Yesterday I joined several of my colleagues and tens of thousands of people I don’t know in the Equality March, a march and rally to the Capitol for LGBT rights. It was a great experience – perfect weather (including, as you’ll see, an apropos celestial phenomenon), great folks around me, a really loving environment, and an important cause. Here are some pictures I took:
The aforementioned celestial phenomenon - a rainbow at an equality march. I did a quick-and-dirty punch-up in Photoshop to bring out the foreground since my iPhone, while awesome, isn't a professional-grade camera.
A number of people from the NY marriage equality group had color-coordinated t-shirts and umbrellas. Kinda reminded me of day camp. At the end of the march, they should have played a big game of Red Rover.
I climbed onto a traffic signal in an attempt to get a better shot of the march stretching out in front of us. Note the rainbow sign with van-guy selling sunglasses; one of my companions was sure that he had the red-white-and-blue sign for the Tea Party protests.
Marching down Pennsylvania Ave. toward the Capitol building. I love living in DC.
The only bigot we saw all day... and all he was doing was driving around. I was actually quite surprised that the bigots weren't having a counter-protest somewhere.
Jackson, the son of one of the people in our group and by far our youngest protestor, takes a well-deserved nap at the rally.