Although Rev. Mart Luther Kg Jr. is well known for his learship the civil rights movement, a new upg book is set to make the ntroversial claim that he would have been an advote for gay marriage. Those shockg claims, however, squarely ntradict what Kg's own dghter has said about him the past, and even Kg's own words, which have scribed homosexualy as a "problem."
Contents:
- MART LUTHER KG JR.’S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE
- MART LUTHER KG JR., HOMOSEXUALY, AND THE EARLY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY MARRIAGE
- HUCKABEE LLS FOR MLK-LIKE PASSIVE RISTANCE TO GAY MARRIAGE LG
- GAY MARRIAGE AND MART LUTHER KG'S DREAM
MART LUTHER KG JR.’S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE
Bayard Rt was an adviser to Mart Luther Kg Jr. and the anizer behd the 1963 March on Washgton. And though he was gay, his legacy remas ltle known among many the LGBTQ muny. * martin luther king on gay marriage *
Bernice Kg, stated 2005 while mpaigng for a nstutnal gay marriage ban that she believed he didn’t “take a bullet for same-sex marriage.
Stt Kg was a gay rights advote wh a gay ai. Coretta wasn’t the only one wh a gay iend. Mart Kg worked closely wh openly gay civil rights lear Bayard Rt.
Asi om Kg and Rt’s associatn, there’s ltle evince of the inic civil rights lear’s attu about gay and lbian people. Kg strsed beg gay wasn’t unmon, but need “reful attentn. Feral Bure of Invtigatns surveillance, wrgs and speech do not reveal nmnatn of gays and lbians.
MART LUTHER KG JR., HOMOSEXUALY, AND THE EARLY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * martin luther king on gay marriage *
His homosexualy st him that visibily and was nsired by some as a hdrance to the movement's succs. The d will air this week an episo of the podst Makg Gay History. Rt was the target of homophobic attacks, and as he discs the terview, he was siled by other black lears at key moments durg a movement he helped steer.
GAY MARRIAGE
Kg about my beg gay and particularly bee I would not ny , that he set up a mtee to explore whether would be dangero for me to ntue workg wh him, " Rt says to the Bla the terview.
He nced, but as Eric Marc, the host of Makg Gay History, tells NPR's Michel Mart, Rt kept workg for the e. Those rerdgs have helped foster a better unrstandg of the gay in — one that Marc nces was absent om his civil rights tn.
HUCKABEE LLS FOR MLK-LIKE PASSIVE RISTANCE TO GAY MARRIAGE LG
"I feel like I was robbed of my history as a gay person, " Marc says. " Marc fds spirg that Rt was open about his sexualy at a time when beg gay was still nsired dangero. His arrt rerd clud prottg and charg related to his homosexualy.
" To Rt, assertg his inty as an Ain-Amerin went hand--hand wh intifyg as a gay man.
GAY MARRIAGE AND MART LUTHER KG'S DREAM
"It occurred to me shortly after that that was an absolute necsy for me to clare homosexualy, bee if I didn't I was a part of the prejudice, " he said.