You’ll be glad to know that the organizations in charge of opposing prop 8 seem to have learned their lesson.  Before the election, they were focusing on getting out the gay vote.  There was very little outreach to non-gay communities; some friends of mine were pretty heavily involved in the canvassing process, which a lot people were participating in, but you almost never saw yard signs or canvassers outside of West Hollywood.  Prop 8 was a wake-up call, and they immediately took stock of their strategy and are now being much less stupid about advocacy: canvassing starts up in two weeks, and this time it’s happening in non-gay-majority areas of LA.  There also seems to be much more of an effort to bring in straight supporters to help, which is encouraging.  I’ll be doing some pre-canvassing phone banking next week, and I’m excited to get involved more directly (I mostly gave money and agitated in the classroom last year).  A recent poll of likely voters showed only 49% opposing marriage equality, 45% supporting it, and 6% undecided.  In a year or so there will be a clear majority in favor and prop 8 will be repealed at the ballot box (at which point I really hope California scraps its ridiculous referendum process).