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Not only did King come out in support of Rustin when questioned by the media, all of the leaders within the movement did. Most states ban gay marriage and other civil rights for gay couples.
As a black woman and lesbian, Nipper said she will be able to bring her whole self to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, now that the gay rights movement is not a separate cause pushed to the side.
"It's just a powerful, palpable, beautiful progression toward the kind of society that Martin Luther King Jr.
talked about when he was talking about that truly beloved community," she said.
The civil rights movement led by King offered enough evidence to back his views.”
Many in that generation were involved in the struggle for racial equality long before our own gay identity began to emerge in our psyche.
The big civil rights effort of the 1950’s and 60’s was to overcome the legacy of slavery and a bitter civil war in our country, and bring true equality to blacks and other minorities.
“Jo Ann Robinson organized the Montgomery bus boycott, but King gets all the credit because he was a phenomenal speaker and sort of the poster boy. A soaring voice for freedom and equality, King had emerged on the national scene leading the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. That was very important to him, because it’s all in the details.”
So how much of "Rustin" is true?
In March, 1998, she said, “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice….But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’”
She continued, “I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people,” she said.
The great American human rights icon may never have mentioned gay rights, but his words and actions, his life and his death, provided the experience, and the electricity, to drive forward the fight for LGBT rights, at the same time we continue the battle for all human rights.
As we honor Dr.
King this month at the holiday dedicated to his memory, we can take inspiration in that fight from these words of Dr. King, inscribed on his Memorial in Washington, D. C.: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
AP writer Brett Zongker, in his August 21, 2013 AP story “Civil rights includes gays 50 years after march,” contributed to this article.
The Gayly – January 14, 2014 @ 11:05am
'Rustin' fact check: Did J.
Edgar Hoover spread rumors about him and Martin Luther King?
Spoiler alert! by Rob Howard Late in the evening of April 4, 1968, the nation and the world was stunned by the news that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis. “It was more casual. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina brought nationwide media attention to Bayard after claiming that the march was being organized by “Communist, draft-dodger and homosexual.” But it would seem that the impact of what was once the movement’s Achilles’ heel had lost its effectiveness. She scolded her child and told them not to touch Rustin or anyone who looked like him, hurling a slur his way in the process. "If I go and sit quietly at the back of that bus now, that child, who was so innocent of race relations that it was going to play with me, will have seen so many blacks go in the back and sit down quietly that it's going to end up saying, 'They like it back there, I've never seen anybody protest against it.'," Rustin said in the interview, which was released in early 2019 via the podcast Making Gay History. "It occurred to me shortly after that that it was an absolute necessity for me to declare homosexuality, because if I didn't I was a part of the prejudice," he continued. We spoke to Wolfe about the real history behind the Oscar hopeful: A throughline in the movie is Rustin's close friendship with King, who temporarily distanced himself from Rustin after news outlets ran "slanderous rumors" that they were having a love affair. So the exposing of it and the timing of it is completely accurate." Along with his tireless efforts as a community organizer, the movie explores Rustin's romantic relationships with fellow activist Tom Kahn (Gus Halper) and Elias Taylor (Johnny Ramey), a married pastor. Although Kahn was real, "Elias is a creation," Wolfe says. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.” Frank Kameny, an early gay leader in the ‘homophile movement’ of the 50’s, agreed. According to Michael G. Long, in his book Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement, “Kameny opposed moderation in the homophile movement, insisting that gays should protest for freedom, that they should protest now, and that direct action campaigns – along with other confrontational tactics aimed at policy makers – could be successful in advancing gay rights sooner rather than later. In those days, few people talked about homosexuality. In real life, Wilkins worried about associating with Rustin because of his sexuality, as well as his ties to the Young Communist League two decades earlier. "I read about a conversation between the two of them where (Wilkins) said, ‘It’s not that I don’t like you.
Associate EditorWhat was Bayard Rustin's relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.?
Were Rustin's love interests Tom and Elias real people?