LGBTQ History Month

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Celebrating LGBTQ History Month – 5 – Bayard Rustin

The 1963 March on Washington was a collaborative effort between several landmark organizers from just as many major civil rights groups. While the original idea came from A. Philip Randolph, and the March’s keynote speaker is famously Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the strongest coordinating force behind the march [...]

2022-10-24T15:46:39-07:00By |Uncategorized|

Celebrating LGBTQ History Month – 2 – Simon Nkoli

SIMON NKOLI South Africa was the first country in the world to add specific LGBT+ protections to its Constitution, in part thanks to Simon Nkoli. Born in 1957, Simon’s childhood and adolescence were spent in a South Africa still ruled by apartheid. The strict laws designated who could go [...]

2022-10-18T18:33:10-07:00By |Uncategorized|