‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — and then run?’ — Langston Hughes Queer leaders join forces to bring the goals of MLK, BLM and gender equality together ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editorjones@dallasvoice.com We tend to celebrate anniversaries in arbitrary increments of five years, so a 57th-year milestone might seem capricious.
But for a group of devout leaders in North Texas, it could not be more timely. On Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
led his historic March on Washington and from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial spoke four words that resonate even still, more than a half-century later: “I Have a Dream.” (The following year, he won the Nobel Peace