Well, my fellow YP4 fellows, I've been doing a lot of experience/searching/thinking about which types of activism I am best suited for.

Equal Rights for All Americans Championed at Oscars

By Kevin Gosztola

I have been fairly silent about the passage of disappointing ballot initiatives in California, Florida, and Arizona, restricting the marriage rights of queer people in those states.  I have been silent on this because until recently, the issue of marriage equality was, quite frankly, not that important to me.  I realize that that sentiment might have made me a little unpopular in the queer commu

Despite proclamations of "yes we did," a lot has not been done in this country, including recognizing the rights of gay people to marry and adopt children.

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Next week my friends and family from Soulforce (a YP4 ally organization that seeks to end religious-based oppression of LGBT people - the same amazing folks who organize the Equality Ride) are giving straight

This has been a long and on-going process...Who would've thought that we'd have so many amazing local poets in the city of Nashville just dying to perform at a Human Rights event?

Today's a special day in California and the USA. One month after the California State Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay marriage, today at 5:01 PM county clerks will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Let me start out with a little bit about myself. I am a student at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I recently graduated this May with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications: Public Relations and Spanish. I love college so much that I am staying for my Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership with an emphasis on university student affairs. I was a 2007 YP4 Fellow and will start an internship this summer with YP4. I LOVE activism and will fight for the rest of my life to put an end to all forms of oppression, discrimination and all the other nasty crap that puts people down!

The question we must address is whether, under these circumstances, the failure to designate the official relationship of same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution.

In 2000, too young to vote, my stomach sank when the Knight Initiative [Added: Proposition 22] — a marriage ban written by a man with a gay son — and an "anti-gang" measure sure to disproportionately target young people of color passed in California.

Organizing around the marriage ban those initiatives was one of my introductions to the world of activism. Now the Supreme Court of my home state has ruled the ban unconstitutional!