by Al Falafel
It's been quite some time since we had a good old fashioned National March on Washington for LGBT-Q Rights. Momentum is starting to build for a massive gathering on the Mall in October. Cleve Jones is recognized as the driving force behind this one dubbed "EQUALITY ACROSS AMERICA."
Jones was the originator of the AIDS Memorial Quilt twenty years ago. At its first national appearance the AIDS Quilt literally blanketed more than half the Mall for our last big March in 1988. It was overwhelming then to walk among the thousands of panels, each one created for a person lost to AIDS.
By 1992, for the National March for AIDS Awareness it had grown to be too big to lay out on the Mall and we only got to see part of it.
Now the sad fact is that the quilt could probably drape the moon :(!
It's always been too much for me to get anywhere near it without having a total emotional breakdown.
WILL YOU BE THERE? Sign up at the website for news, updates, and developing information. http://equalityacrossamerica.org/
SEE YOU IN OCTOBER!
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