Reply #16: there was a concerted effort by white wingnut Lou Sheldon [View All]

[jonnyblitz]

and his "Traditional Values Coalition", in the 90's, to drive a wedge between and divide the gay community and the black community by telling the black community that gays were trying to hijack the civil rights movement and claim it as their own. The "TVC" distributed a video proclaiming this titled "Gay Rights/Special Rights" which, at the time, was widely distributed throughout the black religious community. It highlighted the 1993 March on Washington for Gay Rights and condemned it for trying to compare itself to the 1963 civil rights march led by Martin Luther King.

I gathered the above info from a google search of randoms articles on this topic. The articles were very long and the part discribing this video was usually brief so I didn't bother providing a link. If anybody wants to read further they can google "Gay Rights/Special Rights" video. I can remember when this issue was brought up in the '90s when I followed gay issues more closely.