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Otherwise he would not have hired me. It eventually emerged that he was a womanizer. My being gay was not a problem for Dr. King but a problem for the movement. King turned to.

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I told Dr. King that if advisors closest to him felt I was a burden, then rather than put him in a position that he had to say leave, I would go. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. It is difficult for me to know what Dr.

King felt about gayness except to say that I'm sure he would have been sympathetic and would not have had the prejudicial view. Morehouse Dean of MLK Jr. Chapel Says He Likes Gay People: “King James Was Gay” Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter Gay.

also spoke on the university's history of homophobia. Edgar Hoover was spreading stories, and there were very real efforts to entrap him. He never felt it necessary to discuss that with me. King was once thought of as a saint beyond reproach. Reverend Kilgore asked Martin to set up a committee to advise him.

Mlk Clayton Powell, for some reason I will never understand, actually called Dr. King when he was in Brazil and indicated that he was aware of some relationship between me and Dr. King, which, of course, there was not. The committee finally came to the decision that my sex life was a burden to Dr.

I think it was around July when they advised him that he should ask me to leave. I think at a given point he had to reach a decision.

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I don't want you to think that Dr. King was the only civil rights leader who raised these questions. Someone sent his wife a tape in which he was supposedly having an affair with another woman. He was under such extraordinary pressure about his own sex life.

But we now have to ask the unthinkable: Did King enable abuse?. This added to his anxiety about additional discussions of sex.

Bayard Rustin was an indispensable force behind the Civil Rights Movement and openly gay. He was just so harassed that I felt it was my obligation to relieve him of as much of that as I could. There was also another problem: some of the people in the Democratic Party were distressed at Dr.

King's marching, as he did in and inagainst the conventions of both of the major parties calling for more immediate relief to black people through Congress. He finally came to the decision that he needed to talk with some people in his organization.