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But after King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, Rustin agreed to fly from Memphis to help lead the campaign in King’s absence.

CHRIS McGINNIS:

For a summer, was this afterâ?

CHRIS McGINNIS:

So, when John worked, I guess when you worked through John that when John worked for Bayard, he saw things that would indicate this discomfort.

After walking towards the back of a bus in the 1940s during the Jim Crow South, a white child reached up to touch his tie, only to be stopped by their mother.

CHRIS McGINNIS:

Obviously, one of his people organized the March on Washington. In 1963, he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington. I mean, much of what I knew about that had to do with the fact that John worked with BayardâJohn Dunneâworked with Bayard Rustin for a summer.

Most states ban gay marriage and other civil rights for gay couples.

As a black woman and lesbian, Nipper said she will be able to bring her whole self to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, now that the gay rights movement is not a separate cause pushed to the side.

"It's just a powerful, palpable, beautiful progression toward the kind of society that Martin Luther King Jr.

talked about when he was talking about that truly beloved community," she said. It wasn’t as formally organized. There was a lot of discouragement and frustration,” Naegle recalls. According to Michael G. Long, in his book Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement, “Kameny opposed moderation in the homophile movement, insisting that gays should protest for freedom, that they should protest now, and that direct action campaigns – along with other confrontational tactics aimed at policy makers – could be successful in advancing gay rights sooner rather than later.

What did his life, and his death, mean for the struggle of gay men, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people for their equality?

The big civil rights effort of the 1950’s and 60’s was to overcome the legacy of slavery and a bitter civil war in our country, and bring true equality to blacks and other minorities.

For many Black men and women, the thinking was that "you are responsible for every single thing that every single Black person does: good, bad, right or wrong. Gay rights have been incorporated into the human rights movement.

The Rev. MacArthur Flournoy, who directs faith partnerships and mobilizing at the Human Rights Campaign, said the inclusion of gay rights in the larger civil rights movement has been transformative.

"We see human rights and civil rights as linked.

QUINTON E. BAKER:

You know, because those kind of issues wereâI mean, because to some degree it was like the relationship between me and John, where in the relationship was thereâthe focus was on the movement, and whenever we interacted with people if they were not gay, it was mostly about the movement, so what people's personal reactions or responses were, I have no clue.

Edgar Hoover had (misrepresented) a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. in the bathtub and Bayard sitting on the toilet fully clothed," Wolfe says. "LGBT equality, in our minds, is consistent with many other justice issues, so it's important that we're present."

For LGBT people, the fight is not yet over for the values of equality King stood for, says Darlene Nipper of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

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You knew Martin Luther King.

His life was dedicated to raising the oppressed, to help those wounded by our society and culture, and to fight for freedom for all.

Sometimes we wonder what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of the push for LGBT rights, or the fight for marriage equality. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.”

Frank Kameny, an early gay leader in the ‘homophile movement’ of the 50’s, agreed.