Warren J. Blumenfeld, in an open letter to the Ad Hoc Committee for an Open Process, expressed his concerns about the underlying themes of the proposed Millennium March on Washington. Blumenfeld, editor of the Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity expressed his appreciation for the following statement of purposes published by the Ad Hoc Committee:

We want a movement that fights for the rights of each of us. Even if we do not fit into the corporate image of an 'American Family.' That these national organizations project white Christian middle-class representations and set the agenda accordingly is nothing less than institutionalized racism. Claims to diversity mean nothing if the sexual is sanitized and no genuine effort is made to include the perspectives and leadership of lgbt's from different races, classes, sexualities, and genders.

Blumenfeld submitted an editorial to his colleagues, admitting that in it he was having a difficult time getting beyond the title of the 'March'.

Warren J. Blumenfeld's editorial: "The 'Christian' Millennium"

With increasing rapidity, we hear references to the coming of the "21st Century," the year 2000, and the dawning of "THE new millennium." In fact, the Human Rights Campaign and the Metropolitan Community Churches are proposing, as they state in a recent letter to the editor, a "Millennium March for Equality in the year 2000" for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights.

Among the definitions of "millennium" in the Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, definition #2a. is: "a period of 1000 years." Let us not forget, however, that the year 2000 is in reference to the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, and, therefore, it is actually the beginning of the next "CHRISTIAN" millennium.

In fact, definition #1a in the same dictionary defines "millennium" as: "the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth."

For me, current references to the next millennium are examples of what I have termed "Christianism" or "Compulsory Christianity," which I define as the system of advantages bestowed to Christians; it is the institutional response to religious oppression which assumes that all people are or should be Christian, thereby excluding the needs, concerns, life experiences, and cultures of non-Christians.

As a gay man, I attended the first three marches on Washington for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights in 1979, 1987, and 1993. In all liklihood, I will be there again next time, for I see the value of visibility actions on the local as well as the national levels. However, if the march takes place as proposed and framed, I will be forced to split loyalties, to split my social identities, marching for hightened visibility on one hand while simultaneously hightening my own invisibility on the other.