The San Diego
Alliance for Marriage Equality (S.A.M.E.) will host its annual holiday
fundraiser Friday, December 9, 7 to 9:30 p.m., at the Bamboo Lounge, 1475
University Avenue in Hillcrest. Half the proceeds will go to the defense fund
for the Equality 9, nine S.A.M.E. members and supporters who are going to trial
in March 2012 for their civil disobedience action at the County Administrative
Center in August 2010 to protest the county’s failure to issue marriage
licenses to same-sex couples after a federal district judge found such
discrimination to be unconstitutional. The other half will go to pay medical
expenses for Occupy San Diego and Canvass for a Cause activist Michelle
“Jersey” Deutsch, who needed treatment after she was beaten by San Diego police
during one of their raids on the Occupy encampment in Civic Center Plaza
downtown.
Entertainers
will include singers Joshua Napier (who also performed at S.A.M.E.’s 2010
holiday fundraiser) and Drew Searing. There will also be a retrospective video
presentation of S.A.M.E.’s activities during 2011 and other performers to be
announced later. For more information visit the S.A.M.E. Web site,
www.samealliance.org
