The Black Panthers and Gay Rights

Contents:

• PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
• THE INCREDIBLE TE ADVENTURE OF FIVE GAY ACTIVISTS SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
• ‘BLACK PANTHER,’ HAILED FOR DIVERSY, HAS NO GAY CHARACTERS
• DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN
• DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS
• DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN
• ‘BLACK PANTHER,’ HAILED FOR DIVERSY, HAS NO GAY CHARACTERS

PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS

Meanwhile, Chavez (Xochl Gomez) herself, who intifi as a lbian the ics, do wear an LGBTQ+ badge durg the movie but the film don't explore her own biggt form of LGBTQ+ reprentatn me "Eternals, " which premiered last year, where one of the hero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) is married to a man and has the first on-screen gay kiss. Over the last year, major tl cludg Pixar’s Lightyear; Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunr, Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns and Eternals; and Disney’s Wt Si Story were all stopped by censors om htg cemas over same-genr kiss and gay or transgenr characters. Photo Cred: Robert Carl Cohen, 1970 the Black Panther Party ved Jean Ge, the famo French gay wrer and activist, to the U.

THE INCREDIBLE TE ADVENTURE OF FIVE GAY ACTIVISTS SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

'"Angela Davis charted the important lks between black polil nscns and gay rights that same speech:"One last important pot: It was Ge who heightened the Black Panther Party awarens to the homosexual rights issue. David Hilliard told me that when they were travelg together om state to state, om one universy to another, some members of the party were g very and homophobic words to sult Nixon or (U.

He had jt wanted to brg about a discsn on the siari between the stggle agast racism and the stggle agast homophobia. After the trips 1970, David Hilliard and his mat largely spoke of the matter wh Huey Newton (the Black Panther Party's print, jail at the time) and later published an important article the party's newspaper, sayg:"Whatever your personal opns and your securi about homosexualy and the var liberatn movements among homosexuals and women (Ge also had spokenabout women's liberatn durg his stay, acrdg to Davis), we should try to une wh them a revolutnary fashn. I say: 'Whatever your securi are' bee as we very well know, sometim our first stct is to want to h a homosexual the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet.

‘BLACK PANTHER,’ HAILED FOR DIVERSY, HAS NO GAY CHARACTERS

We want to h a homosexual the mouth bee we are aaid that we might be homosexual; and we want to h the women or shut her up bee we are aaid that she might strate , or take the nuts that we might not have to start wh.... I do not remember our ever nstutg any value that said that a revolutnary mt say offensive thgs towards homosexuals, or that a revolutnary should make sure that women do not speak out about their particular kd of opprsn.... And I know through readg, and through my life experience and observatns that homosexuals are not given eedom and liberty by anyone the society.

Even Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is illegal, will show the forehead kiss. Recent blockbters such as “Thor: Love and Thunr, ” “Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns” and “Wt Si Story” reportedly didn’t make to Sdi theaters bee of same-genr kiss and gay or transgenr characters. For ntext, like many Ain untri, Ghana has dranian anti-gay laws datg back to the 1860s.

But a new bill was put to the Ghana parliament last year proposg the most opprsive anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn passed whout amendments, uld make one intifyg as gay or even an ally a send-gree felony, punishable by five years Coel, she wants "to show that to Ghana" and that " felt important for me to step and do [this] role" bee she knows "by my beg Ghanaian, Ghanaians will e:"“I thought: I like that, I want to show that to Ghana. She add that “by my beg Ghanaian, Ghanaians will e”, and that she wanted to provi a posive LGBTQ+ portrayal for those the untry, where is illegal to be gay.

DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN

This trend n also be spotted the recent Thor: Love and Thunr, which director Taika Wai claimed was “super gay” but ntaed ltle actual LGBTQ+ romance. Two years later, we're lookg back wh Pri & Prott, a package of stori about activism, the Black Liv matter movement, and the fight to change the the fall of 1970, as the Vietnam War raged, five guys om the New York Cy Gay Liberatn Front took a meanrg road trip through the South a maroon-and-whe Volkswagen B. To spire gay people to attend the send Black Panther–anized Revolutnary People’s Constutnal Conventn Washgton, D.

More From Harper's BAZAARClockwise om left: Joel, Richard, Doug, and BenRichard KoobBefore they even got unrway, the ernment was watchg them, worried about “a nnectn between the homosexual movement and the Black Panther Party, ” a feral document Archiv at the USC LibrariThe FBI was sowg disrd among radils, and was easy for mistst to take root.

DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS

We were full-fledged Gay Liberatn and Black Liberatn and everythg else people.

Gil: Richard was bar none the bt-lookg man Gay Liberatn. Do you know any gay people? We would ntact Gay Liberatn each area, and they’d ve to speak about what we were dog.

We were proselytizg, so when we’d meet people, we’d s on the floor a circle, or chairs, and spread the word about Gay The nversatns were basilly around what was we were feelg as gay men and how we uld move people to e to this nventn so that we uld anize Stop: North Carola Joe Sohm/Visns of Ameri//Getty ImagGil: Greenville, North Carola, was one of the first plac we stopped, bee was a center of leftist anizg the textile ls. Doug’s fay were untry people, outsi Greenville, and he told his mother that he was gay, and she was obvly stricken. They were mostly young, whe, gay men that were volved Gay Liberatn.

DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN

Gil: We ma ntact wh this gay man who had a shelter the French Quarter for gay adolcents who had been thrown out by their fai. I thk the Gay Liberatn Front got out.

So I started the ll by announcg that I was gay, and on a tour to rec gay people for Gay Lib.

It was her first direct knowledge that I was gay, and that there was such a thg as Gay proceed to have a wildly joyo and dnken party celebratn. But there’s a feelg the air all the time for Black men who are gay—the possibily of beg offed jt bee we’re walkg down the York Public LibraryRichard: Some of had been meetgs NYC about anizg a gay revolutn party, thkg a Panther-like strategy of beg armed might be sential.

‘BLACK PANTHER,’ HAILED FOR DIVERSY, HAS NO GAY CHARACTERS

I ntacted two iends of me, Cecil and John, who were my first gay iends as an adult.

I was shocked bee I thought was maly gog to be gay people that we were nferencg wh, but we end up nferencg wh everybody. I’m Black and I’m gay.

Everythg I do is Black, and everythg I do is gay, bee I’m Black and I’m gay.