THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLE? From Tom Sylvester
Maggie wonders about how black Americans feel about the endless analogies between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the gay rights movement of today. I've never seen a survey with that exact question, but my sense is that most blacks don't like it. According to a recent poll, 64 percent of blacks oppose same-sex marriage. And as a fascinating New York Times Magazine story shows, even many black men who have sex with other men don't consider themselves to be "gay." Opposition to the social acceptance of homosexuality remains strong in African-American culture. I think that opposition is exacerbated by the shortage of marriageable black men.
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