not arrested

[wendyzski]

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.

Comments

[jayene.livejournal.com]

:-) Glad to hear it went well. We weren't marching... the Dayton group kinda milled. But I am very glad I did it. From what I am hearing this is just the beginning... more protests are planned and I have my 1/21/09 call your congress day in planning. Much plotting and preparation.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

According to the ch7 news, there were citations issued to the organizers because while they DID have a permit for the rally, they DIDN'T have one for the march. No wonder no one had any idea where we were going.

[post-toastie.livejournal.com]

That's great, the 'us vs. them' attitude. Everything is so black and white that all straight people *must* be opposed to the concept of gay marriage, and all gays *must* be in favor? Because what this world really needs is more blind adherence to orthodoxy and less open mindedness.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Like I said - it seemed to mostly be from people who had been "fighting the fight" for a long time now. A lot of the other speakers made a point of welcoming us, and the "official chant" was "Gay, Straight, Black, White, Same struggle, Same fight!".

But yeah - that needs to get addressed if this is going to go anywhere. I mentioned it on a couple of "comment on this" threads I found while looking for pics.