Protest Prop 8!

Is this being organized for friday the 7th or saturday the 8th? The post is confusing.

It is on Friday not Saturday

The fight for marriage is pathetic, it is a fight demanding the further repression of queer culture. It is a shameless attempt by upper middle class "gay" people at assimilation and the destruction of queer culture and everything that makes it threatening to heteronormativity. The goal of assimilation is to turn queer people into straight people. Gay marriage advocates, YOU are the homophobes!

Dear fuck gay marriage,
I think Gay marriage is very threatening to heteronomativity. Why else would the yes on 8 campaign exist? The religious right wants push back in the closets, even if you hate marriage now is an important time to get out of the closet and into the street- that is my main reason for participating in this march.
Sure, marriage can be a white-picket fence conformist thing for some gay couples-- but it is certainly not all upper middle class. The financial benefits to marrying your partner can be huge, and if the same religious right forces that brought us prop 8 have their way they will do away with domestic partner benefits as well. Try and tell me getting your partners' health insurance isn't a huge benefit for working families.

I feel that marriage is an incredibly flawed institution , I don't plan on getting one myself (should it become legal again) but I cannot stand for legalization of discrimination against queers. If so many people in the queer community want to get married why the fuck shouldn't they? I will also be using this march as a chance to get support for other queer struggles like free the NJ4. A lot of queers do care about marriage this movement can be a great door to greater queer activism. So, please get off your high horse and engage with the larger queer community with a little more than insults.

The fact is that most gay people are not radical. I would never marry as I feel it is a flawed, inherently sex-negative arrangement that supposes I want or need state sanction for who I love. However it is tremendously unfair and almost like the Mormons and Catholics who bankrolled prop 8 to accept second class citizen status for queers in the hope they will behave like you and adopt your politics. Plenty of queers want to get married, move to the suburbs get a puppy and raise two kids, and they have as much right to buy into that as anyone else. By rejecting marriage rights for gays you putting all queerfolk into a box that doesn't fit all or even most of them. The bumper sticker is right: Don't like gay marriage? Don't get one."

I belive every person regardless of sexual preference, deserves the right to marry whom ever they want. Fight for your cause!!!!




This shouldn't even be an issue

The issue is whether the government should discriminate against someone because they and their loved one happen to be gay. I'm not planning on getting married (yet) and I'm gay. Whether I will or not will depend on financial issues and issues of how we might be protected in case one of us gets sick or passes away.

The anti-gay Christian fundementalists argue that "homosexuals" are trying to destroy the tradition of marriage. Even if that were true, wouldn't you rather support a liberation of marriage than the continued oppressive institution that the haters want to uphold?

Even the Spanish anarchists had marriage ceremonies...certainly not traditional ones - but they saw it as meaning something more than the oppressive hierarchies have made it out to be.

See you there tonight.