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Countdown to DC: Speaker list released

By Michael Lehet, September 30, 2009 at 11:46 am
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The organizers of the National Equality March on Washington recently released a list of more than 30 speakers who will address the community and the world on October 11th.

Included in the list are Harvey Milk protoge and AIDS Quilt creater Cleve Jones, longtime gay activist David Mixner, Lt Dan Choi who served in Iraq and recently discharged from the Army under DADT when he came out on the Rachel Maddow show earlier this year.

Judy Shepard, who's son Matthew Shepard was murdered more than 10 years ago in Laramie, WY, will take the dias along with Civil rights leader Julian Bond and Richard Aviles a student from St Olaf college who will speak on behalf of student activists.

Check out the full list of speakers after the jump

From the National Equality March website, here is complete list of speakers as of today.

  • Stuart Applebaum
  • Richard Aviles
  • Jarret Barrios
  • Dustin Lance Black
  • Julian Bond
  • Marsha Botzer
  • Staceyann Chin
  • Lt. Dan Choi
  • Tanner Efinger
  • Hawaii Board of Education Member Kim Coco Iwamoto
  • Cleve Jones
  • Michelle Lopez
  • Robin McGehee
  • David Mixner
  • Nicole-Murray Ramirez
  • Chloe Noble
  • Tobias Packer
  • Reverend Troy Perry
  • New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn
  • Los Angeles Council Member Bill Rosendahl
  • Babs Siperstein
  • Judy Shepard
  • Maxim Thorn
  • Urvashi Vaid
  • Derek Washington
  • Falls Church City Council Member Lawrence Webb
  • Kit Yan
  • Kip Williams
  • Sherry Wolf

So, are you going to Washington?

Filed under: Activism

Tags: cleve jones, matthew shepard, national eqaulity march, WBTD archives

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