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Bayard Rustin: Martin Luther King’s views on gay people

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Opinion

HRC's Alphonso David: Don't Sleep on MLK Day of Service

If you have the ability, give back in the name of Dr. King.

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7 Ways to Volunteer for LGBTQ Causes on MLK Day

In the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., here are ways to give back to the community.

MLK’s assassination reminds nation of unaddressed gun violence
Opinion

One of MLK's Dreams Was an End to Gun Violence

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Guns are going to be the death of this country." Will we prove him right?

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Opinion

How Can You Live Up to Martin Luther King's Dream?

Fifty years after he was taken from us, we're still trying to make his "beloved community" a reality. 

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Women

Ava DuVernay Is 1st Woman of Color to Direct $100 Million Movie

The director of Selma has been chosen for an opportunity previously afforded no other woman of color in Hollywood: to direct a blockbuster.

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Opinion

Would MLK Have Supported Marriage Equality?

Martin Luther King Jr. was never given the opportunity to be an advocate for his LGBT brothers and sisters, writes Rev. Irene Monroe.

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Opinion

Op-ed: The Evolution of LGBT Heroes

More than 50 years after Bayard Rustin and others picked up the equality mantle, we continue to stand on their shoulders, writes the author of a new book on queer activism.

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Opinion

Op-ed: Bayard Rustin Was My Love, My Leader

Walter Naegle remembers the legacy of his late partner, the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.

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People

An Interview Between Bayard Rustin and Joseph Beam

Read this exclusive 1986 interview between Bayard Rustin and Joseph Beam about gay rights, which is now available in the republished book Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin.

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Current Issue

Who Is The Movement's Overlooked MLK?

In the search for the movement’s Martin Luther King, have we overlooked ourselves?

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