Same-sex marriage supporters in Fresno covered the southwest corner of Shaw and Blackstone avenues Wednesday after Maine's vote to repeal gay-marriage legislation.
"I want people to know that we're here and we're not going anywhere," Travis Stephenson said.
Kelly Masuda compared the gay community's civil-rights struggles to the racism of her parents' generation. "Even though I'm not gay," Masuda said, "I feel it'd be wrong to just sit around and watch without doing something."
"We strongly believe it's the straight people's obligation to not just from a distance say, 'I hope those people get their rights someday,' but literally be visible saying, 'This is wrong,' " said Jerry Thurston, a founder of the organization Straight Advocates for Equality.
Demonstrators supporting gay marriage gather Wednesday at Blackstone and Shaw avenues in Fresno for a candlelight vigil to mark the one-year anniversary of California’s passage of Proposition 8 and to protest Maine’s vote to repeal same-sex marriage legislation.
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