March in Like a Lion and be Out Hand-n-Hand

The weekend of October 10/11 2009, I attended the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. It was a fun, moving, crazy, amazing, drunken, special weekend, and I had no idea how I would ever write about it. Until I realized that I’d been writing about it the whole time – via my endless Twitter and Facebook updates.

Sat at 10:40am
David is on the Bolt Bus headed to DC for the National Equality March. Weekend of updates to follow!

Sat at 12:15pm
David is somewhere in south jersey. Made friends with a cute lesbian couple. No children on the bus thank god - nice and quiet.

Sat at 1:42pm
David’s gay bus to DC is at a rest stop outside Charleston, DE. I wonder if this update will get flagged for "gay" & "rest stop".

Sat at 3:04pm
David has arrived in DC and is heading for the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City. Ya gotta have connections, people.

Sat at 6:09pm
David is relaxing at the Ritz before a night out in DC, and kinda laughing at all the boys taking those 6am buses tomorrow.

Sat at 9:04pm
David is having cocktails and dinner with the gang at SETTE in Dupont Circle. March tomorrow!

Sat at 11:37pm
David is standing in line to get into Town, apparently the hottest party in DC since the Democrats.

Sun at 1:20am
David is DISGUSTED that DC clubs still have black lights. Is it 1993??

Sun at 9:28am
David is hungover and annoyed at B**** for throwing open the hotel curtains, but glad it's not 6am. Suns out in DC!

Sun at 10:22am
David cut himself shaving. On March day! I'm sure by the end of the day I'll have given blood, sweat and tears for Equality.

Sun at 11:15am
David is at the holding area for the march. Amazing energy! And lots of cute boys.

Sun at 12:04pm
David just realized we are at the very front of the march. And we're off!

Sun at 12:17pm
David: March is off to a slow start - it's more of a Stroll For Equality so far.

Sun at 12:20pm
David: Actual rainbow in the sky above the march! Crowd goes crazy!!

Sun at 1:40pm
David is closing in on the Capitol. Not sure what it is about this stretch, but there's cute boys EVERYWHERE.

Sun at 2:00pm
David is at the rally. Lady GaGa just passed by getting escorted to the stage.

Sun at 3:46pm
David: Lady GaGa on stage at the Equality Rally! Crowd goes crazy.

Sun at 8:47pm
David: Phone died, no surprise. I was seen on cspan! Proud of all those NYers who made the day trip but glad I hoteled. Goin out!

Sun at 10:34pm
David is heading out in Dupont Circle. Where is everyone? What's the DC hot spot tonight?

Sun at 11:46pm
David is sitting with the boys in the "VIP" section at Cobalt. We look like we're judging American Idol.

Monday at 10:19am
David is on Cspan at the Equality March. Clearly seen in the video on YouTube.

Tuesday at 12:09pm
David is wondering what to have for lunch. Wow, updates are so much less interesting when I'm not in the middle of a March for Gay Equality.