In just over two months, in many cities here and overseas, LGBT citizens and their straight-allies in this civil rights struggle will hold over twenty separate yet related Marches, all of them to raise up the demand and need for thoroughgoing justice through equal rights under law.
I'm proud to be serving on the steering committee putting this extraordinary series of events together. It's complex, demanding, yet highly satisfying work.
At each U.S. leg of these marches we are working to get voter-registration tables. C-Span and other media outlets have been invited to cover a number of the Marches.
It's time--this is not only an election year in the United States, but the world has been watching the incredibly courageous overseas activists, some of whom I've introduced to you here (and at the web site where I'm editor, 
www.castlegayguide.com). They live daily with threats to their lives, and with the threat of imprisonment, simply for being who they are. And yet they are organizing and marching and working hard for equality. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, has recently, as you're aware, helped to make sure that fairness and decency are on the minds of diplomats and heads of state the world over.
We add cities regularly. I will update the list as we grow, nearer to the event(s). If you do not see your city, below, and if you're inclined to help to bring a march to where/near where you live, contact me at my email address-- JWolf41387@aol.com.
If you want to participate on any level, write me.
If you simply want times/locations, write me (tho I'll post those here in a few weeks).
This is the core civil rights mandate of our era.
I am pleased to have been asked to be lead-off speaker at the Washington, DC March. The Marches, in a variety of time zones, will begin around noon; addresses to the crowd in Washington, DC, will begin at 3:00 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Albany, NY
Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
Cincinnati, OH
Dayton, OH
Hampton, VA
New York City, NY
Oklahoma City,OK
Portland, OR
Washington, DC
Pakistan
Jacksonville, FL
Athens, GA
Easton, PA
Baltimore, MD
Las Vegas, NV
Memphis, TN
Namibia, (southern) Africa
Kampala City, Uganda
Gay or Straight: Consider joining us at a March near you!
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
These are the words of Abraham Lincoln. In front of his memorial monument so many marches and demonstrations have been held by we the people seeking to defend our rights, liberties and happiness.
I am a relic from the anti-war movement of the '60s and 70's, and the ongoing labor movement. I support our LGBT global family in their efforts for total equality. Love should not be segregated by who it is expressed with. It should be celebrated. NO ONE should have to hide in a closet any more!
Jon, a rainbow hug for you big guy. R from the heart
Over in my thread, I just added human rights as one of the issue there will be differences between the parties. Shoulda included it initially...and I'm glad I saw this to remind me of it.
Sadly, all I can do at the moment is voice my support.
Awesome stuff, Jonathan. Freedom!
(from an avowedly heterosexual male for equality for all)
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Rated my friend, good luck!
i am so glad we now say civil rights rather than gay rights. that we have cleaned up our language on the subject to reflect the truth. that this isnt about any group wanting "special rights", its about equal rights.
Believe it or not, I heard a conservative on talk radio talk about this the other day. The guy was saying that the Park Service should lose its funding and the Mall and national monuments should be closed down and dismantled, in order to deny gays, minorities and other "subversives" a place to "air their dirty laundry" and "socialism."
I kid you not. This guy would rather bankrupt the Department of the Interior and bulldoze the Lincoln Memorial, than allow the Mall to be used by civil rights demonstrators.
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Standing up for what's right
Shoulder to shoulder
I've always loved rainbows...
Congratulations and good Luck!!!
Pleas relesae the speech to OS whenever it seems convenient to you.I would love to see you in a video clip.
All the best!
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If you have time, check out this website run by a group of dedicated allies I know well: messagesforamerica.com I'm trying to help them spread the word (so please pardon the shameless plug).
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