LGBT history making in DC: Inspirational, evocational, provocational

Sunday’s march for LGBT equality in Washington DC was a non-stop fest of speech making. From the fantabulous youth to the glorious head of the NAACP to ‘Let the sunshine in’ (and virtually all stops in-between). It was a Call To Action and then some. It made me teary, it would make anyone who believes in civil rights, human rights, teary.

Here are my tweets (back to front):

• pauloCanning #NEM ‘Let the sunshine in’ frm Hair perfect finish
• pauloCanning: RT @ChefMark ‘A free and Equal people do not tolerate prioritization of their rights. They do not accept compromises’ Cleve Jones #NEM
• pauloCanning: #nem Cleve Jones IS the mountaintop!
• pauloCanning: RT @MEGAFamily Urvashi Vaid: ‘Battle for the direction of this country’ #NEM < she’s talkin revolution baby!
• pauloCanning: RT @jdillman http://twitpic.com/l5wjw – @jdillman, @jtrybus #”Homomentum!” #NEM < :}}}
• pauloCanning: #NEM very moved by Julian Bond citing LG he worked alongside in 60s as reason for his solidairty now 

• pauloCanning: @SunnyStokes I’m right with you! #NEM She was inspirational
• pauloCanning: Who is Staceyann Chin? #NEM Jamaican superstar http://bit.ly/4xatwu (expand) It takes a poet
• pauloCanning: Michelle Clunie quoting Coretta Scott King #NEM If she were alive she would be there but NAACP head still to come
• pauloCanning: RT @teebalicious I’m old enough to remember the Silence = Death days + I am in love with this beautiful sea of #LGBT people #NEM < say it!
• pauloCanning: #NEM severe drought of older white men on this platform. This is why it’s making such an impact 
• pauloCanning @Becky_R My pleasure! I’m from UK like Billie Myers, watching on C-Span and so moved by #NEM 
• pauloCanning: @Frannyo nope! http://bit.ly/PqY7X (expand) #NEM 
• pauloCanning: Katharine Lee Bates, the lesbian who wrote America The Beautiful http://bit.ly/1fzxOs (expand) #NEM 
• pauloCanning: RT @AngryQueer America the Beautiful was written by a lesbian – #nem 
• pauloCanning: Hah! Billie Myers just said ficking on C-Span! #NEM 
• pauloCanning: Lady GaGa ‘Obama: ARE YOU LISTENING!!!!’ #NEM 
• pauloCanning: As LadyGaGa takes stage remember was 11 years ago today, Judy Shepard was watching as Matthew lay in a coma in Fort Collins, Colo. #nem 
• pauloCanning: #NEM the announcer reminds me of a character from Best in Show 
• pauloCanning: RT @unitethefight Kim Coco Iwamoto, ‘Our children are learning to discriminate. Our children are learning how to hate themselves’ #NEM 
• pauloCanning: @toastedgrrl #NEM I related when he spoke about AIDS and what it was like – many there would be remembering (and honouring) 
• pauloCanning BBC reporting already on #NEM http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8301791.stm 
• pauloCanning RT @malik_photog dan choi is a powerful speaker. and WORK for quoting kahlil gibran! #NEM 
• pauloCanning: #NEM Dan Choi just read a poem in Arabic. Incredible  
• pauloCanning: #NEM loudest cheer yet for Judy Sheppard. She is a f*cking saint. ‘Evrybody smile. You should be so proud of yrself”
• pauloCanning: Go Cynthia Nixon! #nem
• pauloCanning: RT @unitethefight: More pics of hundreds of thousands on Washington Mall! http://bit.ly/Zlb40 (expand) #NEM < + Lt. Dan Choi
• pauloCanning: #NEM Sam Sussman young straight #equality champion speaking is making me tear up! Wow! ‘In our America we will not tolerate prejudice’
• pauloCanning: RT @hardcorps80204 “How many more tears must be shed” David Mixner #NEM
• pauloCanning: @toastedgrrl David Mixner now speaking #nem about the reality of AIDS in the 90s. Incredibly moving
• pauloCanning: RT @rodmccullom #NEM #Latino #gay youth activist Richard Aviles http://twitpic.com/l5bpx //very inspirational < totally!
• pauloCanning: #socitm09 @liz_azyan sorry Liz no follow :’ #NEM LGBT Washington march is history, wonderful, amazing speakers
• pauloCanning: #NEM C-span not showing speakers names, find them here > http://bit.ly/49sMT5 (expand) #NEMrally
• pauloCanning: RT @LauraAndRudy WOW, Aiyi’nah Ford (co-host ListenUp internet radio program) is giving one HELL of a speech at #NEM right now!! < she’s FAB
• pauloCanning RT @Ameriqueer Just took a pic w/ Cynthia Nixon! http://twitpic.com/l4i4h #NEM #NEMrally 
• pauloCanning: RT @jacobbrwr Either the gays are in control of Twitter or the #NEM is actually a big deal. Either way, it’s an exciting day < both :]
•  pauloCanning: RT @ahideg RT @dcconcierge Now I’m marching at #NEM with Lady GaGa (and her bodyguards)!!! http://twitpic.com/l4yl3
• pauloCanning: So many young people on stage @ #NEM This is wonderful
• pauloCanning: RT @elideep ‘I say to Barney Frank, you are out of touch from the seat of power you hold.Does this march matter?’ >earth-shaking cheers #NEM
• pauloCanning: RT @just_someguy RT @toastedgrrl: They just called out Barney Frank. #nem – YES THEY SURE AS HELL DID! < Good!
• pauloCanning: #nem #NATIONAL #EQUALITY #DC live now on C-Span http://c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx
• pauloCanning: RT @bethannon RT @LAmaleCA: Fox News just estimated the #NEM crowd at 2.5 million people. Congrats, guys! / SRSLY? FOX??
• pauloCanning: RT @veganindigo beautiful RT @dsrbroadway http://twitpic.com/l4oad – There is an actual rainbow above us @broadwayimpact AMAZING!!! #NEM
• pauloCanning: RT @LAmaleCA http://twitpic.com/l55c1 – in my lifetime our marriage was illegal too. #nem #NATIONAL #EQUALITY 

You can watch the whole thing here and I will add video highlights as I find them.

UPDATE

Video from the day. added here.

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