After NPR's Michel Mart asked Mal X's dghter, Ilyasah Shabazz about alleged homosexual enunters referred to Manng Marabl' book, "Mallm X: A Life of Reventn," she walked off the show, due to the foc on the alleged enunters, rather than his life. NPR reports: Ms. SHABAZZ: Right. I thk the thgs that I take issue wh are the fact that he said my father engaged a bisexual relatnship, a homo - you know, he had a gay lover who was an elr whe bsman, I thk, his late 50s when my father was his teens.
Contents:
- MALLM X - GAY BLACK HERO?
- WAS MALLM X GAY?
- B DETAILS MALLM X'S GAY LIFE
- THE FOUNDATNLS CLAIM THAT MALLM X WAS GAY MT STOPTHE FOUNDATNLS CLAIM THAT MALLM X WAS GAY MT STOPTHE FOUNDATNLS CLAIM THAT MALLM X WAS GAY MT STOPTHE FOUNDATNLS CLAIM THAT MALLM X WAS GAY MT STOPTHE FOUNDATNLS CLAIM THAT MALLM X WAS GAY MT STOP
- MALLM X’S DGHTER WALKS OFF SHOW AFTER “GAY” QUTNS
MALLM X - GAY BLACK HERO?
On Mallm X's 80 birthday, <b>Peter Tatchell</b> reveals the hidn gay past of the Amerin black natnalist lear. * was malcom x gay *
That's a b more credible, but I thk given the fact that masculy is often nstcted opposn to homosexualy, and given that many Mallm's own alyt have nstcted that way, the matter is que relevant.
To the evince: The notn that Mallm X was a closeted gay man was first aired by Bce Perry who, his book Mallm, claimed that his subject had several gay enunters, many of them for money. He don't offer any other stanc of sex wh men, but impli that there may have been when he wr that Mallm was "not an active homosexual after 1952.
WAS MALLM X GAY?
The Foundatnls Claim that Mallm X Was Gay Mt Stop * was malcom x gay *
And I thk people who are movg to the much broar pot--that Mallm X was gay--are really stretchg. Some black activists are enraged by suggtns that their hero might have been gay - or at least bisexual. Sexual eedom was not, however, part of his Perry's book documents Mallm X's many gay experienc.
B DETAILS MALLM X'S GAY LIFE
While livg Flt, Michigan, his roommate noticed that stead of sleepg the room they were sharg, Mallm sneaked down the hall to spend the night wh a gay transvte named Willie New York, two of Mallm's iends om Michigan remember bumpg to him at the YMCA, where Mallm bragged he earned money servicg "queers". Perry suggts that Mallm's gay enunters may not have been entirely fancially motivated. His mascule securi and ambivalence towards women f the archetype of a reprsed gay man and pot to latent the ath of his father, when Mallm was six, he lacked male role mols and was domated by strong women - particular, his tyrannil mother.
His passnate assertn that the need to feel mascule is a man's "greatt urge" dit someone doubtful of his own for his sporadic gay htlg, as Perry not, "there were other ways he uld have earned money".
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Misogyny and reprsed homosexualy might be the answer.
"Was Mallm X gay? There is, however, plentiful rearch suggtg that many guys who have sex wh men for payment are nial about their homosexualy.
MALLM X’S DGHTER WALKS OFF SHOW AFTER “GAY” QUTNS
If people have a homosexual pacy, stays wh them for life - even if they never act on .