Activists protest to push the Obama Administration and Congress to live up to promises made to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to advance civil rights in Washington on Oct. 11, 2009
The march on Washington that gays staged Sunday on the National Mall drew something like 200,000 people that's a good guess based on conversations with many of the organizers and local authorities, although estimates of Mall crowds are notoriously unreliable . But one number you can take to the bank: the average age of those backstage who wore walkie-talkie headsets and staff badges, the men (and a few women) who were behind much of the organizing effort, wasn't over 30. And that, by far, was the oddest thing about the march: Why would a generation wired to their mobile...
