This weekend’s National Equality March in Washington, D.C., is meant to send a message to lawmakers that it’s past time for them to enact key measures, including workplace equality and federal hate crimes protections, and to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. The previous such march took place 30 years ago, in 1979. “This is the first opportunity the new generation of leadership has had to march in the nation’s capital,” said Kip Williams, co-director of the event. Google/The Associated Press (10/7)