Category: Ballot measure

API Equality’s New Director

Dear Supporters, I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new Director of API Equality and provide an update of our activities. I have engaged in this work in communities as far ranging as Boston and Cincinnati to places closer like Portland and Los Angeles, but to participate in what may be

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Vow To Vote No

The moment has arrived. The battle is on. Yesterday, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced that the effort to pass a constitutional initiative to ban marriage for same sex couples in California has qualified for the November ballot. The measure would attempt to revise the California constitution to only recognize marriages “between a man

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Help Stop the Constitutional Initiative!

This is it. We need you to act now. No more dress rehearsals. With just a few weeks left to qualify, well-funded anti-LGBT organizations are paying people to gather signatures to put a constitutional initiative on the November 2008 ballot that would permanently exclude same-sex couples from marriage in California. API Equality and a broad

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Troubling developments

The anti-LGBT folks are at it again! They’ve recently hired signature collectors to circulate a petition that would ban marriage equality in California‘s state constitution. Although they’ve threatened to place an anti-marriage equality measure on the ballot for years now, they actually have the money to back up their effort this time. API Equality will

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