From the first toast at the Human Rights Campaign’s National Dinner to the final speakers at the National Equality March the following day, Washington was awash in LGBT activism of every stripe this weekend.

Inside the Washington convention center at HRC’s glittering dinner Saturday, President Barack Obama told more than 3,000 attendees he will end the ban on openly LGBT servicemembers in the U.S. military, a promise that brought the crowd to its feet in raucous applause.  But many both inside and outside the annual fundraising event said it was time for action, not more promises.

Reports indicating more than 100,000 marched Sunday from the White House to the U.S. Capitol stunned some observers, who expected a short organizing timeline would depress turnout.  But March organizers had promised for months the crowds would come, if only for the day, and those predictions came true.  Buses flooded into D.C. beginning early Sunday morning, and most were gone by nightfall.

For more photos of the National Equality March, visit The Huffington Post.

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