More Perfect Unions

Yesterday, I went down to Washington DC for the National Equality March, because I believe all people should have all of their rights (What a concept!).

Below are some pictures I took along the way. You can also check out a play by play of how it all went down (up until the point when my phone died…) on my twitter feed.

The folkses gathering behind the Broadway banner. Cynthia Nixon would join moments later. I however….

Came with the Off-Off Broadway crowd. Yes! The lovely folks of Ars Nova were kind of enough to provide folkses with a bus to get to and from the march. And thus…we took the streets! And lo!

There was lens flare! And people marching the streets. Several hundred thousand, in fact, by the reports we heard. In the marching there were many excellent signs- including quotes from Goethe, Shakespeare and God him/herself! Also my friend Mel’s personal favorite “More Perfect Unions!” Excellent!

At the end of the march, we arrived at the Capital to hear songs and speakers, which included leaders of the LGBT community, NAACP, and then some random famous people like Lady Gaga. Everyone freaked out for Lady Gaga, but the most eloquent plea came from Julian Bond, head of the NAACP .

The greatest moment of community was here- moments before the mighty hundreds of thousands gathered together and sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. Methinks Judy Garland would be proud.

And this terrible, horrible, awful thingadoo I drew on the back of my sign. I meant it, but I think its fourth grade aesthetics may have sent the gay rights movement back a decade or so.

All in all, the experience spanned the gamut from exhilarating to unbearably frustrating- as exemplified by the empty rhetoric of Michelle Clooney- who had a dream! A dream that sometime soon the glue of today will become the cement of tomorrow! Or something like that, I couldn’t quite tell.

I will leave you, however, with the exhilaration. In two parts. Enjoy.