Magaret Cho Cincinnati Proposition 8 Protest Song

Excerpt from Margaret Cho's MySpace Bulletin:

"I was asked to perform at an anti-Prop 8 rally on the big international day of protest – November 15 – in Cincinnati, and I thought I should write a protest song for it. The fact that there is now a ban on gay marriage just kills my spirit, hurts my heart. I was deputized as a marriage commissioner in San Francisco in June, and I got to marry a gay couple and a lesbian couple at city hall, and it was such an honor and a blessing, and we all wept through the entire thing. It was one of the greatest things I had ever experienced, and the fact that the state considers those unions now against the law just destroyed me emotionally. Momentarily, I lost my will to fight, and I desperately wanted to get it back, and music was the only answer.

They introduced me, and I fumbled with the guitar for a bit. I got all scared that somewhere between me taking it out of my gig bag – yeah that is a musician's term for a bag that you bring to the gig – your gig bag – I got all worried that in the few seconds that it was out of the gig bag, that it would go out of tune. I managed to get the strap and get the guitar in front of me semi-correctly. Then, I started to play, and miraculously, the song I wrote just came out of me and I know I messed up some chords but nobody seemed to mind much. It was the spirit of the thing, you know? At the end everyone was singing the chorus with me "Shove Proposition 8 up their ass!" and it felt really great."

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Dallas Gay Rights Protest Fueled by Proposition 8

After California passed proposition 8 by a 52% vote on election day, an uproar of protests have taken to the streets. 'Join the Impact' was formed by a young gay marriage activist in Seattle. What started out as a blog post, quickly logged 10,000 hits to the Web site on the first day it launched. The power of the Internet made the Web site go viral almost instantly. Soon, Join the Impact sign, banners and event invitations were being passed around Facebook at an extraordinary speed. And, the message was clear: there will be a national protest at every single city hall across America on Saturday, November 15. And, the power of the Internet made it happen.

The size of the protest is said to have far surpassed the Stonewall Riots in 1969. Join the Impact protests not only took to the streets in the U.S., but also in cities in Canada, England and Australia. One thing is for certain; the GLBT population around the world has had enough, and finally, after 40 years since Stonewall, we are standing up and uniting to demand equal rights.

This is a monumental moment in history. Never before have I felt like something was so important. Never before have I felt so much camaraderie and love among our own community. Today was an emotional experience for many who attended the protests. Below is a video I made of the Dallas protest.

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