Last week on the “Savage Lovecast”—my weekly podcast that features all original questions from listeners—I took a call from a young gay kid in California. Jordan was out to his immediate family, and his mom and dad were planning to vote against Proposition 8, the initiative on the ballot today in California that would ban same-sex marriage in that state. The kid wasn’t out, however, to his extended family—aunts, uncles, grandparents—and he was worried that many of his relatives would be voting for Prop 8. He asked me if he should come out to his extended family and ask them to vote against Prop 8. I told him he should come out to them before the election because they were going to find out sooner or later, so why not now? Why not give them the opportunity to do the right thing?

Well, the kid came out to his whole family. You can hear how it went by clicking here.

UPDATE: The final polling on Prop 8 (via Sullivan)….

The polls in California are looking good—thanks in part to you, Jordan. Full marriage equality comes to Connecticut on November 12. If Democrats gain control of the New York State Senate, marriage equality could come to New York—which already recognizes same-sex marriages performed in other states—early next year. Obama has promised to work toward a repeal of DOMA, which, if he’s successful, would make the federal rights and responsibilities of marriage available to same-sex couples who live in states with marriage equality.

What of Washington state? If Dino Rossi wins today—thanks Help’s husband—our state’s gradual movement toward full marriage equality for same-sex couples, successfully pushed by state Sen. Ed Murray and state Rep. Jamie Pedersen in the wake of the Washington state Supreme Court’s appallingly bigoted ruling against marriage equality, will come to a screeching halt. Rossi says he isn’t “running on” the issue of same-sex marriage, but he will veto a gay marriage bill and, most likely, any further expansion of Washington state’s domestic partnership law.

Vote Gregoire.