There's five people in that top photo and only four names. Who's the other one?

Dear all of my coworkers who spent last night phone-banking : Thank you so much. I love you.

Quick question. Do you use your own cell phone for this? I'm signed up to do this on Tuesday and didn't think about this until I saw this picture. I have a cell phone, but it barely functions and has extremely limited minutes. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

I want to second Dave—a huge thank-you to all my straight co-workers. Nancy Hartunian, who produces the "Savage Lovecast," has been phone-banking for the Approve R-74 campaign over the last few weeks too.

One of the things I always tell audiences when I talk about the "It Gets Better" campaign is that things have gotten better for LGBT people over the last four decades. And it's gotten better for us because straight people have gotten better.

There's the proof, right there in a single photograph.

Nice work! I can imagine how draining this might be, especially with the more...opposed people. But how rewarding all around.

You guys! Thank you for doing this, thank you for putting your action where your mouths are! Phone banking truly makes a difference, especially with this issue, and we ALWAYS need volunteers.

Super proud of everyone stepping to the plate to get it done. 25 days 'til election. Let's win.

@3: there are cell phones available for you to use at the action centers. Thank you for volunteering!

You guys are awesome. Thanks for all you are doing.

@7 Thanks!

Anna,

I don't know if you were still at Center for this, but back when I was a junior in Greenberg's class and we were still trying to get sexual orientation protected against discrimination, we went to Kirkland to try and get signatures. It was like being on another planet. It was one for every five people who stopped and signed- and at least three of the remaining four had objections. I wonder if Kirkland has at all changed since 2007. Did you talk to any of the folks there?

please don't call me. i have a rule that says i don't vote for anyone that calls me.

@1 -- the volunteer on the far left? Sad to say I never caught her name.

For some reason I pictured Anna Minard as Indian.

I had a kind of rough night of it too, luck of the draw got me mostly "absolutely opposed" people who are very hard to turn, but the conversations were still valuable, eye-opening, and important, and I at least moved one or two from opposed to undecided. Do it! Also props to our lead developer Jay who also had a persuasion!

I *love* that the Stranger staff are showing up for this stuff. You guys rock. Thank you. All of you.

Really? She has never talked to anyone in her whole life who opposes gay marriage?

I feel sorry for how insulated she is. Not living in reality will catch up to her one day.

So, is Gillian Anderson, like, the Gillian Anderson?

Cuz that really looks like the back of Scully's head.

I'm a Savage Love listener who lives in Minnesota, and I've been phone-banking here against the amendment on our ballot (which would create a constitutional prohibition against same-sex marriage). I've done a weekly phone banking shift weekly for the last five weeks.

It's not always easy. But some people really are willing to talk to you, and listen to you, and when you realize that you're really opening a window in someone's mind for the first time ever, it's electrifying. When I did my shift on Thursday, my very last call was to a 70-year-old man who was emphatically planning to vote yes (which, just to clarify: "yes" is the WRONG vote in MN even though it's the right vote in other states). And he opposed same-sex marriage and he didn't really think it was OK to be gay (that's usually the cue for us to politely end the conversation). But then he asked how I was voting, and why, and listened as I told him about my friends who were going to be hurt by this, and their kids. And I could hear the change in his voice as he started to actually think about his prejudices and assumptions. I didn't bring him all the way to a no vote, but I moved him from an emphatic yes to undecided and planning to give this some serious thought. Last week, I moved someone all the way from probably yes, to definitely no.

It's hard, but it is SO WORTHWHILE.