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GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
”Hathaway followed up the duets wh “Live, ” a ncert album documentg two 1971 shows, where he not only monstrated his total mand of a crowd, but also took other people’s songs, like Marv Gaye’s “What’s Gog On, ” and fearlsly ma them his own. (Drag) Kgs and Queens, dyk, homos, genr nonnformg, same-genr lovg, queer and trans folk populate our history and have been foundatnal to every sgle emancipatory movement we’ve ever had. But often, they are erased for their sexualy or their Town Horror Story: A Shoppg Scheme Gone Horribly WrongOffEnglishGay folx been here.
Johnson to Jimmy Baldw; om Audre Lor to Richard Nugent; om Countee Cullen to Patrisse Cullors—we owe to ourselv, to our muny, to all of our children, gay and otherwise, to tell the whole story. Remarkably, Rt was out his entire life, yet still faced discrimatn wh the black muny and the larger movement for his sexualy, cludg a particularly paful episo where Congrsman Adam Clayton Powell of Harlem wield Rt’s homosexualy agast him and threatened MLK, who dropped him for polil expediency. In the 1980s, Rt began to advote for gay rights, cludg a 1986 speech entled, “The New Niggers Are Gays.
Blakk, a drag queen alter ego of Terence Smh (also of Pomo Ao Homos fame), ma her world but 1974, and 1991, ran agast Chigo Mayor Richard M. At a time where HIV and AIDS were cimatg the black and gay muny, separately and together, Blakk ed her voice to speak tth to power, nsistently puttg the issu and needs of gay, black and margalized people at the fore. “You n watch the news and never hear the word ‘gay’ mentned, ” Blakk said.