Comments on: “We Are Not Anti Anything” http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/11/15/we-are-not-anti-anything/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-are-not-anti-anything it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Linda Diane Feldt http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/11/15/we-are-not-anti-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Linda Diane Feldt Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:14:16 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=8149#comment-1224 The intersection of a rally with football fans was lovely. “They’re always against something” was the comment behind me as I approached, soon to be proven wrong with the many positive signs and happy energy as cars went by and honked.
Curiosity was a common response, and as some fans made out the words and signs and said “equal rights” and “marriage equality” out loud as a question — it seemed like they these were phrases they had not recently uttered or considered.
My feeling was the rally had a large positive impact and stimulated some interesting conversations later that day! I’m so glad so many braved the awful cold wet weather to be seen supporting equal rights and the LGBT community.

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We had about 500 protest in West Palm, and thousands in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Unfortunately, crowds were down here due to the huge AIDS bike ride from Miami to Key West today, otherwise the crowds would have been double or triple.

And thanks for the story and pictures, Mary.

Tim Martin
Fort Lauderdale
Formerly of Ann Arbor

]]> By: Mary Morgan http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/11/15/we-are-not-anti-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-1205 Mary Morgan Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:08:09 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=8149#comment-1205 After we posted this article, Tom Bousnakis, one of the rally’s organizers, sent us this list of organizations that participated in Saturday’s event:

* The University of Michigan Law School Outlaws
* The LGBT Commission of the Michigan Student Assembly
* Ford School Queers and Allies
* American Civil Liberties Union- UMLS chapter
* Law Students for Reproductive Justice
* National Lawyers Guild- UMLS chapter
* OUTBreak (School of Public Health)
* Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians and Allies in Medicine (BGLAM)
* Student Alliance of Gay Engineers (SAGE)
* The Latino Law Student Association
* The Black Law Students Association
* The Law School Student Senate

He also estimated the crowd at 400 by the time they reached the Diag at the end of the march.

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