A ton of people showed up downtown for the National Equality March yesterday. It was a nice day and I rode my bike down to check things out. The march was supposed to start at noon and I showed up a bit before 1:00 at the corner of 17th and Pennsylvania Ave where the march was turning to go past the White House. The route was closed to traffic and the marchers took up the whole width of the street zigzagging around the block in both directions. I started to take some pics and videos of the amusing signs and characters while the protesters kept coming and coming. They were organized in to groups. Other than a ton of general sounding GLBT groups there were catholic church chapters, groups from each state, and even “Teabaggers for Gay Rights”. They continued to stream past for at least an hour.
Once the last of the protesters came by I cruised over to the capitol area to try to catch the beginning of the march. On the way I spotted the Playgirl van. The march was so big that half of the protesters were already forming on the Capitol grounds when I got there and I was resigned to watch the second half of the march again. They had a speaker near the west steps of the Capitol and the Capitol grounds were already mostly full. I saw some religious freak driving a box truck covered with anti-gay slogans around the mall. I followed him for a block to see the reaction of protesters but since he couldn’t get near the parade route not many saw him. The few that did see him waved hello.
I rode around the Capitol and decided to grab some ful at Keren. Along the way I noticed the Breast Cancer Walk participants in pink who were outnumbered in DC probably 1000 to 1 by the gays.
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