Martin luther king jr on gays

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 create 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 like a credible source.

MLK received the following scrutinize from a young male and here's how he replied:

Question: My problem is different from the ones most people have. I am a boy, but I feel 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 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 own now been consciously suppressed or unconsciously repressed. Therefore, it is necessary to deal with this challenge by getting back to some of the experiences and circumstances that conduct to the habit. In order to do this I would

First posted in LGBTQ Nation, January 16, 2017

Martin Luther King Jr. Afternoon 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 night 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 nonconforming, 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 hold to hold King up to a God-like common. All the hagiographies written about King immediately monitoring his assassination in the previous century have arrive 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

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

QUINTON E. BAKER:

Yes.

CHRIS McGINNIS:

Did he ever verbalize or, I guess you could believe acknowledge the role of gay people within the black civil rights movement? Because really, I estimate when you ran into him, it may contain 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 Pride on Washington.

QUINTON E. BAKER:

Yeah, I comprehend more of his, of the people around him, more so than Surgeon King and no I didn't get a meaning. No, I think that the sense that I got was that Healer King was not very comfortable with the male lover people in the movement, and I know he wasn't very comfortable with Bayard Rustin, and so that is to some

martin luther king jr on gays

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 help 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

Storyteller 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