CHRISTOPHER PARK HISTORY by DAMON EVANS - TALKING STATUES
Channel: Randolfe Wicker
Date: 12/06/2023

"TALKING STATUES, An Event That Brings the Stonewall Uprising to Life" played by veteran stage and TV actor Damon Evans, best known as the second of two actors who played Lionel Jefferson on the CBS sitcom THE JEFFERSONS, -- shares his own painful experiences as a Black man subjected to racism in the nascent LGBTQ+ movement.  He was feet from Martin Luther King during the March on Washington in 1963 -- acutely aware that Bayard Rustin was nowhere to be seen.  Yet, the LGBTQ+ movement copied Martin Luther King's tactics.  This is an amazing story.