(via La Cage aux Jim Crow: The New Bill That Would Shut Gays Out of Society - News - GOOD)
For decades now, people have attempted to compare the modern gay rights movement to the famed American civil rights movement of the 1960s. And for every comparison made, some blacks have vocally decried them as being inapt. Writing for USA Today last year, black journalist Ellis Cose called the gay rights-black rights comparison a “false equivalency.” Anti-black racism, he wrote, “was relentlessly oppressive, as entire communities were cordoned off and disadvantage was handed down through generations. With gays, we are not looking at roped-off communities.”
A shocking new bill in New Hampshire may be enough to change the minds of Cose and his ilk.
