A DREAM DEFERRED NO LONGER: The Black Gay Rights Movement's Perspective of Dr. King's Dream

Black Gay Rights champion and writer Jasmyne Cannick has laid out an interesting atricle that compares the Black Gay Rights battle of today to the by-gone Civil Rights days.

"When Martin Luther King Jr. marched in the 60s for the civil rights of African-Americans, he wasn't marching for the civil rights of some, he marched for all Blacks," Cannick writes. "Side by side, straight Blacks marched with gay blacks and it's important that the contributions of gays to this movement do not continue to be downplayed and overlooked.

"The gay rights movement has been compared to the 60s Civil Rights Movement repeatedly and questions surrounding King's views on homosexuality are constantly being asked. We will never know for sure what King thought about homosexuality, but we do know that he apparently had no issue with working with gays because one of his closest personal and political advisors was an openly gay man, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was is best known for being one of driving forces behind the march on Washington in 1963."

Read MORE of what she has to say HERE.