HN friend David Hawkins wrote a daily dairy of his experience at the National Equality March last week for Advocate.com. He writes about getting teary eyed at the spectacle of marchers:
HN Friends David Hawkins (R), Nathan Menske (M) and Elisa Mason (L)
There were hundreds, thousands of people around me. I realized quickly that this massive line of bodies was much more than that. Until that time, I’d never seen so many gay people in one place.
He also shares this beautiful anecdote:
One of the last images I saw at the rally was of a beautiful family. Two men hand in hand, holding their gorgeous baby boy. If there was any reason to justify my attending the National Equality March, this was it. Not only am I fighting for everyone’s right to love, but I — we are fighting for the love of that child. We are fighting so that he and everyone around him grows up knowing that two daddies are as worthy of parenting a family as straight couples who have always been allowed to marry. We are fighting so that love remains love, and equal really means equal.
We only wish David would share with us what he wouldn’t share with Advocate.com. Mainly the images from inside DC’s Town nightclub.
But the energy in line was lively, and I randomly found some friends who’d also come down to D.C. from Brooklyn. We all waited together, and after an hour we’d finally made it in. Now, let me tell you that Town was FUN! And there’s a reason I didn’t offer any of those smutty images to Advocate.com. I have to save some sense of integrity! And after all, this is supposed to be a story on my experience at the march. Let’s keep our heads out of the gutter.
We live for the gutter, David. Now tell us everything. You told us about the Dads with babies, now tell us about the Daddies and the hot babes. We want to know!!
