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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Reporter CA Prop. 8 SACRAMENTO -- The November ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage would be soundly defeated if the election were held today, according to a statewide poll released Wednesday. The Public Policy Institute of California survey found that Proposition...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Miami Herald , Californian     Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon photo via Maimi Herald SAN FRANCISCO -- Del Martin, a lesbian rights pioneer who took part in one of California's first same-sex weddings, died today in San Francisco after a long period of declining...

Source: San Diego Union Tribune , KOGO Radio , City Wire via 10news   San Diego -- The man who was killed by San Diego Harbor Police during this year's Gay Pride festivities was shot in the back. A medical examiner classified his death as a homicide. Steven Paul Hirschfield, a 37-year-old an...

Source: Los Angeles Daily News , Fresno Bee A routine trip to a federal office building became anything but routine for a Los Angeles woman who was threatened with arrest and forced the leave by a security guard who didn't approve of her attire. Lapriss Gilbert said she was picking up a Social Security...

Source: MediaNews Group via Daily Democrat , Associated Press CA Prop. 8 California's growing bloc of Latino voters represent a significant possible source of votes in favor of Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that seeks to strip the right to marry from gay and lesbian couples, MediaNews...

Source: Ventura County Star CA Prop. 8 King shooting Ventura, Cal. -- Three teens proudly shouted in chorus at at downtown Ventura park, "We're here because we're gay." The teens were among the large crowds that filled downtown Ventura's Mission Park Saturday for the 10th annual...

Source: Ventura County Star King shooting The defense lawyer representing 14-year-old Brandon McInerney was given records Thursday that could shed light on the behavior of the 15-year-old classmate that McInerney is accused of killing, Ventura County Star reports. Larry King, an eighth-grader, was killed...

Source: Ventura County Star , Bay Area Reporter , KFSN   CA Prop. 8 The campaign for and against Proposition 8 -- a measure that aims to constitutionally ban gay and lesbian couples from marrying in California -- is just beginning to segue from quiet, behind-the-scenes fundraising to the turn-up...

Source: Los Angeles Times , Knights of Columbus press release , Bay Area Reporter , The Tidings CA Prop. 8 Opponents of marriage equality have raised slightly more cash in support of Proposition 8, California's anti-equality marriage initiative, than gay marriage supporters, who have vowed to defeat...

Source: San Diego Union Tribune , San Francisco Chronicle Doctors in California must treat gays and lesbians the same as any other patient the state Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that pitted case pitted religious freedom rights guaranteed in the constitution against California's strong anti...