Gay Rights in Huey Newton´s 1970 Speech

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“Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things--he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies” (Carter). Jimmy Carter took a religious route to support the Gay Rights Movement. The Gay Rights Movement started in the 1950s and is still a heated topic that is debated over. The Gay Rights Movement is believed to be started by the Stonewall riots. The Gay Rights Movement had no real leaders and its followers were homosexuals and people who sought for oppression towards gays to end. The purpose of the Gay Rights Movement is to end discrimination towards the homosexual community. “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” is a speech written and spoken by Huey Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther Party. The speech was given on August 15, 1970 and the theme of the speech is for people to fight for their own liberation. In Huey Newton’s “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” speech, he motivates his intended audience during the Gay Rights Movement by using the rhetorical strategies pathos and punctuation. The speech by Huey Newton is about Huey Newton’s feelings towards how the gay people were being oppressed. The whole speech is about how Newton thinks that oppressed groups should come together to fight the oppressors. Huey Newton’s message was “Know and protect your rights by any means” (“Huey Newton”). The theme of the speech that Newton tries to emphasize is that people need to work for their own liberation. The speech is basically about Huey Newton expressing the distaste of oppression and that people need to unite. The theme of the speech is that people must fight for the... ... middle of paper ... ...cepted gay marriage and allowed gays to get married civilly, which is still showing the ripple effects of oppression which can be seen to this day. Works Cited Beaudrot, Nicholas, and Neil Sinhababu. "Huey Newton On Feminism And Gay Rights." Donkeylicious. N.p., 15 May 2012. Web. 9 Mar. 2014. "Huey Newton." American Social Leaders, 2001. eLibrary. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. Ide, Derek Allen. "Combating Cultural Hegemony." The Organic Intelllectual: n. pag. n.d. Web. 9 Mar. 2014. "Jimmy Carter." BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2014. Web. 17 March 2014 Newton, Huey. "The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements." Speech. 15 Aug. 1970. History Is a Weapon. History Is a Weapon. Web. 29 Jan. 2014. O'Malley, Nick. "America's gay rights movement gets scores on the board." The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Feb. 2014: n. pag. The Sydney Morning Herald. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

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