ABSTRACT
The National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, held October 8 through 13, 1987, attended by over one-half million people, was the second such event, the first occurring in 1979. Issues of anger were the federal government's slow response to the AIDS pandemic and the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision upholding Georgia's sodomy law. The march was also the occasion of the first display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. A mass civil disobedience action at the Supreme Court on October 13, 1987, resulted in the arrest of some 800 people.
