jamesggilmore.com » Washington http://jamesggilmore.com James G. Gilmore's blog. Wed, 02 May 2012 17:07:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Highlights from the Equality March http://jamesggilmore.com/2009/10/12/highlights-from-the-equality-march/ http://jamesggilmore.com/2009/10/12/highlights-from-the-equality-march/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:24:14 +0000 James G. Gilmore http://jamesggilmore.com/?p=128 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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