not arrested

I did not get arrested (and I even made a cop laugh as I looked at all the officers and said "what do you think we're going to do - throw glitter at people?"

I'm tired and I'm cold, and have some mixed feelings about some of the things that were said - there were still some speakers framing things in terms of "us vs the straights" which bothered me, but there were others who made a point of thanking those who were standing there as their allies.

My arms are tired from holding up my sign, and my throat is sore from yelling. But I'm glad I went - the snarky sign got lots of pics and I did a couple of interviews for various gay-targeted websites (one in particular I cracked up when the interviewer abruptly realized mid-interview that I was straight and had to visibly switch mental gears). Since I got there early I was close to the front so my sign may be visible in crowd shots on the news. I also have no idea how many people were there because I couldn't see anything over the heads and signs. I know there were counter -protesters, but I never saw them and only vaguely heard them.

We marched around for a while, and I was far enough back that I never did find out what the route was, so I sort of followed people around for a while waving my sign and then after a while we passed the red line station so I handed someone my sign and went home.

details much later

In addition to going to the protest today, I also got my flu shot, and I forgot how much this kicks my butt every year. I'll be fine tomorrow, but right now I'm achy and sore-throated and can't get warm and generally feel - oh, like I'm getting the flu.

So I'm gonna take it easy and then do a write up tomorrow

chicago protest pics

Apparently we had between 2000 and 300 people at the rally at federal plaza today.

Of course, being a camera-whore, i started looking around for pictures of myself. Haven't fount too many so far, but here are some that struck me.
( click for pics )