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Eight gay women are blogging to battle Prop. 8

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Everybody’s doing it. Whether you live in California or not, you know that Proposition 8 is on the November ballot — an effort by anti-gay groups to overturn the right of same-sex couples to marry. Couples like this one, to be exact.

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, June 16, 2008

The good news is that foes of Proposition 8 have come out of the woodwork to help defeat the measure. We’ve told you about the great PSAs by Margaret Cho, Molly Ringwald, Ellen DeGeneres and others. We’ve rejoiced at significant financial support from Stephen Spielberg, Kate Capshaw and Brad Pitt.

MadTV joined in last week with a trailer featuring Lucy and Ethel, admitting that, had gay marriage been legal when they were around, they would’ve gotten married “lickety split.” (“You do the split and I’ll do the lickety,” Ethel said.) And crackle.com released two very funny videos addressing professed objections to same sex marriage.

Now, some of our own have stepped up to raise awareness — and funds — to defeat Proposition 8. Recently, AfterEllen.com blogger GraceChu saw people on her Facebook account campaigning for the hate measure’s passage. Fighting her first instinct to do a mass deletion, Grace came up with the idea to get eight influential lesbian bloggers (including our own Dorothy Snarker) to band together to raise $8,000 in eight days. Today, 8 Against 8 was born.

Meet the eight against hate: Grace Chu and Grace Rosen from Grace the Spot, Dorothy Snarker from Dorothy Surrenders, Lori Hahn from Hahn at Home, Kelly Leszczynski from The Lesbian Lifestyle, Pam Spaulding from Pam's House Blend, Sinclair from Sugarbutch Chronicles, Riese from This Girl Called Automatic Win and Renee Gannon from Lesbiatopia.

If you are a regular reader of any or all of these blogs, you know that often the women have little more in common than sexual orientation. But on Proposition 8, these wordilicious lesbians agree: Just say no.

If you don’t live in California, you may be asking what all this has to do with you. Spend some time on any of the 8 Against 8 blogs to learn why it matters. I live in Texas and am pretty sure we’ll see a ban on big belt buckles before anyone even talks about letting us queer folks get married. But watching the video at the end of Ms. Snarker’s post made me dust off my debit card and send a little cash to the cause. Let’s save marriage — the right way.

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the linster

on October 20, 2008 - 4:00pm.

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jennifer from p... (1430 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 4:27pm.

I gave. If this tightwad can loose the purse strings, so can you! Guess this means that it's nothing but lentils the rest of the week, and I better baby that bottle of Merlot or I'll *gasp* be entirely sober by about Thursday.

Such Peer Pressure!

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~H~ (3957 posts)

on October 21, 2008 - 6:38pm.

In truth, you don't even need to twist my arm. We cannot take a step backwards when it comes to gay marriage and if funding is needed to fight against Proposition 8, well then...
Could you please pass the lentils, Jennifer?
;-)

Heck, H, I owe you a proper

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jennifer from p... (1430 posts)

on October 21, 2008 - 10:03pm.

Heck, H, I owe you a proper meal! Not lentils. Caty and I will catch up with you over Xmas and treat you to something delish, okay? It'll give me a chance to show off my good sweater ;)

Awesome PSA´s!!!!!!

Submitted by

Gaby (355 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 5:08pm.

I´ll never have sex again since I´m bi, overweighted and I´m sure I´m not getting any younger.. I loved that one!!! Are all the reasons for opposing ~~same-sex~~ marriage that.... ridiculous???

PS: This might sound stupid but I´ve been wondering this: LGBT people are considered second classs citizens right? As in "we are less worthy" than heterosexual people. So that leaves me wondering, if we are "less" than they are, how come WE make THEIR marriages less worthy?! If they really believe we are a different class, a lesser kind of beings how come we are able to threaten everything they hold sacred? They shouldn´t worry about that right?!

(THIS IS A LEGITIMATE DOUBT I´VE HAD, PLEASE EXCUSE MY IGNORANCE)

i think Riese said it best...

Submitted by

sage (41 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 5:09pm.

"..we're all broke now anyway, what's another $5-$500 bucks? That's what I tell myself every night when I order takeout." please everyone donate..just a few dollars for a basic human right

Awesome.

Submitted by

Steph (59 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 6:12pm.

Donated.

BTW If you live in Florida

Submitted by

Jake (23 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 6:15pm.

Vote No on Prop/Amendment 2 it is similar to prop 8...

Voting NO on 8

Submitted by

Michie87 (617 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 7:08pm.

I am soooo voting NO on 8!!!..lets give those stupid homophobes a reason to respect us!! and let us be!.

Riese!

Submitted by

Edilma (16 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 9:14pm.

I (heart) riese, best damn blogger ever, you guys should hire her ;)

Prop 8

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Rachel JW (327 posts)

on October 20, 2008 - 9:32pm.

I live in Cali and I'm doing what I can to raise awareness. I was at a booth informing people, passing out fliers, buttons, talking to friends, and am all over the internet-group world about it.

-Rachel

http://groups.myspace.com/KisstheGirl07

Riese

Submitted by

ketchup__fights (67 posts)

on October 21, 2008 - 1:36am.

I can't believe I've never heard of Riese or her blog before today. She is indeed, as advertised, made of win.

And seriously folks, we've got to beat this thing. Gay rights opponents know this could set us back years if it's passed, and that's why they're pumping money into the campaign. (Seriously, why do they care so much? It flummoxes me.) We've got to match them. I've donated my twenty-five dollars.

The world is watching with anticipation!

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FreewheelNat (120 posts)

on October 21, 2008 - 10:59am.

The world is watching your November elections with anticipation - I hope the USA can restore a little bit of its international glory by doing the right thing :-)

Many cultural trends come from the USA and even though we have our own same sex union here in the UK (called civil partnership, because they backed out of calling it marriage for fear that it would shock people), if California goes back on the right for same sex couples to get married, it would certainly make us feel that little bit more insecure about our own rights.

***** ***** *****

Taking off - the novel, coming soon. Starring Katie, a lesbian in London...

In the meanwhile, you can read reviews of films and books with lesbian/bi characters and/or taking place in London at www.takingoff.org

8against8.com won't let me donate ...

Submitted by

mortil2 (22 posts)

on October 21, 2008 - 12:05pm.

I have tried to make a donation here from Denmark via 8against8.com as well as the Equality California site at eqca.org, but the websites seem not to be willing to receive my MasterCard payment and told me to talk to my credit card provider. And I have just done that.

They say that it must be some error at 8against8.com a.o., as neither MasterCard nor my bank have any qualms whatsoever to let me digitally spend some money in the US — which I’ve done lots of times before, by the way, without any problems.

Has anyone outside the US experienced similar problems, trying to donate? And if so, did you find a way around it?

I just so wanna donate! And have tried both Safari and Firefox several times, and will try again later. But even though I might not succeed in donating, I hope and pray that the heinous prop 8 will fall on its ass!

And, of course, I’m with the clear majority of Europeans that's cheering OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!

Happy election day!

hey i contacted equality

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Grace Chu (131 posts)

on October 21, 2008 - 12:26pm.

hey i contacted equality california, but i'm in NYC - three hours ahead of them. they're just rolling into work right now. i left a message and sent an e-mail about the problem. the glitch in the page only appears to affect a few people outside of the U.S. in any event, i hope to get this resolved soon. thank you so much for your support. it is awesome that people outside of the U.S. are getting involved. :)

8against8.com won't let me donate ...

Submitted by

mortil2 (22 posts)

on October 21, 2008 - 12:59pm.

Double post, sorry ... But since I had to edit anyway, I can elaborate a little. I posted a similar message as the one above at Grace Chu's blog (http://gracethespot.com/?p=489#comment-3328) and have just received a reply from her:

"I will let EQCA know ASAP about the glitch in their donation page. I hope to get this resolved. A donor from South Africa had the same issue."

So hopefully we "aliens" can get to donate after all -- I just hope that it won't screw up forever my being able to get a visa to the US ...;_)