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RyanPsych

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3. Both movements started around the same time. The Gay Rights Movement began around 1969.

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 03:40 PM

Mar 2012

Are you implying that LGBTs have been systematically oppressed and brutalized? Maybe I should start listing off the increasing hate crimes statistics of LGBTs. Or recount brutal murders. Or maybe how LGBTs are still denied many basic rights in several states. Don't pretend that LGBTs arent or havent been oppressed and brutalized as well.

"Gay Rights" ARE Civil Rights. That's the point of the article, as well as to draw comparisons to the struggles of the two groups. What I don't understand is why people are trying to draw these two movements apart. Civil Rights are about Civil Rights regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. The individual struggles of these two groups (race and sexual orientation) are smaller pieces of the overall movement.

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Jonathon Capehart: Blacks and Gays: The Shared Struggle for Civil Rights [View all] RyanPsych Mar 2012 OP

The mistake many make when they hear the Black-Gay comparison... Moonwalk Mar 2012 #1

Here's the problem with your analysis Mr.Liberty Mar 2012 #2

Both movements started around the same time. The Gay Rights Movement began around 1969. RyanPsych Mar 2012 #3

Bayard Rustin had no problem with that analysis. EFerrari Mar 2012 #4

My analysis hasn't got any such problem--your reply is simply doing what my analysis said... Moonwalk Mar 2012 #5

I wasn't trying to turn this into a pissing contest RyanPsych Mar 2012 #6