But what was his attitude toward gay people, and if he was alive today would he see the gay rights movement as another stage of the civil rights movement? We know what King thought about race, poverty and war.
“You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it.” “The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired,” King wrote. In calm, pastoral tones, King told the boy that his problem wasn’t uncommon, but required “careful attention.” I don't want my parents to know about me. “But I feel about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. “I am a boy,” an anonymous writer told King.
was writing an advice column in 1958 for Ebony magazine when he received an unusual letter.
