needs to happen out front for the oppressed helping each other? that s a great question. the civil rights movement created the framework as a temperature place when it was in south africa ar the gay rights movement. what you haven t really seen is a sense of coordination. on the gay rights issue, it s been somewhat of a black eye for the civil rights with the exemption of the the al sharptons. you haven t seen the coordination. early on, there was a lot of resentment of the borrowing of those symbols. they closely guarded the ideas of the civil rights movement. it created distance that hasn t been bridged. because african-americans are conservative, you didn t have the two movements coming together. you are seeing that now. younger african-americans like younger americans in general do