Al Sharpton on relations between black and gay rights groups.

"The event marked what many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights community hope will be a new, broader focus of LGBT groups in the city.........  .......for a new chapter in the long and sometimes tense history of relations between black and gay rights groups. As the Reverend Al Sharpton put it, 'Today, we go from dating on activist occasions to a marriage'."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/lgbt-black-rights-groups-stop-and-frisk_n_1575174.html?ref=gay-voices