Prize fighter for freedom: Reverend Eric Lee, head of the Los Angeles chapter, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Photo courtesy NY Times)
LA’s gay community and equality activist scene dropped the ball BIG TIME with Reverend Eric Lee. Head of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC), Rev. Lee was the only black heterosexual community leader and man of the cloth gay or straight—to jump front row and center in the line of fire last year in speaking out for equality before AND after the defeat of No On 8.
As a result of his courageous actions, the man caught hell from the black church community which included retaliatory actions like ministers distancing themselves from him and no longer booking him to speak at their churches. His own employer SCLC—the civil rights organization founded by Martin Luther King–threatened to fire him for his outspokenness (and we’re still not clear about his status as of yet).
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