Gay Activists Qutn March On Washgton : NPR

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MARCHERS PRS CSE WASHGTON
• GAY RIGHTS SUPPORTERS MARCH WASHGTON
• THE GAY MARCH: A NEW GENERATN OF PROTTERS
• GAY RIGHTS MARCH WASHGTON
• GAY ACTIVISTS QUTN MARCH ON WASHGTON
• DEBATE OVER GAY MARCH EXPOS SPL APPROACH
• GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MARCH ON WASHGTON
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

GAY RIGHTS MARCHERS PRS CSE WASHGTON

11, 2009WASHINGTON — Impatient and disuraged by what they see as a certa tachment by Print Obama on their issu, gay rights supporters took to the streets Sunday the largt monstratn for gay rights here nearly a rally was primarily the unrtakg of a new generatn of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr advot who have grown disillned wh the movement’s as Stonewall 2. “I thk this march reprents the passg of the torch, ” said Corey Johnson, 27, an activist and blogger for the gay-themed Web se “The pots of power are no longer the halls of Washgton or large metropolan areas.

You have young activists and gay people om all walks of life nvergg on Washgton not bee a natnal anizatn told them to, but bee they feel the time is now. ”The rally on Sunday and a black-tie gala on Saturday hosted by the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt gay rights advocy group, ma for a glarg dichotomy. Obama, who spoke at the dner, had the crowd on s feet reeratg his pledge to end the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and clarg his mment to gay rights as “unwaverg.

GAY RIGHTS SUPPORTERS MARCH WASHGTON

”The print did not lay out a timetable to repeal the ban on gays and lbians servg openly the ary, voice support for any of the battl gog on at state levels to allow same-sex upl more regnn unr the law nor mentn the march. ” The Human Rights Campaign, which helped anize the last gay rights march on Washgton 2000 but had virtually no volvement Sunday’s event, stirred up some ntroversy over the weekend after s print, Joe Solmone, wrote a letter to supporters urgg them to take Mr. Obama’s princy if he were to w a send generally supportive of the print, many marchers said they felt that he had not livered on mpaign promis he ma to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Amerins.

” Organizers of the march enuntered nsirable opposn om wh gay polil circl and om those who argued that was hastily planned and would divert rourc om mpaigns at the state level.

The marchers clud many who were not gay but attend to support gay Kimmey, 25, drove all night wh gay iends om Chigo so she uld attend the march wh them. Kimmey Valk, 22, the stunt outreach ordator for the march, said he believed that many people his age were embracg gay rights as the civil rights stggle of their time.

THE GAY MARCH: A NEW GENERATN OF PROTTERS

“There are a lot of people gettg volved not jt bee ’s a gay rights movement but bee ’s a generatnal movement, ” he said. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: New Generatn of Gay Rights Advot March to Put Prsure on the Print.

The 1979 Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. 14, 1979 for the natn’s first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. The ia of a gay march on Washgton siar to the famo 1963 March on Washgton for Ain-Amerin rights iated by Mart Luther Kg, Jr.

Had been phed by San Francis gay Supervisor Harvey Milk shortly before his assassatn 1978. New York gay activist Steve Ault and New York lbian activist Joyce Hunter have been creded wh movg Milk’s plans forward. A five-pot platform for the march lled for passage by Congrs of a “prehensive” lbian and gay civil rights bill; a printial executive orr banng discrimatn based on sexual orientatn the feral workforce, the ary, ferally ntracted private employers; repeal of all anti-gay/lbian laws; an end to discrimatn child ctody disput for gay and lbian parents; and protectns for gay and lbian youth agast discrimatn at home or schools.

GAY RIGHTS MARCH WASHGTON

The 1987 Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. Capol, where gay U. Items add to the platform beyond those clud for the 1979 march clud a ll for legal regnn of lbian and gay relatnships; repeal of sodomy laws applyg to nsentg adults; an end to discrimatn agast people wh HIV/AIDS; reproductive eedom for women; and an end to racism the U.

The 1993 March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay and Bi-Equal Rights and Liberatn.

Plans for the third march on Washgton for “Lbian, Gay, and Bi-Equal Rights and Liberatn, ” as was officially named, began prr to the 1992 printial electn while Gee H. By the time the march took place on April 25, Print Bill Clton, who exprsed support for gay rights durg his electn mpaign, had been office for jt over two months.

GAY ACTIVISTS QUTN MARCH ON WASHGTON

While march anizers were generally optimistic over a Clton Whe Hoe, some exprsed ncern that the new print appeared to be backg down om his promise to lift the ban on gays the ary followg opposn to the proposal by many Congrs.

” Among those playg a visible role the march were gay and lbian veterans, some of whom wore their ary uniforms.

Another vol msage livered at the march was strong opposn to Colorado’s Amendment 2, a ballot measure passed by voters that banned ci and unti the state om adoptg anti-discrimatn laws protectg gays and lbians. As wh the prev two gay march, U.

DEBATE OVER GAY MARCH EXPOS SPL APPROACH

In a break om the first three ‘gay’ Washgton march, which were iated by dividual activists, the Millennium March was iated by the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt LGBT civil rights group, and the Rev. Rather than seek put om grassroots activists and lol LGBT groups, HRC and Perry formed a march mtee on their own and hired lbian edian and events producer Rob Tyler, who had been llg for another gay march, as the march’s executive producer. In a prs release announcg the march, the mtee boasted that rporate sponsors were beg led up to help fance the march and a long list of celebri, most of whom were gay or lbian, would be performg at a ncert durg the weekend of the planned march.

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MARCH ON WASHGTON

Longtime gay rights advote David Mixner is creded wh iatg the march an effort to build on the groundswell of LGBT activism on social media generated by the approval by California voters of Proposn 8, a ballot measure that overturned the state’s same-sex marriage law. San Francis gay rights lear Cleve Jon, founr of the Nam Project that created the AIDS Memorial Quilt, beme volved as one of the lead anizers along wh lbian activist Rob McGehee and gay activist Kip Williams. Gay Rights Supporters March WashgtonProtters marched om the Whe Hoe to the Capol, mandg that the print keep his promis to allow gays to serve openly the ary and that he work to end discrimatn agast gays.

Activists prott to ph the Obama Admistratn and Congrs to live up to promis ma to the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny to advance civil rights Washgton on Oct. The march on Washgton that gays staged Sunday on the Natnal Mall drew somethg like 200, 000 people — that's a good gus based on nversatns wh many of the anizers and lol thori, although timat of Mall crowds are.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

Lren Hendricks, 20, of Tallahassee, Fla., left, and Cameron Tolle, 21, of Ccnati, chant wh thoands of gay rights advot durg a march Washgton, on Sunday, Oct.

Weilmoth, 22, of Knoxville, Tenn., chant wh thoands of gay rights advot at the start of the Natnal Equaly March Washgton, Sunday, Oct.

Weilmoth, 22, of Knoxville, Tenn., send right, and Colton Mcla, 19, of Knoxville, Tenn., right, chant wh thoands of gay rights advot at the start of a march Washgton, on Sunday, Oct. Thoands of gay rights supporters marched Sunday om the Whe Hoe to the Capol, mandg that Print Barack Obama keep his promis to allow gays to serve openly the ary and work to end discrimatn agast gays.