Is Join the Impact Bridging the Gay-Straight Gap?

(Crossposted on Personal Democracy Forum) It can take a lot to amaze those of us who study the web's impact on on the world, but the speed and reach of the organizing against California's Proposition 8, passed on the same day Barack Obama was elected president, has been simply astonishing. In a handful of days, a movement called "Join the Impact" has gone from a humble website dreamed up by a 26 year-old Seattleite to a global movement which, as the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller noted, generated protests this weekend in 300 cities in fifty states (and the District of Columbia), and eight countries.