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Cathy Renna Writes About the Prop 8 Protest in DC this Weekend in the Bilerico Project: We Are an American Family

Are We Still Marching?

My three year old asked us this as we began the long walk back to our car after the Washington, DC protest march this afternoon. It was her first protest and she was enthralled by the people, sights and sounds. She watched the first hour on my shoulders and it was priceless.

The crowd was huge – definitely in the thousands, probably about ten thousand. The energy was great, the people diverse and it felt like I had taken a trip back in time about 15 years. Initially I felt surrounded by people much younger than me, then I would see someone I knew. Andrew Sullivan was there, as was Jonathan Rausch, along with prominent local longtime activists Mindy Daniels and Erica Gloger with their daughter and uber-PFLAG parents Lanette and Bill Graves.

But mostly we saw lots of new faces – young and older, LGBT and lots of allies and tons of diversity in all it’s forms. Hell, there were even Metalheads against Prop 8, who got all Ozzie Osborn on us as we passed them.