It's been awhile, so how about an update? Yesterday morning I was inadvertently pulled into the Join the Impact protest. I had been planning on going anyway but ended up getting a bit more drunk that I thought Friday night. Turns out my friend from HS called me and said she was at the protest roundabouts 11AM and being as I literally live across the street from City Hall I put on some clothes and went over and ended up joining the march for a small stretch of Market. By the looks of it, there was a lot of people who had been marching all the way from Castro which is commendable since it was pretty hot outside (this is why I love, California, I can wear short sleeves in November, NICE!). We got lucky and ended up marching next to this guy who had brought speakers on his bike, so we got a pretty awesome (but very gay) soundtrack as we marched. Anyway marching made me realize just how crazy San Francisco is. There was a mostly naked homo wearing stilts who ran over to a tourist bus which was a pretty hilarious exchange. One of those red double-decker tour buses passed us and one of the tourists sort of joined in, she was passed up a 'No on 8' sign. How many other people do you know who went sight-seeing and protested at the same time?

I'd say the best sign I saw was 'Well dressed but still oppressed'.

Anyway while it's nice to know many fellow Americans are also incensed about the fact basic human rights are threatened, but as a Californian I am kind of irritated by people in other states also protesting Prop 8. I mean why not pick Arizona Prop 102? It doesn't make sense for non-Californians to specifically oppose Prop 8 since they can't/weren't able to vote on it and it sort of undermines the movement, since the opposition is saying that alot of the the camp against Prop 8 is mainly trumped up by out-of-staters, making it look like it's people in place like NY who are against it and not as many Californians. Why not just protest for Gay Rights instead of mentioning Prop 8? Or be fair and mention all the other state movements that banned gay marriage. Mainly, dear rest of America, get your own proposition to protest. It's sort of like Gandhi telling his British friends that this was a fight that they [Indians] needed to win on their own.