National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your local story!
National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your local story!
#1National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your local story!
Posted: 11/15/08 at 5:06pm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/15/same.sex.marriage/index.html
I just got back from my local protest here in Greensboro, NC. I dropped my plans for the day to attend and managed to get 14 other people to come with me in less than 24 hours.
There were about 200-250 of us here, I would estimate. We stood in front of a municipal building in the downtown area, held our signs high, and chanted. Most cars that drove by (75%) would honk, give thumbs up, show peace signs, and just smile. Others would drive by and not have any clue why we were protesting (20%). Only 5% of cars would respond negatively, either by giving us a thumbs down, giving the bird, or showing disgust in their faces.
It was supposed to rain all afternoon, but the sun shined through the day without so much as a drop. God held off his rainclouds for us. :)
Several local newstrucks and newspapers came. I called two local newstations this morning before I went to a sign-making party I was hosting. Neither one of the stations were aware of the protest before I called. Both showed up this afternoon. :)
Despite the positive energy and nice turnout, I must say that I am disappointed the numbers weren't larger. I had several friends who said they were going but never showed up. Shame.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
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#2re: National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your local story!
Posted: 11/15/08 at 6:58pm
Here in Louisville, KY 200 plus people showed up and it is cold and rainy here. I could not go because I have a class on Saturday, but my BFF went to represent us and he said it was great, with lots of support form passing cars. It was covered by the local news.
#2re: National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your lo
Posted: 11/15/08 at 7:35pm
Here in Boston. It was estimated that there were about 5,000 people who showed up considering its RAINING! Students from Harvard, MIT, Emerson, BU, Taft, Northeast, Parents with their kids, Grandparents with their grandkids, members of MASSEQUALITY (incl. myself & chris) GLAD, LGBT communities and also anti-protestors (see my photos)
We were there from 12:45 till 4:15. I voluntered to JOIN THE IMPACT Boston Chapter~ thru facebook to hand outs info about future protests (that's why I barely have no photos! The rally was very successful and peaceful! There were a lot of speakers..mostly politicians (democrats who support us)
We used same tactics we used at MASSEQUALITY~which is we contact the local media to raise public awareness of the protest!
and btw- IT DOES NOT STOP HERE... We will still continue here in MAS>> till every single Gay & Lesbian & Transgender have EQUAL rights in this country. ALL 50 STATES!!!
J*
Updated On: 11/15/08 at 07:35 PM
#3re: National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your lo
Posted: 11/16/08 at 12:47ambump
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#4re: National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your lo
Posted: 11/16/08 at 2:21am
NYC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEa66E9zPFE
Yes, it's 9 and a half minutes, but the speech clips I included are REALLY good, so PLEASE listen. I have clips from
New York City Gay Men's Chorus
http://www.nycgmc.org/
NYC City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn http://council.nyc.gov/d3/html/members/home.shtml
Congressman Anthony Weiner
http://weiner.house.gov/
Kim Stolz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stolz
Kate Shindle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Shindle
Heather Matarazzo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Matarazzo
Sebastian Maguire from Metropolitan Community Church of New York
http://www.myspace.com/mccny
Updated On: 11/16/08 at 02:21 AM
#5re: National Protests Held Across Country for Gay Marriage -- share your lo
Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:41am
Great day in Seattle. The crowd started to gather in Volunteer Park (in the "gay"borhood) at 10:30, speakers began at noon, the march towards downtown started at 1, and then there was a really downtown until 3. The best part for me was seeing so much support from straight families that showed up with their kids. Reposting some pix I put on the other thread:
Crowd gathering at Volunteer Park 
Front of the march coming down Broadway 
Looking down Pike Street towards downtown, we were about half-way within the crowd 
Lots of support along the way 
The rally downtown 
Next, we are marching in Olympia (state capital) on March 10.
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Updated On: 11/16/08 at 05:41 AM
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
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