Lgbtq Informative Speech

When it comes to history, black history is already talked about at a bare minimum. Black history is disregarded as if it has no importance in American history. So when it comes to being black, which already targets someone as a threat, and gay the history is not taught unless the initiative is taken to obtain that knowledge. History is important to who it affects, so at first look I would say black LGBTQ history is not important, but in the same breath I would say how important African American history is important. Well, with some new knowledge, one realizes that you can’t mention African American history and without including black LGBTQ history. There are significant figures in African American History who were apart of the LGBTQ community: Bayard Rustin, Barbara Jordan and …show more content…
the credit for that incredible protest, but without Bayard Rustin MLK would not have had that platform to give his historical speech “I had a dream.” Rustin is so relevant because not only was he gay he was openly gay man who put together probably the most impactful movement of that civil rights era. Black LGBTQ history really has impacted us so much more than we know. Thinking about the history one would think that the history is irrelevant, but people like the few examples I have given are far from irrelevant. The history of the black LGBTQ community is so watered down and put to the side because nobody talks about it. I mean, African American history is not really a topic that the education system goes in depth about. History also doesn’t go into depth about LGBTQ people, white or black. We are in a time where being gay in America is okay in society’s eyes and a person of that nature can be open and free with it. To be gay in America is almost becoming a social norm. America is like that now because of its prevalent LGBTQ history. With the help of people like Langston Hughes and people of that nature the views of LGBTQ have changed