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My good Judy Drama Dupree hit me up online with this “GA VOICE” cover shot featuring the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a NOH8 campaign pose.
In case you don’t know, the NOH8 campaign is a photographic silent protest created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley in response to the passage of Proposition 8. Photos feature subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with “NOH8″ painted on one cheek in protest.
When I first saw the image I was set aback and I don’t know why. It didn’t “offend” me but it did make me feel “some kinda way”.
Although Dr. King stood for non-violent protests during the civil rights movement, he never addressed issues of homosexuality in any of his speeches. The fact that King never left any conclusive indication of his opinion on homosexuality has often left many wandering as to what King’s views on the issue of Gay rights would have been today.
Over the years, the King family has been divided in their views of homosexuality and gay marriage. While King’s late wife Coretta Scott-King supported gay marriage publicly and was even a speaker at a 1996 Gay Pride festival in Atlanta, another family member publicly campaigned against it, even going so far as to call gay marriage ‘genocide’.
I personally believe that King would have spoken against any issues of discrimination. Whether it be racial or gender related seems irrelevant. But… (and there is a “BUT”) since he’s not alive to confirm his opinions either way, should we really be making assumptions?
What are your thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s NOH8 GA VOICE cover?
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i dont know but did the King family approve this?
Did they have approval of the King’ family to do this?
I know firsthand they are very protective of their father’s and mother’s images.
I don’t like it but I understand why they used his image. It’s symbolic but still kind of disturbing.
It’s very offensive and I as a black woman and sick and tired of these white homosexuals taking every and any opportunity to hijack our struggles for their own personal and political gain. Some of the most racist and sexist people I have met in my life have been white homosexual men and they are the ones heading the NOH8 campaign which basically says it’s okay to hate everybody but them. MLK was a christian minister/family man and I don’t think he would look kindly on today’s gay lifestyle nor on the rampant DL behavior and HIV spreading through the black community. This is why Malcom was a better leader. His family was stronger than King’s.
It strikes me as disrespectful . They should not have felt the need to use his image. There are plenty of political activist to get the message across. Leave the good Doc out of it.
@Kamalla
I kinda agree with you. This is a little over the top. Dr. King is not here to voice his own opinion and to assume this is ok it just not right. I believe that NOH8 has the right to fight for what they believe in, just as anyone else, but this is going a little to far.
While I doubt that the makers of this flyer acquired permission to use Dr. King’s image. Anyone who doubts the fact that he wouldn’t be opposed to a law that prohibits the right of an individual to decide who he/she spends the rest of their life with has to be the most self-deluded, ignorant, bigot in existence. The measure is as ridiculous as one that would prevent an African American from celebrating Kwanzaa in stead of Christmas. Not to mention the fact that his head strategist, Baynard Rustin, was openly gay and his wife came out as a proponent for gay rights. Like my mom always told me, you are who you consistently associate with.
While I doubt that the makers of this flyer acquired permission to use Dr.King’s image. Anyone whoe doubts that a man who gave his life for the struggle of TRUE equality would be opposed to a law that prevents the right of the individual to decide who he/she spends the rest of their life life has to be the most self-deluded, ignorant, bigot in existence. Not to mentione the fact that King’s head strategist, Baynard Rustin, was openly gay and his wife was a proponent of gay rights. As my mother always told me; you are who you consistently associate with.
While I doubt that the makers of this flyer acquired permission to use Dr. Kings’ image. Anyone who doubts that a man who gave his life in the struggle for TRUE equality wouldn’t be opposed to a law that denies an individual the right to decide who he/she will spend the rest of their life with is the most self-deluded, ignorant, bigot in existence. It’s as ridiculous as a law that would prevent a person from celebrating Kwanzaa instead of Christmas. Not to mention the fact that his main strategist, Baynard Rustin, was openly gay and Mrs. King was a proponent of gay rights. As my mother always told me; You are who you consistently associate with.
They want people to respect them (LGB) and treat them fair but they feel its ok to disrespect others…especially someone (probably one of the few positive black males) that black people look up to. SO DISRESPECTFUL!!! Dr King never said he was ok with the LGB issue/lifestyle so to use his face is totally unacceptable. Mrs. King may have supported some issues but it was because of the times that came upon her….and probably her advice staff. If you are going to be LGB, ok!! Stop forcing your lifestyle/issue/acceptance on other people!
I’ve read alot on the LGBT community and their political tactics. No H8 is not about gay marriage on the ballots, it’s about equating the gay lifestyle with the hetero lifestyle and teaching in schools that they are the same. Brainwashing! The hetero community is just that…heterosexual. Without heterosexuals or hetero behavior, there would be no people anywhere, not even animals would reproduce. Black children don’t need to learn about homosexual sex, sex change operations, group sex, open relationships, cross-dressing, trannnies and all that crap that the LGBT folks represent. Sorry but I consider all of that deviancy. In San Francisco they have an organization that supports grown men having sex with boys and that org was a big sponser for the No H8 campaign. Don’t be fooled! MLK would not have been. Baynard Rustin was gay yes but he was a black man first and that’s where his dedication lied. Doubt he would have supported this crap. Hoover was the biggest queer and he tried to discredit and ruin MLK. White Phagz are not our friends and never have been. Look at Atlanta…they came here in droves and now ATL is known in other states as phag capital. It’s true…y’all get talked about very badly. Worse even than New Orleans.
That same organization that I mentioned above, NAMBLA they are called, is currently fighting to reduce the age of consent in various states to zero meaning grown men could have sex with other males regardless of the age (which would include babies no doubt). Ask yourselves why the bigges homosexual lobbyists and vocal supporters are always white men. Even the lesbians dont’ hoot and holler as much. They are trying to turn America into an ancient Greece and in ancient Greece the women and non-greeks were at the bottom of the totem pole. Ancient Rome didn’t even start to crumble until they started emulating the Greek lifestyle. Read people!!! Julius Ceasar wasn’t killed for wanting to be emperor, he was killed because he was trying to unify Rome and Egypt and because he didn’t support the pederastic lifestyle that was emerging. Deviant white folk are death to the black community. I bet y’all don’t even know that the ggay catholic priests were molesting boys in Africa long before North America and parts of Europe. Sorry if I sound racists but the truth hurts and I love my black people. It pains me to see us being used for someone’s else’s political gain. Every other minority has ridden our backs and here we are still struggling. Wake up!
Why must some Black people act so ignant about sexuality? First of all, you sound foolish when you say "why would gay people use his image" as if there aren’t PLENTY of gay Black folks! Please remember that everyone who’s gay ain’t white! Secondly, if you think he wouldn’t have supported gay rights, you obviously don’t know the first thing about the man. Also, I see this man’s image ALL THE TIME, EVERYWHERE. Please let’s not act as if we don’t. I certainly don’t agree with comparing him to Barack’s mealy-mouthed behind, but there are tons of tshirts with his likeness.
Kamalla, you’re just a homophobe. I’m more afraid of children being exposed to your hatefulness than gays. Please STOP acting as if homosexuality & pedophilia are connected; they’re NOT. Just as many men out here molesting little girls as little boys because its about POWER, not sexuality. You obviously haven’t read that much at all.
So sad that oppressed people are so quick to oppress others! You’d think we’d know better.
p.s. Y’all give white folks TOO MUCH CREDIT. They didn’t create homosexuality. There was plenty of it in Africa before they came.
I agree with DCbound, Uguess and Kamalla. It’s very disrespectful to the late Dr. King.
This is some major BS and it’s always the ghay folk tryna use black people for their own political gain. Being ghay and being black aint the same thing no how no way. Shoot, ghay folk got plenty of leaders who’s image they can use.
As for you Zindzi, you don’t know anything about MLK at all. You seem to forget the man was a christian minister and most of them especially during MLK’s days were not supporting homosexual behavior as it is a sin according to the bible. Molestation is both about power and sex. You can achieve power by a number of means but sex is what feels good and releases endorphins in the brains of these pedophiles. They are much like drug addicts in that they can’t really be cured and can relapse at any moment.
Aint nobody giving white folks credit except that it’s probably true that all the ghay folks who are in positions of power are probably white. Don’t make no difference…phags are phags no matter their color and they just bring humanity down along with the drug dealers and racists.