We come from towns and cities where our friends are jailed and beaten on the slightest pretext. We come from churches which have been burned to the ground because they admit us to worship. I can compare, and I do compare them. I know what it means to be called a nigger. I know what it means to be called a faggot.
Bigotry is bigotry.
I have been booed before. Discrimination is discrimination. It hurts just as much. Boozer was also active in Black and White Men Together. In September 1981, he opened the Washington office of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.