Southern Voice Online has an excellent first part of two stories on the similarities and differences between the black civil-rights movement and that of the current gay rights movement. The core of this article is the hypocrisy and homophobia in the black community that continues to deny that homosexuals exist among them. The lack of understanding what commonality exists between the movements is clearly laid out, with the irony that one of the key people in the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin, was a gay man.

BTW, this denial has resulted in an explosion of HIV in black women today, no doubt due to men on the DL that believe that they are straight (want the relationship with the woman for stability and social acceptance), but like having men on the side for sexual encounters.