Bayard Rt was an dispensable force behd the Civil Rights Movement and openly gay.
Contents:
- MART LUTHER KG JR.’S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE
- MART LUTHER KG, JR., HOMOSEXUALY, AND THE EARLY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT : KEEPG THE DREAM STRAIGHT? /
- MEET THE GAY ACTIVIST BEHD MART LUTHER KG JR.'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- NIECE OF DR. MART LUTHER KG JR. OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
- MLK'S NIECE CALLS GAY MARRIAGE GENOCI
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. * was mlk jr against 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.
MART LUTHER KG, JR., HOMOSEXUALY, AND THE EARLY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT : KEEPG THE DREAM STRAIGHT? /
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." * was mlk jr against gay marriage *
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.
MEET THE GAY ACTIVIST BEHD MART LUTHER KG JR.'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
* was mlk jr against gay marriage *
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. 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. 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.
NIECE OF DR. MART LUTHER KG JR. OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
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.
"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.
MLK'S NIECE CALLS GAY MARRIAGE GENOCI
"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.
"I appeal to everyone who believ Mart Luther Kg's dream to make room at the table of brother and sisterhood for lbian and gay people, " she said. I'll stick wh Bayard, " a blogger wrote, Bayard Rt, the gay man who was chief anizer and strategist for the 1963 March on Washgton that further tapulted Kg onto the world stage, was not the beneficiary of Kg's the civil rights movement, Rt was always the man behd the scen, and a large part of that had to due wh the fact that he was gay. Bee of their own homophobia, many Ain-Amerin misters volved the civil rights movement would have nothg to do wh Rt, and they tentnally spread mors that Kg was gay bee of his close iendship wh mt unrstand Kg wh the historil ntext of the homophobic black church; bee of his associatn wh , I nnot envisn him endorsg marriage equaly.
But I, like so many wh the Ain-Amerin muny -- straight or gay -- nnot fathom Kg marchg agast same-sex marriage as his youngt dghter, Rev. Gay rights had not reached the level of beg a bona fi natnal issue yet, and for Kg to have ma a major public pronouncement regardg LGBTQ rights would have been historilly premature. "Had [Kg] lived long enough, he would have taken some form of enlightened viewpot regardg gay/lbian rights, " a iend told me emphatilly.