You might have gotten the time wrong; Just Out is reporting that this is happening at 20:30 on Sunday (http://blogout.justout.com/?p=33613).

Other fun facts: The Hawthorne bridge is 1,382 feet long. That means if each person accounts for 4 feet of hand-holding length, they need 346 people to show up to make this work.

Wouldn't that mean that everyone who shows up is 4 feet tall? (arm span=height, right?)

@Sonia: a^2 + b^2 = c^2

@Sonja: I was assuming that they wouldn't try and make people stretch their arms out to their maximum ability to do so. The average American is 5.54 feet tall (when averaged across genders), so they'd need a minimum of 250 people to do this, but then you'd need to factor in the lost arm span length to actually hold hands. That gives us about 4.96 feet of usable arm per person, raising the needed body count to 279 people.

Considering that this Sunday is part of a holiday weekend and many people are out of town; I'll be pleasantly surprised if this actually works out for the organizers.

"I'll be pleasantly surprised"

Yeah, I'll bet you will.

I will be out of the town this weekend. But good luck to those organizing!

@Graham - I was told 7:30, but since it's still in the works, they may have moved the time. I'll check and change the time in the post if it's different.

Nope, it's 7:30 pm on Sunday. We're all good!

@Smirk: Just Out updated their story four minutes after I posted; that'll teach me to post too quickly. Any word if they're doing this on the North or the South span?

I'm only going if I get to hold hands with Graham.

Red rover Red rover send Meck Lem over.

Isn't that the same time as the nude red rover game on the Hawthorne Bridge ?