Very cool of you all to link to my little story. When I get around to telling the rest of it (there was a lot more, of course), I'll link back here. Also, it's been 17 years since that first march (um, whoa) and one's memory is inherently fallible after all that time... I do hope I got everything right in the post you linked to, but if anyone reads it and remembers things differently, by all means they should feel free to leave a comment or otherwise contact me with either corrections of other details.

And besides the names of the people I mentioned in the post who were also involved in that first march (Anna Schlecht, among others), there are more names that are sort of on the tip of my brain... a really nice guy, for instance, who did original artwork for the posters, someone else who hosted that one formal planning meeting that I can recall (a "Craig" maybe? last name perhaps starting with an M but...?) - so if anyone has other details to contribute, that would be awesome, maybe something a little more comprehensive could be put together for future Pride events, a little retrospective, if you will.

And, who knows, maybe I'll actually make it back to Olympia at some point to see what's happened with the community since I left. I love Olympia terribly, didn't leave in any kind of optimal way... and I miss it every day.