The federal trial is examining whether Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California, is or is not constitutional. Edmund Egan, a chief economist from San Francisco said yesterday that the city could see its economy boosted by millions if gay couples were allowed to marry. He advised that if more gay people married, they would be an increase in school district revenues,real estate, payroll and sales taxes and would be more likely to be insured. He estimated that gay marriage could boost economic revenues in other ways in California, such as money spent by couples on their weddings and hotel rooms. Egan added that married people spend more than their unmarried counterparts and tend to be wealthier, “The long-term cost of discrimination weakens people’s productivity in the workforce. Higher productivity leads to higher wages and higher wages lead to higher payroll taxes for the city.”

His estimations are born from facts, for example, in England some venues, hotels, attractions, especially in the big cosmopolitan cities in Manchester, London and Brighton, have seem revenues from gay civil ceremonies and receptions more than treble in the few years since the civil partnership laws were passed in 2005.

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In a presumably “post-racial” era with the country’s first African American president-elect, it’s easy for some to assume that race doesn’t matter.

But when critiquing the dominant white gay community’s ongoing efforts to gain marriage equality and its treatment of blacks as their second-class allies in the struggle a reality check happens — both straight and queer African American communities bond together against their strategy for marriage equality.

Why?

Because race does matter!

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