There is going to be an LGBTQ march on Washington on October 10-11, 2009—officially named the National Equality March. The premise is a simple one: “Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.” Arguments have been made by movement figureheads in favor of the March. David Mixner, Sherry Wolf, Cleve Jones, and several others have provided other terrific arguments. I feel no real need to restate them in full.

I’ve got something a little different to say to student leaders.

I graduated from college a little over a year ago, but I plan on going back to school before too long—I consider myself something of a student on hiatus. In any case, people still in school are of my generation. And it was in my later years of college that my activist self started peeking out, feeling proud. It was a little bit of college activism that eventually led me to volunteer with the DC Host Committee (and its the Student Outreach Subcommittee) of the National Equality March. And it’s students, people learning about the world and themselves, that I tend to focus my thinking on.