What were Mal X's views on gay people? - Answers

malcom x was gay

On Mallm X's 80 birthday, <b>Peter Tatchell</b> reveals the hidn gay past of the Amerin black natnalist lear.

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MALLM X - GAY BLACK HERO?

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That's a b more credible, but I thk given the fact that masculy is often nstcted opposn to homosexualy, and given that many Mallm's own alyt have nstcted that way, the matter is que relevant. To the evince: The notn that Mallm X was a closeted gay man was first aired by Bce Perry who, his book Mallm, claimed that his subject had several gay enunters, many of them for money. He don't offer any other stanc of sex wh men, but impli that there may have been when he wr that Mallm was "not an active homosexual after 1952.

WAS MALLM X GAY?

The Foundatnls Claim that Mallm X Was Gay Mt Stop * malcom x was gay *

And I thk people who are movg to the much broar pot--that Mallm X was gay--are really stretchg. Some black activists are enraged by suggtns that their hero might have been gay - or at least bisexual.

B DETAILS MALLM X'S GAY LIFE

Sexual eedom was not, however, part of his Perry's book documents Mallm X's many gay experienc.

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While livg Flt, Michigan, his roommate noticed that stead of sleepg the room they were sharg, Mallm sneaked down the hall to spend the night wh a gay transvte named Willie New York, two of Mallm's iends om Michigan remember bumpg to him at the YMCA, where Mallm bragged he earned money servicg "queers". Perry suggts that Mallm's gay enunters may not have been entirely fancially motivated.

His mascule securi and ambivalence towards women f the archetype of a reprsed gay man and pot to latent the ath of his father, when Mallm was six, he lacked male role mols and was domated by strong women - particular, his tyrannil mother.

His passnate assertn that the need to feel mascule is a man's "greatt urge" dit someone doubtful of his own for his sporadic gay htlg, as Perry not, "there were other ways he uld have earned money".

MALLM X’S DGHTER WALKS OFF SHOW AFTER “GAY” QUTNS

Misogyny and reprsed homosexualy might be the answer.

WHAT WERE MAL X'S VIEWS ON GAY PEOPLE?

"Was Mallm X gay? There is, however, plentiful rearch suggtg that many guys who have sex wh men for payment are nial about their homosexualy.

If people have a homosexual pacy, stays wh them for life - even if they never act on . There is no evince that his same-sex dallianc ntued once he joed the NoI; he married and had children, and, wh all the fervour of a zealo nvert, he embraced the NoI's fiercely puranil Mlim sexual he not been assassated 1965, almost certaly at the hands of NoI rivals, Mallm might have eventually, like Huey Newton of the Black Panthers, weled the gay liberatn movement as part of the stggle for human emancipatn. Instead, to serve s homophobic polil agenda, for 50 years the NoI has supprsed knowledge of Mallm's gay is time to blow the whistle.

B DETAILS MALLM X'S GAY LIFE

There is not a sgle world-famo black person who is openly gay. Young black lbians and gays need role mols. October is Black History Month Bra – a wonrful celebratn of the huge, important and valuable ntributn that black people have ma to humany and to popular is also worth celebratg that many leadg black ins have been lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT), most notably the US black liberatn hero Mallm X.

Black people are not one homogeno heterosexual mass. Whether he was gay, straight or bisexual should not matter. There has never been any black person of siar global promence and regnn who has been publicly known to be gay or bisexual.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MALCOM X WAS GAY

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