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Tonight, public television stations across the country will begin airing First Class Citizens, an episode of the award-winning documentary series IN THE LIFE honoring the groundbreaking work of pioneers in the pursuit of LGBT civil rights. As the United States remembers Martin Luther King’s vision of equality and the African American civil rights movement, IN THE LIFE looks back at inspiring portraits of LGBT people and allies who stood up, spoke out and made a difference in the fight for full LGBT equality.

The episode highlights the contributions of openly lesbian African-American Hon. Judge Deborah Batts, former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, and broadcaster and former National Black Justice Coalition president Keith Boykin, as well as pioneering activists Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings. In the episode Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Washington Post editorial writer and In The Life Media Pioneer Award Honoree Jonathan Capehart asks NAACP chairman Julian Bond about the intersection between the African American and LGBT civil rights movements. Says Bond, “The connection is rights. ‘Rights’, that’s the key word. These are movements for rights and these are movements to insure that everyone has these rights…”

Watch IN THE LIFE’s First Class Citizens here:
http://www.itlmedia.org/

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