BayWindows.com – by Laura Kiritsy – Editor-in-chief
Taking the stage holding a sign that bore the slogan, “I AM A MAN” at this year’s Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast, Diego Sanchez at once paid tribute to the gay, black civil rights pioneer for whom the event is named and affirmed his own transgender identity.
“I carry this sign to give a shout out to black people who were told they were first property, then 3/5 of a man, and only through their own courage and proclamation, made the world see them as whole, loving, caring achieving, thinking, working praying men and women,” he told a crowd of more than 200 at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Dorchester on May 3.