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Documentary Tackles Love, Equality, NC's Amendment One: VIDEO
An upcoming documentary (now in post-production) looks at North Carolina's Amendment One. Writes director Becca Roth: I dreamed of one day making a documentary that approached the issue of gay rights from a different perspective: one of compassion, empathy, and...
UNC report says Amendment One does not prohibit domestic partnership benefits
By Jacob Combs Yesterday, Chapelboro.com, a website affiliated with Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s WCHL radio station, reported that the University of North Carolina School of Government has released a report concluding that the passage of Amendment One, which modified the state constitution to recognize marriage between men and women as the only “domestic legal union,” [...]
Prop 8 Proponent David Blankenhorn: 'The Time Has Come for Me to Accept Gay Marriage'
Prop 8 proponent and witness and director of the Institute for American Values David Blankenhorn made waves in April when he came out against North Carolina's Amendment One. Today, in a NYT editorial, Blankenhorn writes "the time has come for...
Recapping the week of May 21-25 at Prop8TrialTracker.com
By Scottie Thomaston What you may have missed over the past week at Prop8TrialTracker.com… On Monday, May 21, Jacob began the week’s coverage with a piece on the Amendment One vote in North Carolina. I wrote about the sentencing of Dharun Ravi on charges of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy, in the death of [...]
California Church Buys Billboard For Amendment One Apology In NC
North Carolina voters earlier this month passed Amendment One, a piece of legislation banning civil unions and same-sex marriage. Horrified by the move and hoping to express their solidarity with equality-minded North Carolinians, an inclusive California church spent $3,000 to...
Audio: Tony Perkins admits what I said all year: #Amendment1 was nakedly biblical effort
Amendment One managed to change the civil constitution, callously turning the North Carolina's most precious governing document into even more of a weapon against same-sex couples' legal rights. It also happened to be the most obviously, openly faith-based state campaign...
LA Gay Bar Bans Bachelorette Parties
Citing recent LGBT rights setbacks like North Carolina's Amendment one, Los Angeles gay hotspot The Abbey has banned bachelorette parties. From their press release: Every Friday and Saturday night, we’re flooded with requests from straight girls in penis hats who want to ogle our gogos, dance with the gays and celebrate their pending nuptials. Show More Summary
A fascinating, detailed look at how North Carolina voted on Amendment One
By Jacob Combs The conventional wisdom on African-American voters and marriage equality goes something like this: because of deeply held religious beliefs, a commanding majority of black voters oppose marriage rights for gays and lesbians, and when such rights are put up to a vote of the people, African-Americans consistently turn out to vote against [...]
#Amendment1 campaign was 'unapologetically' about 'the issue of homosexual behavior'
Throughout North Carolina's Amendment One fight, I kept noting how it truly was the most extreme state campaign I'd ever witnessed. The voices, all the way up to the top of the Vote For Marriage NC campaign, kept proving that...
Photos of Activists Protesting Marriage Ban Vote in North Carolina
Protesters marched through the streets of Raleigh on Monday to express outrage over Amendment One, a constitutional ban on same-sex unions that North Carolina voters overwhelmingly approved, and they plan to march every 14th to change hearts and minds. read more
PETA Leader Dan Mathews and His Boyfriend Stage Kiss Protest on North Carolina Republican Party HQ Sign
PETA Senior VP Dan Mathews sent this along to Towleroad as a passionate reaction to the state's recent passage of Amendment One: Hi from Raleigh! My guy Jack Ryan and I responded to NC’s hateful ban on gay marriage with...
Chris Hughes Goes Big in Donation to Marriage Fight in Maine
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who was criticized for not donating to fight Amendment One in North Carolina, has pledged $100,000 in Maine.Hughes and his fiancé Sean Eldridge, who is a senior adviser for Freedom to Marry, are offering...Show More Summary
Bloomberg Blasts Amendment One in Commencement Address
"Last week’s referendum banning same-sex marriage shows just how much more work needs to be done to ensure freedom and equality for all people,” Bloomberg said during a Sunday commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. read more
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Blasts NC's Vote Banning Gay Marriage in UNC Chapel Hill Commencement Speech: VIDEO
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the passage of Amendment One head on in his commencement speech at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill yesterday. Said Bloomberg: “Each and every generation has removed some barrier to full participation...
Recapping the week of May 7-13 at Prop8TrialTracker.com
By Adam Bink What you may have missed over the past week at Prop8TrialTracker.com… On Monday, May 7th, Jacob Combs gave the final updates before Election Day in North Carolina on anti-gay Amendment 1, and recapped the broad points of how the campaign went. Later in the day, Scottie Thomaston broke the news to us [...]
Now they’re arresting gay and lesbian North Carolinians participating in civil disobedience actions and seeking marriage licenses
By Scottie Thomaston Headline changed to make it absolutely clear what is happening. Less than eight hours after the passage of anti-gay Amendment 1 in North Carolina, local jurisdictions were trying to eliminate domestic partner benefits. This and other consequences that were discussed repeatedly during the campaign will continue to occur over the years. Despite [...]
A look at what happened on Amendment 1 in North Carolina
By Adam Bink First, apologies for not finding much time to write over the past few weeks — efforts spent online and offline organizing against Amendment 1 had considerably drained my time, and so Jacob and especially Scottie have been holding down the fort so admirably here at P8TT. I returned back from the Raleigh/Durham [...]
Petition Of The Day
Change.org sends a press release: Shannon Ritchie, a new mom and North Carolina native who volunteered in the effort to fight Amendment 1, the state’s recent ban on gay marriage, launched her petition on Change.org on Wednesday night after seeing President Obama publicly endorse gay marriage. Show More Summary
Breaking: President Obama Supports Same-Sex Marriage
In the aftermath of Amendment One passing in North Carolina on Tuesday, President Obama makes history and comes out in support of same-sex marriage.