I didn’t get my cues on gay equality from them, but from the basic moral principle of fairness. Allowing a human being to reach their full potential and an understanding that morals are about how much freedom you share, not how much you control or restrict.

It’s about paying attention to the needs of others and knowing when and how they are reasonably agreeing and getting along with you.

It’s tragic that the peaceful access to due process of law, compassionate participation in those things that DO sustain life and love and social cooperation go unappreciated. Indeed, defamed and perceived as suspicious.
Black people know about that, and shouldn’t deny that it also happens to gay people and is equally unjustified.

I have been humbled that gay folks trust me to speak for them. I have been treated to such unconditional love myself from gay folks, that it’s another gift I want to assure the opposition that they are missing.
A gift that it would be immoral to waste.

I am heartened that I’m not alone as a hetero black woman that feels this way.
We’ll get there, people. We will.

Let’s not forget Rev. Lowery, who gave the Inaugural Benediction.

AMEN!

Lgbts of color must speak out – via persuasion and encouragement.

We have turned a corner. LGBT people have entered the mainstream of the ongoing civil rights debate: the struggle for gay rights is being recognized as a continuation of the struggle for civil rights for all people.