NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12- Page 2
NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
#25re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 8:30amThe actual site of the protest is the park at 66th and Columbus. As the crowds outgrow the park the police will start closing down Columbus Ave. one lane at a time. The Mormon Temple is under construction and the sidewalk in front of the Temple is closed/blocked with scaffolding and such.
#26re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 9:04amI'll be there in spirit, from halfway across the globe !!!! All the best, guys !!! Hope it's a huge turnout !!
#27re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 9:44am
SOMMS--will you be there? How many of your exes do you expect to see?
The plan apparently is to march down Broadway to Columbus Circle and end in front of the Time Warner Center with a Kiss-In.
#28re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 9:49am
I can't make it into the city Peej, but the current beau will be there. I think there are currently six exes residing in NYC -- including a chorus boy. 
#29re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 10:37am
We could populate a protest march just by gathering your exes.
And GMF--what's a nice protest chant we can say in Greek on your behalf?
#30re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 10:48am
"protest chant we can say in Greek on your behalf?"
You're too big?
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#31re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 10:56amI thought I wasn't going to attend but I have to go to St Pauls so will be walking past there and show some support. Sucks coz I have class and then volunteer work! Otherwise, Id totally be there!
#32re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 12:42pm
Living in FL will obviously hinder my attendence but I wanna wish you all good luck!!!!
Bring back lots of pictures, please.
FL is having at least one nearby this weekend but know we all stand behind you!
"If I could only do one thing before I died, it would be to swim with a middle-aged couple from Connecticut."- a dolphin
#33re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 12:44pmI have my camera!
#34re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 2:22pmNow Whoopi maybe be showing up to speak.
#35re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 3:51pmAwwww, PalJoey, thank you for that thought ! I can't think of something right now, but just mentally add my voice to all the chants you guys say !!
#36re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 5:34pm
Me and my boys will be there this evening. I'll be holding a tall sign that simply reads
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
And, though not entirely confirmed, the NYC Gay Men's Chorus has been invited to sing at the City Hall rally on Saturday, November 15.
RAISE THE ROOF! NO MORE MR. NICE GAY!
Updated On: 11/12/08 at 05:34 PM
#37re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 5:34pm
Good Luck to all you guys that's going tonight! May your voices be heard LOUD & CLEAR! My thoughts are with you tonight!
UNITED WE LOVE by Sean Chapin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRlw7N8iXOs
(Footage in the video is from the candle vigil rally and protest march in San Francisco days after the election.)
(lyrics)
When you're in doubt take my hand
I'll stand by your side tonight cause
We will be better when we are together and
We are united in love
Post some photos for us who can't be there!
J*
Updated On: 11/12/08 at 05:34 PM
#38re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 5:52pmGood luck to you all tonight! Forces of the universe willing, I'll be at the DC protest this Saturday. It's amazing to see the reaction this is getting all over the country.
nygrl232
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/08
#39re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 6:03pm
Bet all this reaction will overturn things pretty soon.
I'm still wondering why this was put to a vote in the first place.
#40re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 6:05pm
Peace to my brothers and sisters gathering now in NYC. I'll never forget being at the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in October of 1979 -- 100,000 strong.
And, the Second March in October of 1987 that included the AIDS Quilt on the Mall. That gathering had about a half a million people. I'll never forget walking at the beginning of the march and lapping the end of it over the two mile route. Let your voices be heard!!!
#41re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 9:31pm
I just got back from my volunteer but man!! Getting out of the 1 was a really something but great because so many of those people were there for the peaceful protest!
I was so happy for the numbers and organized! People with their signs and megaphones organizing chants.
#42re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 9:58pm
SOMMS: You really don't look that old!
Glad it was such a success. I'm looking forward to the coverage it gets and change it will make happen.
#43re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 10:30pmFYI - I'm watching L&O, and NBC's teaser for the local NYC 11PM news shows the protest.
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#44re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 10:43pmSOMMS doesn't look "old" at all!!!!!
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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#45re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 10:57pm
What an amazing event! The organizers said there were 10,000 people there--some said 15,000--but it felt like 50,000.
I saw Whoopi there and Marc Shaiman and Tony Kushner and Jeff Whitty and and Doug Wright and Jake Shears and so many other theaterfolk, not there to speak or perform or be noticed, just there to BE there and to take part and to be counted, as New Yorkers, in support of our brothers and sisters in California and Florida and Arizona and Arkansas, and to stand up and say our love is greater than your bigotry.
But it wasn't the celebrities who mattered. It was the fact that there were so many of us. The crowds filled up Broadway from 66th Street down to Columbus Circle. However many thousands there were--and it was thousands not hundreds--we were 50-somethings who marched for AIDS and 20-somethings who never dreamed of marching, we were gay men and lesbians and straight friends. We knew who were are and we knew why we had come. And we're not going away.
#46re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 11:01pmChannel 7 now!
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#48re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 11:48pm
Glad it was a success! I'm looking forward to attending the demonstration here in Seattle on Saturday. Still brainstorming sign ideas. I hope there's sizable turnout across the nation.
Updated On: 11/12/08 at 11:48 PM
FindingNamo
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#49re: NYC Protest At Mormon Temple This Wednesday 11/12
Posted: 11/12/08 at 11:49pmExcellent reportage, PalJoey.
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