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Name: Stephanie Glavin
Website: www.marriageequality.org
Event: Marriage Equality USA marriage counter actions
Location: 600 8th St.
Sacramento, CA 95814
Date: February 14th 2009
Time: 12:00 PM
Description: Marriage Equality USA will be heading down to the Office of the Sacramento county clerk/recorder with our same sex partners/friends/strangers off the street and asking for marriage licenses. This is a peaceful demonstration! This is NOT a sit in!
Patty West
Website http://www.createequality.org
Event Name GalleryEquality
Location SmogShoppe
2651 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Date 02/15/09
Time 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Organizer/Contact Info Patty
patty@createequality.org
Description - GALLERY EQUALITY -
Create Equality invites you to its inaugural event - a silent auction and art walk in Culver City supporting marriage and family equality.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2009
6PM – 9PM
Check-in SmogShoppe
2651 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
Create Equality is a grassroots non-profit organization that works to generate awareness for the GLBT community and inspire social change through entertainment and the arts. Our goal for the next four months is to make a presence while the California Supreme Court hears the case on Proposition 8.
Proceeds from this event will go to Create Equality, Marriage Equality USA and Family Equality Council.
We hope you will join us in the fight for equality. For more information and to join our mailing list, visit us at: www.createequality.org.
SILENT AUCTION @ SMOGSHOPPE
Complimentary valet parking provided by SmogShoppe.
Silent auction and video by various artists.
“Transformational Project” by Jen Rosenstein on exhibit.
ART WALK ON LA CIENEGA
Participating galleries include: Walter Maciel, Blum & Poe, Sandroni.Rey, Taylor de Cordoba, George Billis Gallery.
Participating projects include: WhiteKnot.org, Postcards to the President, 1138, and LoveShack.
AFTER PARTY @ MANDRAKE
With DJ Outre.
Name: Tina Reynolds
Website: EqualityActionNOW.org
Event: Love and Marriage - Come Wearing White - Leave Seeing RED!
Location: West Steps of the State Capitol, 10th Street Sacramento
Date: February 16, 2009
Time: Arrive at noon program begins at 1 pm - 3 pm
Description: Equality Action NOW, California Outreach, Marriage Equality USA, Join the Impact and EQCA’s statewide rally at the State Capitol.
Love and Marriage will be a statewide rally where people from all over the state will join us on the steps of the Capitol to show our solidarity for the rights of 18,000 same-sex couples who were married and look forward to the day when those rights are available again, this time for everyone. Speakers, entertainment and thousands of like-minded people – in one spot – join us to put a FACE on the issue of true equality.
Confirmed Appearances by:
Margaret Cho – The Cho Show
Selene Luna - The Cho Show
Deborah Gibson - Singer
Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen - Film Producers Milk, American Beauty
Molly McKay – Marriage Equality and singer
Julia Louis-Dryfus - The New Adventures of Old Christine
Dr. Michael Gottlieb - Discoverer of AIDS
George Takei and his partner Brad Altman – Star Trek
Robin Tyler - LGBT Activst and original lawsuit
Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus performing Prop 8 the Musical
Video Messages:
Melissa Etheridge - Special video message
Eric Himan - sending video message and his song “The Protest”
Bruce Villanch - Comic starred in road show of Hairspray sending video message for us.
… And many more yet to confirm
Supporters:
ActivelyOUT
Artists Against_AIDS
Bakersfield LGBTQ
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF)
Central California Alliance
Calafia
Courage Campaign
Equality Campaign
Gays United Network
GLAAD
Hillgirlz.com
Noah’s Arc
Million Gay March
OutSacramento.com
PFLAG
Progressive Jewish Alliance
Sacramento PFLAG
Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center
San Diego Equality Campaign
SF LGBT Community Center
United for LGBT
White Knot
Sponsors:
Uptown Studios
Instinct Magazine
Curve Magazine
Mom Guess What Magazine
Outword Magazine
Student Credit Cards
Join the Equality Movement – show up – sign up
Please share this information with all your friends and straight allies:
Join at http://www.EqualityActionNOW.org
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Sacramento - HUGE STATEWIDE RALLY
LOVE AND MARRIAGE – COME WEARING WHITE – LEAVE SEEING RED!
February 16, 2009 Pre-rally at noon Program begins at 1 ends around 4 pm
Equality Action NOW, California Outreach, Marriage Equality USA, EQCA, Join the Impact and National Center for Lesbian Rights at our statewide rally at the State Capitol.
Love and Marriage will be a statewide rally where people from all over the state will join us on the steps of the Capitol to show our solidarity for the rights of 18,000 same-sex couples who were married and look forward to the day when those rights are available again, this time for everyone. Speakers, entertainment and thousands of like-minded people – in one spot – join us to put a FACE on the issue of true equality.
Confirmed Appearances (alpha order):
Gloria Allred, Defense attorney leading the case
Margaret Cho – The Cho Show
Deborah Gibson - Singer
Julia Louis-Dryfus - The New Adventures of Old Christine
Rabbi Denise Eger – Kol Ami Congregation and Rev. Dr. Neil Thomas, Metropolitan Community Church
Dr. Michael Gottlieb - Discoverer of AIDS
Senator Mark Leno
Selene Luna - The Cho Show
Molly McKay – Marriage Equality and singer
Shannon Minter, NCLR
Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus performing Prop 8 the Musical
Doug Spearman, Noah’s Arc, EQCA Institute Board of Directors
Mandy Steckelberg – “I Love the Gays”
Pres. pro Tem Senator Darrell Steinberg
Wanda Sykes, The New Adventures of Old Christine, EQCA Institute Board of Directors
George Takei and his partner Brad Altman – Star Trek
Robin Tyler - LGBT Activist and original lawsuit
Dr. Pat Washington – San Diego
Video Messages:
Melissa Etheridge - Special video message
Gavin Newsom, Mayor San Francisco, videotaped message
Eric Himan - sending video message and his song “The Protest”
Bruce Villanch - Comic starred in road show of Hairspray sending video message for us.
… And many more yet to confirm
CONFIRMED SUPPORTERS:
activelyOUT.com
Artists Against AIDS
Bakersfield LGBTQ - wlwedd@aol.com
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF) www.balif.org
Calafia
Catholics for Marriage Equality
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Central California Alliance
Congregation Kol Ami
Courage Campaign
Create Equality - http://createequality.org.
Erase the H8 Fresno
Equality Campaign - www.myspace.com/equalitycampaign
GayFresno.com
Gay-Straight Alliance for Equality (GSAFE)
Gays United Network
GLAAD
GLBT Alliance of Santa Cruz County - www.homosexualagenda.org
Hillgirlz.com
Join the Impact
LGBT Sacto.com
Love Honor Cherish
Metropolitan Community Church Los Angeles
Million Gay March Brandon
National Center for Lesbian Rights www.nclrights.org/overturn8
Noah’s Arc - Doug Spearman
Our Family
OutSacramento - www.outsacramento.com
Pacific Pride Foundation
Peace and Freedom Party Sacramento County Central Committee
Pride At Work, AFL-CIO
Progressive Jewish Alliance
Queers United www.queersunited.blogspot.com
Sacramento PFLAG
Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center
San Diego Equality Campaign
SF LGBT Community Center
Stanislaus PRIDE Center www.stanpride.org
Students for Equality
United for LGBT
White Knot.org
Sponsors:
Uptown Studios
NCLR
Instinct Magazine
GayListDaily.com
Curve Magazine
Mom Guess What Magazine
Outword Magazine
Make your Arrangements:
The Greens Hotel: $69.00 for Standard Room and $89 for the Deluxe
room. Mention: Equality Action Now. http://www.thegreenshotel.com
Hawthorne Suites $89 room rate for Sunday 2/15 to Tuesday 2/17. Make reservations by 2/2 to get the rate- free shuttle service from the airport to the hotel and will shuttle people for free from the hotel to the rally. Breakfast is also included. Mention code: EAN for the special rate. http://www.hawthorn.com/Hawthorn/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=30842&brandInfo=BH
http://www.thecitizenhotel.com
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sacdt-residence-inn-sacramento-downtown-at-capitol-park/
http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=02491
http://www.qualityinn.com/hotel-sacramento-california-CA505?promo=gglocal
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1247
tina@EqualityActionNOW.org http://www.EqualityActionNOW.org
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FEBRUARY 12, National Freedom to Marry Day
On National Freedom to Marry Day, all Marriage Equality USA® Chapters and Member Organizations will participate in Marriage Equality USA’s National Freedom to Marry Events. Marriage Equality USA® has also partnered with Join the Impact for this national event. Thursday, February 12, 2009, at local marriage counters in cities all over the country, same-sex couples will request marriage licenses at their local County Clerk’s Offices to raise awareness of the harms and impact the inability to marry causes on their families.
Since 2001, Marriage Equality USA® chapters have engaged in these annual marriage counter actions to render visible the discrimination that is enforced every day. It is an affront to our basic dignity as fellow human beings when same-sex couples are turned away from the marriage counter, but it gives us the opportunity to tell our stories and show that we live in every community and want to honor and protect our families like everyone else. Everyone who supports marriage equality is welcomed to attend and support this event. Contact <info@marriageequality.org> http://www.marriageequality.org
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FEBRUARY 14, SATURDAY SACRAMENTO - LOVE AND MARRIAGE PROTESTS
Show up at your local County Recorders office and request a marriage license as a same sex couple – get denied, then get back in line and keep requesting a marriage license. Marriage Equality USA has done this protest for years, more important this year, everyone should show up in protest of the loss of LGBTQI equal rights. Contact Christine Allen <coordinator@marriageequality.org> http://www.marriageequality.org
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FEBRUARY 17, TUESDAY 2009 Marriage Lobby Day
On Tuesday, February 17, join activists from across the state for Equality California’s MARRIAGE LOBBY DAY at the California State Capitol (Sacramento). Be there to urge your legislators to support SR 7 (Leno) and HR 5 (Ammiano), companion resolutions calling for the repeal of Proposition 8. Join us and tell your stories about the importance of marriage equality in your lives.
The event is free and open to all. We’ll start the day at 9:30am with lobby training, have a noontime rally to hear from legislative champions, and do lobby visits and other activities in the afternoon. Come participate! Make your voice heard and make a difference! Register now at www.eqca.org <http://www.eqca.org> or contact Laurie McBride at <LobbyDayEQCA@comcast.net>.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!! Marriage Lobby Day 2009, February 17, 2009
Urgent need for volunteers to make this the most dynamic, amazing lobby day ever! We need at least 50 volunteers to help attendees with a variety of activities! We also need up to 10 volunteers to take pictures and another 10 with camcorders to record their stories (we’ll provide film, cartridges, whatever). We need 2 or more artistic types to help with sign-making! Email Laurie McBride at LobbyDayEQCA@comcast.net if you can help. Really, really need you – and it will be fun!
HOUSING and TRANSPORTATION: If you can help transport attendees from the airport in the morning or back to the airport in the early evening: we need you! Also some folks will need housing for 1 night. Can you help? Email Laurie McBride at LobbyDayEQCA@comcast.net.
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QUEER YOUTH ADVOCACY DAY - Sacramento
April 20, 2009
EQCA, GSA Network, Transgender Law Center, EqualityActionNOW.org and BIENESTAR are again planning for Queer Youth Advocacy on April 20, 2008.
The event will again include a weekend training for youth leaders, a big rally at the State Capitol and a lobby day for the youth to speak with the legislators. For more information contact aaron@gsanetwork.org
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STATEWIDE RALLY – Held in Sacramento
ImagineEquality
May 30, 2009 Saturday
Equality Action NOW, and many other equal rights organizations will be pulling together a huge rally at the State Capitol to kick off our month of June Pride throughout California. Join us on the step of the capitol and help us pull our ImaginEquality into a REALITY. Real and true equality for all. tina@EqualityActionNOW.org.
SPONSORS:
http://www.UptownStudios.net
http://www.drnicola.net
Please consider joining this event as a supporter:
- Send us a link to your web site. We will post your link on our site, we will list your group on materials to show your support of this rally and the equality movement.
- Let us know if you know of any other grassroots or groups fighting for equality that we may have overlooked – we want as many groups to sign on as partners in this statewide show of solidarity.
- Unions, faith based organizations, family and friends that might want to show solidarity with our fight for equality – bring them in.
- A contribution of $500 or $1000 to help us offset the high expenses for an event of this size. Your name will apprear on all printed materials and the web links. If you can’t afford the financial contribution, it is still important to request being added to the supporter list.
Name: Equality Texas
Website: http://eqfed.org/eqtx/events/lobbyday09/details.tcl
Event: Lobby Day 2009 Location Texas Capitol
1100 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701
Date: March 2, 2009
Time: 8am - 4pm (central time)
Description: Don’t miss this opportunity to share your concerns and your lives with the Texas lawmakers elected to represent you.
It is necessary that each individual person register (with your voting address) at http://eqfed.org/eqtx/events/lobbyday09/details.tcl so that we may match you with your lawmaker.
Thank you for supporting equality in Texas.
Name: Nakhone Keodara
Website: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=40580193494&ref=ts
Event Name: IDES OF MARCH - STATEWIDE CANVASSING DAY TO REPEAL PROP 8
Location: All across California.
Date: March 15, 2009
Time: 10am - 6 pm
Description: Gays United Network is hosting a statewide canvassing day where we go out into outlying communities–especially those that voted for Prop 8–to collect signatures for a Petition drive on behalf of the Courage Campaign to restore the integrity to our Constitution and dignity to our Community by putting our own Constitutional Amendment on the ballot in 2010.
We strongly believe that we must walk through our fears and outside of our comfort zones and into the lion’s den in order to slay the dragon so we can bring back the boon.
We’re hoping to make a dent on Courage Campaign’s goal of collecting over 1 million signatures on a Petition drive to repeal Prop 8.
This statewide canvassing day is planned for the Ides of March (March 15, 2009 from 10am-6pm; there will be six 2 hour shifts), as this is an auspicious day and we wanted to honor the Roman tradition.
The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. We thought this was fitting as this will be the day when the Gay Army canvasses the streets and neighborhoods in towns and cities all across California working in solidarity for our common inevitable liberty.
The Ides of March is also a day when Julius Caesar was assassinated and we picked this day to signify our goal of slaying the evil of religious bigotry, intolerance and tyranny once and for all! We’re giving them a fair warning that their victory will be short lived.
We cannot put all our eggs in one basket and wait until the Supreme Court sides with us and invalidate Prop 8.
Oral Arguments on Prop 8 cases are set for the first week of (3/2-3/6) March 2009. Let’s remind the Supremes while they deliberate OUR FATE that we are still here and we will not be SILENCED or IGNORED and we sure as hell INTEND on getting our CIVIL RIGHTS BACK.
Please join hundreds of thousands of your fellow Gay brothers and sisters and our allies as we embark on this Vision Quest.
HELP us cross the threshold of Marriage Equality in California, our Golden State!
LOCAL FIELD ORGANIZERS ARE NEEDED.
Please step up to help us organize in your towns and cities. FYI…I was one of the field organizers that canvassed the streets of West Hollywood during the No on 8 Campaign and I have been involved in the Georgians Against Discrimination Campaign where we canvassed the neighborhoods. I can’t tell you how empowering it was to look our fellow citizens in the eye and connect on a human level. Something happens to you when a light goes off in the other person’s eyes when they realized how unfair it is that their fellow citizens whom are their equals have to come knocking on their doors to make a case for their civil liberty. When that happens it is nothing less than triumph of the human Spirit!
I hope to see all of you on the battlefields, my brothers and sisters! JOIN US!
For more info go to www.gaysunitednetwork.org or http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=40580193494.
Name: Tina Reynolds
Website: EqualityActionNOW.org
Event: Queer Youth Advocacy Day
Location: State Capitol, Sacramento, CA
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: All day
Description: EQCA, GSA Network, Transgender Law Center, EqualityActionNOW.org and BIENESTAR are again planning for Queer Youth Advocacy on April 20, 2008.
The event will again include a weekend training for youth leaders, a big rally at the State Capitol and a lobby day for the youth to speak with the legislators. For more information contact Alice@EQCA.org
Name: T
Website: EqualityActionNOW.org
Event: ImaginEquality
Location: West Steps of the State Capitol, Sacramento, CA
Date: May 30, 2009 Saturday
Time: 3 pm
Description: Equality Action NOW, and many other equal rights organizations will be pulling together a huge rally at the State Capitol to kick off our month of June Pride throughout California. Join us on the step of the capitol and help us pull our ImaginEquality into a REALITY. Real and true equality for all. Info@EqualityActionNOW.org.
Please consider joining this event as a supporter:
Send us a link to your web site. We will post your link on our site, we will list your group on materials to show your support of this rally and the equality movement.
Let us know if you know of any other grassroots or groups fighting for equality that we may have overlooked – we want as many groups to sign on as partners in this statewide show of solidarity.
Unions, faith based organizations, family and friends, and our straight allies that might want to show solidarity with our fight for equality – bring them in.
A contribution of $500 or $1000 to help us offset the high expenses for an event of this size. Your name will appear on all printed materials and the web links. If you can’t afford the financial contribution, it is still important to request being added to the supporter list.