Shown here is an item from the Windy City Times/Outlines newspaper archives of 1993, indicating that Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., was strongly in favor of civil rights for gays and lesbians. In this statement, she is in support of gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, and compared the pending President Clinton gay ban to efforts to racially segregate the military. In later years her statements continued to support gays and lesbians.
Shown here is an item from the Windy City Times/Outlines newspaper archives of 1993, indicating that Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., was strongly in favor of civil rights for gays and lesbians. In this statement, she is in support of gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, and compared the pending President Clinton gay ban to efforts to racially segregate the military. In later years her statements continued to support gays and lesbians.