Prop 8 Engaged New Generation of Activists

In the hours after the passage of California’s voter-approved ban on marriage for same-sex couples, thousands of people marched down Santa Monica and Sunset Boulevards in West Hollywood to express their outrage. Others in neighboring Los Angeles, New York City and other cities across the country took part in similar protests.

Did Proposition 8 inspire a new generation of LGBT activists to fight for LGBT rights?

"When Prop 8 passed, at least here in California, a whole new group of activists were born because they felt the sting of discrimination and that’s often what it takes," said West Hollywood Mayor John Duran during a Feb. 27 interview at a Starbucks along Santa Monica Boulevard.