The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, with Jeffrey Campaign, left, a gay rights organizer, and the NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, at a news conference by a gay rights organization to announce a march to protest the stop-and-frisk practice by New York police, in New York, June 5, 2012. Since the relationship between gay rights organizations and the country's major civil rights organizations reached something of a crisis with the passage of Proposition 8, California's ballot initiative against same-sex marriage, in 2008, leaders in both movements have made a concerted effort to bring their groups closer together. (Christopher T. Gregory/The New York Times) Photo: Christopher T. Gregory, New York Times