Angry Gays Fill LA Streets Over Prop 8; Protests Spread Across California

(photo from Towleroad)

The GLBT community IS getting pissed, and I'm so excited. Yesterday, thousands protested the passage of Prop 8 in front of the Los Angeles Mormon Temple. Several protests are planned for today and this weekend across the state:

• San Francisco
• Long Beach
• Santa Barbara
• San Diego
• Laguna Beach
• Sacramento
• Even one in Salt Lake City, Utah!
  

Towleroad has a great report, more links and photos of Thursday's protest.

I sincerely hope this anger spreads and people begin to demand that this climate of discrimination changes.

If you'd like to support efforts to repeal Prop 8, donate here, to the LA Gay & Lesbian Center. I'm going to give a small donation myself.

It's also a way to harass the Mormon church, since it supported the legislation. For every donation, the Mormon church will receive a "thank you" card in the mail.

There are also calls to pull the church's tax-exempt status, but I just don't see that happening. It appears the church followed the rule of law but certainly not the spirit.

Even rocker Melissa Etheridge is pissed, saying she may just refuse to pay her California state taxes as a result of this discrimination. I hope she follows through, and I hope more people with influence take a stand.