Pro-Choice Marchers
We were distressed to see that in comparing the size of the April 9 march in support of Roe vs. Wade to other major Washington demonstrations, neither your article on April 10 nor the following day’s editorial mentioned the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
The organizers of our march, like those of the pro-choice march, estimated the crowd at about 600,000. The Reagan Administration Park Service’s initial head count of our march was only 200,000, but numerous complaints and a review of filmed coverage led even the Park Service to up their estimate to 300,000. By referring to April 9’s officially estimated crowd of 300,000 as the largest since 1983, The Times thereby omitted mention of our 1987 crowd of at least 300,000.
RICHARD JENNINGS
Chair, Response Committee
Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation
Los Angeles
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