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"Protesters demonstrating against Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban that voters approved Tuesday, clashed with police in Hollywood late Wednesday...the Los Angeles Police Department issued a citywide tactical alert, requiring all available officers to respond to the protest, LAPD spokesman Officer Jason Lee said." - Los Angeles Times

"In excess of 15,000 people are marching through San Francisco to protest at the passing of Proposition 8, the voter initiative in California that effectively bans gay marriage have admitted defeat." - Pink News

"Utah's growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Mormon church for its aggressive promotion of California's ban on gay marriage." - Associated Press

"Perhaps gay rights activists needed to better explain how a No vote wouldn't force churches to perform gay marriage ceremonies. And how a No vote wouldn't affect schools or teach children about gay marriage. Maybe deeper outreach in the black and brown communities could have changed some minds." - Huffington Post

"I have heard this day described as one of transcendence where Americans came together to prove that we are, above all, a nation of fairness...on this same Election Day, we great Americans passed laws as heinous as any Jim Crow legislation." - Huffington Post

"Black people by and large also bristle, absolutely bristle, at any suggestion that the struggle of the GLBT community somewhat parallels our struggle in the civil rights movement...I think there is a mentality that says 'How dare those fags compare their struggles with what we went through.' Not trying to be disrespectful but I know that's how a lot of people feel." - Democratic Underground