Join the Impact

Join the Impact was an American LGBTQ political organization started in reaction to the passage of Proposition 8 in California which rapidly developed into a national coalition of local LGBT rights groups.

[9] Facebook played a pivotal role in organizing, allowing headquarters for events to form, and communicate with participants locally.

Wetpaint, a free website wiki community, offered to allow the group to develop a site page for each state.

Candlelight vigils were held in commercial centers and shopping malls in remembrance of the 18,000 same sex marriages performed in California between June and November 2008.

The event garnered national attention, as well as the opposition of the Westboro Baptist Church, who held a counter protest at the Light Up the Night for Equality vigil in Chicago, Illinois.