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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2009
In the aftermath of a march
The San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band blared the opening notes of “California Here I Come,” and the Parade started its two-mile trek down Market Street toward City Hall. More than 30,000 people, grouped in 240 contingents, marched in the parade past 200,000 spectators. The parade was the best show in town, revealing the amazing diversity of gay life … Radical gay liberationists frowned at the carnival rides that had been introduced to the rally site. Parade organizers had decided that the event had grown “too political” in recent years, so the chest-pounding rhetoric that marked most rallies was given a backseat to the festive feeling of a state fair.
Randy Shilts, And the Band Played OnWe want to give GLF demos a different role to straight demos. We want to have fun as well. We want our revolution to be enjoyable.
Unnamed London Gay Liberation Front activistThis morning I was able to catch a glimpse of The Washington Post before I boarded the train at Washington, DC's Union Station heading back home to New York City. Sunburned and exhausted I stared at the front page trying to force my eyes to focus on the text. The article summarized the weekend's events, rehashed the controversy surrounding the latest march on Washington, and estimated the number of participants: well into the hundreds of thousands.
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