The Urban Legend

Legend staffers take second place in Story of the Year competition

Hannah Sears, Staff Writer • November 20, 2011

The Urban Legend’s “Proposition 8: Battling Over Same-Sex Marriage” multimedia package won second place for Story of the Year-Multimedia at the National Scholastic Press Association’s High School...

News analysis: Same-sex marriage hearing probes meaning of an institution

the Legend staff • December 17, 2010

A team of Legend writers listened to the final arguments in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec. 6 in San Francisco and prepared the news analysis below....

Editorial: California, it’s time to approve same-sex marriage

Megan Madden and Sabrina Werby, staff writers • December 16, 2010

We live in a paper world: checkbooks, receipts, essays, sketchbooks, and the ever-versatile paper napkin. But for millions of gay and lesbian Californians, one very important piece of paper is out of reach....

Same-sex marriage hearing sparks demonstration in San Francisco

the Legend staff • December 15, 2010

It was your typical “only in San Francisco” protest: On the morning of Dec. 6, the song “We Shall Overcome” drifted out from the crowd massed in front of the federal courthouse in downtown San...