Update: Because of its popularity, the sweepstakes will be extended to April 30th. The contest will also be renamed, to Marriage Equality Sweepstakes.

id Magazine, preferred providers and partners presents our Marriage Matters Sweepstakes! Every week we will pick winners for our daily and weekly drawings, with a grand prize winner being picked on March 31, 2010. Anyone can enter, but please read the rules. If you’re a business and would like to participate, contact us here to find out how.

Why are we doing this? We want everyone to know about Basic Rights Oregon’s (BRO) campaign Marriage Matters to Me Oregon, and what better way to shine a light on them than throwing a party with valuable prizes? We encourage you to enter and go over to BRO’s site, donate your time or money and create a video!

What are the prizes?

New Daily and Weekly prizes will be added on a daily basis, but for the start, here are the prizes up for grabs:

Premium Portrait Session from mon Amour Photography: a 45-90 minute portrait session and $50 credit towards any print selections. Several of these are up for the drawings.

Identity Crisis! 50 Redesigns That Transformed Stale Identities into Successful Brands – Book, Signed Copy of Jeff Fisher’s second authored book. Brief description: Identity design (logos, letterhead, web sites, etc.) is one of the most popular topics in design books, and Identity Crisis takes a fresh look at this common subject by exploring the process of redesigning existing identities to help businesses refine their images, communicate with customers, and find success.

Readers will get an inside look at the challenges of redesigning identities. They’ll see the creative and strategic thinking behind fresh design work as well as have a powerful tool to show clients what a difference a professional can make to their image.

3 Yoga Classes*from Manifest Men’s Wellness Center

3 – 60 minute professional life transition coaching sessions. $675 Value! Will Wiebe is a Professional Life Transition Strategist, transformational speaker, facilitator, human development and team effectiveness trainer. Whether working with individuals or groups, Will brings wisdom and compassion to the process of coaching. His collaborative and compassionate approach to coaching develops a powerful alliance with individuals and groups.

Life Transition Coaching guides individuals and organizations to effect positive change. Will Wiebe’s coaching is grounded in his intuitive gift of guiding others through a process of self-discovery. Will’s coaching skills assist clients to un-lock their full potential. His coaching process provides a life-expanding environment for life/work balance and change.

Grand Prize 16GB Apple iPad with Wifi+3G

How do I enter to Win?

For our general daily, weekly drawings and grand prize drawings we have several ways to enter:

For Daily/Weekly Prize Drawings

1. Become a fan of id Magazine on Facebook.

2. Twitter a tweet with the hashtag of #MarriageMatters

3. Follow id Magazine on Twitter.

4. Subscribe to our RSS site feed (Click the big orange circle in the farthest right column, next to our Twitter icon.)

Grand Prize Entry – Write or Raffle

Write a brief 300 word piece on why Marriage Matters to you, or a Marriage Equality story and post it here. Your story can be more than 300, but no less. This prize is limited to residents of Oregon. There are no sexuality trait restrictions – straight, gay, lesbian, Bi, Transgender, Queer, In-Transition and everyone else in between are qualified to enter. The piece can be about many things, everyone is affected by marriage equality in one form or another: you may have friends or relatives that have a story about marriage equality or lack thereof.

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Rules

All of these entry options are one time entry only, but #2 can enter you into the daily/weekly drawings up to three times a day. Grand Prize entry can be entered once by a story submitted (awarding you 20 points) or up to 20 times with a raffle ticket. All winners must be Oregon residents. For stories submitted, 20 raffle ticket points will be awarded and put into the drawing bin on March 31, 2010. Prizes will be awrded every Monday and Friday (with some surprise dates thrown in for fun!) Sweepstakes is being run by Whiplash Design, some rules and restrictions are subject to change.Contact us here with any questions.

*Because this non-profit is male focused, this prize can only be redeemed by male participants, but anyone can win it. Give it as a gift to you favorite man in your life!