Prop 8 Protests to California Court Decision Held across U.S.

More than 100 marches, protests and other events in response to the court’s decision took place in Boston, Dallas, Washington and other cities around the country.

Authorities said the crowds of Proposition 8 protesters marching from West Hollywood to Hollywood reached roughly 2,000 late Tuesday night before their numbers began to dwindle about 10 p.m.

More than 2,000 people marched from the West Village to Union Square in lower Manhattan last night to express their outrage, while nearly 1,000 Chicagoans took to Halsted Street.

Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the steps of City Hall this evening and later blocked traffic on Market Street after speakers urged protesters to channel their anger and rage over the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold Proposition 8.

[H]undreds of same-sex marriage supporters gathered at Westlake Park Tuesday evening to protest California's upholding of a gay-marriage ban...

The call for equality filled the streets of downtown San Jose when hundreds marched for the right to marry, regardless of sexual orientation.

Upward of 400 people staged a peaceful protest Tuesday in front of the Riverside County Courthouse in Palm Springs, hours after the California Supreme Court upheld the voter-approved measure Proposition 8 repealing same-sex marriage.

But more than 300 Utahns rallied outside the Capitol building on Tuesday night to protest the court decision, waving rainbow flags and signs with slogans like "Repeal Proposition H8" and "18,000 a good start."

Gay rights activists took to the streets of San Francisco in protest - and did likewise on the green 3000 miles away in Boston's Copley Square. [...] Led by the group Join the Impact MA, a few hundred people marched and held a mock funeral procession to mourn the loss of marriage equality in California.

In what was by far Dallas’ largest gay-rights demonstration since the one outside City Hall following Prop 8’s passage in November, hundreds of people gathered on the Cedar Springs strip Tuesday night to protest the California Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.