Was the Civil Rights Movement Gayer Than We Remember?
About this Event
Pride in the Pews presents a Black History Month Webinar: Was the Civil Rights Movement Gayer Than We Remember - Trans and LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Respectability and Civil Rights Memory
Public memory often treats the Civil Rights Movement as hostile to LGBTQ+ people, but that framing leaves out so much.
Leaders like Pauli Murray and Bayard Rustin shaped the movement from within, and figures like Coretta Scott King and Jesse Jackson Jr. publicly affirmed LGBTQ+ advocacy, even if we rarely name it. When those truths are erased, we inherit a story that still shapes how we build movements and institutions today.
We’re bringing together scholars, public intellectuals, and activists on Zoom to revisit what’s been left out and to talk honestly about what that selective memory has cost us.
Hosted by: Gender & Sexuality Resource Center, Intercultural Student Engagement, Interfaith Center, Multicultural Resource Center and the Women's Resource Center