In our country, the LGBT community has a track record of
unleashing some of the most pivotal and historic luminaries of
all-time; bringing a rather neo-cosmopolitan flair to the times
and introducing agendas that have influenced foreign diplomats
to grandiose artists and everywhere in-between across the globe.
Here is a look at some of our black LGBT icons that have and are
still influencing the world. Carolyn Mobley was the first woman
to co-chair the African-American Lesbian/Gay Alliance, which was
a smaller part of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and
Gays. She was raised a devout Christian in a petite, segregated
Florida municipality. But her Baptist Church condoned her
lesbian sexuality despite her work as a Christian educator. The
organization served to bridge the gap between the civil rights
movement and the LGBT movement. Inspired by her family’s court
room mêlée against racially-segregated Chicago subdivision
housing laws in her childhood, Lorraine Hansberry wrote a
seminal piece of African-A