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The during Reeling, the second oldest state’s director of elections, Melissa Packard, LGBT-film festival in the United States. said her office would not report results publicly Read about the first week and peruse until they are certified—in about 20 days. interviews with Mink Stole, The apparent vote marks a significant defeat Ky Dickens and others. See for marriage-equality supporters, who were hop- pages 15-17. ing to regain ground lost last year when voters in California narrowly approved Proposition 8 to amend the state constitution to ban gay mar- riage and undermine a court ruling that had en- abled some 18,000 same-sex couples to marry in Lesbian 2008. 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