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Was the Civil Rights Movement Gayer Than We Remember?

Was the Civil Rights Movement Gayer Than We Remember?: Trans and LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Respectability, and Civil Rights Memory. This Black History Month conversation will explore the often-erased role of LGBTQ+ and trans people within the Civil Rights Movement, with particular attention to respectability politics, public memory, and whose leadership and embodiment were preserved—or pushed out of view all together. While popular narratives frequently portray the movement as uniformly hostile to LGBTQ+ people, historical reality is far more complex. LGBTQ+ leaders such as Pauli Murray and Bayard Rustin were central architects of the movement’s legal strategy, moral vision, and organizing infrastructure, while figures like Coretta Scott King and Jesse Jackson Jr. publicly affirmed LGBTQ+ advocacy in ways that are rarely acknowledged in mainstream memory.