1. Rights for Homosexuality - Gay is the New Black
... fight for both of their minority group's rights. Although the Gay liberation movement during this time period was marginal, it still existed, and leader of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, even called for all marginalized groups, including homosexuals to "unite with the Black Panther Party in revolutionary fashion" stating that even "homosexuals can be revolutionaries too ... " (Newton) (Grady-Willis 375). This statement, made by one of the Black Civil Rights movement's most radical leaders clearly shows an acknowledgement of the similarity between the group's, as he called ... ...
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