What I yelled and how I (battle)-cried: Chants from the National Equality March

I forgot to type the Wednesday Words I’d picked, or bring the book to school with me today, so Thursday is the new Wednesday. In the meantime, here’s…

Chants from the National Equality March

• Harvey Milk was right!
  Show your pride and fight! [or: Come out proud and fight!]
• Heeeeey, Obama!
  Let Mama marry Mama!
• Hey Congress, we won’t wait!
  Equal rights for gay and straight!
• We’re proud, you know it
  We’re here to show it!
  What you see is what you get —
  And you ain’t seen nothing yet!
• L! G! B! T!
  We demand equality!
• Tell me what you want, what you really want
  JUSTICE!
  Tell me what you need, what you really need
  JUSTICE!
• Barney Frank is wrong!
  We’ve been waiting FAR too long!*
• Back of the bus — hell, no!
  Barney Frank — fuck you!*
• We’re not waiting any more!
  Civil rights or civil war!
• Gay, straight, black, white!
  Marriage is a civil right!
• Gay, straight, black, white!
  One struggle, one fight!
• Get up, get down!
  There’s a civil rights movement in this town!
• We are here and we will fight
  ‘Til you give us civil rights
• We’re out! We’re proud!
  We’re here to fight, we won’t back down!
• Money for health care, not for war —
  Money for AIDS, we need a cure!
• Bigots say Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
  We tell them to go to hell
• They say: Prop 8
  We say: Stop hate!
• Hey Obama, take a stand
  Equality’s what we demand!
• Down with 8
  No more hate
  Se – pa – rate the church and state
• Hey Obama, get to work
  Won’t settle for crumbs, won’t settle for dirt
• Black — Latino — Arab, Asian and White
  Our community is proud, you see
  Give us equal rights!
• Si se puede! Yes we can!
  Equal rights across the land!
• No discrimination!
  We want liberation!
• Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
  TEAR IT DOWN!
  DOMA
  TEAR IT DOWN!
  Bigotry
  TEAR IT DOWN!
  The whole damn system
  TEAR IT DOWN!

Chant fragments I wish I could remember the rest of:

• Justice delayed is justice denied!

Anyone else there hear other good ones?

* The Barney Frank chants are because he basically denounced the march, saying “the only thing they’ll be putting pressure on is the grass.” Yeah, people were pissed.