FILE - In this April 25, 1993 file photo, a view from atop the Washington Monument shows 300,000 people gathered for the National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights in the U.S. capital. A Democrat in the White House. Demands for sweeping civil rights protections. Religious opponents working to undo a string of state-based victories. That was the backdrop in 1979 when gay rights activists staged their first national march in Washington. Thirty years later, with the landscape looking much the same, thousands of advocates are preparing to rally again in the nation's capital this weekend. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, file)