Wouldn't that be a great chant at tonight's NYC Prop 8 protest? "Save Marriage, End Divorce! Save Marriage, End Divorce!"

The Upright Citizens Brigade has a new PSA on Funny or Die! for the next logical steps in the fight to save marriage. They took a page out of SNL's book and used their target's own words to make a pretty amazing point.

This is unfortunate. In one of her first interviews in nearly a year, Lindsay Lohan, a vocal and ardent Obama supporter, referred to President-elect Obama as "our first colored President." Obviously, this is a reflection of her ignorance and not an indication of any racism. As the post-election world unfolds, that meme (ignorance vs. intention) keeps cropping up. (Most noticably with the Prop 8 fallout.) This election has shined a big ol' spotlight on a lot of the darker corners that discrimination has scuttled into.

Man, she just keeps stepping in it. Maybe Lohan meant, "I'm very excited to have our first President of color."

Darren Hayes, the Australian singer who has done his part to make the world a gayer, better place, has Myspace-blogged some of his thoughts on the passing of Prop 8:

This is a picture of Richard and I recently in Paris.[photo by Maggz Appleton] We're married. Some folks in California decided to change the American Constitution to legislate that this right should not be given to gay people in California. Presumably because of what gay people will do to the definition of marriage.

Just so we are clear, this is our definition of marriage:
We want to grow old together. We love each other so much that we want to share our lives together, forever. We are monogamous. We're faithful. We're in it for the long haul. Sometimes we argue over who's turn it is to make a cup of tea, but for the most
part we are soul mates.

If, God forbid, one of us should fall ill, one of us will take care of the other one. If, God forbid, one of us should pass away suddenly, we would want our estate to go to the one of us who survives. We'd like other stuff too, like, you know, the same tax breaks as other married couples and the civil rights you would extend any other committed couple in the free world. And to be able to be respected and receive the same rights that everyone else has.

But mostly, we just want to grow old together.

Who knew I was so romantic? Between this and the Boyzone video, I am one power ballad away from calling up my ex (any of them) and proposing.

Gay Marriage takes a step in the right direction (and one that does not require a protest or a march) in Connecticut today. The Washington Blade reports:

Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert has scheduled a hearing at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday in New Haven to enter the final judgment in the case that allows same-sex marriages in Connecticut. Once completed, couples can pick up marriage license forms at town and city clerk's offices.

Connecticut state Rep. Beth Bye and her partner Tracey Wilson hope to make history on Wednesday by becoming the first gay couple to marry in their town of West Hartford.

For Wilson, it's not just a personal milestone, but a professional one as well. She's the town's historian.

"She'd love to be the first one in town," joked Bye, who spent hours as a lawmaker listening to testimony on the marriage issue and ultimately helping to shepherd Connecticut's 2005 civil union law through the General Assembly.

In New Jersey, the third leg of the tri-state area, gay marriage remains near.

The new video "Better" from Boyzone, features a gay couple among the other heterosexual ones. The The BBC writes:

Boyzone have become the first boyband to feature a gay couple in their video. Singer Stephen Gately teams up with a male actor for the touchy feely scenes in their latest single Better.

The other Boyzone members are paired with girls but Stephen, who came out in 1999 and is in a civil partnership, wanted things to be different. He told Newsbeat: "For me, it's just me being me and I don't think there should be a real big issue about the whole thing anyway."

It's a sweet, slightly overwrought, but, yeah, romantic song.

(Update: If the video won't play, click on the player to be taken to the Youtube site, then click on "play in hi-def." That should work for you.)

Nate Silver, the polling superhero of FiveThirtyEight.com, dispels some of the myths about why Prop 8 passed:

Now, it's true that if new voters had voted against Prop 8 at the same rates that they voted for Obama, the measure probably would have failed. But that does not mean that the new voters were harmful on balance -- they were helpful on balance. If California's electorate had been the same as it was in 2004, Prop 8 would have passed by a wider margin . . . At the end of the day, Prop 8's passage was more a generational matter than a racial one. If nobody over the age of 65 had voted, Prop 8 would have failed by a point or two. It appears that the generational splits may be larger within minority communities than among whites, although the data on this is sketchy.

The good news for supporters of marriage equity is that -- and there's no polite way to put this -- the older voters aren't going to be around for all that much longer, and they'll gradually be cycled out and replaced by younger voters who grew up in a more tolerant era. Everyone knew going in that Prop 8 was going to be a photo finish -- California might be just progressive enough and 2008 might be just soon enough for the voters to affirm marriage equity. Or, it might fall just short, which is what happened. But two or four or six or eight years from now, it will get across the finish line.

This is pretty much in line with what Michelangelo Signorile has been saying. We are, relatively speaking, a young movement, and we need to be patient, and we need to keep fighting.

And as we keep fighting, especially as the protests continue, is that these are supposed to be peaceful protests. Via Joe.My.God, here is footage of a protest rally in Palm Springs. A Prop 8 proponent, an elderly woman carrying a large cross, is surrounded by a group of gay men who try to interrupt her interview. The cross is ripped from her hands, thrown to the ground, and stomped on.

Wake Up With These!

The Rachel Maddow Show
1) Decision 2008+ 2) Who Can Lead the GOP 3) Missing Nuke 4) Veterans Honored 5) Hannah Obama

The New York Times
NYT The Front Page 11/12 (4:37)

The Signorile Show (5:43)
Michelangelo Signorile speaks to a Mormon on Prop 8: "This was my conversation with Nancy from Amarillo, a Mormon who donated money to the Yes on 8 Campaign. She called in after hearing many callers from around the country talking about protesting the Mormon Church for its helping to raise 20 million dollars among its members for Prop 8."
Get more information over at his site.


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Daily Song:
Van She - "Kelly" (Lifelike Remix)

Television:
The second season of "Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World" premiered on Logo last night. In this preview Perez Hilton, Arianna Huffington, Andy Towle, and other superbloggers get skewered.

Politics:
Gertrude Baines (born April 6, 1894) is an American supercentenarian who is currently, at age 114, the third-oldest living person in the world. And she voted for Barack Obama.

Movies:
"Chris and Don: A Love Story" The documentary about Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy was nominated for best documentary in the Gotham Independent Film Awards. The legendary gay couple was born thirty years apart and stayed together thirty-three years.

Music Video:
The Hours
"See The Light"
Featuring Sienna Miller

Click below to jump to the full size players or click here to launch them in a new window. Or just hang out and watch them in The Media Bar next door.
Daily Song:

Television:

The second season of "Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World" premiered on Logo last night.

Politics:

Gertrude Baines (born April 6, 1894) is an American supercentenarian who is currently, at age 114, the third-oldest living person in the world. And she voted for Barack Obama.

Movies:


"Chris and Don: A Love Story" The documentary about Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy was nominated for best documentary in the Gotham Independent Film Awards. The legendary gay couple was born thirty years apart and stayed together thirty-three years.

Music Video:


The Hours "See The Light"