I just want to say, in this day of remembering a great person in the civil rights movement, that there is still a minority fighting for their equal rights; California's prop 8 trial, the recent gay marriage wins and losses, and just the total movement for equality. Let us remember the great things Martin Luther King Jr. did and learn from the civil rights movement of the '60s.
Also, remember Bayard Rustin for he helped organize many of the rallies and marches of that movement, but also later on was involved in the gay rights movement.
"Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new "niggers" are gays. . . . It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. . . . The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people."-Bayard Rustin
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