🚀 go-pugleaf

You said, "Even at 500,000 people, the march
was the largest that Washington has ever seen..."
 
Not quite.  The 1987 gay March on Washington drew 650,000 by nearly everyone's
estimate, making it (at that time) the largest civil rights march in
Washington's history. Nonetheless, whether the actual number for the March for
Women's Lives was 500,000 or a million or whatever, it was a humongous
outpouring and I was pleased to be a part of it.
 
For those who like to avoid Washington during a large march (though why on earth
anyone would want to do that, I don't know <grin>), you might want to put April
25, 1993 on your calendar.  That's the date of the next gay, lesbian and
bisexual march on Washington and organizers have mobilized to turn out more than
1,000,000 people for it.