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First posted in LGBTQ Nation, January 16, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. Date 2017 will sign its 31st anniversary since it was first observed on January 20, 1986.
If he were alive today, King would be 88, and he would include seen that a lot has changed in the U.S. since that dim day he was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis by an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968.
Since King’s death, every struggling civil-rights group has affixed themselves to his passionate cause for justice.
The lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities, in particular, hold been reviled for not only naming our struggle as a civil-rights issue, but also for naming MLK as one of the civil-rights icons that would speak on our behalf.
But would King have spoken on our behalf?
As we celebrate MLK Day 2017, we no longer contain to hold King up to a God-like standard. All the hagiographies written about King immediately following his assassination in the previous century have arrive under scrutiny as we come to understand all of King – his greatness as adequately as his flaws and human foibles.
As I comb through numerous books and essays learning more about King’s philand
Bayard Rustin
Episode Notes
Bayard Rustin was a champion of the Black civil rights movement—mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. But because he was queer and out, he faced bigotry inside and outside the movement. The FBI and Sen. Strom Thurmond tried to destroy him. But he persisted.
Episode first published January 10, 2019.
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From Eric Marcus: Bayard Rustin was a key behind-the-scenes leader of the Dark civil rights movement—a proponent of nonviolent protest, a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the principal organizer of the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Autonomy. And he was gay and open about it, which had everything to do with why he remained in the background and is little known today in comparison to other leaders of the civil rights movement.
My earliest memory of anything having to do with the civil rights movement is indelible, because it’s one of the exceptional memories I have of my father, who died in 1970. He was lying on the sofa in the living room of our small apartment watching
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On the Martin Luther King Day just passed, I learned something about King that’s interesting on multiple levels:
In 1958, when Martin Luther King Jr. was 29 years mature, he wrote an advice column in Ebony, a ebony magazine. In one column, an anonymous boy or adolescent man — his age isn’t obvious — asked King for advice. Monitoring is the ask and King’s response. (The full document is available here.)
Question:My problem is distinct from the ones most people hold. I am a boy, but I feel about boys the way I ought to touch about girls. I don’t want my parents to comprehend about me. What can I do? Is there any place where I can go for help?
Answer: Your problem is not at all an uncommon one. However, it does require careful attention. The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired. Your reasons for adopting this habit have now been consciously suppressed or unconsciously repressed. Therefore, it is necessary to deal with this issue by getting assist to some of the experiences and circumstances that manage to the behavior. In order to do this I would suggest that you see a good psyc
Martin Luther King Jr.’s View on Gay Marriage
By Jason Carson Wilson
Jury’s out on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s view of the GLBT community, CNN.com reports. King’s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, stated in 2005 while campaigning for a constitutional gay marriage bar that she believed he didn’t “take a bullet for same-sex marriage.”
Coretta Scott King—King’s late widow and Bernice’s mother—probably disagreed. Scott King was a male lover rights advocate with a gay aide.
Coretta wasn’t the only one with a gay friend. Martin King worked closely with openly gay civil rights chief Bayard Rustin. Rustin is credited with organizing King’s 1963 march on Washington D.C., at which he gave the historic “I Have a Dream” speech.
Aside from King and Rustin’s association, there’s little evidence of the iconic civil rights leader’s attitude about gay and lesbian people. A 1958 Ebony magazine advice column just might give a hint:
“I am a boy,” an anonymous writer wrote King. “But I feel about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. I don’t want my parents to know about me. What can I do?”
King stressed being same-sex attracted wasn