Title: Day Without a Gay
Tags: gaykeywest, Gay Day, Duchess
Blog Entry: Millions of Americans were encouraged to skip work yesterday and refuse to spend money on any goods or services — at an estimated cost of $2 billion to the US economy — in a nationwide boycott being touted as "Day Without a Gay". The event, which encourages gays and lesbians to "call in gay" rather than calling in sick has been orchestrated by activists in California to protest against the adoption of Proposition 8 in the state, which banned same-sex marriages. Although there are few reliable statistics on the number of gays and lesbians in the US estimates have ranged from 2.8 per cent of the population in a report by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in 2002, to 10 per cent from research conducted by Alfred Kinsey, a biologist, in the 1950s. Day Without A Gay
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