Anti-gay activist Michael Brown, the author of “A Queer Thing Happened to America,” was the guest on “Dr. Chaps” Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program today where he made the case that the fight for gay rights cannot be equated to the fight for civil rights because blacks didn’t have a popular figure like Ellen DeGeneres during segregation.
Apparently operating under the delusion that there were no popular African American celebrities before the end of segregation, Brown said that gay rights and civil rights have nothing in common not only because blacks don’t have to “come out” and declare themselves as such but also because “during the days of segregation, we didn’t have people like Ellen DeGeneres who were national celebrities who were black and just loved by the whole nation.”
Brown continued, making an even more illogical point by declaring that “we didn’t have a gay or lesbian president – we have a black president now – [so] you can’t compare the these things at all.” Of course, we didn’t have a black president during segregation either, so we are not quite sure what point Brown thinks that he is making:
