Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, told NBC News.
“As long as there have been Black people, there have been Black LGBTQ and same-gender-loving people,” David J. From 1960s civil rights activist Bayard Rustin to Chicago's first lesbian mayor, Lori Lightfoot, Black LGBTQ Americans have long made history with innumerable contributions to politics, art, medicine and a host of other fields.