365 Gay News » National Equality Rally http://www.365gay.com The daily news source for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:52:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Withers: Notes on a march http://www.365gay.com/blog/101209-the-young-were-out-for-the-national-equality-march/ http://www.365gay.com/blog/101209-the-young-were-out-for-the-national-equality-march/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:08:50 +0000 James Withers http://www.365gay.com/?p=10109 Washington DC rally-top

I could bore you with economic tales of woe and how I barely made it to Washington, DC and back, but does anyone care a whit about Withers’ finances? Despite my lack of Tweets–attempted but my(...)

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I don’t mean to pile on Cleve Jones, the organizer for the National Equality March, but there are times when he talks and its easy to wonder if he likes Mary Jane a bit too much. In a recent

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Oh sweet Jesus! A little over a week before the big to do in Washington, DC and look at what the folk at Queerty do. Throw out some provocative essay about race, activism, and the “gay(...)

]]> http://www.365gay.com/blog/100509-when-the-conversation-is-race-we-always-stumble/feed/ 7 Withers: Going to DC but don’t want to http://www.365gay.com/blog/092309-will-the-march-in-october-be-effective/ http://www.365gay.com/blog/092309-will-the-march-in-october-be-effective/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:04:27 +0000 James Withers http://www.365gay.com/?p=9766 question-mark-top

This will earn me no love, but I’m too old to care for best buds. While I will be in Washington DC for the National Equality March, I would rather stay home that weekend.

There are the(...)

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1. Anyone NOT going to the October 10-11 DC march? Reasons? I’m 85 percent sure I’ll be there. The 15 of doubt is purely budget issues.

2. Reason 519 why I’m smitten with the day job: on(...)

]]> http://www.365gay.com/blog/083109-ten-random-thoughts/feed/ 5 Withers: What do you hope happens after October 11? http://www.365gay.com/blog/082609-what-will-happen-after-the-october-11-rally/ http://www.365gay.com/blog/082609-what-will-happen-after-the-october-11-rally/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:21:11 +0000 James Withers http://www.365gay.com/?p=9307 gay-rights-sign-top

Unless you have been living under a rock, there is a gay rights march in Washington, DC in early October.

“A march,” you ask with indignation. “I didn’t know. Why doesn’t our gay media keep us(...)

]]> http://www.365gay.com/blog/082609-what-will-happen-after-the-october-11-rally/feed/ 20 Philadelphia to host national gay rights rally http://www.365gay.com/news/philadelphia-to-host-national-gay-rights-rally/ http://www.365gay.com/news/philadelphia-to-host-national-gay-rights-rally/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 19:48:49 +0000 Jennifer Vanasco/editor http://www.365gay.com/?p=7055 (Philadelphia)  Lilli Vincenz started demonstrating for gay rights at Independence Hall in the 1960s, when the activists had a strict no-hippies dress code: suits and ties for men, dresses or(...)

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