With rallies, protests, dedications, and ceremonies across the state, it was hard to miss California’s inaugural celebration of Harvey Milk’s birthday. And if you live in a conservative-voting neighborhood, Equality California may have even brought Harvey Milk Day right to your door.
Since the passage of Proposition 8 in 2008, EQCA has significantly beefed up its organizing for marriage equality by hiring a Marriage Director, opening field offices in conservative strongholds, holding over 200 canvassing events in the last year, and developing a roadmap to overturn Prop 8 at the ballot box in 2012.
Victory in 2012 is far from assured. The most current polling research predicts a campaign almost as closely contested as 2008’s Prop 8.
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