Leaders
of LGBT and African-American civil rights groups are increasingly working together to help advance each other’s agenda items, and the
partnership has resulted in black leaders stepping up their support for
marriage equality, according to this article. LGBT groups recently
joined an effort to protest New York City police policies that some say
target black and Hispanic people.
“It’s become clear that, just as
[civil rights leader] Bayard Rustin admonished us all, that we would
either stand together or die apart,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous (pictured),
president of the NAACP.
