Author: Pam in Durham

Black gay activist blocked from speaking at Millions More March

Homophobic D.C. pastor and Millions More March organizer Willie Wilson pulled Keith Boykin. (via PageOneQ):

A month-long effort by the National Black Justice Coalition and the D.C. Coalition to secure a speaker at the Millions More Movement commemoration event that met with apparent success mid-week, was quashed this morning.

When NBJC president Keith Boykin and vice-president Donna Payne reported to the event on the Mall, they say, they were blocked from speaking by MMM organizer Rev. Willie Wilson.

Boykin was supposed to to represent the black LGBT community at the event.

Back at the Freedom Plaza rally, Payne said that when she and Boykin arrived at the MMM site, Wilson said, “They will not be speaking.”

“I’m so angry, so angry,” Payne said.

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