Equal Roots Throws a Fun 'Repeal DOMA' Rally
Filed by: Karen Ocamb
January 12, 2009 12:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/equal_roots_throws_a_fun_repeal_doma_ral.php

Some longtime LGBT organizers have wondered how long the outrage over Prop 8 can be sustained, especially as the anger turns more and more inward, eviscerating our own.

prop 8 the musical 2The new Los Angeles-based, youth-oriented group Equal Roots is determined not to let that happen. Shocked by the passage of Prop 8 and embarrassed by their own complacency, the 20-something friends and co-founders worked hard to represent LA in Saturday's national Join The Impact rally to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) - roughly 750 people showed up in West Hollywood Park for speeches and the inspired live version of gay composer Marc Shaiman's online ditty - "Prop 8:The Musical" - this one featuring Wilson Cruz as Jesus.

The event, called "The Resolution," included an action fair "designed to strengthen the new coalition of grassroots activists forged in the wake of the passage of Proposition 8, effectively plot strategy for the future, and to urge the repeal" of DOMA.