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      <![CDATA[13-15k?  I make it 18-20,000 more likely....I mean 1500 a block, 14 blocks thats 18 w/o the people just passing by.  We have a lot of Pride, signs, balloons, and emnity gdmit give us our f'ing due.
        
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      <![CDATA[I remember when everyone said they'd show and it would just be a few of us ... didn't even run into anyone it was so big!
        
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      <![CDATA[14 blocks of people, no cars, no floats just people.<br />
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at least 13,000 and more.... organizers were too coy, should have announced their count. Cops are indeed game players when it comes to queer crowds, a 25 year tradition getting in their licks ....  I used to work on Pride.<br />
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 Count includes: folks at  Westlake who did not march, lookers on Bwy, and on and on  - a Peak crown count was at the arrival at Westlake, mass confusion, people everywhere. All there for a half hour, then leaving for food, jobs, water, Saturday stuff.<br />
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It was amazing, historic, grand, re invented the Queer movement, marching is in, rubber chicken dinners out.<br />
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Likely 13 to 15 thousand at a min.
        
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      <![CDATA[The Seattle fuzz ALWAYS underestimates the number of marchers. EVERY FUCKING TIME. I'm sure they've got some cop-clever rationale for doing so, but the only real tangible upshot of their myopia is that NOBODY trusts a pig or their stooges in the press to tell them the truth about numbers.
        
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      <![CDATA[hey mom, see me now?  I'm the one with the green sign.
        
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      <![CDATA[I think <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/3033598296_731f378ba1.jpg">this picture</a>, while a little small, does the best job of illustrating the sheer scale of today.<br />
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As in - holy fuck, that's a lot of queers. Amazing.
        
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      <![CDATA[you have a lot of reason to be proud of yrself seattle!!  way to go!<br />
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i am proud to live in this city today!
        
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      <![CDATA[today was awesome. we can haz luv.
        
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      <![CDATA[My first time being involved with any sort of public protest = incredibly moving
        
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      <![CDATA[There had to be at least 10k, at a minimum. When I was standing by Seattle Central at the turn the line seemed to go on forever both ways. Also, pics:<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rootology/sets/72157609162940099/detail/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/rootology/s&hellip;</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[Could somebody from Seattle with some organizing skills come help us out in Portland next time we have a demonstration? Our turnout here was fucking pathetic in comparison.
        
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      <![CDATA[pictures <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/you_rocks/">http://flickr.com/photos/you_rocks/</a><br />
and a video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dehf7YDcjL4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dehf7YDcj&hellip;</a><br />
for those that want to look for themselves :)
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm so tired I don't know which way is up...but I feel good.  And not just because I saw the naked lady too.
        
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      <![CDATA[All this turnout in the country and abroad. Its making me cry. Oh and Wanda Sykes came out today too. Yaaa Wanda!
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh, guess I should have read a little further down.  Anyway, yay!
        
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      <![CDATA[That was really fun.  And definitely way more than 6000.  Anybody else see the naked lady on the balcony in that tall 60s building on Pine?  So good!
        
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      <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelfish/sets/72157609159205285/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelfish/s&hellip;</a> - My pictures here. :)<br />
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      <![CDATA[I was marshaling at the front of the march; when it turned down Pine I called a friend at the back of the march and there were still 3 blocks of people on Prospect. The march rule of thumb is that for every block of people on a 2 lane road, you've got about 500 people. From Pine back up 3 blocks of Prospect, that's 14 blocks--7,000 by my estimate. If you count the people standing on sidewalks, joining in as the march went down Pine and the massive crowd greeting us at Westlake, I'd say 9,000-10,000, easy.<br />
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10,000 in a week of organizing! Incredible. Absolutely incredible!
        
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      <![CDATA[Memo to Dan: there were even Black and Latino (and Asian, etc.) folks there!
        
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      <![CDATA[FUCK YEAH SEATTTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
        
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      <![CDATA[Just got my pictures up (currently uploading) at <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tapedshoes/SeattleProp8#">http://picasaweb.google.com/tapedshoes/S&hellip;</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[What a blast. Had to be over 10,000 people. This shit is fun.
        
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      <![CDATA[For fun, pop over to the comments section for this story on KOMO's website.
        
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      <![CDATA[You have to figure it out.
        
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