by Joe Solmonese
QVegas
Monday Jan 12, 2009
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QuoteLike many in our movement, I found myself in Southern California [in early November]. There, I had the opportunity to speak with a man who said that Proposition 8 completely changed the way he saw his own neighborhood. Every "Yes on 8" sign was a slap. For this man, for me, for the 18,000 couples who married in California, to LGBT people and the people who love us, its passage was worse than a slap in the face. It was nothing short of heartbreaking.
But it is not the end. Fifty-two percent of the voters of California voted to deny us our equality on [November 4], but they did not vote our families or the power of our love out of existence; they did not vote us away.