ADVOCATE POLL.From the June 6 issue: Do you think there will be long-term political benefits as a result of the Millennium March The Millennium March on Washington drew about 500,000 people to the District of Columbia in 2000. Demonstrators called for equal rights without regard to gender; specifically, most marchers identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. ? Reader comments from www.advocate.com * "If the people who went this year return home as energized as I was in 1993, then yes, it can have a long-term impact. * "There is always some short-term gain Short-term gain (or loss) A profit or loss realized from the sale of securities held for less than a year that is taxed at normal income tax rates if the net total is positive. from the increased visibility that a large event like this brings, However, since there was no particularly coherent agenda for this march, the tong-term gains, if any, will be hard to measure." * "Incrementally, I think so. We were visible and positively so, I didn't notice a lot of coverage, but it was there IMO "In my opinion." See IMHO and digispeak. IMO - IMHO earlier marches seemed to have more impact." * "I know a few people who went to the MMOW MMOW Massive Multiplayer Online World (gaming) MMOW Machinist Mate Of the Watch , and they were primarily concerned with being seen and having fun--not issues, Furthermore tile tile, one of the ceramic products used in building, to which group brick and terra-cotta also belong. The term designates the finished baked clay—the material of a wide variety of units used in architecture and engineering, such as wall slabs or blocks, floor mainstream media gave it little or no attention." * "I think anything that is done for gay and lesbian causes, big or small, has some tong-Term impact on the future." [GRAPH OMITTED] |
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