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Pre-Stonewall Generation to Lead Off March March Endorses Colorado Boycott
 
     Washington, DC.  Community elders will lead almost 100 contingents
participating in the April 25 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal
Rights and Liberation.  Holocaust survivors and older people living with AIDS
are expected to head that contingent.
 
     The decision on who should fill the first slot behind the banner was
approved during a national organizing meeting held in Washington, DC, February
6-7.  The group also voted to endorse the Colorado boycott and allow that state
and Oregon to march first among the state contingents.  Seniors will be
--preceded only by vehicles and the banner contingent which will be made up of a 
cross-section of the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
 
     "We wanted to honor and recognize those who have waited the longest for
our community to be treated as equal citizen's," said Derek Livingston, a
national co-chair.  "Also, with more than a dozen anti-gay statewide
initiatives on the horizon, we felt it was important to focus on the two states
that have become nationwide symbols of that battle."
 
     People with AIDS/HIV, parents and children, veterans and current military,
youth, and lesbian and gay bands are among the first dozen contingents to
march.  A lottery drawing held during the meeting determined the marching order
of the remaining groups.

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