Is the Gay Rights Movement Akin to the Civil Rights Movement? Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Civil rights marchers walked from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. ( Peter Pettus / Wikipedia Commons ) Produced by Arwa Gunja and Kristen Meinzer Produced by PRI and WNYC