March for gay rights.

• Position: April 25, 1993, Washington, D.C.

On April 21, lesbians, gays, and bisexual from around the nation will stage a massive march on Washington, D.C. Approximately 140 related events will take place during the week of the twenty-fifth, including lobbying days, a national conference of gay librarians, a cookie sell-a-thon by the Queer Scouts, a wedding reception for 4,000 couples, and a rally of the Republicans for Individual Freedoms. Planning for the march has been going on for two years, and march organizers expect a million people to come from every corner of the United States. Several cities are sending chartered buses and planes. Local and national coordinators are making an effort to include as many people as possible--with special emphasis on accessibility and gender and racial parity.

"It's an amazing fabric of individuals," says coordinator Pat Hussain, who is working at the march's D.C. headquarters. "I'm from Atlanta, and I'm sharing an office with a guy from Alaska. We're here making our own little tornado--and all these other people are doing the same."

Organizers trace the impetus for the April 25 march to a similar event in 1987, when 650,000 lesbians and gays marched on Washington. "I was there in 1987," says Nadine Smith, a march coordinator. "The media basically ignored us. But people came from all over the country, many of whom had been closeted, just to be in a group of lesbians and gays...