The View From Your Protest: San Diego

A reader writes:

A few months ago on the day that marriages started in California, my boyfriend and I went down to the San Diego County Administration Building to see couples commit themselves to one another. It was one of our proudest days. And again today, we marched from Hillcrest, San Diego's predominantly gay neighborhood downtown, past city hall and the Hall of Justice to the County Building where San Diegans exercised their equal right to marry until just days ago. I walked right by the arbor where my sister married her wife. Passing by the spot it struck me that she couldn't do that anymore.

On the route, people in blocked traffic honked and got out of their cars to wave or offer a thumbs up. Very few negative reactions, just a whole lot of love. Organizers say at least 15,000 San Diegans marched today. Meanwhile, following the march our new openly gay councilman announced that San Diego is looking to join San Francisco's lawsuit against Prop. 8. Bring it on.