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Well we made it. National Equality March Friday. Some of you are getting ready to head to Washington, DC. Others will remain home and do good deeds. There will be those at their favorite bar in a drunken haze complaining how once again the gay media failed because they just heard about the march. And the rest will insist they are not gay while trolling the parks for some male booty. That last group always brings a little chuckle.
I have no idea what will happen these next two days. Can’t even guess how many folk will show. Honestly all that matters is life on October 12 and after. Will this lead to a victory in Maine? Will we get concrete information on when DADT and DOMA will be dealt with? If this march helps those goals, then happy day. If not, we got a problem and it might be time to consider keeping our eyes local.
My smallish ears will be wide open though. You might, if you are good, get the occasional Tweet. And I’ll try to post stuff, but I have no laptop so that is not a promise in stone.
Drop by here if you are in DC and tell us what you think. If you don’t go, share how your weekend is going and what you are doing. If you are in the park trolling, please take that mess somewhere else.
Feel free to say hello if you see me walking the streets of DC.
For those of you that didn’t have a chance to be at this event, and the affiliated seminars that equality across america put on, you truly missed something moving. The seminars that were held brought our LGBT brothers and sisters closer than ever before, our minds came together to network (I’m talking about actual networking, not the “social mixer” type of sexual networking) and we met to discuss what the real concerns of the regular gays at large (not the hoity toity gays that attend galas).
I don’t mean anything either way regarding the big national names, because this weekend was a bigger success in spite of their refusal to endorse the march.
This weekenend was about bringing our brothers and sisters together to stand for something, to show that the LGBT community isn’t settling for the status quo any longer! If you weren’t there, you didn’t get to hear the story of the African-American woman from the Bronx that had just been diagnosed with HIV last month, but decided to leave the house for the first time since that diagnosis just for the HIV/AIDS awareness rally/conert that took place. You also didn’t get to see the inspirational young LGBT’s (they have another name that you’ll have to find out through research online in order to find) leading the march and shouting down those protestors with dignity, you didn’t hear that story and you didn’t see that class.
I want you to know that the numbers were well over tens of thousands, we were over a hundred thousand strong! I hope that 365gay will offer readers more information on the whole weekend, even though the weekend news doesn’t hit until mondays, but they’re understaffed and work hard for us all so we’ll be patient
I know what my story is going to look like for my site and my feature in QVegas magazine, but I’m looking forward to see how 365gay will continue to lead the online news community. I’m an optimist, so I’m hoping that 365gay will come through for the online readers.
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If one man is oppressed then we are all slaves.
May Withers see the hypocracy of his ilke attending a freedom march this week while writing this the week earlier!
“Let’s say you are a little pork chop (if you are insulted by fat jokes move on, Boo. Move on). Let’s also assume as a bigun, you need a motorized cart to get to the potato chip aisle….” said by Withers.
Yeah, Barney, we’re wasting our time by marching! Can you imagine the uproar that would have ensued if Martin Luther King had told his marchers the exact same thing all those years ago?
Barney Frank says you’re all 2 thousand of you are wasting your time. But he’ll still be a hero.
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