While Obama hung out with Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw and Holly Robinson Peete, listening to Earth Wind and Fire and Jennifer Hudson at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, dozens of anti-torture, anti-war and several hundred pro-gay rights activists demonstrated on Wilshire Blvd, joined by a small contingent of Armenians who are calling on Obama to recognize the Armenian genocide and six guys with a really big 9/11-conspiracy banner.

Honks and shouts of support greeted the protesters, though a few fingers were flipped at the marriage equality contigent. And  KCAL news one of the local CBS affilitates ignored the several hundred LGBT protesters in their coverage of the event.