In his new memoir, a noted scholar of L.G.B.T. history describes a world of extended family, Catholic schools and parish life that offered a relatively safe space for him to discover himself as a politically progressive gay man.
While the legislation was intended as a buttress against Republican attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, activists have criticized the RFMA for including religious liberty exemptions.
Bayard Rustin, an agitator for justice, was charismatic, prophetic and gay- Though historically dubious, basic lessons of the civil rights era rarely venture beyond the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott and the bravery of Rosa Parks to understand how formerly enslaved Blacks overcame Jim Crow and other vestiges of white.