost. Come out to support this performance....