On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, speakers called attention to a nationwide backlash against LGBTQ+ rights
FILE - People listen to speakers during the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Aug. 26, 2023. . But some Black LGBTQ+ participants felt that their early speaking slots minimized their contributions and reflected historical erasure of Black queer people in the Civil Rights Movement.
“One of the things that I need for people to understand is that the Black queer community is still Black," and face anti-Black racism as well as homophobia and transphobia, said Giselle, communications director for the GSA Network, a nonprofit that helps students form gay-straight alliance clubs in schools.
Rustin, who was an adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a pivotal architect of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, is a glaring example. The march he helped lead tilled the ground for the passage of federal civil rights and voting rights legislation in the next few years. “I didn’t even learn about those same leaders, Black leaders, Black queer leaders until I got to college,” she said.Some believe the erasure of Black LGBTQ+ leaders stems from respectability politics, a strategy in some marginalized communities of ostracizing or punishing members who don't assimilate into the dominant culture.
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