On Sunday, Julia and I attended the 7th Annual Wedding March, an event to promote marriage equality in New York State. After assembling in Foley Park and listening to many (many, many, many speeches - it is an election year, after all) delivered by politicians, activists, drag queens, families, and Miss New York, we joined a few thousand people in walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. We brandished signs and American flags. Anyone who paid a $20 donation (i.e. anyone not in grad. school at Columbia) got a t-shirt and a colored umbrella. The umbrella carriers were arranged so that when they opened their umbrellas to walk through the streets and across the bridge, they formed a rainbow. Many people honked their horns at us as they drove by, waving at us through their car windows. We were photographed by tourists, locals, and camera crews from "The Real Housewives of New York" TV show who had decided to lead the march for some reason (even though none of them is married to a woman). Every speaker said that s/he hoped this would be the last March they'd have to organize. It will be interesting to see what happens during the next few months.
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