Robert Gant Instagram – Thirty years ago this week, on April 25th 1993, between 800,000 and 1,000,000 LGBTQ+ folk and allies descended on Washington, DC to march for our equality. I was in my final semester of law school at Georgetown when the March on Washington happened. One of the main tenets of the march’s platform called for (in addition to the repeal of the sodomy laws which would happen 10 years later in 2003) the establishment of an equality law of the sort we are discussing today. I was taking the course “Sexual Orientation and the Law” at the time with my law professor, Chai Feldbloom, who, along with Senator Ted Kennedy, had in fact introduced an LGBT civil rights bill to Congress multiple times. It was somewhat symbolic then, because we weren’t yet at a place to have such equality reflected to that extent in the law. In her class, we were using the first ever textbook on the subject, “Sexual Orientation of the Law,“ which was written by Chai and hadn’t yet been published. So we were using photocopies of galleys from the publisher of what would eventually become that textbook. I’ll share more sometime about my experience of that class and my conversations with Chai at the time. Suffice it to say, the March on Washington was a deeply moving and powerful moment in our history as a people. I was there with my then partner of five years, Gene, who I’m grateful remains a close friend today. Also, for better or worse, I commemorated the day, as you can see, with my daisy duke shorts, which fortunately weren’t quite as short as I had remembered. ;) It’s valuable to stop and honor how far we’ve come and then to reset our sights for the progress still to be made. Love you all and onward. #MarchOnWashington #LGBTQCivilRightsBill #Equality #LGBTQ #BestGayLife