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Preserving and recording Black history has always been essential to me. In proof, back in 1999, it was a series I did on Black History Month for Wayne Articulate University’s South End that caught the attention of then Pride Source Media and Between The Lines publishers Susan Horowitz and Jan Stevenson. At BTL, I continued to contain the opportunity to note about Black history, particularly Black queer history. In that endeavor, and to my delight, I was assigned to interview Yolanda King, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was coming to town to speak at the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Michigan Dinner.

Before she arrived in town, I had the pleasure of speaking to Ms. King on the phone. She was charming but no-nonsense. She had a legacy to uphold, after all, and it was clear she felt it was a earnest mission.

Of her father, when asked how she believed he would feel about LGBTQ+ rights, she was clear. “My father said it on numerous occasions: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’” she said. “If we exclude and discriminate against any group of people, it affects us all. It&rsquo

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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 ancient, he wrote an advice column in Ebony, a inky magazine. In one column, an anonymous boy or fresh man — his age isn’t distinct — asked King for advice. Obeying is the ask and King’s response. (The full document is available here.)

Question:My problem is alternative from the ones most people hold. I am a boy, but I feel about boys the way I ought to perceive about girls. I don’t want my parents to realize 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 advocate to some of the experiences and circumstances that conduct to the practice. In order to do this I would suggest that you see a good psyc

First posted in LGBTQ Nation, January 16, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. Evening 2017 will mark its 31st anniversary since it was first observed on January 20, 1986.
If he were alive today, King would be 88, and he would have seen that a lot has changed in the U.S. since that dark morning 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, gay, bisexual, gender non-conforming, and queer (LGBTQ) communities, in particular, have 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 possess to hold King up to a God-like typical. All the hagiographies written about King immediately tracking his assassination in the previous century have approach under scrutiny as we come to understand all of King – his greatness as well as his flaws and human foibles.
As I comb through numerous books and essays learning more about King’s philand

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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 homosexual people within the black civil rights movement? Because really, I guess when you ran into him, it may have just been strategy sessions and general meetings and that kind 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 perception. No, I reflect that the meaning that I got was that Medic King was not very comfortable with the gay people in the movement, and I comprehend he wasn't very comfortable with Bayard Rustin, and so that is to some degree Bayardâthat's why Bay