The walkaway mayor quickly walks away from helping the truly sick and needy.

Fog City Journal — Protestors lay down in front of the Mayor’s Pride 2009 parade float to symbolize the deaths that will follow from his severe cuts to HIV/AIDS services.

The action was reminiscent of the ACT UP die-in’s of the 1980’s and 90’s which used civil disobedience to urge a co-coordinated response to fight the AIDS epidemic.  The ACT UP moniker back then was Silence = Death.

Today, there’s a new virus in San Francisco, and it’s as deadly as HIV –
Gavin Newsom’s over $120 million in cuts to health services.

These cuts are killing us, specifically cuts to HIV prevention and care, and public health safety net services being decimated in this budget.

Mayor Newsom’s 2009-2010 budget makes severe reductions to HIV/AIDS prevention, health services, counseling, education, advocacy, outreach, housing and testing.

Giving his own staff, cops and firefighters healthy raises in a major fiscal crisis seems more important to the man-child mayor than caring for the sick, and proven disease education and prevention.

When you unveil the curtain behind marriage equality, you will find that Gavin cares more about raising salaries of fire and police than ensuring basic public health needs for the most vulnerable during the worse fiscal crisis in San Francisco history.

If you only care about running for Governor, who do you care more for – raising salaries for members of the police and firefighters unions, or protecting health services for the most vulnerable among us?

Mayor Newsom made his answer known very clearly.

Gavin Newsom's 2009-10 budget is killing the LGBT community.

Fog City Journal — Public health and human service activists staged a die-in protest during Pride 2009 today to draw attention to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s budget that includes over $121 million in cuts to health and human services.

These cuts are killing us, specifically cuts to HIV prevention and care, and public health safety net services being decimated in this budget.

Mayor Newsom’s 2009-2010 budget makes severe reductions to HIV/AIDS prevention, health services, counseling, education, advocacy, outreach, housing and testing.

Marriage equality hero Dennis Herrera.

Whether you like it or not, Gavin Newsom’s campaign for marriage equality has been a controlled performance from the get-go.

Gavin took no position on marriage equality during his first run for Mayor in 2003, but his main opponent did.

When Newsom and his political consultants realized that many LGBT leaders and activists didn’t support his first Mayoral campaign, Gavin realized he needed to win them over with his budding political career.

Gavin bought the idea for same sex marriage from his paid political consultant Eric Jaye, the PG&E money maker.

So, the man-child mayor isn’t this story’s real hero — he’s just the pretty face and hair.

The real hero of marriage equality is this guy San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and his legal team in the City Attorney’s office.

If you live outside the city you’ve probably never heard of Dennis the Civil Rights Menace:

The mayor may get all the credit, or blame, for pushing the marriage-equality issue before the Supreme Court, but the person who deserves it—San Francisco’s real Marrying Man—is Herrera.

Seems that the brain of Gavin W. Bush is actually in the office of his paid political consultant and the city attorney’s office.