Two views on signature gathering at Southie's St. Pat's parade

After blogging about the Boston Herald's bias against gay marriage supporters in an article about yesterday's St. Patrick's day parade, I was curious to see what the followup would be. While I'm of Irish decent, I don't celebrate St. Patrick's day (let alone in Southie) and I'm wholly reliant on the mainstream press to tell me what happened.

The Globe seems to think it went great, and interviewed MassEquality volunteers:

Two hours before the parade, volunteers for MassEquality, a gay rights group, stood on East and West Broadway asking people to sign postcards that would be sent to state legislators urging them to oppose any amendment prohibiting marriage by same-sex couples.

Volunteer Chris Mason, 24, wondered aloud about the reaction he would get at an event known for its exclusion of gay and lesbian groups. But aside from a few vacant stares and ''no thank yous," celebrants eagerly signed the postcards, he said.

Volunteers collected just under 800 signatures yesterday, said Marc Solomon, campaign director for MassEquality. ''There was . . . absolutely zero hostility," Solomon said. ''People's perception of South Boston and what the reaction would be to marriage equality is very different from the reality."

It was a bit harder to find the Herald's coverage, buried at the very last paragraph of their parade article. Rather than interviewing anyone involved with the signature gathering, or calling back the esteemed panel of marriage opponents from Friday's article, they called the cops:

A group of gay marriage advocates garnered attention as they collected signatures along the parade route for a petition backing equal marriage rights, but police did not report any related calls.

I sense some disappointment.

Was anyone there? How did it go?