Cross-posted at Bilerico.

Seth Hemmelgarn at the Bay Area Reporter is reporting that organizers of the National March for Equality have dropped a vigil for people living with HIV/AIDS:

It appears that a vigil for people living with HIV/AIDS will not be part of October’s National March for Equality, as one of the lead organizers told the Bay Area Reporter that no agency could be found to spearhead the event.

When he first called for a march on Washington, D.C. this spring, longtime gay and AIDS activist Cleve Jones told the B.A.R. that march organizers were trying to get use of the Lincoln Memorial site for an HIV/AIDS action on Saturday, October 10, the day before the march. Jones, who is HIV-positive and founded the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, has long been outspoken on HIV/AIDS issues.

But those plans have apparently fallen through.

Kip Williams, who has been helping Jones with organizing the equality march, said this week that the AIDS vigil had to be canceled. “There were a number of organizations considering taking the lead,” Williams wrote in an e-mail. “In the end, no one had the resources or capacity to step up.”

There’s a lot more about the march in the article.

Seriously? Of the hundreds of HIV/AIDS organizations, agencies and activist groups that exist around the country, none were willing to step up and organize? If folks have more detail on this, I’d love to hear more. In the meantime, I’ll refrain from throwing in my two cents about why I didn’t like this march from the beginning, and why I still haven’t found enough compelling reasons to get on board with it except it’s on its way.