City, Featured - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 19:56 - 3 Comments

Prop 8 Protest Organized by NYU Students

You may have seen signs proclaiming, Fight the H8 and End the War on Love. You may have even attended the 10,000-person protest at City Hall last Saturday. But you may not know it was organized by one of our own.

On November 10, NYU Junior Carrie Harrington, and her girlfriend, NYU Alumna Dani Ryan saw that there was a nationwide protest campaign. They found the event on Facebook and volunteered to help. “After Prop 8 passed, my girlfriend and I, like so many gay and equality-minded individuals across the nation, were shocked and devastated,” she said. “It was then we realized we had to be part of the fight for our rights.” However, when joining the event, they found it was being organized by a high school student from Connecticut, planning on gathering in front of City Hall with some friends. By this point the small group of friends had escalated to 500 people.

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