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Following this week's heartbreaking loss in Maine's battle to keep same-sex marriage equality, and the one year anniversary of California's passage of Prop 8, protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles for a march and rally. The march route took protesters past The Black Cat, where members of the gay community first fought back against police brutality before the Stonewall riots.

SheWired spoke with web series star Cathy DeBuono (We Have to Stop Now is currently in its second season) about how important it is to be FAIR and balanced in mainstream media when dealing with a civil rights movement like the one the LGBT community is currently undertaking. One very observant and pro-active journalist spotted DeBuono’s plea to the mainstream media and decided to take it upon herself to do something about it. Nanci Francis opened up her laptop, wrote an article on The Examiner and initiated a pledge called FAIR IS FAIR.

An estimated 400,000 people came out and celebrated the 41st Annual LA Pride event this past weekend in West Hollywood. Other highlights of the parade were attorney Gloria Allred in a convertible surrounded by the “All Reds,” a dozen women and men in drag sporting blond wigs and Allred’s signature red suit, a fire truck full of Micky’s bar employees (go-go dancers included, of course), many Gay-Straight Alliances and college LGBT organizations, riders and roadies who participated in this year’s AIDS/LifeCycle, a contingent of vintage car enthusiasts, and the U-haul trucks driven by cast members of Showtime’s lesbian reality series The Real L Word.