Was malcolm x gay

Malcolm X

Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) was a human rights activist and Muslim minister who is considered a key figure of the US Civil Rights Movement.

Born Malcolm Small in Omaha, Nebraska in 1923, as a fresh man he was sentenced to 10 years on charges of grand larceny, breaking and entering, and firearms possession. While incarcerated, Malcolm converted to Islam and adopted the designate Malcolm X. He united the Nation of Islam and rose to change into one of the organization’s most influential and well-respected leaders by the age he was released on parole in 1952.

After his release, Malcolm X used his platform to advocate for causes such as black empowerment and supremacy, and often criticized other civil rights leaders for their stance on nonviolent protests and the long for of racial integration throughout the country. Due to his status in the public eye and as an influential member of the Nation of Islam, he was subjected to years of surveillance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an endeavor to catch him on charges of communism.

Malcolm X met his wife, Betty Sanders, in 1955 at one of his speaking engagements, and after she continued to show up to his lectures a

By Irene Monroe

(FILE PHOTO) On February 21 it will be the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination Of Malcolm X. ROCHESTER, NY – FEBRUARY 16: Former Nation Of Islam leader and civil rights activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X and Malcolm Little) poses for a portrait on February 16, 1965, in Rochester, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Before any of us in the lesbian, queer , bisexual, and gender nonconforming communities laud Malcolm X as our new gay representative or castigate him for being a black heterosexist nationalist on the “down low,” we might need to closely examine the recent revelation that for a period in his life Malcolm X engaged in same-sex relationships.

Also, before any of us in the African-American community flatly refute these assertions as part and parcel of a racist conspiratorial propaganda machine that is out to discredit our brother Malcolm, we need, at least, to hear these nagging claims.

And this time hear them coming from one of our possess – Manning Marable, a renowned and respected African American historian and social critic from Columbia University.

Sadly, Marable died just days before the release of his magnum opus, an exhausti

Was Malcolm X Gay?

It was claimed in this post that a new biography of Malcolm X claims that he was gay or multi-attracted . I did some preliminary Googling, and I have not read the biography. Apparently this novel bio claims that Malcolm had a long term partnership with a light businessman, and that he supported himself in part before his incarceration where he converted to the Nation of Islam as a gay hustler.

I decipher Malcolm X’s autobiography, and I am aware that some of what he presented in that book is also false. And Haley, his collaborator in writing the perform, appears to contain plagiarized much of his other serve Roots from another book. So it is difficult to know how seriously to take that presentation of his life.

How strong is the evidence that Mr. X was bisexual? Is this perhaps real, or is it an instance of the over-eagerness of the gay community to claim someone prominent as one of their own, drawn-out after he is safely dead and not able to deny it?

I trust one of Malcolm X’s daughters has denied it, which I suppose is understandable no matter if it is true or fake. And IIRC homosexuality is strictly forbidden by Islam, and was by the Nation of Islam bac

The hidden gay past of US black nationalist leader

By Peter Tatchell

Was Malcolm X gay or bisexual? Some black activists are enraged by such a suggestion. But since there is nothing wrong with being homosexual or bi, why the fuss?

Malcolm X’s sexuality is not the most important thing about him. It is just one minor fragment of a man who was an extraordinarily powerful and successful voice for African-American communities. But what makes his sexual orientation significant are the attempts to hide and deny it.

Controversy has been stirring since the publication of Bruce Perry’s acclaimed biography, Malcolm: The Life of a Guy Who Changed Black America (Station Hill, New York, 1991). Based on over 400 interviews with Malcolm’s closest boyhood and adult friends, Perry suggests that the US black nationalist leader was not as robustly heterosexual as his Nation of Islam (NoI) colleagues have always insisted.

Malcolm X, real name Malcolm Little, joined the militant Muslim NoI in 1949, attracted by its teaching that Allah would transport black people from white bondage. By the 1960s, Malcolm had developed NoI ideology in new directions, becoming America’s leading spokesperson for jet co