Martin luther king jr gay
Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Homosexual Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of queer rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in assist of gay rights, and his daughter, in rejection. This fascinating situation poses the problem that Michael G. Long seeks to address and resolve.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 191
- ISBN
- 9781349446247
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Om forfatteren
Writer Michael G. Long: Michael G. Long is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Peace and Fight Studies, Elizabethtown College, USA
Afterword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a retired Anglican bishop, Cape Town, South Africa
MLK agreed with Catholics on homosexuality
In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr. was writing an advice column for Ebony Magazine called, "Advice for Living." I set up excerpts of his column in "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Volume IV: Symbols of the Movement January 1957-December 1958" released by the "Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr." Sounds love a credible source.
MLK received the tracking question from a young man and here's how he replied:
Question: My obstacle is different from the ones most people have. I am a male child, but I perceive about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. I don't want my parents to know about me. What can I do? Is there any place where I can go for help?
MLK Answer: Your obstacle is not at all an uncommon one. However, it does require cautious 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 include now been consciously suppressed or unconsciously repressed. Therefore, it is necessary to deal with this problem by getting back to some of the experiences and circumstances that lead to the habit. In arrange to do this I would
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Quinton E. Baker, February 23, 2002. Interview K-0838. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Full Text of the Excerpt
- You knew Martin Luther King. You met Martin Luther King or at least spoke with him.
- QUINTON E. BAKER:
- Yes.
- CHRIS McGINNIS:
- Did he ever verbalize or, I guess you could assume acknowledge the role of gay people within the shadowy civil rights movement? Because really, I guess when you ran into him, it may possess just been strategy sessions and general meetings and that gentle of thing.
- QUINTON E. BAKER:
- Yeah, you know.
- CHRIS McGINNIS:
- Obviously, one of his people organized the March on Washington.
- QUINTON E. BAKER:
- Yeah, I know more of his, of the people around him, more so than Doctor King and no I didn't get a sense. No, I think that the sense that I got was that Doctor King was not very comfortable with the gay people in the movement, and I know he wasn't very comfortable with Bayard Rustin, and so that is to some
Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin (right) and Walter Naegle, 1986. Credit: Photo courtesy of Walter Naegle/Estate of Bayard Rustin.Episode Notes
Bayard Rustin was a champion of the Inky civil rights movement—mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. But because he was lgbtq+ 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 Black 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 Freedom. And he was gay and open about it, which had everything to do with why he remained in the background and is short-lived 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 rare 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