Instead, I'll be at home, working on preparing our community to fight for the specific goals necessary to enable queer Americans to fully participate in the ideal we call freedom. This is simply a bad time for a national march because we have too much to do already. Granted, there is a ways to go before either of those groups can function as total equals in this society, but women and African-Americans have come a long way in the last 100 years. An important development, to be sure. Many of us still face inordinate difficulties in becoming parents or being allowed to remain part of our children's lives.
Sodomy laws are still on the books in a number of states.
We still get beaten and killed for being who we are. If we want to see real, tangible change in the next century, we need to make things happen. We need to change laws. We need to commit our limited time, energy, and resources to working directly on making change in our houses of legislature, our school boards, our chambers of commerce. We need to work on the front lines to counteract the lies and hysteria drummed up by the antigay Religious Right.