Gays Are the New Niggers

I’ve resisted for a while the urge to equate the gay rights movement with that of the civil rights movement. In my mind I thought the struggles African-Americans faced were way more egregious than the strife of LGBT people. But as I began to be more acceptant of my own sexuality and started taking a closer look at gay issues, I noticed that LGBT people’s struggles are analogous to that of black people at the height of the civil rights movement. While in D.C. I went to an anti-gay marriage rally that was organized by and for black religious leaders. I saw a sign that read “This is not a civil rights issue” and thought people used that same argument to prevent inter-racial marriage and perpetuate ‘separate but equal’ and Jim Crow.

Killingthebuddha.com has an amazing piece, written by the Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou that covers this topic. A link to the article is below.

http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/damnation/gays-are-the-new-niggers/