A new column in the UK Guardian seeks to make Malcolm X, not just an icon of black Muslims, but also an icon of gay blacks. Citing a well known biography on Malcolm X, the column says that the famous agitator had many homosexual relations and even sold himself as a gay male prostitute at one point in his life. The author of the biography is Alex Haley, whom Malcolm X allegedly personally commissioned to write the biography. Haley is famous for writing Roots, which was largely plagiarized from another book. Despite being sued for plagiarism and ordered to pay a large settlement in Federal ...

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