Protest against Prop 8 November 23 at Cambridge City Hall

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Dozens protest gay marriage ban

CAMBRIDGE - It will go down as the Facebook protest against California's Proposition 8, participants said.

About 75 people huddled at Jill Brown-Rhone Park in Central Square to voice their solidarity with advocates of gay marriage in California, where voters last week approved a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.

Yesterday's rally was largely the work of a single college student and largely organized online through the Facebook social network site.

Ryan MacNeely, 22, a student at Boston Architectural College, said he organized the protest because he was angered by the California vote. MacNeely created an event listing on Facebook.com and invited more than 1,000 people. He also created a group on Facebook called "I Hate Prop 8," and scheduled a second protest for Nov. 23 at 2 p.m. at Cambridge City Hall.

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After the event, MacNeely said the plan is to "catalyze some kind of national movement, where we're having people all over the country protest this. It's not just for California. It's meant as a nationwide effort to push gay marriage to the forefront, so we can actually get something done."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/10/dozens_protest_gay_marriage_ban/

It's about 1 block north from the Central Square stop on the Red Line.

The GLBT x-post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=221&topic_id=90188&mesg_id=90188

The GD x-post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4433933&mesg_id=4433933