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so today i woke up, grabbed a coffee at four barrel (my current favorite cafe in the city) and walked to a record store to buy a ton of LPs. rainy, made me think. i had an incredible unforgettable and historic night.

i tend to be very active about politics, gay rights and civil rights in general. i try to volunteer as often as possible in all kinds of different ways. but yesterday as you probably know one of the biggest protest marches happened in san francisco. cbs reports about 25,000 people appeared, and marched from 530pm all through the night and basically shut down the main arteries of the city.

it was an incredible vibe. i’ve been to a lot of protests and this one was definitely one of the most unforgettable. it’s right there up with the anti-war march that i participated in London years and years ago. then, 1 million people shut down the whole of central London. this was a similar energy.

i got there right on time at 530pm. i decided to try my best to live tweet from the grounds, so i was doing that on my iphone. we marched from civic center, to the castro, to dolores park. where we did a huge rally with speakers and music. marched back to the castro, and to the civic center. where another rally took place. and then all the way back to castro and 18th, where hundreds of people, myself included, staged a sit in.

and so we did. i didn’t get off the floor until 3am when i was so cold that i was afraid of getting sick again. people stayed there, at the sit in, closing down the castro basically all the way to 8am.

it was amazing. the police let us do that as long as we were peaceful. and we were. we were playing music, singing, speaking and hugging. someone brought coffee for us, a pizzeria nearby donated us tons of pizza. my friends left early so i was alone with a few other people. it was maybe a core of 150 people and pretty soon i made new friends and had company again. we were a family. united for the same purpose and willing to fight for our rights. we would not concede.

at some point, some people went to walgreens and bought hand warmers, gloves and blankets and were giving them around. amazing. i will never forget this moment. someone gave me a flower. a candle. and then a smile. and before you knew it we were enveloped in this happiness and this love that united us through the cold night.

this is it, what life is all about to me. today i am just relaxing at home listening to music. tomorrow will try my best to go to sacramento and march to the state supreme court.

[will add some iphone photos later]