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coverage: AMERICA 'S GAY & LESBIAN CHRISTIAN NEWSJOURNAL MA Y / J U N E, 1 9 9 3 ISSUE #28 _ HEARTFELT LOVE Couples participating in a mass blessing of rel ationships chalked their names on the street, encircled by hearts. Photo: Rev. Kittredge Cherry March was political, spiritual milestone BY REV. K IT T RED G E C H ERR Y L esbians and gay men made a spiritual and political breakthrough at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. We saw ourselves in a new way: an estimated one million strong, in all our diversity, proud to claim our identity and our rights. At the April 25 march we tested our wings and felt our power, and ·that exp erience will continue to transform and build lesbian and gay community globally in ways that we are just beginn ing to imagine . The rest of the world saw us in a new way too. The mainstream news media covered the March and related events extensively and with remark• able fairness, balancing images of doctors and drag queens. The reli• gious right ranted against us, this lime noting our organizational ability. For the first lime in history, a U. S. president sent a letter of support to a march for lesbian and gay rights . Almost every person who talked with me, every face I saw, glowed with a kind of wonder . It began when I boarded a plane to Washing· ton, D.C. 'The whole plane's queer!" exult ed a fellow passenger. On t he plane , on the subway, On the str eets of D.C., strangers greeted each other. Or, more accurately, we were not strangers to each other. My most memorable moment came during the March, when I stepped onto the main afternoon stage on the Mall wit h Rev. Troy Perry, founder SEE COVER STORY, Page 10 Thousands circle Capitol grounds to demand action on AIDS crisis ·: WASHINGTON, D.C. • More than 30,000 people join ed ACT UP /DC's "Ha nds Around the Cap itol" dem on· stration on th e day prior to the March on Wash ingt on, joining hand s to s urround the Capit ol build ing, de• mandin g Cong…

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