Broadway’s Audra McDonald believes African Americans should step up in gay marriage fight

As if we could love this stupendously talented woman any more.

Broadway great Audra McDonald, who won her FIFTH Tony Award last weekend, had some insightful things to day about gay marriage and African Americans in a recent BET interview.

The actress best known for her role on ABC’s Private Practice and a stunning string of successes on Broadway, points out that one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous I Have a Dream speech was an openly gay man named Bayard Rustin.

‘As African Americans, are we supposed to say, ‘Thank you for helping us fight for our civil rights, we’re not going to help you with yours?’ That’s wrong.’

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