... and they was a queer civil rights trailblazer left out of history books. Activist, lawyer, poet and priest, Black and queer, Anna Pauline Murray lived a life of firsts.
Yet their extraordinary achievements remain largely unknown, a historical omission filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West aim to correct with their Amazon Prime documentary, "My Name is Pauli Murray." Murray and the film are featured on this week's Out in the Bay radio program and podcast. (Murray is also profiled in this week's Bay Area Reporter as part of LGBTQ History Month.) Described as "ahead of their time" by the filmmakers for many reasons, Murray's legal writings are credited with laying the foundation for Brown v.