Protect Love

The streets of Downtown Los Angeles filled up with people from all walks of life, young, old, straight, gay and everything in between.

They turned out to protest the passage of Proposition 8. Proposition 8 adds a new amendment to the California Constitution which says, "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California". Before it passed, same-sex marriage was a constitutionally-protected right in California; a majority of the justices of the California Supreme Court affirmed this understanding of the constitution in May 2008.