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Prop 8 Trial Coverage Day 11 and 12: Defendant's Last Witness Not Cooperative and Not Knowledgeable; Testimony Concludes
The Prop 8 trial witness testimony ended today with defendant's last "expert" witness David Blankenh...
Unite the Fight • Jan 28, 2010
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VIDEO: Prop 8 Trial Reenactment Preview Posted
Last week, I posted on filmmaker John Ireland's project to produce reenactments of the Prop 8 trial....
Unite the Fight • Jan 22, 2010
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Courage Campaign Founder Rick Jacobs Responds to UTF With Answers Surrounding Marriage Equality Research
We will not release the findings of this first round to the press because it would be equivalent, as...
Unite the Fight • Dec 3, 2009
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Courage Campaign Not to Release Marriage Equality Research - Information Behind Project Could Help Mend Broken Trust
I would ask of CC that they release some of the non-sensitive information, such as how much research...
Unite the Fight • Dec 2, 2009
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Oral Arguments To Commence Tuesday in Ninth Circuit Court Over Prop 8 Campaign Documents
Tomorrow in Pasadena, CA, both sides on the federal challenge to Proposition 8 will present oral arg...
Unite the Fight • Nov 30, 2009
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Prop 8 Proponents Get Out of Handing Over Campaign Documents . . . For Now
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal granted a stay on Judge Walker's orders of discovery and gave the de...
Unite the Fight • Nov 23, 2009
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Extreme Right Wing Group Denied Intervention in Federal Challenge to Prop 8
The Campaign for California Families (CCF) is the rival to the Yes on 8 folks, but they're even more...
Unite the Fight • Nov 21, 2009
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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders to Testify in Proposition 8 Trial
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera made it known today that Mayor Sanders will testify in th...
Unite the Fight • Nov 20, 2009
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Proposition 8 2010 Repeal Supporters, Not Swayed by Criticism, Explain Strategy Behind the Five Initiatives Submitted
After the devastating defeat in Maine, the fundamentalist pundits claimed that it was a sign America...
Unite the Fight • Nov 18, 2009
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Website Launched for Volunteer-Based Signature Gathering Campaign for 2010 Prop 8 Repeal
Love Honor Cherish (LHC) the grassroots group leading the charge for a 2010 initiative to restore ma...
Unite the Fight • Nov 17, 2009
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VIDEO: Amazing New Marriage Equality Ads Launched in New Jersey
Last night, New Jersey voted pro-marriage equality governor John Corzine out of the office and repla...
Unite the Fight • Nov 4, 2009
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: EQCA's Marc Solomon Talks About Relaunching 'Let California Ring', 2010 and 2012 T
"We want to raise at least 15 million over the next three years," Marc said. "The primary focus of t...
Unite the Fight • Oct 15, 2009
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Judge Walker Rules Prop 8 Trial Will Proceed, Hammers Prop 8 Proponents
Though we already knew this, Cooper and Prop 8 proponents will do anything to avoid going to trial b...
Unite the Fight • Oct 15, 2009
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Obama's HRC Dinner Speech - We Don't Need a Cheerleader, We Need a President
President Obama needed to convince me of a lot in his speech at the HRC dinner tonight. I needed to ...
Unite the Fight • Oct 11, 2009
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Poll: Marriage Equality Trailing in Maine; Don't Let Another Prop 8 Happen!
Results from a Research 2000/Daily Kos poll indicates that if Mainers voted on the new marriage equa...
Unite the Fight • Sep 20, 2009
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Rep. Barney Frank Won't Co-Sponsor DOMA Partial Repeal; Bill Author Rep. Nadler Responds
Openly gay Rep. Barney Frank has declined to co-sponsor Rep. Jerry Nadler's partial Defense of Marri...
Unite the Fight • Sep 14, 2009
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Defense of Marriage Act Repeal Bill to Circulate U.S. House in Weeks
Politico reports that U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, who announced in July he would be working on a partial...
Unite the Fight • Sep 5, 2009
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Want an Active Role in a Marriage Equality Campaign? Learn How at OUT West's Campaign Boot Camp!
OUT West Campaign Boot Camp will train activists in fundamental campaign skills and offer them a cam...
Unite the Fight • Aug 28, 2009
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BREAKING NEWS: Federal Prop 8 Case Goes to Public Trial January 11, 2010; City of San Francisco Joins Plaintiffs
For federal timelines, this is breakneck speed, giving very little time for both parties to prepare ...
Unite the Fight • Aug 19, 2009
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California Legislature Advances Three Resolutions on Federal Policy Affecting the LGBT Population
Good news comes from the California state capitol today, where the Assembly Judiciary Committee pass...
Unite the Fight • Aug 19, 2009
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EQCA Announces Matching Dollar Donation Challenge to Support Maine's NO on 1 Campaign
In an email sent out to its members today, EQCA's Executive Director Geoff Kors announced a matching...
Unite the Fight • Aug 17, 2009
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UTF EXCLUSIVE: EQCA's Marc Solomon Talks About Juggling Plans for 2012 While Working With 2010 Supporters
"I don't view this as the end of discussion and conversation," Marc said about the announcement righ...
Unite the Fight • Aug 14, 2009
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Courage Campaign States 60 Hours Are Left for a 2010 Fundraising Benchmark - Over Half of Goal Raised
If 1,000 more people can raise $41,967 by August 13, we will meet the time-sensitive $100,000 goal w...
Unite the Fight • Aug 11, 2009
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NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality's Opposition Issues Condescending Response to Their Call for a Fair Campaign
The NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality campaign has been organizing way in advance of the opposition bec...
Unite the Fight • Aug 9, 2009
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Live Streaming of the Next Steps Working Meeting
We know that it is not practical for everyone across the state to come in person to this meeting, bu...
Unite the Fight • Aug 9, 2009
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Courage Campaign Gives Deadline for 2010 Fundraising Benchmark, Marriage Equality USA Accepts the Challenge
It will be interesting to see what other organizations join in on this tangible challenge. And now t...
Unite the Fight • Aug 8, 2009
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Agenda for Next Steps Summit Released
The logistics team for the August 9th Next Steps Summit, a working meeting in Los Angeles that will ...
Unite the Fight • Aug 8, 2009
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ACTION: Defend the Law Campaign Urges Connecticut Attorney General to Sue Government Over DOMA
Recently, Massachusetts AG Martha Coakley announced that her state would be filing a lawsuit in fede...
Unite the Fight • Aug 6, 2009
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Courage Campaign Gives the Community a Challenging Fundraising Benchmark for a 2010 Ballot Initiative - You Game?
Now this is something tangible that the community can get behind.
Part of the sound and valid objec...
Unite the Fight • Aug 6, 2009
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Marriage Equality USA Calls on Community to Open Hearts, Strengthen Ties and Forgive as Key to Future Campaign
"In the words of esteemed Christian theologian and marriage equality supporter, Lewis Smedes, 'When ...
Unite the Fight • Aug 4, 2009
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Returning to the Ballot: It's Not About When Anymore, It's About Uniting. And Other Points of View
I will support either date, or a later date, because now, it doesn't matter to me when. (And yes, I ...
Unite the Fight • Jul 29, 2009
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Unite the Fight: CA Marriage Equality Leadership Summit an Utter Failure - Shame On All of Us
Our community has splintered into factions lead by no one, going in all different directions with va...
Unite the Fight • Jul 28, 2009
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Unite the Fight to Provide Live Stream of Tomorrow's CA Leadership Summit on Marriage Equality
Unite the Fight will provide a live stream of tomorrow's Leadership Summit in San Bernardino, CA. Th...
Unite the Fight • Jul 25, 2009
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Speaking to the Experts: Courage Campaign's Sarah Callahan Takes on 2010 and 2012 and Beyond
In a combination of emails and phone calls, Unite the Fight was able to get from Sarah a broad glimp...
Unite the Fight • Jul 24, 2009
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CA Grassroots Organization "Love Honor Cherish" Releases Blueprint for Successful 2010 Campaign to Repeal Prop 8
Love Honor Cherish, a California LGBT grassroots organization known for its strong support for a 201...
Unite the Fight • Jul 24, 2009
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Yes on 8 Organization Canvassing Same Areas as LGBT Organizations, Actively Countering Our Efforts
Protect Marriage, the group behind Proposition 8, have been out canvassing in the same areas that ma...
Unite the Fight • Jul 22, 2009
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MUST-READ: Seven Out of Seven Political Consultants Advise Against a 2010 Initiative to Repeal Prop 8, But David Mixner Says Don't Wait
On Monday, Marc posted the consultants' responses to the 2010 vs. 2012 question, and even addressed ...
Unite the Fight • Jul 21, 2009
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2010 vs. 2012: The Brewing Debate In California Over When to Go Back to the Ballot Boils Over
But something smells bad here. Though many of the points in the "Prepare to Prevail" statement are e...
Unite the Fight • Jul 14, 2009
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The National Education Association Passes Resolution Supporting LGBT Equality
One of the major reasons Prop 8 passed here in California was the lie that the Yes on 8 campaign tol...
Unite the Fight • Jul 8, 2009
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View Live Feed of Meet in the Middle Here on Unite the Fight!
If you can't make it because of kids, work or you live far away, be sure to come back to this post a...
Unite the Fight • May 26, 2009
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Live Broadcast of CA Supreme Court Ruling on Prop 8 at 10am PST
YOU CAN WATCH RULING LIVE HERE!...
Unite the Fight • May 26, 2009
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MUST WATCH! LGBT Folk From All Over the World Proclaim, "I'm Proud to Be Gay!"
Some of these people took real risks to be a part of this project. One that popped out to me was the...
Unite the Fight • May 18, 2009
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Anti-Gays Hold Much Larger Rally Than Marriage Equality Supporters in NYC
WE HAVE TO ACT NOW TO HELP THE PASSAGE OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL!
Six weeks is all that is left...
Unite the Fight • May 18, 2009
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