Gay activist and thor Keh Boyk bemoaned the ntued bate over gay marriage Tuday night at Wabash College while sharg his personal journey through tn, polics and activism.
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- KEH BOYK: IS EXGAY DONNIE MCCLURK STILL GAY?
- GAY POLIL COMMENTATOR KEH BOYK ARRTED,DETAED FOR 6 HOURS DURG NYC GEE FLOYD PROTT
KEH BOYK: IS EXGAY DONNIE MCCLURK STILL GAY?
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Keh discsed his personal stggl g out as a gay man and his efforts to promote clivy and tolerance for gay men of lor and other mory groups. When Keh Boyk fally worked up the urage to tell his mother that he was gay, his claratn was met wh a long silence. Keh also spoke about his experienc helpg the Clton admistratn addrs the thorny issue of liftg the ban on gays the ary.
GAY POLIL COMMENTATOR KEH BOYK ARRTED,DETAED FOR 6 HOURS DURG NYC GEE FLOYD PROTT
While rearchg the subject of homophobia, however, Keh realized that the same arguments ed to jtify racism the 1950s and 1960s were beg recycled agast LGBTQ people the 1990s and 2000s. For Keh, as a gay Black man, this means that he experienc racism the larger world and om wh the LGBTQ muny, and homophobia the larger world and om wh the Black muny. To unrstand and addrs the tersectn of racism and homophobia, he -found the Natnal Black Jtice Coaln 2003.
He also wrote a book about his personal experienc, One More River to Cross: Black and Gay Ameri. A Renaissance In Harlem (1920s-30s)In 1926 Bce Nugent wrote a homoerotic say for the premier issue of a ntroversial Harlem publitn lled FIRE!! Alongsi articl by Langston Hugh and Zora Neale Hurston, Nugent’s piece – wrten unr the psdonym Richard Bce – scribed a male homosexual relatnship.