Queer Women's March
2009-Jan-29, Thursday 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtigger(news video about the initial incident)
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S760105.shtml?cat=206
I'd guess that there were over 200 people there tonight at 9pm. Very impressive turnout, considering the hour and the weather. When I got home and checked weather.com, it said that we were at 1F/-17C (-13F/-25C windchill). It was mostly women attending, but I was glad to see the male gender represented too. Of those, I'd guess half were gay men, but I don't really know for sure.
I knew of two people who said online that they'd be there, but I couldn't recognize anyone buried underneath all the winter clothing.
I got there 30 minutes early and got a hot chocolate at the Dunn Brothers who "hosted" the event in their parking lot as the starting/ending area for the walk. I could only get one photograph. It was just too dark, cold, and numbing to try for any real photos. I managed to snap only a small group of people in my picture.
Nobody looked like the photo on the flyers. There's probably a sociology paper to be found somewhere in that discontinuity.
(photos not really safe for work)
http://www.myspace.com/queerwomenmarch
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=59909911488
I bought a chemical light stick that they had available at the start of the march. The poor thing couldn't keep up with the cold temperature though. It was hardly noticeable. *sigh* Plenty of people would honk their car horns at us in approval as they drove by. I'd wave my dim light stick at them in response.
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S760105.shtml?cat=206
I'd guess that there were over 200 people there tonight at 9pm. Very impressive turnout, considering the hour and the weather. When I got home and checked weather.com, it said that we were at 1F/-17C (-13F/-25C windchill). It was mostly women attending, but I was glad to see the male gender represented too. Of those, I'd guess half were gay men, but I don't really know for sure.
I knew of two people who said online that they'd be there, but I couldn't recognize anyone buried underneath all the winter clothing. I got there 30 minutes early and got a hot chocolate at the Dunn Brothers who "hosted" the event in their parking lot as the starting/ending area for the walk. I could only get one photograph. It was just too dark, cold, and numbing to try for any real photos. I managed to snap only a small group of people in my picture.
Nobody looked like the photo on the flyers. There's probably a sociology paper to be found somewhere in that discontinuity.
(photos not really safe for work)
http://www.myspace.com/queerwomenmarch
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=59909911488
I bought a chemical light stick that they had available at the start of the march. The poor thing couldn't keep up with the cold temperature though. It was hardly noticeable. *sigh* Plenty of people would honk their car horns at us in approval as they drove by. I'd wave my dim light stick at them in response.
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