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Malcolm X - gay black hero?
The Guardian ^ | Thursday May 19, 2005 | Peter Tatchell

Posted on 09/27/2006 5:49:10 PM PDT by ConservativeJen

Malcolm X was born 80 years ago today, on 19 May 1925. But amid the commemorations, controversy is brewing. Some black activists are enraged by suggestions that their hero might have been gay - or at least bisexual. The controversy has been stirring since the publication of Bruce Perry's acclaimed biography, Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (Station Hill, New York) in 1991. Based on interviews with Malcolm's closest boyhood and adult friends, Perry suggests that the US black nationalist leader was not as robustly heterosexual as his Nation of Islam (NoI) colleagues have always insisted.

As for his sporadic gay hustling, as Perry notes, "there were other ways he could have earned money". Dope-dealing, thieving and pimping were sources of income he had pursued with success. There was no imperative to sell his body. Why, then, did he prostitute himself? Misogyny and repressed homosexuality might be the answer. According to Perry: "His male-to-male encounters, which rendered it unnecessary for him to compete for women, afforded him an opportunity for sexual release without the attendant risk of dependence on women."

Now it is time to blow the whistle. There is not a single world-famous black person who is openly gay. Young black lesbians and gays need role models. Who better than Malcolm X, one of the inspirations of my activism and one of the great modern heroes of black liberation?

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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And yet the liberals bash true black role models such as Michael Steele, Condi Rice, and Ken Blackwell.
1 posted on 09/27/2006 5:49:10 PM PDT by ConservativeJen
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To: ConservativeJen

Malcolm X on the "down low?" OMGSTFULOL


2 posted on 09/27/2006 5:50:05 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: ConservativeJen

I don't want to know, it has nothing to do with anything that's remotely our business.


3 posted on 09/27/2006 5:51:12 PM PDT by Shimmer128 (My beloved is mine and I am his. Song of Solomon 1:16)
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To: ConservativeJen

He was worthless then, and he is worthless now.


4 posted on 09/27/2006 5:51:48 PM PDT by pissant
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To: ConservativeJen

I wonder if he played any "finger games" with Michael Weiner.


5 posted on 09/27/2006 5:51:53 PM PDT by Vision ("As a man thinks...so is he." Proverbs 23:7)
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To: ConservativeJen

We've got no gay role models, so let's just lie.


6 posted on 09/27/2006 5:52:03 PM PDT by kenth (There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who can count, and those who can't.)
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To: ConservativeJen

Malcom XXX !

7 posted on 09/27/2006 5:52:33 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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8 posted on 09/27/2006 5:53:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: ConservativeJen

Wow. This story is so breaking....

(Do you know it over a year old?)


9 posted on 09/27/2006 5:57:10 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: ConservativeJen

10 posted on 09/27/2006 5:57:17 PM PDT by traditional1
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Please explain why you posted this article from Thursday May 19, 2005 in breaking news.


11 posted on 09/27/2006 6:20:35 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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"Wow. This story is so breaking.... "



I never heard it, this is a story that needs to get out.

Malcolm X is one the monsters of the left that has reached hero status.

The revelation that the most famous black militant, anti white hero of the anti-American left is a homo is a big deal.


12 posted on 09/27/2006 6:23:49 PM PDT by ansel12 ( sin holds a sway over their lives to the point where boldness begins to be craved.)
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When I was in college, the fad among some of the Black students was to wear "X" hats and clothes.

I remember asking some of them if they new the name he was born with. Nope, not a clue, but they did know that he hated the White man, and that was all that counted to them.

He was born Malcolm Little and was killed by the Nation of Islam because he disavowed them and exposed the hypocracy of "The Honorable Elisia Mohamed".

13 posted on 09/27/2006 6:24:22 PM PDT by lormand (1 - 10,000,000 people read my posts everyday)
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Let me guess -- Bruce Perry is a fag. Queers spend much of their time insisting that almost any famous figure was queer.


14 posted on 09/27/2006 6:27:08 PM PDT by expatpat
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"I never heard it, this is a story that needs to get out."

The Guardian is nothing more than an anti-American tabloid. There's a good reason you never heard of this before, it's unlikely that it's true.

15 posted on 09/27/2006 6:28:01 PM PDT by Jean S
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When I was in college, the fad among some of the Black students was to wear "X" hats and clothes.

At a Country Music concert near here a few years back, I remember seeing a tee-shirt with the Confederate flag and the slogan,"You wear your X and I'll wear mine."

16 posted on 09/27/2006 6:29:56 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: ansel12

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is a Nazi.

ACLU founder Roger Baldwin is a Communist.

Interesting? Yes. Breaking News? No.


17 posted on 09/27/2006 6:34:57 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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"Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is a Nazi."



I missed that one too, who proved that?


18 posted on 09/27/2006 7:00:02 PM PDT by ansel12 ( sin holds a sway over their lives to the point where boldness begins to be craved.)
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To: Admin Moderator

because someone sent me the link on AIM and I didn't see the date


19 posted on 09/27/2006 8:29:30 PM PDT by ConservativeJen
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To: ansel12

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=margaret+sanger+nazi&btnG=Search


20 posted on 09/28/2006 4:08:16 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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