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Piedmont Unitarian members parade through Uptown for the Out Parade on Oct. 11.
Posted: October 13th, 2009 Catalina Kulczar-Marin
For more photos from the Charlotte Out Parade, please click here.
More than 150 gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and straight people gathered at Ninth and Tryon streets for a sidewalk parade to mark National Coming Out Day.
The parade ended in Marshall Park with a rally. The Charlotte event coincided with the National Equality March in Washington.
Marriage equality and community building were priorities for speakers such as Macy Williams of Charlotte Coalition for Social Justice, Shelley DeLux of PFLAG Charlotte and Rev. Catherine Houchins of Metropolitan Community Church.
"I feel that Charlotte is in a position to make a real difference in the LGBT movement locally and even nationally," says Mitchell Killman, one of the Out Parade co-chairs.
In Washington, according to The Huffington Post, the event drew tens of thousands of people, rallying to demand that President Barack Obama keep his promises to end discrimination against gays
